Measuring university-to-work success: development of a new scale

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a subjective multidimensional measure of early career success during university-to-work transition. Design/methodology/approach – The construct of university-to-work success (UWS) was defined in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic career outcomes, and a three-stage study was conducted to create a new scale. Findings – A preliminary set of items was developed and tested by judges. Results showed the items had good content validity. Factor analyses indicated a four-factor structure and a second-order model with subscales to assess: career insertion and satisfaction, confidence in career future, income and financial independence, and adaptation to work. Third, the authors sought to confirm the hypothesized model examining the comparative fit of the scale and two alternative models. Results showed that fits for both the first- and second-order models were acceptable. Research limitations/implications – The proposed model has sound psychometric qualities, although the validated version of the scale was not able to incorporate all constructs envisaged by the initial theoretical model. Results indicated some direction for further refinement. Practical implications – The scale could be used as a tool for self-assessment or as an outcome measure to assess the efficacy of university-to-work programs in applied settings. Originality/value – This study provides a useful single measure to assess early career success during the university-to-work transition, and might facilitate testing of causal models which could help identify factors relevant for successful transition.

Interacting and making personalized recommendations of places of interest to tourists

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 353

Synthetic biology approaches to shape bacteriophages towards Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm control

Dissertation for Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering.

Aplicação do paradigma Lean em processos clínicos do Centro Hospitalar do Alto Ave

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Industrial

Unfuzzying fuzzy parsing

Dissertação de Mestrado em Engenharia Informática

Desenvolvimento e caracterização tribológica de hidrogéis poliméricos de PVA reforçados com fosfato tricálcico para aplicação como cartilagem articular para implantes articulares

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia de Materiais

Mais além de quem escreve: “Eu também posso ser Ilustrador”: desenvolvendo múltiplas linguagens num projeto curricular integrado

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar

Ensino, aprendizagem e avaliação no Ensino Superior: Perspetivas e práticas

Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Educação - Especialidade de Desenvolvimento Curricular

Impacto da alteração de um sistema de turnos semicontínuo para laboração contínua

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Psicologia

Using balanced scorecards to evaluate the data warehouse system utility

Dissertação de mestrado em Systems Engineering

Utilização de modelos de simulação para a melhoria de um sistema de restauração: estudo de caso de uma cantina universitária

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia Industrial

Avaliação da implementação do SAP ERP na logística: estudo de caso

Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia de Sistemas

Hume e o problema moral

Tese de Doutoramento em Filosofia (área de especialização em Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea).

Immersiveness of ubiquitous computing environments prototypes: A case study

The development of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) environments raises several challenges in terms of their evaluation. Ubicomp virtual reality prototyping tools enable users to experience the system to be developed and are of great help to face those challenges, as they support developers in assessing the consequences of a design decision in the early phases of development. Given the situated nature of ubicomp environments, a particular issue to consider is the level of realism provided by the prototypes. This work presents a case study where two ubicomp prototypes, featuring different levels of immersion (desktop-based versus CAVE-based), were developed and compared. The goal was to determine the cost/benefits relation of both solutions, which provided better user experience results, and whether or not simpler solutions provide the same user experience results as more elaborate one.

Au revoir, Portugal: a influência do ambiente sociocultural nas rotinas produtivas: análise dos noticiários da manhã da Alfa e da Renascença

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ciências de Comunicação (área de especialização em Informação e Jornalismo)