Alfabetismo funcional em alunos do curso de administração de empresas e sua relação com a auto-eficácia e o auto-controle de suas atividades de aprendizagem

Abstract

This dissertation covers the study which was realized within the present Brazilian Educational Scenario for the third grade, with the main objective to measure the Functional Literacy Index from a statistical sample of students from a graduation course of Business Administration and, in second place, to relate it with the Selfefficacy and Locus of Control Indexes related to their learning activities. In order to get these results were adopted four tools of measurement: Participant Characteristics Questionnaire with 21 questions; Measurement of General Self-efficacy Questionnaire with 10 questions; a third one related to the Locus of Control Index Measurement with 40 questions and, finally, the Functional Literacy Index Measurement with 30 questions. The results obtained allows us to perceive the evidence that the Functional Illiteracy occurred within the students observed, as well as relations of this index with the personal characteristics of respondents. From the data analysis, the respondents were classified under four levels of literacy. Respondents with classification on levels 3 and 4 may be considered as functional literacy. The ones classified on levels 1 and 2 are considered as functional illiteracy. However, due to the obtained results, it was necessary to create na additional level of measure scale originally defined, named level zero, because several students did not achieve the minimum classification of level 1. Related with the results obtained, the relations within respondents´ characteristics and their level of functional literacy were evaluated. It was also evaluated the correlation coefficient between the three main variables of this study.