Evaluation of the curriculum change in the economic science course of the federal university of Santa Catarina in 2009

Abstract

Http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8085.2016v19n2p23

The change in the curriculum of the Economic Sciences course at UFSC in 2009 was proposed in order to make the course more flexible and to prepare economists better prepared for the job market. This article presents an evaluation exercise of the change in indicators of the academic results of the students: failure, abandonment and standardized mark. The analyzed sample was defined as students of the fourth phase of the Economic Sciences course enrolled in 2007 as a control group and 2010 as a treatment group. It is indicative that the change in the curriculum increased the probability of dropout, increased the probability of disapproval and the number of disapprovals, and decreased the students' standardized grade.