AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAW: NA ASSESSMENT OF THE REGISTRATIONS AT THE FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF MINAS GERAIS USING KDD

Abstract

The article reports a case study to analyze the effectiveness of the places reserved in federal educational institutions by the Brazilian Affirmative Action Law. The study contextualizes the law and its implementation at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Minas Gerais (IFMG), and sought to evaluate the actual occupancy of the reserved places; to verify the extent to which people who have used their right to the reserve; and realize what was the percentage of people registered to places without the right to do so. Based on concepts of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, the study describes data extraction and preparation and applied a data-mining tool to the extracted data. Data refer to entries in the selection process and enrollment in IFMG for a period of just over a year. The results are analyzed, showing that a significant proportion of reserved places were not occupied; that many candidates who could register for reserved spaces did not; and that many candidates competed for the reserved places without having the requirements defined by law. Finally, the results suggest the need for greater advertisement of the affirmative action policy and call attention to the importance of verifying the data provided by the candidates who candidate for such special placements.