The National Student Performance Examination and the quality of Brazilian higher education in health
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.5714.3585Keywords:
Educational Measurement; Teaching Institutions; College Education; Health Education; Health Sciences; Privatization.Abstract
Objective: to analyze higher education in the health area in Brazil
according to the results of the students’ performance in the 2019
National Student Performance Examination. Method: a cross-sectional
and retrospective study with a quantitative approach and online data
referring to 192,715 students from 3,712 health courses, collected in
2020. The students’ performance was expressed in concepts, ordered
on a scale of one to five. Box-plots were prepared, prevalence values
of the concepts were estimated, and the differences were evaluated
through statistical tests (α=5%) according to the administrative and
management characteristics, as well as those of the cities where
the courses were offered. Results: there was a satisfactory level of
higher education in health (70.0% with a score ≥3). The Medicine
courses were the most satisfactorily evaluated while Speech Therapy
and Nursing obtained the worst scores. Public, face-to-face and
university education were associated with better teaching quality.
Lower levels were found in the North region states, in small towns,
outside metropolitan areas and in those under private management.
Conclusion: heterogeneity in the quality of higher education across
the health courses was verified, indicating its association with the
characteristics of the teaching institutions and with the infrastructure
of the cities where the courses are offered, pointing out challenges
to the quality of health education in Brazil.
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