As questões de ciências humanas na prova do enem. O que pensam os alunos sobre elas?

Abstract

The National High School Examination (ENEM), created in 1998, was reformulated a few times and became the main examination, on a large scale, of the Brazilian educational context. Serving as an instrument for evaluating students from different realities, ENEM uses pre-established skills and abilities for the evaluation process. However, such an exam is, today, also the main entry tool in most Brazilian universities, in addition to proposing reflections that point to learning more focused on the desires of contemporary times, whose basic principles are interdisciplinarity and citizenship. Thus, based on this assertion, this article sought to analyze the opinion of students, who entered the years 2016 and 2017 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, about the questions of the Human Sciences and Its Technologies test. This analysis sought support in central premises of the exam, such as the length of the test, clarity, degree of difficulty and objectivity of the questions, performance of the students and difficulties encountered when answering the questions. The analysis was based on an exploratory and descriptive methodology, which made it possible to analyze the data in a direct relationship with the theoretical propositions that guided the work. As main results, the satisfaction of the students regarding the extension of the exam is highlighted; the clarity regarding the items of the test and the performance in solving the questions; the degree of difficulty, indicated as “average”, of the items; and, the main difficulties faced in solving the test, which revolved around the application of the themes to a concrete reality