Academic performance and investments in federal institutes of education in the Brazilian Northeast

Abstract

The creation of the Federal Network of Professional and Technological Education, as a public policy of education, resulted in the expansion of technical-technological education in Brazil and led to an exponential increase of resources applied to them. In this context, the Federal Audit Court established academic indicators that express the expansion of supply and the improvement of the efficiency and effectiveness of the federal institutions of professional education. In order to monitor organizational performance and evaluate results regarding the allocation of material and human resource. The aim of this study was investigating the relationship between the Graduates Efficiency Rate and other established indicators, discussing whether the performance evaluation model reflects the complexity of these institutions and measures their performance as public policy. As for the methodology, the research was quanti-qualitative. After a bibliographical research, a documentary analysis of the data available in the Management Reports of the Federal Institutions of Education of the Northeast Region was performed, from the period between 2012 and 2016. The indicators available in these documents were compared in statistical treatment software, in evaluating the results, the various organizational issues involved in the process. The results show that there is no relation between the Academic Efficiency Rate of Graduates and the other management indicators established by the TCU. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt a performance evaluation model that advances the study of the elements that reflect the complexity of these institutions.