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PREDICTIVE FACTORS FOR EVASION, DISTANCE PEDAGOGY CLASS UAB/UFRN, ACCORDING TO ENTRY STUDENTS 2021.1

Predictive factors; Evasion, Pedagogy; University education; Distance Education.

This article presents an analysis of the predictive factors for dropout, based on an adaptation of the questionnaire named “Scale of Reasons for Evasion of Higher Education - M-ES”, configured by Professor Rodolfo Ambiel, from Universidade São Francisco and his team, in order to assess the reasons that lead students to drop out of higher education courses. The questionnaire was applied in digital format to students in the first semester class of the Distance Pedagogy course 2021.1, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) since, by reference to the literature on dropout Tinto (2007), Polydoro et al. (2001), Aretio (2002), Almeida, Soares and Ferreira (2002), Ambiel (2015), Fior, Mercuri and Almeida (2011), the phenomenon has grown in the sport in question, as it tends to occur with greater emphasis on first semesters of the course. After applying the questionnaire to 111 students, we obtained 51 responses, corresponding to 45.9%, which were processed by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM SPSS Statistics) software and analyzed to understand which factors are predictive for the phenomenon of dropout, in association with the class profile, revealing that factors such as health problems, conciliation between professional and academic life and performance and failures in the curricular components of the course were the potential factors for dropout in

the class.