Motives for higher education adult and active students’ evasion
International Journal of Development Research
Motives for higher education adult and active students’ evasion
Received 18th November, 2018; Received in revised form 10th December, 2018; Accepted 21st January, 2019; Published online 28th February, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Cíntia B. Goi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Higher education is the dream of many adults for perceiving that through qualification there is a possibility of being professionally satisfied and obtaining better conditions of life. This study evaluated potential motives for adult active students’ evasion from higher education courses of a federal institution. It concerns toa quantitative study, cross-sectional design and questions related to qualitative aspects. Data was collected through a validated scale that evaluates the motives for Higher Education evasion. The instrument is composed of 53 items, the answers are given in a Likert format scale of five points, varying between one – too weak and 5 – too strong. One hundred and three adult students were interviewed, out of which 98 were characterized as not traditional. We point out in this research that 45,71% presented strong and very strong motives related to the lack of support as the first component with greater representativity, followed by the27,55% with motives related to career, 23,46% to academic performance, 22,96% to vocational reasons, 20,03% institutional reasons, 14,69% related to the autonomy and 9,62% interpersonal. This study provides aids to the institution managers studied to trace strategies for the not traditional student permanence and with that minimize the rate of evasion.