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Call for Proposals: Encouraging Research on Higher Education Students' Profiles with Social Commitment

Call research higher education students


Within the framework of the 10 years of the Leaders of Tomorrow's Program, this call is driven by the spirit and reason for being of said program, which seeks to provide educational opportunities and personal and professional development to outstanding young students from the Latin American region with the mission of reducing existing social gaps in their countries. Leaders of Tomorrow [1] is a program of the Tecnologico de Monterrey to generate change, social mobility, and transcendence that supports talented young people who require help to access university studies. This program is possible thanks to the support of a group of donors.

The program seeks to train leaders who positively impact the community. That is why the main characteristics of students interested in being part of the Leaders of Tomorrow's program are [1]: being a talented young Mexican or Central American, having a socioeconomic level that requires 100% financial support to study for a university degree, obtaining a minimum score of 1,300 on the College Board's Academic Aptitude Test (or 70 on the Online Academic Aptitude Test), having participated in a human development project, and having leadership potential. Furthermore, it is a program with low student dropout [1], with only 81 dropouts out of 1,800 young people who have been Leaders of Tomorrow between August 2014 and June 2023 (retention of 95.5%).

Therefore, stakeholders in improving retention strategies and accentuating the social impact of the program and the young people belonging to it are motivated to propose new multidisciplinary approaches based on a curated dataset from Tecnologico de Monterrey and Statistics and Machine Learning models that allow analyzing the admission and permanence profiles of university students developing a social impact project during their studies. Considering the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the data analysis should contribute to the reflection on SDG 4: Quality Education [2] and the scientific community. Some of the research efforts carried out are focused on analyzing the impact of personal, academic, and emotional-motivational variables on adaptation to Higher Education and university dropout [3-5], student engagement as a predictor of performance, dropout, and well-being in university students [6,7], historical admission data to determine the causes of permanence (retention) in university women [8], and predictive factors of academic success in higher education students, linking factors of learning opportunities, resources, and daily or physical activities [9-12].

Within the expected research proposals, the following approaches are suggested, but not limited to:

  • Analysis of variables/factors that influence academic dropout in higher education.
  • Analysis and proposals for student retention programs in higher education.
  • Analysis of student admission profiles by school or area of knowledge.
  • Analysis of the impact of the social project on student success (graduation).
  • Analysis of the impact of experience in academic, community, leadership, and sports projects and their scope level on student success (graduation).
  • Analysis of the impact of student life on student success (graduation).
Líderes del Mañana

Audience: This call is open to all researchers, faculty, analysts, and graduate students with an interest in educational data and knowledge of Statistical models and Artificial Intelligence algorithms. Joint proposals are welcome, with at least one researcher from Tecnologico de Monterrey, who can provide further context about the Leaders of Tomorrow’s Program. You can meet our researchers at our research platform.

Keywords: Leaders of Tomorrow’s Program; Social Impact; Academic Dropout; Student Retention; Student Profile; Educational Innovation; Statistics; Artificial Intelligence; Higher Education

