EL RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO: LA INFLUENCIA DEL PROGRAMA DE ALIMENTACIÓN ESCOLAR EN ESTUDIANTES DE BÁSICA, CANTÓN VALENCIA

Anemia in particular affects many students with clear consequences on health and learning performance. The objective of the research was to determine how the school feeding program influences academic performance in elementary school students, Valencia canton. The type of research was descriptive explanatory with a quantitative approach to analyze the relationship between the study variables. The study population were representatives of student tutors who make up the Corazón de Jesús Educational Unit, which in total are 70. The results allowed to show the situation of the academic performance of the students, highlighting that there is little capacity to manage the stress of the students, a situation that alters their emotional well-being and academic responsibility that they have, likewise, academic progress has been altered by low academic results and that in part all this is related to the nutritional status they have. It was also possible to identify that the school feeding program, the consumption of food is not responding to an adequate nutritional plan, in addition, the nutritional value that school food presents is inappropriate, requiring a greater quantity of fresh products. Concluding that the way in which the variables School Feeding Program and Academic Performance are related is significantly positive, the correlation was Rho = 0.782 which establishes a high relationship between the variables and that the adequate School Feeding Program explains the levels of Academic Performance in the Educational Unit "Corazón de Jesús" by 61.15%.

• Autor principal: WILLIANS MACIAS TANIA LORENA (author)
• Format: masterThesis
• Publicat: 2025
• Matèries: EL RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO; LA INFLUENCIA DEL PROGRAMA; EDUCACIÓN Y DESARROLLO
• Accés en línia: http://dspace.utb.edu.ec/handle/49000/18337