A evasão no curso de Licenciatura em Química do Instituto Federal de Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco: o caso do campus Ipojuca

Abstract

The Chemistry Degree course at IFPE Campus Ipojuca was created to meet the need for a lack of chemistry teachers in the region and needs to adopt practices so that students remain and complete the course. Given the reality of so few students who have completed the course in full, and, consequently, high school dropout rates, this work aims to study the reasons for this problem, collect student data from the academic community, analyze the information, seek possible correlations and suggest alternatives to try to change this reality. Dropout is when a student leaves their original course without completing it. To study this, we collected data in the following way: we used a questionnaire created on the Google platform and obtained a sample of 54 respondents who dropped out of their degree. The methodology used was quantitative and descriptive. The results were compiled from the students' responses and recorded in Google graphs and Excel spreadsheets. Thus, it was possible to observe that most dropouts were due to work reasons, living far away and problems with commuting from home and/or work to the Ipojuca campus. In addition, more generic definitions were observed, such as: financial aspects, changing courses, failure, deficiency in secondary education, leaving due to lack of vocation, due to illness, among others. Thus, each of these reasons may or may not represent a problem, and each of them may require a type of approach, measurement and public educational policy.