Os determinantes do desempenho acadêmico do corpo discente no ensino superior: evidências a partir da Universidade Federal da Paraíba

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Ionara Stéfani Viana de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Economia do Trabalho e Economia de Empresas; Programa de Pós Graduação em Economia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Características socioeconômicas; Desempenho acadêmico; Evasão; Socioeconomic characteristics; Academic performance; Evasion; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4979

The objective of this work is to examine the factors that influenced the academic performance of students at the Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) in the period 2000 to 2006. In particular, we examined how student s socioeconomic characteristics determine their performance. To this end, the data provided will be used are in student s socioeconomic questionnaire available on the Standing Committee of the Competition Vestibular UFPB - COPERVE and the Center for Information Technology (NIT). Were considered as measures of student performance in UFPB two different variables: the coefficient of Educational Achievement (CRE) and evasion. Taking these variables as dependent and socioeconomic and academic characteristics as explanatory, were made estimates by the Probit and ordered probit model, respectively. The main results shows that the relationship between academic performance, measured by the CRE, and socioeconomic characteristics of students is weak. However, the CRE is directly influenced when it is related to the number of lockups and failures that students had during the academic life. In order to check whether the explanatory variables (characteristics) were actually consistent were used an estimate through the ordered probit model, with the dependent variable been the average grade obtained by the students in the entrance examination. The results were satisfactory, showing that on average, male students have better results than those of female students; and who studied the high school in public school have worse performance compared to those who came from private school. With respect to average family income, the results indicate that the higher the value of this variable higher school performance; that higher education level of parents increases the performance of students; and those students who do not work tend to have better results compared than those who work. With respect to the Probit regression to explain the evasion, it was found that male students are more likely to evade the university than women. With regard to marital status is verified that the fact of being single does not make the student have a better chance of leaving the university. Concerning the school system, students that studied high school and middle schools in public school have a positive relationship with the escape, or are more likely to evade. The same approach occurs with working students. About the lockups, partial and total failures, they present a direct relationship with the level of evasion, that is, the more failures and lockups students perform, more likely to evade the course they have.