As reprovações em disciplinas nos cursos de graduação da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) no período de 2000 a 2008 e suas implicações na evasão discente

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Silva Filho, José Pereira da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: http://www.teses.ufc.
• Palavras-chave em Português: Evasão; Reprovação; Rendimento Acadêmico; Dropout; Fails in discipline; Student Performance; Evasão universitária - Fortaleza(CE) - 2000-2008; Rendimento escolar - Fortaleza(CE) - 2000-2008; Fracasso escolar - Fortaleza(CE) - 2000-2008; Universidade Federal do Ceará; Estudantes universitários - Fortaleza(CE) - 2000-2008
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/2789

This research deals with the results over the student dropout at the Federal University of Ceara, Brasil, during the period from 2000 to 2007, focusing mainly in the early period when it is significant the numbers of retirements course in higher education. Furthermore was verified the existence or not of a relation between this fact and the withdrawal of students by the institution or by the course. Data about the student performance, such as to Graduate rate, periods of disciplines problem, Academic Performance Index (IRA), percentage of approval; besides this were done a comparison with the courses which presented higher dropout rates and those with higher rates of fails in disciplines. The results shown that in the Science Exact Area, there are a lot of failures and an association with low graduation rate, meanwhile Courses from the Human Area, there is no correlation with the results found in Science Exact Area. In conclusion there are no standards for students behavior, once both courses presented a great index of failures and not dropout, and there are a few others courses with considerable repetition and dropout.