Relation between the University contest performance and the performance during the graduation course

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva, Maelin
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Padoin, Maristela Jorge
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Título da fonte: Ensaio (Rio de Janeiro. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.cesgranrio.org.br/index.php/ensaio/article/view/552
• topic: Vestibulares; Enseñanza superior; Los estudiantes trabajadores; Vestibular; Higher education; Student workers; Vestibular; Ensino superior; Alunos trabalhadores

To enter a public or a private higher education institution the candidate must take an ingression examination, the initial call examination. The basic formation, which is responsible for developing the students skills, by giving them subsidies to exert the citizenship and also to improve in their jobs and future studies, has a very important role in the result of the university contest. Open to people who had finished high school and passed the examinations, higher education must be accessible to everyone during their whole lives. Our goal with this paper was to check if the first and the last ones placed in the university contest for the biology course keep the same results during the course, and what factors contribute to the continuity or not of this performance. To collect these data, questionnaires were given to the first and last five candidates classified in the vestibular contest for the two modalities of the biology course: licentiate and bachelor of biology; it also analyzed the academic descriptions of the students, in order to see their performance in the disciplines. To study the results a statistic analysis was made. We conclude that, in general, the first placed students perform better than the last ones, and reasons like basic formation (basic and average education), work and the age of the pupils are related to their performance during the course. The two analyzed groups show peculiar characteristics, and the period when the courses are offered makes a big difference, because it encloses a very distinct group, and, as a consequence, it reflects very different data. The test of the university contest immediately separates the students who are prepared to enroll the university from those who aren't, besides that, other reasons like: family, job, primary formation and identification to the course also determine the performance of these pupils. Other researches that aim to characterize the socio-economic condition and also the learning conditions of each pupil seems to be necessary to affirm that these reasons contribute to a good or bad performance.