Assiduidade como fator de desempenho: uma análise na disciplina de matemática financeira

Abstract

This study examines the association between the performance of students, represented by its notes in financial mathematics discipline, and the amount of fouls in the same discipline. Financial education is unfortunately still not a reality in Brazilian schools at all levels. Thus, it shows the important financial mathematics study both basic education as superior. But in return, it is expected that the use that discipline is satisfactory so there is a better practical application. Performance is directly proportional to the interest of the individual to the act of learning. A two-dimensional analysis was performed between quantitative variables in question through scatter plots and correlation coefficients, estimating the size of the association, either generally or segregated by sex. In general, the correlation coefficient was classified as strong, that is, its value was above or equal to 0.7. When segregated by gender, males showed strong coefficient (0.7), while the women had moderate coefficient (0.5). What could be observed in the descriptive statistics when the average male faults and notes had worse values. The fact is that there is a relationship between note and faults. The presence in the classroom is relevant factor when evaluating student performance