STUDENT DROPOUT IN A BRAZILIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY: A SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

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Higher education, dropout, survival analysis, UFRJ.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze whether educational factors and degree choice, sociodemographic origin and academic integration are associated with dropout in the first three years of a student at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). We operationalize dropout as the student's permanent departure from the undergraduate course h/she was enrolled. Dropout was analyzed using statistical models of discrete-time survival, which allows treating the data in its longitudinal structure. The institution's microdata were used for the three-year follow-up of the cohort that joined in the first half of 2014. Results point that during the time analyzed, the moments of greatest risk of dropout were the first, second and fifth semester. The factors that were associated with dropout were educational and degree choice, and the accumulated income coefficient per semester (CRa), which in this study was configured as a proxy for academic integration. These findings highlight the importance of understanding decision-making processes for entering and continuing studies.

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Author Biographies

Melina Klitzke, UFRJ

Doutoranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, na linha de Políticas e Instituições Educacionais pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (PPGE - UFRJ) .Mestre em Educação (PPGE - UFRJ). Graduada em Pedagogia pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Integrante do Laboratório de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Superior (LEPES) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Flavio Carvalhaes, UFRJ

Professor do Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e Vice-Coordenador do Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos sobre a Desigualdade. Doutorado em Sociologia pelo Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPRJ).

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Published

2022-12-01

How to Cite

Klitzke, M., & Carvalhaes, F. (2022). STUDENT DROPOUT IN A BRAZILIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY: A SURVIVAL ANALYSIS. Educação Em Revista, 38. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/edrevista/article/view/37576

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Vol. 38 (2022)

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