Projovem Urbano: análise do desempenho escolar no ano de 2009

Abstract

Given the high social vulnerability that lies in the younger population in Brazil, the government has implemented several policies aimed at youth. In 2005, the Federal Government launched the National Youth Policy with the development of the National Youth Inclusion Programme (Projovem). From the latter, in 2008 was created the Urban Projovem, which is a reformulation of Projovem, and aims to achieve basic training through the completion of elementary education, professional training and the development of social work community experiences. Thus, this research aims to analyse the performance of students entering Urban Projovem in 2009 regarding proficiency tests in Mathematics and Portuguese Language. Therefore, it was used the econometric model Ordered Probit, for it is possible to relate the socioeconomic characteristics of students with grades obtained in proficiency examinations. From the obtained results, it was observed that the program serves an excluded portion of the population, such as women, non-whites and people with proper age outside the school. In addition, students had a satisfactory performance in proficiency tests analysed, this being consistent with the results of the students graduating from regular high school. However, the program suffers from high dropout rates and a reduced number of benefited participants.