Avaliações externas: qual a relação entre o desempenho no Enade e exame de suficiência?

Abstract

Considering the importance of reflecting on the current mechanisms for evaluation of higher education in Brazil, due to its direct impact on the advancement of the quality of education, this research aimed to verify whether there is a correlation between the performance in the 2018 ENADE exam and the approval rate in the Sufficiency Examination in the 2018.2 edition. A descriptive methodology was used that involved the collection of documentary data and the application of quantitative methods. In order to achieve the research objective, public data released by INEP on the performance of higher education institutions in ENADE were obtained, searched through the e-MEC portal, and approval data by IES in the Sufficiency Exam of the CFC, obtained through the website of the Federal Accounting Council (CFC). The data were analyzed using RStudio software, using the linear correlation model, with variables X being the ENADE score and Y the approval rate on the CFC Sufficiency Exam. The main results found indicate a correlation of 0.248, equivalent to 24.8%, between performance on the ENADE exam and the Sufficiency Exam. This correlation can be considered weak, which is also the case if we consider the regional correlations, which varied between 0.120 and 0.293. The average passing rate on the Placement Exam, considering all the institutions that returned data on this variable, was 43.61%. This is a significant average, especially when compared with the average performance on the ENADE assessment of the same institutions, which was 2. Thus, this study contributes to understanding that the performance on ENADE cannot be used as a reliable indicator to predict the approval of students on the Sufficiency Exam.