Correlation between school performance and writing skills in students entering higher education

Written language is an organized and voluntary activity, conscious analysis of the sounds that form. As a communication system for which there is structured a context of use and certain formal combinatorial principles. Objective: To identify the writing ability level at new students to higher education using the Brief Neuropsychological Battery NEUROPSI in Spanish. Methodology: The research is quantitative, exploratory, cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational and comparative. It is a non-probabilistic sample by convenience with 38 freshmen in City of Durango, Mexico. Contribution: There is a normal level of writing in 84.21% of college freshmen (32 students), 10.53% with moderate deficit (4 cases) and with severe deficit 5.26% (2 cases). Finally, 15.79% of all cases (6) resulted deficient according to the values of Spanish Brief Neuropsychological Battery.