Identificação de variáveis determinantes na seleção de candidatos, para os cursos de engenharia, no processo seletivo da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS

Abstract

The current outlook and upward movement by the formation and continuing education for the citizen. This upward movement is due to technological advances in diverse areas of knowledge, globalization, and the need for greater supply of skilled manpower, which require all persons to be well prepared to work and ensure its place in a competitive market. It is noticed that the demand for access to higher education continues to grow in the universities, which has sought to make a selection more fair and, to prevent evasion of student. Because of this, IES seeking for the future students has asked its candidates to fill out a questionnaire during the sociocultural process of inscription to the entrance exam. Thus, the goal of this investigation was to identify and test the sociocultural variables that determine the selection of candidates for new engineering courses, made possible by the program REUNI of the selection process UFSM held in May 2009. For data analysis was performed an exploratory and descriptive study, using technique multivariate statistics of multiple logistic regression. We obtained a sample of 535 candidates were tested and 34 of their sociocultural variables database COPERVES. In this study the dependent variable corresponds to the occurrence or not of the vestibular selection. The adjusted model results indicate that only two predictor variables were statistically significant (p <0.05) to determine the probability of selection of candidates, which are: the university entry exams is already one or more times (b1 = 1.170) and has total monthly household income up to 5 times the minimum wage (b2 =.- 1.143).