Motivações e dificuldades de estudantes do curso de Ciências Contábeis no período noturno da cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

This assignment aimed to identify reasons and difficulties faced by the Accountancy course evening students in higher education institutions - IES in the city of São Paulo. It is a field research, descriptive and with quantitative treatment. A questionnaire was answered by 374 students from the 3rd. to the 8th. terms in seven IES in all the areas of the city where the course is offered. The questionnaire contains two parts being that the first carries 44 statements to know the motivations and difficulties faced by the students and the second one sought the interviewees' profiles. The data was firstly dealt with by the Descriptive Statistics and Exploratory Factorial Analysis. As a result, three factors can be seen and which explain the 25.73% variance, classified in two difficulties (tiredness and barriers) and a motivation (relationship with the course coordination and tutors). The factors were analyzed in relation to the categorical variables. The difficulties presented the same order of importance for the components of the sample and the motivation was ranked in second place. The obtained results revealed a profile of working students, and that pupils coming from public education tend to present some of the identified difficulties in rather higher levels.