An assessment of the expansion of the undergraduate of the Federal University of CearÃ: an analysis of the period 2008-2011

A presente pesquisa avaliou a evoluÃÃo do indicador de desempenho Taxa de Sucesso dos cursos de graduaÃÃo da UFC e sua relaÃÃo com variÃveis caracterÃsticas para esses cursos, como nÃmero de alunos matriculados, nÃmero de cursos, nÃmero de alunos diplomados e o total de docentes, considerando-se as unidades acadÃmicas da UFC no perÃodo de 2008 a 2011. No que se refere aos resultados das estimaÃÃes do modelo economÃtrico, na Tabela 7 observou-se que os coeficientes estimados para as variÃveis DIPLOMA, DOCENTE e MATRICULA resultaram estatisticamente significativas ao nÃvel de significÃncia igual de 5%. AlÃm disso, a variÃvel CURSO mostrou-se estatisticamente significativa ao nÃvel de 10%. A variÃvel MATRICULA apresentou um impacto pequeno sobre a variÃvel dependente Taxa de Sucesso (TXSUC), a variÃvel CURSO, assim como MATRICULA, mostrou um impacto negativo sobre a Taxa de Sucesso. Ademais, as variÃveis DIPLOMA e DOCENTE apresentaram coeficiente positivo.The present research assessed the success rate mark performance on graduation courses offered by UFC and its relation with characteristic variables on these same courses, as for the number of registered students, number of graduation courses per academic unit, number of graduate students and the number of instructors in each academic unit, accounting the academic units present in UFC from 2008 to 2011. Concerning the estimate results according to the econometric model, chart 7, it could be stated that the estimated coefficients for the variables, DIPLOMA, INSTRUCTOR AND REGISTER resulted statistically significant at the level of 5%. Further, the variant GRADUATION COURSE was statistically significant at the level of 10%. The variant REGISTER had a weak impact over the dependent rate success variant (port. âTXSUCâ) and the variant COURSE, as well as the variant REGISTER, showed a negative impact over the Success Rate. Furthermore, the variants DIPLOMA and INSTRUCTOR showed positive coefficients