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This paper includes a conceptual discussion on the term “academic drift” in the context of Brazilian higher education. It discusses some of Altbach’s concerns about the challenges of academic profession today together with the changes to the classical university model in an environment of massification and privatization.
I am grateful to Edmar Bacha, Claudio de Moura Castro, and Reynaldo Fernandez for their criticism and comments to the first version of this text. A Portuguese version of this article is being published in Edmar Bacha and Simon Schwartzman’s (editors) A Nova Agenda Social, Rio de Janeiro, LTC, 2011, pp. 254–269.
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The Prova Brasil consists of tests of Portuguese language and mathematics administered to fifth and ninth graders in all public, urban schools above a certain size all over the country. It is carried out in conjunction with the Basic Education Evaluation System (known by its Portuguese acronym SAEB), a sample-based assessment given to students in the last year of high school. The results of Prova Brasil and SAEB are combined with student enrollment data to obtain the Basic Education Development Index (known by its Portuguese acronym IDEB).
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Schwartzman, S. (2014). Academic Drift in Brazilian Education. In: Maldonado-Maldonado, A., Bassett, R. (eds) The Forefront of International Higher Education. Higher Education Dynamics, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7085-0_4
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