Evaluation of the performance of the Scientific Initiation Program (ProIC) of the University of Brasília
Scientific initiation. ProIC performance evaluation. Technical-technological product.
Scientific initiation (CI) in Brazil was introduced in the middle of the 20th century with the creation of state agencies to promote scientific research, such as the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the National Campaign for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), both in 1951, with funding for undergraduate research grants. CI, institutionalized through the Scientific Initiation Program (ProIC), is the starting point for encouraging talent in undergraduate universities. In the context of this discussion, this end-of-course work raises the question of how to evaluate the performance of the public policy of scientific initiation conducted by PIBIC and PIBITI at the University of Brasilia, and the objective is to propose an indicator to evaluate the performance of the programs using a non-parametric positivist methodology, based on the concept of agglomeration theory, and also to propose a technical-technological product through the implementation of an advisory project to improve the quality of the data that produces information on ProIC. The preliminary results, obtained through the estimators of descriptive statistics, indicate that PIBITI students outperformed PIBIC students in two of the three sample periods.