Abstract

SOUSA, Andréia da Silva Quintanilha; MARTIRES, Hugo  and  SOUSA, Carolina. Motives for evading the School of Education and Communication of the University of Algarve/Portugal, according to students. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2018, vol.56, n.47, pp.42-68. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.21680/1981-1802.2018v56n47ID13998.

This article presents the predictive factors to avoidance according to the students of the courses of Communication Science, Communication Design, Sports, Social Education, Basic Education, Animated Image of the School of Education and Communication (ESEC) of the University of Algarve/PT. The instrument applied between September and December 2015 was the "Scale of Motives for Evasion of Higher Education − M-ES", whose objective is to evaluate the potential reasons that lead students to leave higher education. The collected data were transcribed into the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) program which measured the impact of the reasons listed in the M-ES in 68 items, with a 5-point Likert Scale response key. This study concluded that M-ES can contribute to the deepening of knowledge about avoidance in higher education and to support institutional programs to reduce evasion.

Keywords : Higher education; Predictive factors; Evasion.

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