Trabalho e outros fatores associados ao desempenho escolar da estudante do curso de serviço social de uma instituição de ensino superior privada de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais

Abstract

The educational policies implemented in Brazil in recent years have resulted in increased access to higher education. However, the pulverizacion of institutions and courses and government funding programs were not sufficient to guarantee the good performance permanence and completion of university students. In the case of female students, some authors point to the overlapping of social roles as a condition for braking the formation. This quantitative case study aimed to identify the factors associated with the academic performance of university students, especially the condition of working outside the home. An interview self-administered questionnaire was conducted with Social Work students at a private higher education institution in Belo Horizonte. Descriptive analyzes of the variables that make up the students profile werw followed by comparison between the groups of students who do or do not work outside the home. Academic performance was measured by the failure rate, defined as the ratio between the number of subjects failed and the number of subjects attended by students. “Bad performance” was considered to be the failure rate value above the third quartile. The results showed that students who work outside the home and those who declared themselves to be color/race white or asiatic had a worse academic performance. It can be said that the expansion of higher education should include in its matrices factors external to the teaching-learning process in order to guarantee better results from the number of stakeholders, especially in the case of women given the presence of patriarchalism in the brasilian society.