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This paper applies multilevel models to Brazilian's tertiary education assessment data in order to test whether some of the factors pointed out by the literature as relevant to achievement are associated with the performance of last year engineering students in 2011. Brazil is the only country...
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This paper analyses the evolution of tertiary education in Brazil from 2000 to 2012, with particular focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Administrative data are used to build indicators on the demand for courses, number of places, enrolments and graduates,...
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In this paper we compare the Brazilian tertiary education system to the ones in five well-succeeded countries that have promoted significant efforts to develop their higher education, using 2006 data. The results suggest trade-offs between the goals of access and equity, on the one hand, and of...
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operation is conducive to the evaluation of management efficiency, since it favors the existence of a variety of management …
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) consists of three components: the evaluation of student performance, the evaluation of programmes and the evaluation of … educational institutions. This work makes a critical analysis of the quality indicators that guide such evaluation processes and … on the programme evaluation component. The immediate objective is to make it more complete, simpler to understand …
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This paper describes changes that occurred in the Brazilian tertiary education system considering information from household surveys and from administrative data collected by the Ministry of Education. A movement toward democratizing access occurred especially in public universities and in the...
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This paper discusses the interruption of teaching and learning activities at Brazilian federal universities at the time the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, as well as the extent to which the lack of access to the internet would prohibit remote resumption of those activities. Political-educational...
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. Results allow the evaluation of fiscal and distributional implications related to parameters such as interest rates and … repayment rates and thresholds. This is an ex-ante evaluation of an alternative for higher education student financing in Brazil …
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