EXPECTATIVAS E DIFICULDADES ACADÊMICAS EM INGRESSANTES NO ENSINO SUPERIOR: ANÁLISE EM FUNÇÃO DO GÊNERO E SISTEMA DE COTAS

Authors

  • Ana Amália G. B T. Faria Instituto Federal de Alagoas (IFAL-AL)
  • Leandro S. Almeida Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Abstract

With the expansion of higher education, its students´ population has been increasingly diverse, mainly due to the creation of access policies to traditionally disadvantaged and historically excluded social groups. The objective of this paper is to investigate whether there is a difference in academic expectations and anticipated difficulties among students entering higher education, in function of gender and quota system. The instruments for data collection were: a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Brazilian Scale of Academic Expectations for those entering Higher Education (Marinho-Araújo et al., 2015), and the Scale of Anticipated Difficulties, version for Brazil . The results suggest the existence of differences related to gender, for example higher academic expectations in women, mainly regarding to social commitment and professional success. In addition, differences were observed between quota and non-quota students concerning greater anticipated difficulties, namely academic domain, social support and autonomy issues. These data may support the design of strategies aiming to help subgroups students’ difficulties in their academic trajectory.

 

Keywords: Higher Education; Academic expectations; Adaptation difficulties; 1st year university students.

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Author Biographies

Ana Amália G. B T. Faria , Instituto Federal de Alagoas (IFAL-AL)

Doutoranda em Ciências da Educação (Psicologia da Educação), pela Universidade do Minho, Psicóloga no Instituto Federal de Alagoas (IFAL-AL). Investigação sobre expectativas e dificuldades acadêmicas dos estudantes no ensino superior.

Leandro S. Almeida, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Doutor em Psicologia, especialidade de Psicologia da Educação. Professor do Instituto de Educação e investigador do Centro de Investigação em Educação (CIEd) da Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Investigação voltada para os estudantes do ensino superior.

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Published

2021-01-01

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1, jan-jun (2021): Dossiê Estudantes Universitários e temas livres em Educação, Psicologia e Psicopedagogia

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Artigos