18 resultados para research assistantships, research education, research assistants, reserach supervisors, case study
em Universidade do Minho
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Tese de Doutoramento em Cincias da Educao (rea de especializao em Tecnologia Educativa).
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Tese de Doutoramento em Estudos da Criana (rea de especializao em Literatura para a Infncia).
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Sustainability-related skills are becoming more and more relevant for a proficient and professional engineering practice. Industrial engineers in particular, given their broad field of intervention and being at the heart of industrial activity, hold a great deal of potential and responsibility in providing and delivering best industrial practices, that support enhanced industrial systems and products. Therefore making a real contribution in generating wealth and income for all the companies stakeholders, including local communities, as well as adding up to more sustainable ecosystems. Previous work by the authors focused on studying the inclusion of this subject on the education of industrial engineers, especially through active-learning methodologies, as well as presenting results on the use of one such approach. The study conducted tried to identify the impacts on sustainability learning using a given specific activity, i.e. a workshop on industrial ecology, held in the 2014/2015 academic year on the Integrated MSc degree on Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Minho, Portugal. The study uses content analysis of student teams reports for two consecutive academic years. The former did not include one such workshop, while the latter did. The Fink taxonomy was used in the discussion of results and reflection. The study outcomes aimed at supporting decision making on worthiness of investment on similar education instruments for sustainability competency development. Some results of the study highlight that: (1) the workshop seem to globally have a positive contribution on the sustainability learning; (2) a number of dimensions of the Life cycle design strategy wheel was developed, but the approach was not broadly used, (3) There was a mismatch on the workshop schedule; (4) students enjoy the workshop; (5) a clearer endorsement on relevance of this aspect is required. Suggestions for future work are also issued.
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Business Intelligence (BI) can be seen as a method that gathers information and data from information systems in order to help companies to be more accurate in their decision-making process. Traditionally BI systems were associated with the use of Data Warehouses (DW). The prime purpose of DW is to serve as a repository that stores all the relevant information required for making the correct decision. The necessity to integrate streaming data became crucial with the need to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the decision process. In primary and secondary education, there is a lack of BI solutions. Due to the schools reality the main purpose of this study is to provide a Pervasive BI solution able to monitoring the schools and student data anywhere and anytime in real-time as well as disseminating the information through ubiquitous devices. The first task consisted in gathering data regarding the different choices made by the student since his enrolment in a certain school year until the end of it. Thereafter a dimensional model was developed in order to be possible building a BI platform. This paper presents the dimensional model, a set of pre-defined indicators, the Pervasive Business Intelligence characteristics and the prototype designed. The main contribution of this study was to offer to the schools a tool that could help them to make accurate decisions in real-time. Data dissemination was achieved through a localized application that can be accessed anywhere and anytime.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Cincias da Educao (rea de especializao em Tecnologia Educativa)
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Tese de Doutoramento em Cincias da Educao - Especialidade de Desenvolvimento Curricular
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Tese de Doutoramento em Estudos da Criana (rea de especializao em Educao Musical)
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Tese de Doutoramento em Cincias da Educao (rea de especializao em Tecnologia Educativa).
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Tese de Doutoramento em Estudos da Criana (rea de especializao em Educao Musical).
