ProUni Scholar students performance in Enade: Structural Equations Modeling

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the performance in the National Students Exam–Enade of students with scholarships ProUni (“University for all” Programme), with grants of the education institutions themselves and students with other types of scholarships, and also to investigate, through the Structural Equation Modeling, whether this performance is maintained under the conditions of freshmen and seniors. We used a database containing the results of 401,117 students who took the Enade exam in 2006, which is composed both of the General Formation and the Specific Knowledge tests. The same structural equation model was used to analyse the database of freshmen and seniors students. The obtained results indicated that the measurement model of the scholar students concerning the Enade grades provides a reasonably good fit and allows us to say that the student’s performance through graduation is poorer than the moment of their admission to College.

higher education; statistical methods; large scale assessment