Desempeño de las Instituciones Federales de Educación Profesional, Científica y Tecnológica Brasileña en el Enem

Abstract

The National Exam of Upper Secondary Education is a large-scale evaluation whose results are currently used as selection criteria for most part of Brazilian higher education institutions. Considering how specific these federal institutions of professional and technological education are, and also the fact they offer public and free high school education, the objective of this study is to analyze the performance of these federal institutions of professional and technological education on National Exam of Upper Secondary Education. This is a descriptive-exploratory and quantitative research. To do it so, the latest microdata were used, provided by the Ministry of Education in 2015. The examinations’ results were extracted, originally from the federal institutions, state, municipal and private schools. The analysis was carried out in the four knowledge areas (Languages and Codes, Natural Sciences, Humanities and Mathematics) and an essay. The results have shown that the average performance of the federal institutions stands out in front of the municipal, state and private ones, even considering only the 30 best students of each institution, except for the writing section, when compared to the private ones. We conclude that the federal network of professional and technological education, when compared to the other types of institutions, has been presenting a better performance on National Exam of Upper Secondary Education in all areas of knowledge.