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A investigao qualitativa tem ocupado progressivamente um espao no campo da investigao em Psicologia, nomeadamente em Psicologia da Educao. Neste trabalho ilustramos o recurso a esta metodologia no estudo da excelncia acadmica. Os participantes foram dois alunos (um rapaz e uma rapariga) a frequentarem o 1o ciclo do ensino superior portugus, considerados de mrito acadmico. Os dados foram recolhidos atravs de entrevista semiestruturada e de provas psicolgicas para avaliar a criatividade (TTCT) e a inteligncia geral (D-48). Os resultados apontam para a pertinncia de fatores motivacionais e de personalidade na justificao do desempenho acadmico elevado. Termina-se com algumas reflexes e linhas orientadoras para a continuidade dos estudos na rea
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As caractersticas da atualidade exigem que se seja criativo e inovador. Todo o indivduo pode rentabilizar intencionalmente seu potencial criativo, podendo e devendo a universidade ter um papel importante nesse desenvolvimento. Porm, observam-se percees de barreiras expresso criativa em alunos universitrios, apesar de existir muito pouca investigao acerca do tema. Neste estudo, quis-se ento analisar percees de barreiras criatividade em estudantes universitrios portugueses, tomando 582 alunos de trs reas curriculares (Artes e Humanidades; Cincias e Tecnologias; Cincias Sociais e Humanas) e dois nveis de graduao (licenciatura e mestrado). Usou-se o Inventrio de Barreiras Pessoais Expresso Criativa, adaptado realidade portuguesa. Foram avaliadas diferenas, considerando os fatores do inventrio, mas tambm os seus itens numa anlise mais detalhada. Encontraram-se diferenciaes nos fatores para a rea curricular e, no caso dos itens, para as duas variveis estudadas. Algumas reflexes so feitas no sentido de repensar prticas no quotidiano acadmico.
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Within a research project on academic excellence in the state school, this paper is a contribution to the sociological reflection on the cultural and organisational characteristics of the school and its relationship with the academic success of students. The data we present stem from a case study underway at a secondary school in the north of Portugal, referring to the universe of students that since 2003 have distinguished themselves for achieving grades equal to or greater than 18 (on a scale of 0 to 20) and have thus been included in the schools Framework of Excellence. From a contextual approach to this educational practice, we focused on the cultural characteristics of the school/subject as analytical support for the study of school and non-school dimensions in their mutual connections. To this end, we used the information from document analysis and data collected from a questionnaire survey administered to more than two-thirds of the students included in the above-mentioned Framework of Excellence. Subsequently, we will use the data from this survey to understand the extent to which academic excellence is perceived as an indivisible social construction of the schools political and organisational matrix, particularly in terms of the educational and teaching guidelines adopted by the management body. We will conclude by questioning the meaning of the schools management policies regarding the emphasis on educational outcomes, with particular focus on the representations of excellent students in the processes of school leadership, teaching organisation, school merit and justice.
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Purpose Few research has addressed the factors that undermine peoples subjective perceptions of career success. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to further illuminate the issue of career barriers in perceptions of career success for a specific group of professionals: academics. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts an interpretative-social constructionist methodology. Complementarily, it was employed a phenomenological method in data gathering and analysis with the use of in-depth interviews and a theme analysis. The research was undertaken with a group of 87 Portuguese academics of both sexes and in different stages of their academic careers. Findings The findings pinpoint the existence of multi-level barriers encountered by the academics when trying to succeed in their careers. The interviewees mentioned particularly the organizational-professional career barriers pertaining to three general themes: poor collegiality and workplace relationships; the lack of organizational support and employment precariousness; and the career progression standards and expectations. At the individual life cycle level the interviewees referred to the theme of finding balance; at the same time, the gender structure was also a theme mentioned as an important career barrier in career success, particularly by the women interviewed. Research limitations/implications One of the limitations of this research is related to the impossibility of generalizability of its findings for the general population. Nevertheless, the researcher provides enough detail that grants the reader with the ability to judge of its similarity to other research contexts. Practical implications This research highlights the role played by distinct career barriers for a specific professional group: academics. This has implications for higher education policy-makers and for human resources managers in higher education institutions. Originality/value The current study extends the literature on career success by offering detailed anecdotal evidence on how negative work experiences might hinder career success. This research shows that to understand career barriers to success it is useful to consider multi-level factors: organizational-level factors (e.g. poor collegiality and workplace relationships); individual-level factors (e.g. life-cycle factors such as age/career stage); and structural-level factors (e.g. gender).
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Doctoral Dissertation for PhD degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Tese de Doutoramento em Cincias da Educao (Especialidade de Tecnologia Educativa)
