Impacto da pandemia da COVID-19 nos resultados do ENEM do estado do Paraná

Abstract

In Brazil, the National High School Examination - ENEM was created in 1998 with the purpose of establishing a national reference and, over time, it has become a system for evaluating the academic performance of students seeking admission to undergraduate courses. The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on the daily lives of families, with the suspension of in-person classes and the adoption of emergency remote learning. The ENEM in 2020 recorded a record rate of abstentions, and even after the end of the pandemic, the number of registrants did not return to previous levels. In this study, the established hypothesis was that the pandemic had a negative impact on the results of students in the State of Paraná. In the investigation, the microdata of the ENEM between 2019 and 2022 were assessed. Given the extent of the information, the Tableau tool was employed to analyze and correlate students' profiles with their performance in the exams, enabling comparative and descriptive assessments. It can be confirmed that the changes resulting from the pandemic had a significant impact on the findings, accelerating processes and transformations that were already underway, requiring reflection on the part of the government and the academic community. Additionally, in the coming years, a possible gap in the student9s education during the pandemic may result in consequences not yet identified in this study.