Pitfalls in the search for causation between governance and academic performance in brazilian public universities

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Kleber Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Ettinger Oliveira Salgado , Thais, Aschar, Juliana, Sarmento Silva , Rosângela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Gestão e Avaliação Educacional
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/regae/article/view/68959

This article presents research results that aimed to analyze the relationship between public governance of federal universities and their respective academic performance. The underlying hypothesis is that good governance practices result in better institutional performance which, in the case of public universities, concerns the increase in the graduation success rate, that is, in the proportion of students who complete the course within the standard duration. Although some studies indicate the existence of such a causal relationship, the results presented here contradict them and suggest that the lack of internal consistency of some constructs can lead to the conclusion about the existence of causal relationships. The database used here comes from two official sources: the governance indicators of the Federal Court of Auditors, contained in the public governance and management profile - 2018 cycle, and the academic performance indicators of universities, also referred to 2018, obtained from the Monitoring, Execution and Control System - Simec. In addition to these institutional indicators, the following were also considered the institutional performance and effort and the poverty index of the respective Federation Unit. The results indicate that there is no direct relationship between the TCU's good governance practices index and the institutions' academic performance, which is why it is believed that there is a need to adapt the instrument used to the reality of Brazilian federal universities.