EVASION IN PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND CHEMISTRY COURSES OF
Evasion. Factors. Higher Education. Exact Sciences
The school evasion is a complex phenomenon that has attracted the scholarly research of interest how their occurrence in higher education. Their understanding is related to academic, institutional, social and economic elements. This research was characterized as a study case in classroom courses of Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and proposed to identify, through the dropout's perspective, the factors that have led students to evade these courses. It was considered the concept that defines evasion as the output of the course the student without having it completed, focusing on the group of students released by the type of cancellation by abandonment of course, whose definition is set out in Regulation of Undergraduate Programs, a standard that rules undergraduate education in the target institution of the study. To know the profile of dropouts and the factors that led to the cancellation, were applied online surveys to students entering from 2013 to 2015 and had its course canceled by abandonment. Generally it were observed positive responses to the researched programs, so that 63.55% of the total has made the choice motivated by affinity with the area or vocation, 68.23% had partial or fully attended expectations; 49.53% rated the teachers as good and 69 that were considered able to give an opinion about curriculum of their respective courses, 57.97% judged it updated. The data revealed that the factors identified as contributing the most to the withdrawal of the course were "conciliate work and study", in relation to personal or socio-economic order; and "difficult to keep up with some subjects" within the academic / institutional factors. These two items were marked respectively by 53.27% and 40.19% of the participants. The need for labor activities in the same time that graduation reflected, among other questions, the lack of time to devote to the course, mentioned by 56.07% as difficulty faced when entering the course. Without, of course, claim to have exhausted the subject, on the contrary, it is understood that this study can be added to a all body of research being carried out, micro and institutional macro scope, aiming to discuss, understand and act on the phenomenon evasion in the context of higher education and served allowance for maintenance and/or creation of actions that enable the reduction of evasion rates in UFRN