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Educação UFSM
Print version ISSN 0101-9031On-line version ISSN 1984-6444
Abstract
RUDA, Caio and SILVA, Gabriela Andrade da. Psychology Education and Training in Bahia, Brazil: an analysis of Enade 2015. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2020, vol.45, e34755. Epub July 06, 2023. ISSN 1984-6444. https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644434755.
The National Examination of Student Performance (Exame Nacional de Desempenho de Estudantes/Enade) is one of the main tools for the evaluation of higher education in Brazil. This article aims to analyze the performance of Psychology students in the Enade 2015 in the state of Bahia, Brazil. A quantitative study was carried out, based on the Enade 2015 data made available by the Brazilian government. The following variables were included in the analysis: academic organization, administrative category and indicators of students' performance. The results pointed to a trend of higher education courses to multiply within the state of Bahia, headed by the private sector. In general, students enrolled to courses outside the capital of the state did not perform differently from the student in capital, all of them with medium or weak performance, compatible with the national average. Public universities have performed significantly better than private colleges. Although it was not possible to establish whether the significant differences in performance were due to the academic organization or to the administrative category, the predominance of the private sector, mostly represented by faculdades and centros universitários, indicates a scenario of precariousness of education in the state. It is, therefore, of concern the educational scenario in Psychology in Bahia, shaped by a perverse process of expansion inside the state marked by the presence of the for-profit higher education institutions, without ensuring the quality of teaching, and whose impact on the professional performance deserves to be evaluated.
Keywords : Education and Training in Psychology; Assessment and Evaluation; Higher Education.
