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This study analyzes ENADE results from 2009 to 2012 to test links between university-level performance and admission modality. Findings show public-university quota students perform at similar levels to nonquota peers, while quota students in private universities perform slightly better than traditionally admitted students.","Valente, R R and Berry, B J L. Performance of Students Admitted through Affirmative Action in Brazil. Latin American Research Review. 2017; 52(1), pp. 18-34. DOI: [https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.50](https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.50)  \n\n| SOCIOLOGY\u003Cbr>Performance of Students Admitted through Affirmative Action in Brazil\u003Cbr>Rubia R. Valente and Brian J. L. Berry\u003Cbr>University of Texas at Dallas, US\u003Cbr>Corresponding author: Rubia R. Valente ([rxv034000@utdallas.edu](rxv034000@utdallas.edu)) |\n| --- |\n| Following the implementation of the Lei das Cotas (Affirmative Action Law) in Brazil, there has been debate as to whether students who were admitted through affirmative action perform at the same level as students admitted through traditional methods. This article examines the results of the Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes (ENADE) from 2009 to 2012 to determine whether there is a relationship between students’ performance at the university level and the manner of their admittance. We find that students admitted to public universities under affirmative action perform at similar levels to students who were not, whereas quota students in private universities perform slightly better than students admitted through traditional methods. |\n| Com a implementação das Lei das Cotas no Brasil, tem se debatido se estudantes admitidosatravés de ação afirmativa demonstram o mesmo nível acadêmico dos estudantes admitidosatravés de métodos tradicionais. Este artigo analisa os resultados do Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes (ENADE) durante o período de 2009 á 2012 para determinar se existe uma relação entre o desempenho dos alunos no âmbito universitário e as modalidades dasua admissão. Nossa análise revela que os estudantes que foram admitidos em universidadespúblicas através de ações afirmativas têm o mesmo desempenho acadêmico de estudantes quenão se beneficiam de ações afirmativas, enquanto alunos cotistas em universidades privadas têmum desempenho ligeiramente melhor do que alunos admitidos através de métodos tradicionais. |\n| Introduction\u003Cbr>Affirmative action policies have been implemented in Brazilian universities in the past decades with the objective of reducing inequality of access, mainly through social and racial quotas (Johnson and Heringer 2015; Telles 2014; Valente 2013) . After the Brazilian Supreme Court deemed affirmative action to be legal and constitutional in 2012, much of the debate on the merits of affirmative action shifted to focus on its effectiveness and whether it is appropriate as a means to promote equitable access to higher education or merely a palliative measure. Historically, disadvantaged groups (i.e., indigenous, low income, landless settlers, and nonwhites) have been subjected to many forms of discrimination and prejudice, including lack of access to higher education (Osorio 2008; Soares et al. 2005; Heringer 2015; Valente 2013, 2016a, 2016b; Valente and Berry 2015). Most people agree that students who study in public primary and secondary schools—particularly nonwhites—are harmed in the admission process of public universities because of the low quality of their prior education (Birdsall and Sabot 1996; Guimarães 2003; Telles 2004; Arias, Yamada, and Tejerina 2004; Schwartzman 2004; Soares et al. 2005) .1 Without affirmative action policies, the perverse |\n\n1 Given the subjective nature of race and racial identity in Brazil, the term nonwhite refers to those identified as black (negros) or brown (those of mixed race, pardos, or mulatos). For a general analysis of racial identity in Brazil, see Harris (1964), Skidmore and Smith (1997), Skidmore (1993), Levine and Crocitti (1999), Schwartzman (2007, 2008), Reiter and Mitchell (2010), Marcus (2012), and Guimarães (2013) .  \n[https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.50](https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.50) Published online by Cambridge University Press  \nValente and Berry 19  \nconsequence is that society ends up paying for the free, prestigious college educa","cbCaiglgEowLOcLv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiglgEowLOcLv","pdf",791302,1,17,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Affirmative action and admission effectiveness\n## Competing arguments on competence and educational quality\n## Research gap on academic performance","[{\"question\":\"What question does the article address about affirmative action in Brazil?\",\"answer\":\"It examines whether students admitted through affirmative action perform at the same level as students admitted through traditional 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