O vestibular da UNESP: sobre acesso à educação superior e o currículo de geografia na educação básica (2006-2012)

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Evasão no cursinho pré-vestibular da FCA/UNESP: a interpretação do aluno evadido

The popular cram schools are voluntary initiatives aimed at people who are not able to afford the cost of private cram schools. The FCA popular cram school integrates a large project from UNESP, which has 30 cram school distributed throughout Sao Paulo State and located in different University units. Among the problems found in popular cram schools, school evasion, characterized when the student quits the course and is very common in this context. Thus, the aim of this work was to identify the profile of the drop out student from the FCA cram school as well as to know the reasons that led them to leave. The survey was conducted in two phases: 1) students´ profile when entering the cram school, through a structured questionnaire, 2) semi-structured interviews by telephone with all the drop out students, trying to identify the reasons that led them to abandon the course. The statistical analysis used was descriptive. Among the reasons that led them to leave, it was found that 65% of the students attributed this attitude to external factors as opposed to 35% who put the internal factors as the decisive reason of their departure. Some of the factors that could be attest for the FCA cram school evasion are: primarily, the heterogeneity of students and their need to work in order to support themselves and their family; students lack of motivation about a long-term success; lack of family encouragement; the difficulty of the student to establish significant personal links with cram school staff and the fact that the professors are mostly undergraduate students from different courses in different areas, with little didactic-pedagogic preparation and inability to work with students' heterogeneity.

Redações de vestibular: a materialização da relação entre leitura e escrita e o diálogo com a coletânea

This work aims to understand in what way the relation between reading and writing works in the writing tests of two major entrance exams from the state of São Paulo, used as a form of admission to two great universities - UNICAMP and UNESP -, as well as analyze in what way the candidates who got grades above the average dialogue with the collection of texts which is offered in the writing test proposal. In order to found these questions on theoretical material, we have done some reading of the Bakhtin circle to understand the questions that are related to the dialogism and had support in other linguists to solidify our interpretations and analyses. We understood, after the studies and analyses, that the materialization of the relation between reading and writing is present in the majority of the texts used as the corpus of our work and that the dialogue with the collection of texts is very appreciated and present in the texts that got the highest grades or were considered above the average. The writing test has always had an unique importance in the selection processes to admission to undergraduate courses, and we believe that the analyses that were proposed here can help students and teachers to better understand the valuation which is attributed to the relation between reading and writing and the use of the collection of texts in the elaboration of a text in the entrance exams

Redações de vestibular: a materialização da relação entre leitura e escrita e o diálogo com a coletânea

This work aims to understand in what way the relation between reading and writing works in the writing tests of two major entrance exams from the state of São Paulo, used as a form of admission to two great universities - UNICAMP and UNESP -, as well as analyze in what way the candidates who got grades above the average dialogue with the collection of texts which is offered in the writing test proposal. In order to found these questions on theoretical material, we have done some reading of the Bakhtin circle to understand the questions that are related to the dialogism and had support in other linguists to solidify our interpretations and analyses. We understood, after the studies and analyses, that the materialization of the relation between reading and writing is present in the majority of the texts used as the corpus of our work and that the dialogue with the collection of texts is very appreciated and present in the texts that got the highest grades or were considered above the average. The writing test has always had an unique importance in the selection processes to admission to undergraduate courses, and we believe that the analyses that were proposed here can help students and teachers to better understand the valuation which is attributed to the relation between reading and writing and the use of the collection of texts in the elaboration of a text in the entrance exams

A new method to analyze the subjective visual vertical in patients with bilateral vestibular dysfunction

