The decline in the quality of education is often considered an inevitable consequence of increasing the number of students of the university courses. However, the unification of assessments and other changes in the courses can bring gains at various levels of the educational process. In order to address this issue, this article is divided into two parts: the first part discusses the implementation of the unification of the disciplines of Physics 1 and Physics 2, and the second part is a statistical analysis of results. Techniques are presented that can be used to satisfactorily handle a large number of students. Most of them are based on computational tools, and were used at the Physics Institute at the University of Brasilia to improve the training of students and the use of human resources. It is discussed the effort to propose this unification in other institutions. Several analyzes are performed from the data of students, in order to determine how the dropout rate and student performance depends on the teacher, on the commitment of students with the course, on the existence of a final exam, and on the educational background of the students. Finally, it is shown that the increase in the number of students, coupled with the adoption of unified pedagogical practices, can bring benefits to the whole educational process.
Keywords:
basic disciplines of the university course; evaluations; educational informatics
