Impacts of the Quota Law on a Federal Higher Education Institution: research on student dropout
Wagner Bandeira Andriola,
Adriana Castro Araújo
Abstract:Research results are presented using historical series of institutional data about student dropout in undergraduate courses, to compare the period before (2008 to 2012) with the period after (2013 to 2017) the implementation of the Quota Law, in order to obtain evidence of the impacts of this affirmative action within the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). The results revealed (i) a systematic decrease in dropout rates from 2013 on; (ii) inexistence of significant difference between the average evasion rates f… Show more
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