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess the subjective visual vertical in patients with bilateral vestibular dysfunction and to propose a new method to analyze subjective visual vertical data in these patients. METHODS: Static subjective visual vertical tests were performed in 40 subjects split into two groups. Group A consisted of 20 healthy volunteers, and Group B consisted of 20 patients with bilateral vestibular dysfunction. Each patient performed six measurements of the subjective visual vertical test, and the mean values were calculated and analyzed. RESULTS: Analyses of the numerical values of subjective visual vertical deviations (the conventional method of analysis) showed that the mean deviation was 0.326 +/- 1.13 degrees in Group A and 0.301 +/- 1.87 degrees in Group B. However, by analyzing the absolute values of the subjective visual vertical (the new method of analysis proposed), the mean deviation became 1.35 +/- 0.48 degrees in Group A and 2.152 +/- 0.93 degrees in Group B. The difference in subjective visual vertical deviations between groups was statistically significant (p < 0.05) only when the absolute values and the range of deviations were considered. CONCLUSION: An analysis of the absolute values of the subjective visual vertical more accurately reflected the visual vertical misperception in patients with bilateral vestibular dysfunction.

Static postural balance study in patients with vestibular disorders using a three dimensional eletromagnetic sensor system

The vestibular-ocular reflex assessment is important, but not enough. Tridimensional electromagnetic sensor systems represent a new method to assess posturography. Aim: To assess body sway in healthy subjects who had positive Dix Hallpike and Epley maneuvers and with other vestibular dysfunctions by means of a three-dimensional system. Study design: Prospective. Materials and Methods: We had 23 healthy women, 15 with peripheral vestibular dysfunction found upon caloric test and 10 with positive Epley and Dix Hallpike maneuvers. All tests performed in the following positions: open and closed eyes on stable and unstable surfaces. Results: With the Eyes Open and on a stable surface, p < 0.01 between the control group and the one with peripheral vestibular dysfunction in all variables, except the a-p maximum, full speed and mediolateral trajectory velocity, which had a p < 0.01 between the group with vestibular dysfunction and controls in all positions. The group with positive Epley and Dix Hallpike maneuvers had p < 0.01 at full speed and in its components in the x and y in positions with open and eyes closed on an unstable surface. Conclusion: The tridimensional electromagnetic sensors system was able to generate reliable information about body sway in the study volunteers.

Restauração de mancha hipocalcificada empregando matriz vestibular: relato de caso

A quebra da harmonia do sorriso dos pacientes pode ser decorrente da redução da quantidade de mineral depositado, ocasionando um defeito qualitativo considerado como hipocalcificação2. A hipocalcificação de carácter adquirido local nos dentes anteriores é muito comum devido ao trauma ou lesão periapical nos dentes decíduos, que podem levar à alteração da formação dos germes dos dentes permanentes1. Essas anomalias podem se apresentar em diferentes tamanhos e profundidades e, por isso, os tratamentos a serem realizados variam desde os mais conservadores, como clareamento ou microabrasão, até os mais invasivos, como facetas indiretas ou coroas totais, além da associação desses tratamentos quando existir a necessidade. As alterações hipocalcificadas profundas que acometem toda espessura do esmalte e apresentam alteração de cor com comprometimento da estética, necessitam de desgaste e posterior restauração adesiva para estabelecer a estética dental. As resinas compostas vêm sendo amplamente utilizadas nesses casos devido às suas características óticas de translucides e opacidade, além das suas propriedades adesivas e mecânicas, como resistência, durabilidade, selamento marginal, manutenção da cor e lisura superficial. O caso apresentado é de um paciente do sexo masculino, 12 anos, que compareceu à clínica relatando insatisfação com a mancha presente no dente anterior. Após anamnese e exame clínico, constatou-se um comprometimento parcial da calcificação da face vestibular do incisivo central superior permanente (21) (hipocalcificação adquirida de caráter local)1. Após exame clínico e radiográfico, o tratamento proposto foi o restabelecimento da estética do elemento 21, que se encontrava com alteração de cor, através de desgaste do esmalte e restauração adesiva estética. Ao observar o aspecto final da restauração após o acabamento e polimento e o sorriso final do paciente, pôde-se comprovar o excelente resultado estético conseguido com o procedimento restaurador direto associado à muralha vestibular confeccionada com cimento provisório fotoativado.

Petrous bone pneumatization is a risk factor for cerebrospinal fluid fistula following vestibular schwannoma surgery

For the prevention of postoperative CSF fistula a better understanding of origins and risk factors is necessary.