Análise do desempenho dos ingressantes na UFRN por meio do vestibular de 2012 e o seu respectivo rendimento acadêmico na UFRN

Abstract

The current study had as goal to analyze the UFRN incoming students performance in the 2012 entrance exam and their respective performance in the university after the 2012 academic year. The influence of socioeconomic factors on the students performances was the guiding axis from which the explanatory variables were set in this research. The Boxplot Chart was used as principal tool, and as additional, the Bar Graphs. Another aim was to classify the UFRN undergraduate courses according to the students performance in the Multiple Choice and Writing tests of the 2012 entrance examination through the cluster analysis, using the agglomerative hierarchical technique - the Ward’s Method. The cluster analysis resulted in the grouping of courses into three groups, featured by performance levels (high, medium and low), and the descriptive analysis showed that economic variables can affect the incoming students performance.