A repercussão do programa de assistência e apoio aos estudantes na evasão escolar do Instituto Federal da Bahia - campus Porto Seguro

Abstract

The present study deals with the impact of the actions of the Assistance and Support Program for the Student (ASPS) in the fight against dropout and the consequent stimulus to the permanence of the students enrolled in Certificate Programs integrated to the Federal Institute of Bahia - Porto Seguro Campus, from 2015 to 2018. We sought to investigate whether the support of this program, through the granting of scholarships and aid to students in a situation of socioeconomic vulnerability, is a determining factor for the permanence of these students in the institution, and also to list other actions to confront the school dropout undertaken at the institution. For the work accomplishment, a case study of a qualitative and quantitative nature has been carried out, with participatory observation. As regards the procedures, we used both documentary research for objective data collection, as well as bibliographic research, in order to theoretically guide the paths taken and build subsidies for the analyzes performed. We also used the semi-structured interview to gather information about the principles and objectives of the ASPS, types of benefits offered and grant rules, the profile of the students being cared for, the operationalization, monitoring and evaluation of the program. The educational product developed as a result of this research is the Monitum System, a pedagogical monitoring program whose purpose is to early identify the students who are most likely to give up, anticipating institutional interventions aimed at those with the highest risk of dropping out. The results indicate that ASPS actions are associated with lower rates of school drop-out and have therefore proved to be an important tool in the promotion and effectiveness of school permanence. Although the repercussions of ASPS are encouraging, it has also been possible to verify that the Porto Seguro Campus has insufficient human resources to operate the program, inadequate physical space, besides the absence of a computerized system, which delays the process of selection and monitoring of the contemplated students. Above all, the execution of the ASPS has limited scope, primarily due to the scarcity of available financial resources, insufficient in the face of existing demand, restricting its actions to extreme selectivity and focusing.