Teoria de resposta ao item aplicada a análise de evasão estudantil: estudo de caso de uma Universidade pública do estado de Alagoas

Abstract

In view of the growing number of students dropping out of undergraduate engineering courses, the present work aims to identify the factors related to the causes of dropout of students from civil engineering and production engineering courses at a public university in the state of Alagoas, through the development of a scale based on factor analysis and item response theory. Therefore, a questionnaire was applied, obtaining 84 samples, in which the profile of the respondents was traced and thus making the analysis of dimensionality through the questions that dealt with the evasion factor, being able to visualize its unidimensionality and through that, the Factor Analysis, identifying items with factor loading indices and adequate commonality. Then, the item response theory was applied to assess the quality of the information generated for analysis of the dropout factor and generate a scale of students' dropout levels. The generated scale had eight levels, in which it was possible to identify different patterns of responses that indicated the chance of students dropping out. It was concluded that there is a considerable dropout rate, in which a large percentage is divided between low, considerable and medium levels, showing that it is important to have some actions that can prevent these students from reaching more aggravating levels over time and lead to dropout. of your course.