Análise sobre estratégias pré-curricular e curricular para redução da retenção e da evasão no curso de Engenharia Química da Universidade Federal do Pampa
Authors: Rodrigues Rodolfo , Brasil Irala Valesca , Janner Natália Nara 
Published: November 2020

<p class="Normal1"><span style="left: 118.11px; top: 944.338px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.681802);">The dropout and retention in Higher Education have delivered alarming rates and have been the object of </span><span style="left: 118.11px; top: 966.173px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.730331);">debates at national and global levels. Such discussions aim at identifying their causes and solutions to lower </span><span style="left: 118.11px; top: 988.008px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.669672);">the occurrence of such phenomena. In this paper, the focus lies on describing and identifying the impact of </span><span style="left: 118.11px; top: 1009.84px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.692563);">pre-curricular and curricular strategies adopted by the undergraduate program in Chemical Engineering at </span><span style="left: 118.11px; top: 1031.68px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.726066);">Universidade Federal do Pampa to minimize this scenario. As pre-curricular strategies, different weights were </span><span style="left: 118.11px; top: 1053.51px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.727544);">set at each area of knowledge in ENEM/SiSU, a university entrance examination held in Brazil. As a curricular </span><span style="left: 118.11px; top: 1075.35px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.714579);">strategy, on the other hand, a flexibility measure was adopted, replacing the requirements of prerequisites per </span><span style="left: 118.109px; top: 1097.18px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.712682);">course with prerequisites per study load completed, keeping the previous conditions only as the recommended </span><span style="left: 118.109px; top: 1119.02px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.695308);">ones. After this implementation, the pre-curricular strategy – weight changes in ENEM/SiSU – pointed out </span><span style="left: 118.109px; top: 1140.85px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.736841);">an increase in the scoring average as well as a decrease in the number of failures obtained by the entrance </span><span style="left: 118.109px; top: 1162.69px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.72931);">of students in the first semester. The curricular strategy, however, resulted in a considerable pass rate, even </span><span style="left: 118.109px; top: 1184.52px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.728468);">though these students did not have any of the recommended prerequisites, which made the course progress </span><span style="left: 118.109px; top: 1206.36px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.669176);">easier. Besides, there was a rise in the number of graduates per class, indicating an immediate drop in the </span><span style="left: 118.109px; top: 1228.19px; font-size: 18.6162px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.713988);">retention as an outcome of the strategies used.</span></p>