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Quantised Academic Mobility: Network and Cluster Analysis of Degree Switching, Plan Changes, and Re-entries in an Engineering Faculty (1980-2019)
H. R. Paz
This study challenges the traditional binary view of student progression (retention versus dropout) by conceptualising academic trajectories as complex, quantised pathways. Utilisi…
Differential Filtering in a Common Basic Cycle: Multi-Major Trajectories and Structural Bottlenecks in Exact Sciences and Engineering Degrees
H. R. Paz
Universities often present the Common Basic Cycle (CBC) as a neutral levelling stage shared by several degree programmes. Using twenty years of longitudinal administrative records…
Free Tuition, Stratified Pipelines: Four Decades of Administrative Cohorts and Equity in Access to Engineering and Science in an Argentine Public University
H. R. Paz
Latin American higher education is often portrayed as equitable when tuition is free and access to public universities is formally unrestricted. Yet, growing research shows that ma…
Regularity as Structural Amplifier, Not Trap: A Causal and Archetype-Based Analysis of Dropout in a Constrained Engineering Curriculum
H. R. Paz
Engineering programmes, particularly in Latin America, are often governed by rigid curricula and strict regularity rules that are claimed to create a Regularity Trap for capable st…
Causal Analysis of First-Year Course Approval Delays in an Engineering Major Through Inference Techniques
Hugo Roger Paz
The study addresses the problem of delays in the approval of first-year courses in the Civil Engineering Major at the National University of Tucumán, Argentina. Students take an av…