  1. Tecnológico de Monterrey. Líderes del Mañana. Available online: https://lideresdelmanana.itesm.mx/ (accessed on 13 September 2023).
  2. United Nations. 4 Quality Education. Available online: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/education/ (accessed on 13 September 2023).
  3. Casanova, J. R., Castro-López, A., Bernardo, A. B., & Almeida, L. S. (2023). The Dropout of First-Year STEM Students: Is It Worth Looking beyond Academic Achievement?. Sustainability, 15(2), 1253. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021253
  4. Galve González, C., Blanco, E., Vázquez Merino, D., Herrero, F. J., & Bernardo, A. B. (2022). Influencia de la satisfacción, expectativas y percepción del rendimiento en el abandono universitario durante la pandemia. Revista de Estudios e Investigación en Psicología y Educación, 9(2), 226-244. https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2022.9.2.9153
  5. Bernardo, A. B., Tuero, E., Almeida, L. S., & Núñez, J. C. (Eds.) (2020). "Motivos y factores explicativos del abandono de los estudios. Claves y estrategias para superarlo": Madrid: Pirámide, 2020. ISBN: 978-84-368-4315-6 ePub: 978-84-368-4318-7
  6. Maluenda Albornoz, J., Flores-Oyarzo, G., Bernardo, A. B., & Díaz-Mujica, A. (2021). Correlatos conductuales del Compromiso Académico en estudiantes de Ingeniería chilenos. Trilogía Ciencia Tecnología Sociedad, 13(24), 109–133. https://doi.org/10.22430/21457778.1754
  7. Bernardo, A. B., Galve-González, C., Núñez, J. C., & Almeida, L. S. (2022). A Path Model of University Dropout Predictors: The Role of Satisfaction, the Use of Self-Regulation Learning Strategies and Students’ Engagement. Sustainability, 14(3), 1057. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031057 
  8. Ortiz-Martínez, G., Vázquez-Villegas, P., Ruiz-Cantisani, M.I. et al. Analysis of the retention of women in higher education STEM programs. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 101 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01588-z
  9. Pérez-Villalobos, C., Ventura-Ventura, J., Spormann-Romeri, C., Paredes-Villarroel, X., Rojas-Pino, M., Jara-Reyes, C., Lopez, M., Castillo-Rabanal, I., Schilling-Norman, M. J., Baquedano-Rodríguez, M., Parra-Ponce, P., Toirkens-Niklitschek, J., Briede-Westermeyer, J. C., & Alvarado-Figueroa, D. (2023). Well-being variations on students of health sciences related to their learning opportunities, resources, and daily activities in an online and on-crisis context: a survey-based study. BMC Medical Education, 23(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04011-y
  10. Peschard-Bustamante, M.T., Erana-Rojas, I.E., Gómez-Valdivia, C.A., Cardona-Huerta, M., Lopez, M. (2023). Students Teaching Students: A Look at Their Teaching Motivators. IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje, 18(1), 130-135. https://doi.org/10.1109/RITA.2023.3251185.
  11. Mendez, A., García, A.R., Lopez, M., Díaz-Lopez, M.M., Dibai, D.B. (2022). Comportamentos saudáveis de vida em jovens: um estudo comparado no Brasil, na Colômbia e no México. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 27 (8), 3031-3042.
  12. Hernández-Florez, L.J., Ríos-Oliveros, D.S., Valencia-Lopez, D.M., Ocampo-Cañas, J.A., Cortés-Cely, M.A., Lopez, M. (2022). Pedagogías innovadoras para preparar a los estudiantes para escenarios retadores de salud pública. Revista Mexicana de Educación Médica, 9(1), 3-8.

Dataset Overview

The dataset that will be provided to applicants includes anonymized information related to undergraduate students who have been part of the Leaders of Tomorrow’s Program at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico from August-December 2014 to February-June 2023 (nine cohorts). Among the data categories available in this dataset are:

  • Sociodemographic information (age range, gender, type of land-use zone).
  • Admission information (High school GPA (Grade Point Average), cohort, program/school).
  • Academic information (academic period average, academic program average, academic status).
  • Personality and interests assessment (DiSC scores (D – Dominance, i – Influence, S – Steadiness, C– Conscientiousness) and Values Index scores).
  • Experience in projects with impact (academic, community, leadership, and sports projects, and their scope level: local, national, and global).
  • Student life (Student groups, sports teams, artistic and cultural activities).

You can download a simplified version of the data dictionary and a data teaser of the full dataset below.

  • Data Dictionary

  • Data Teaser

Due to the sensitivity of the data, authors of the accepted proposals must sign our Terms of Use document prior to receiving the dataset.

Advisory Board

For this call for proposals, the IFE Living Lab & Data Hub counts on the valuable expertise of an advisory board consisting of academic advisors and consolidated researchers from University of Oviedo and Tecnologico de Monterrey.

