Ascensão escolar e profissionalização de bons alunos de baixa renda: avaliação de um programa brasileiro The educational and professional development of low income students: evaluation of a Brazilian program

Abstract

Esta pesquisa de avaliação de programa analisou a escolarização e a profissionalização de 629 jovens da região de Curitiba, em 2001, para detectar o efeito do programa social PBA - Programa Bom Aluno. Verificou-se a evolução da escolaridade sem interrupção nos estudos, a freqüência e o tipo de instituição formal de ensino, se pública ou privada, o exercício e o tipo de trabalho nos grupos experimental e controle. O efeito positivo do programa foi identificado no nível superior de ensino (c²=34,164; pThis research that was carried out in order to evaluate the effect of the Program Bom Aluno, PBA, taking into consideration the educational and professional development of 629 students from Curitiba and surroundings in the year of 2001. The evolution of the schooling without interruption in the process, the attendance to classes and the kind of institution itself, private or public, and the practice and kind of work in both the control and the experimental groups were assessed. Positive effect of the Program was verified at university (c² = 34,164; p<0,0001), where there were three times more participants from the control group that did not go to college than from the experimental group. It was found that 62,9% of the students from PBA at college level, worked and studied whereas only 37,9 % (c² = 8,672; p=0,003) of the students from the control group did so. It was concluded that PBA was effective in helping the students to reach college, continuing the studies, and start working.

Keywords

• Avaliação de programas
• educação
• profissão
• adolescente
• Program evaluation
• education
• profession
• teenager