Impacto da pandemia de covid-19 na matrícula de discentes no curso de graduação em educação física da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia durante o ensino remoto emergencial

Abstract

Dropout in the educational process is a problem that affects all segments of education, from Basic Education to Higher Education. It is believed that the pandemic process experienced from the expansion of Covid-19, installed in our country in 2020, evasion has increased, especially at the higher level. The present study aims to identify whether there was an increase in the dropout of students from the Undergraduate Course in Physical Education - Degree and Bachelor's Degree at the Federal University of Uberlândia, during the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to achieve this objective, it was necessary to establish some specific objectives: 1) Take into account student enrollment in the Undergraduate program at the beginning of the pandemic and during the pandemic, 2) Undergraduate Course in Tables and Data Analysis to Organize, 3) to control the data to verify if there has been an increase in evasion during the pandemic. We present a discussion about evasion in the superior for our fundamental analysis and, later, discussion of the data found. Initially, data were collected on student enrollment in the Undergraduate Course in Physical Education, before the beginning of the pandemic and during the pandemic period. This is a qualitative and quantitative study, in which a temporal cut was carried out between the academic periods from 2019-2 to 2020-2, the data were organized in an Excel spreadsheet and later analyzed according to the proposed objectives. The results point to a set of determining factors for dropout, in principle, focused on personal aspects and few related to the course. The proposed strategies seek corrective and preventive actions for the weaknesses of the different aspects. With this research, it can be seen that dropout is a problem both for the student who is unable to attend the course due to internal or external factors and for the institution that is prepared to receive it and, therefore, the Combating this problem must be in everyone's interest. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the improvement of evaluation processes in higher education.