A utilidade das disciplinas na perspectiva dos alunos: estudo exploratório por questionário

RESUMO: Algumas investigações têm apontado que a “motivação dos alunos” influencia a participação e os resultados escolares, destacando-se de um conjunto de outras variáveis. A declaração de Utilidade das disciplinas, atribuída pelos alunos, poderá ser um dos construtos de “motivação” determinantes no “gosto pelas actividades lectivas”, influenciando, hipoteticamente, o empenho na aprendizagem e, a partir daí, os resultados escolares dos alunos. Argumentou-se, nos 3 estudos aqui apresentados, as relações da atribuição de Utilidade das Disciplinas, incluindo a perspectiva do tempo futuro, com o Gosto pelas disciplinas, o empenho na aprendizagem e os resultados dos alunos. De forma a verificar, perante este enquadramento, onde se destacam a Teoria de Expectiva-Valor, o conceito de Perspectiva de Tempo Futuro associado ao conceito de Instrumentalidade, e hipóteses, foi elaborado e aplicado um questionário. Na análise aos questionários realçamos que foi verificado uma tendência para atribuir pelo menos uma disciplina como a que os alunos mais gostam e mais útil consideram; uma justificação com motivos relacionados com a sua perspectiva de vida futura à disciplina que indicam como a mais útil e resultados médios altos a essas mesmas disciplinas. ABSTRACT: Some studies have pointed out that the "motivation of the students’ participation and influence on educational attainment, highlighting a number of other variables. The declaration of Utility of disciplines, awarded by students, may be one of the constructs of "motivation" in determining taste for teaching activities, influencing, hypothetically, the commitment to learning and, thereafter, the students’ school results. It was argued in three studies presented here, the relations of the allocation of Utility of disciplines, including the prospect of future time, with the taste for discipline, the commitment to learning and student outcomes. In order to asses this framework, where we highlight the expectancy-value theory, the concept of Future Time Perspective associated with the concept of Instrumentality, and hypotheses, a questionnaire was designed and applied. In the analysis the questionnaires highlight a trend that was to assign at least one discipline as the students like best and more useful view, a justification with reasons related to their future life prospects which indicate the discipline as the most useful and results medium high on those subjects.

A visibilidade das universidades portuguesas na web : estudo webométrico

Esta dissertação resulta de uma investigação que levou a cabo um estudo webométrico sobre a presença das universidades portuguesas na Web, avaliando a visibilidade das instituições através do cálculo de um indicador webométrico, o Web Impact Factor. A World Wide Web é, na atualidade, um dos principais meios de difusão de Informação. Os Estudos Métricos da Informação visam quantificar e avaliar a produção de Informação, objeto de estudo de disciplinas como a Infometria, a Cienciometria e a Bibliometria. Recentemente, surgiram a Cibermetria e a Webometria como novas disciplinas que estudam a produção e difusão da Informação no contexto do Ciberespaço e da World Wide Web, respetivamente. As universidades, enquanto polos privilegiados de produção e difusão de conhecimento, são o objeto de estudo natural da Webometria e a avaliação da sua presença na World Wide Web contribui para a análise do desempenho destas instituições. Para a realização deste trabalho foi adotada a metodologia proposta por Noruzi, que calcula três categorias de Web Impact Factor: o WIF Total, o WIF Revisto e o Selflink WIF. De modo a calcular estas categorias, foram recolhidos dados quantitativos de inlinks, selflinks, número total de páginas e número de páginas indexadas pelo motor de pesquisa. O motor de pesquisa utilizado foi o Altavista, tendo sido realizadas pesquisas de expressões booleanas durante o primeiro semestre de 2009. Após a recolha, os dados foram tratados estatisticamente e procedeu-se ao cálculo das categorias do WIF. Conclui-se que existe uma maior visibilidade das universidades públicas portuguesas porque obtêm melhores resultados ao nível de duas categorias do Web Impact Factor: o WIF Revisto e o Selflink WIF.

The Importance of Relationships for the Produced Knowledge in the Sector of Management Consulting

While the management consulting industry has been largely linked to the knowledge produced within the disciplines of strategic management in the academic field, the truth is that very little literature is produced in terms of research in this area, while the researchers focused more on a set of static techniques to be applied in the development of this field of research concerns. This article seeks to bridge this gap as well, showing by example that the consultancy sector is a true field of opportunities for the study of relationships management. This presentation is thus the aim of contributing both theoretically and empirically in the area of relationships through research in the context of management consulting, trying to visualize how the relationships are manifested in a context of high involvement and personal contact, and what’s the perception that must be taken into consideration by clients and consultants in terms of the benefits of their greater or lesser degree of involvement.

The Importance of Relationships for the Produced Knowledge in the Sector of Management Consulting

While the management consulting industry has been largely linked to the knowledge produced within the disciplines of strategic management in the academic field, the truth is that very little literature is produced in terms of research in this area, while the researchers focused more on a set of static techniques to be applied in the development of this field of research concerns. This article seeks to bridge this gap as well, showing by example that the consultancy sector is a true field of opportunities for the study of relationships management. This presentation is thus the aim of contributing both theoretically and empirically in the area of relationships through research in the context of management consulting, trying to visualize how the relationships are manifested in a context of high involvement and personal contact, and what’s the perception that must be taken into consideration by clients and consultants in terms of the benefits of their greater or lesser degree of involvement.

The “Fashionable Knowledge” of Management Consulting

In the evolution of strategic disciplines much of the knowledge produced has been widely diffused by the management consulting industry. But can this sector be regarded as knowledge intensive activity based on true structure of expertise knowledge? One way to understand if we can consider that sector as a source of knowledge dissemination is realizing its relationship with the market in terms of knowledge, rather than identify only as a set of static techniques to be applied as in most of times they have been doing. This article presents itself as a reflection about the real reasons for the increasing use ofmanagement consulting services, indicating simultaneously that can really be a true field of opportunities for the academic class if the study will focused in the establishment and institutionalization of micropractices (strategy-as-practice) that there are used and its implications in terms of organizational results.