Evasão no ensino de Física à distância: turma 2007.2 polo Russas-CE

Abstract

The education to distance in Brazil has began a few before 1900 through courses by correspondences, radio and television, coming until nowadays, cos at the beginning the offered courses were addressed to people who aspire to engage for an employ, especially in the trade and in the sector of services. Even with difficulties and happened delays in the country the system still not lost its essence which is graduate young people in courses to distance searching for quality of teaching. In the last years, researches about evasion in the in the education to distance in the Brazilian context reveal fundamentals in recognition of the causes and in the searching for strategies that help the student to conclude the studies. Some of the greatest virtues we find in the EAD teaching are the liberties and flexibilities for students on the choice of local and time to study, but these virtues might become a problem if the student has’n t self-discipline and does not understand his parcel o responsibility with the system adopted by him , staying still imprisoned in the classroom education systems. The degree course in Physics in semi attendance, in the form to distance at the Universidad do Ceará (UFC) at the polo of Russas-CE, has began the first class in 2007, at the beginning with 30 students enrolled and throughout the course started up to realize the evasion and finishing the course with three students still remain to retrieve some subjects to reach their graduation and twenty two was the evaded number. There is many results of survey about the dropout rate in the classroom courses, nevertheless, still are few the studies that investigate the roots of causes of this phenomenon in the courses in the form of distance course. In the intention of analyzing the causes of invasion in the degree course in Physics class of 2007.2, in the form of distance course was necessary the elaboration of a questionnaire with one opened question and ten closed and given personally to the ex-students who enrolled in this class. This is a final labor of graduation which has as a target investigate the causes of the high dropout rate in the EAD and possible alternatives to help decrease this problem.