ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA DAS TAXAS DE EVASÃO E MOTIVAÇÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA ANTES E DURANTE A PANDEMIA DA COVID-19

Abstract

The abrupt movement of closing schools due to the high rate of contamination by COVID-19 affected education worldwide. In Brazil, the closure, as well as the adaptation to the new reality, took place gradually and costly, with several attempts to minimize the impact of the pandemic while absorbing and understanding the seriousness of the news. The present study sought to signal the impacts of the pandemic on the higher education scenario in Brazil, with a view to stimulating programs or providing support for recovery projects in this area, based on the analysis of the dropout rates of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) before and during the pandemic, looking for variations and checking their extent. Participants correspond to students enrolled in the institution in different areas of knowledge: Health Sciences; Human Sciences; Applied Social Sciences; Exact Sciences/Technology and Nature; the selected courses have the highest number of enrollments in each teaching center. The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the number of incoming students, as well as the amount of enrollments and graduates, all decreased in the year of 2020.