Um Estudo de caso preliminar: a evasão no Bacharelado em Química do Instituto de Química de São Carlos Authors Marcelo Henrique Cury Eny Maria Vieira Maria Teresa do Prado Gambardella Abstract This paper presents a case study aiming at gathering qualitative and quantitative information about the evasion from the chemistry course of Institute of Chemistry of São Carlos. Recently, it has been also assessing the probable contributing factors to evasion, by contacting with the former students. The reasons most frequently reported as being responsible for the evasion, in descending order, were: lack of vocation, adaptation to the city of São Carlos, adaptation to the course and/or academic difficulties, and socioeconomic status. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2010-09-20 Issue No. 6 (2010) Section Química i societat License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.