Ana Belén Bernardo Gutiérrez, PhD

Ana Belén Bernardo Gutiérrez, PhD

Associate Professor in Psychology of Education and Development, University of Oviedo, Spain
Miguel Ángel Valdez García, PhD

Miguel Ángel Valdez García, PhD

Dean of Leaders of Tomorrow’s Program
Luis Enrique Portales Derbez, PhD

Luis Enrique Portales Derbez, PhD

Experimentation and Impact Assessment Leader at Institute for the Future of Education
José Carlos Vázquez Parra, PhD

José Carlos Vázquez Parra, PhD

Professor at School of Humanities and Education; Adjunct Researcher in Reasoning for Complexity (R4C) research group at Institute of the Future of Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México
Mildred Vanessa López Cabrera, PhD

Mildred Vanessa López Cabrera, PhD

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Jorge Membrillo Hernández, PhD

Jorge Membrillo Hernández, PhD

Researcher at Institute for the Future of Education and Assistant Professor at School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Overall Process: Important Dates

  • September 29, 2023
  • October 6, 2023
  • October 24, 2023
  • November 29, 2023
  • May 7, 2024
September 29, 2023, 10:00 (GMT-6)
Q&A session.
  • Access to the Q&A presentation here
October 6, 2023, 23:59 (GMT-6)
Deadline for submission of the extended abstract
  • The length of the abstract is one page. It is recommended to briefly describe the research proposal, mainly including its objective, the essential data categories for the study, and techniques, models, algorithms, or methods to be used.
  • Please use the following template to send your abstract: Extended Abstract Template.
  • Extended abstracts will be managed by correspondence to ife.datahub@servicios.tec.mx (Cc: joanna.alvarado@tec.mx).
October 24, 2023 23:59 (GMT-6)
Deadline for submission of the full proposal
  • You must send your proposal in two PDF documents: a document without author(s) information and a document with author(s) information.
  • It is necessary to use the template defined by the IFE Living Lab & Data Hub for the proposal. The Word template is found here.
  • Considering the sensitivity of the data, researchers interested in sending a proposal are kindly requested to have at least one researcher from Tecnologico de Monterrey be part of their team. The proposal must include evidence of prior collaboration or a collaboration agreement in the corresponding section.
  • Full proposals will be managed by correspondence to ife.datahub@servicios.tec.mx (Cc: joanna.alvarado@tec.mx).
November 29, 2023
Notification of the result and release of the full dataset to the selected applicants
  • If the proposal is accepted, it is mandatory to acknowledge the support of the Tecnologico de Monterrey's IFE Living Lab & Data Hub in any publications, presentations, or technical reports that result from this call. Please include the following statement: The authors would like to acknowledge the Living Lab & Data Hub of the Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, for the data used in this work and provided through the Call "Encouraging Research on Higher Education Students' Profiles with Social Commitment".
  • The IFE Data Hub will provide:
    • The dataset to researchers, whose proposals were accepted, on the condition that their codebooks will be available for disclosure.
    • Support in clarifying doubts about the dataset, during the development period of the research proposal until the date established to submit the results of your research (May 7, 2024). Please send your questions to Joanna Alvarado-Uribe (joanna.alvarado@tec.mx) and Ubaldo Martínez Carranza (ubaldo.martinez@tec.mx).
    • An account for one year on a cloud server to the first five best-evaluated proposals to carry out their experimentation.
  • The academic advisors may be mentors of one of the best-evaluated proposals.
  • The results of the experimentation should be documented in the form of an article according to the guidelines of the Q1/Q2 Journal selected by the applicants to publish the manuscript.

 

May 7, 2024
Deadline for submission of the full manuscript
  • Authors are requested to include the following statement in the acknowledgments of the manuscripts resulting from this call: The authors would like to acknowledge the Living Lab & Data Hub of the Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, for the data used in this work and provided through the Call "Encouraging Research on Higher Education Students' Profiles with Social Commitment".
  • The dataset processed and enriched by the applicant for experimentation can be deposited in the IFE's Educational Innovation collection of the Tecnologico de Monterrey's Research Data Hub. Please, contact us at ife.datahub@servicios.tec.mx for more information.
  • To document and promote the experimentation carried out by the applicant, the published article should be sent to the IFE’s Data Hub email address ife.datahub@servicios.tec.mx (Cc: joanna.alvarado@tec.mx).

Further Information

For any questions or comments regarding this call for proposals, please write to us at the following emails:

  • Dr. Joanna Alvarado-Uribe, Coordinator of the call for proposals, joanna.alvarado@tec.mx
  • MSc. Ubaldo Martínez Carranza, Coordinator of the dataset quality assurance for this call, ubaldo.martinez@tec.mx
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