Análise quantitativa do desempenho acadêmico das turmas de projeto e construção da infraestrutura viária no contexto presencial e da pandemia de Covid-19.

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic forced all sectors of society to take preventive measures. In education, classroom activities were paralyzed, allowing the distance learning model to pave the way for the continuity of education. The overall objective of this paper is to quantitatively analyze the academic performance of students in the discipline of Project and Construction of Road Infrastructure of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and compare the results of face-to-face teaching (2018 and 2019) and distance learning (2020). For this, project grades and assessments were analyzed in a quantitative way, by means of statistical parameters, allowing the analysis of the academic performance of the students. Thus, it was possible to observe that the grades in the face-to-face mode were mostly below the average adopted by the UFC for approval without final evaluation, while the remote mode allowed the final average of the subject for the offered classes to be above 7.0. As a hypothesis, it is assumed that the percentage difference refers to the change in the evaluation method and the flexibility of studies provided by the semester developed in a virtual way. However, it is not possible to affirm that, in comparison with the face-to-face semester, the improvement in grades adds more knowledge to the students. Therefore, it is hoped that the resources used can be used in other scenarios to verify the effectiveness of learning.