Identifying factors that affect academic dropout and retention is a research area that brings a plurality of opinions and concepts. This article identifies current primary studies to understand the main factors related to dropout and retention. It is quantitative, exploratory, and explanatory research of an applied nature, using the technical procedures of case study and bibliographic research. The systematic review of the literature identifies the factors that impact academic dropout and retention and serves as a basis for a machine learning project. Academic, demographic, and learning factors can predict dropouts and retention. The definition of the factors used and the way of use is essential to obtain good forecasting results. The identified factors were used in the institution.

O objetivo deste estudo é analisar o impacto das diferentes formas de ingresso sobre a evasão ou desligamento de curso dos alunos da Universidade de Brasília (UnB), ou seja, uma comparação da evasão entre ingressantes pelo SISU, Programa de Avaliação Seriada (PAS) e Vestibular, entre 2014 e 2018. Como metodologia, utilizou-se a taxa de desistência anual e a taxa de desistência acumulada propostas pelo INEP (2017) e concluiu-se que o PAS e o Vestibular têm um padrão semelhante de evasão, com picos no segundo e terceiro ano de trajetória universitária, enquanto o SISU tem uma taxa de desistência consideravelmente superior, e que ocorre mais cedo, com picos nos primeiros anos de curso.

The Information and Communication Technology Master Plan—ICTMP—is an important tool for the achievement of the strategic business objectives of public and private organizations. In the public sector, these objectives are closely related to the provision of benefits to society. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) actions are present in all organizational processes and involves size-able budgets. The risks inherent in the planning of ICT actions need to be considered for ICT to add value to the business and to maximize the return on investment to the population. In this context, this work intends to examine the use of risk management processes in the development of ICTMPs in the Brazilian public sector.

One of the most important knowledge area on Software Engineering is Requirements Engineering and know properly related techniques and methods is crucial to a software practitioners. This article aims to present a method adopted to teach Requirements Engineering and Process Modelling on Software Engineering undergraduate course. It was developed a method to integrate two disciplines and improve learning of both. This method was used during two semesters, with 95 students involved. The reaching of teaching method was analyzed in two ways: grades and feedback on technical report analysis, in both were applied some statistical techniques in order to get better conclusions. The teaching methodology using shows good results, but it is important gather more data in order to provide more assured conclusions.