Leitura e interpretação de textos no ENADE: o desempenho dos acadêmicos de letras e matemática da UFS–Ita na prova de formação geral

Abstract

The Enade of 2014 dealt with the evaluation of degrees throughout the national territory. The Enade General Training test is part of 25% of its total, whose format includes 10 questions of General Education (interpretation of texts that circulate in society) and 30 questions of specific knowledge of each course. It is therefore a reading assessment, whose purpose is to verify how the future egress of Brazilian universities comprises the texts that circulate in society, published in newspapers, magazines and other media. In this sense, it has as object of investigation the evaluation of the degree of literacy of Brazilian university students. The work "Reading and interpretation of texts in Enade: the performance of the academics of Literature and Mathematics of the UFS-ITA in the General Training test" aims to correlate the performance of the graduating students of the aforementioned degrees in the General Training of Enade and the national performance of the academics of these two courses in this test, so that we have a more accurate diagnosis of reading and textual comprehension of our university students in the campus Professor Alberto Carvalho. In order to support our analysis, we present substantial elements of the Enade 2014 General Training test, highlighting the process of preparation (ordering items / questions), as well as the description and analysis of the content of the test questions and the national performance of the (Brazil, 2015), made available by Inep, in particular attention to the indices of ease and discrimination (bisserial point) of each question. We adopt as theoretical-methodological assumptions the concepts about literacy proposed by Kleiman (2005) in his book "Do I need to teach literacy? Is not enough teaching to read and write? ", By Oliveira, Tinoco and Santos (2014), in" Literacy projects and training of mother tongue teachers "by Leffa (1996), in" Aspects of reading: A psycholinguistic perspective " , in addition to the proposals of Scliar-Cabral (2009) in "Phonological awareness and the principles of the Brazilian Portuguese alphabetical system". The results show that, in Brazil, the reading performance of undergraduate students is among the worst. And, at UFSITA, the mathematics students presented inferior performance in relation to those of the Literature course, failing to reach, in most questions, the minimum expected average, in addition to obtaining, on most questions, inferior results to those achieved by their course at national level.