Heritage and innovative learning approaches:an alternative approach to engineering education

Over recent years, the role of engineering in promoting a sustainable society has received much public attention [1] with particular emphasis given to the need to promote the future prosperity and security of society through the recruitment and education of more engineers [2,3]. From an employment perspective, the Leitch Review [4] suggested that ‘generic’ transferable employability skills development should constitute a more substantial part of university education. This paper argues that the global drivers impacting engineering education [5] correlate strongly to those underpinning the Leitch review, therefore the question of how to promote transferable employability skills within the wider engineering curriculum is increasingly relevant. By exploring the use of heritage in the engineering curriculum as a way to promote learning and engage students, a less familiar approach to study is discussed. This approach moves away from stereotypical notions of the use of information technology as representing the pinnacle of innovation in education. Taking the student experience as its starting point, the paper draws upon the findings of an exploratory study critically analysing the pedagogical value of using heritage in engineering education. It discusses a teaching approach in which engineering students are taken out of their ‘comfort zone’ - away from the classroom, laboratory and computer, to a heritage site some 100 miles away from the university. The primary learning objective underpinning this approach is to develop students’ transferable skills by encouraging them to consider how to apply theoretical concepts to a previously unexplored situation. By reflecting upon students’ perceptions of the value of this approach, and by identifying how heritage may be utilised as an innovative learning and teaching approach in engineering education, this paper makes a notable contribution to current pedagogical debates in the discipline.

It takes an institution's village to retain a student: A comprehensive look at two early warning system undergraduate retention programs and administrators' perceptions of students' experiences and the retention services they provide students in the early warning system retention programs

Institutions have implemented many campus interventions to address student persistence/retention, one of which is Early Warning Systems (EWS). However, few research studies show evidence of interventions that incorporate noncognitive factors/skills, and psychotherapy/psycho-educational processes in the EWS. A qualitative study (phenomenological interview and document analysis) of EWS at both a public and private 4-year Florida university was conducted to explore EWS through the eyes of the administrators of the ways administrators make sense of students' experiences and the services they provide and do not provide to assist students. Administrators' understanding of noncognitive factors and the executive skills subset and their contribution to retention and the executive skills development of at-risk students were also explored. Hossler and Bean's multiple retention lenses theory/paradigms and Perez's retention strategies were used to guide the study. Six administrators from each institution who oversee and/or assist with EWS for first time in college undergraduate students considered academically at-risk for attrition were interviewed. Among numerous findings, at Institution X: EWS was infrequently identified as a service, EWS training was not conducted, numerous cognitive and noncognitive issues/deficits were identified for students, and services/critical departments such as EWS did not work together to share students' information to benefit students. Assessment measures were used to identify students' issues/deficits; however, they were not used to assess, track, and monitor students' issues/deficits. Additionally, the institution's EWS did address students' executive skills function beyond time management and organizational skills, but did not address students' psychotherapy/psycho-educational processes. Among numerous findings, at Institution Y: EWS was frequently identified as a service, EWS training was not conducted, numerous cognitive and noncognitive issues/deficits were identified for students, and services/critical departments such as EWS worked together to share students' information to benefit students. Assessment measures were used to identify, track, and monitor students' issues/deficits; however, they were not used to assess students' issues/deficits. Additionally, the institution's EWS addressed students' executive skills function beyond time management and organizational skills, and psychotherapy/psycho-educational processes. Based on the findings, Perez's retention strategies were not utilized in EWS at Institution X, yet were collectively utilized in EWS at Institution Y, to achieve Hossler and Bean's retention paradigms. Future research could be designed to test the link between engaging in the specific promising activities identified in this research (one-to-one coaching, participation in student success workshops, academic contracts, and tutoring) and student success (e.g., higher GPA, retention). Further, because this research uncovered some concern with how to best handle students with physical and psychological disabilities, future research could link these same promising strategies for improving student performance for example among ADHD students or those with clinical depression.

Uma proposta de indicadores para o acompanhamento de alunos em projetos de desenvolvimento colaborativo de software com foco no desenvolvimento de habilidades transversais

Soft skills and teamwork practices were identi ed as the main de ciencies of recent graduates in computer courses. This issue led to a realization of a qualitative research aimed at investigating the challenges faced by professors of those courses in conducting, monitoring and assessing collaborative software development projects. Di erent challenges were reported by teachers, including di culties in the assessment of students both in the collective and individual levels. In this context, a quantitative research was conducted with the aim to map soft skill of students to a set of indicators that can be extracted from software repositories using data mining techniques. These indicators are aimed at measuring soft skills, such as teamwork, leadership, problem solving and the pace of communication. Then, a peer assessment approach was applied in a collaborative software development course of the software engineering major at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). This research presents a correlation study between the students' soft skills scores and indicators based on mining software repositories. This study contributes: (i) in the presentation of professors' perception of the di culties and opportunities for improving management and monitoring practices in collaborative software development projects; (ii) in investigating relationships between soft skills and activities performed by students using software repositories; (iii) in encouraging the development of soft skills and the use of software repositories among software engineering students; (iv) in contributing to the state of the art of three important areas of software engineering, namely software engineering education, educational data mining and human aspects of software engineering.

Uma proposta de indicadores para o acompanhamento de alunos em projetos de desenvolvimento colaborativo de software com foco no desenvolvimento de habilidades transversais

Soft skills and teamwork practices were identi ed as the main de ciencies of recent graduates in computer courses. This issue led to a realization of a qualitative research aimed at investigating the challenges faced by professors of those courses in conducting, monitoring and assessing collaborative software development projects. Di erent challenges were reported by teachers, including di culties in the assessment of students both in the collective and individual levels. In this context, a quantitative research was conducted with the aim to map soft skill of students to a set of indicators that can be extracted from software repositories using data mining techniques. These indicators are aimed at measuring soft skills, such as teamwork, leadership, problem solving and the pace of communication. Then, a peer assessment approach was applied in a collaborative software development course of the software engineering major at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). This research presents a correlation study between the students' soft skills scores and indicators based on mining software repositories. This study contributes: (i) in the presentation of professors' perception of the di culties and opportunities for improving management and monitoring practices in collaborative software development projects; (ii) in investigating relationships between soft skills and activities performed by students using software repositories; (iii) in encouraging the development of soft skills and the use of software repositories among software engineering students; (iv) in contributing to the state of the art of three important areas of software engineering, namely software engineering education, educational data mining and human aspects of software engineering.

Academic Experience and Personal Abilities in Analytical Chemistry Education

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2016

Omvårdnad av patienter som vårdas enligt lagen om psykiatrisk tvångsvård (LPT) inom psykiatrisk slutenvård: Sjuksköterskors upplevelser och erfarenheter : En kvalitativ intervjustudie

Bakgrund: All sjukvård i Sverige styrs av Hälso-och sjukvårdslagen [HSL]. Under vissa omständigheter kan denna lag behövas kompletteras med Lagen om psykiatrisk tvångsvård [LPT]. Dessa personer vårdas inom psykiatrisk slutenvård. Omvårdnadens syfte är att patienten samtycker till vården och tvångsvården kan över gå till frivillig vård. Dessa personers problematik är dock ofta komplex och omvårdnaden upplevs innebära många svårigheter för sjuksköterskorna. Syfte: Att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter och upplevelse av omvårdnad i samband med LPT-vård inom sluten psykiatrisk vård. Metod: Empirisk kvalitativ studie med deskriptiv design. Studien baseras på sju semistrukturerade intervjuer med sjuksköterskor. Dessa analyserades med manifest innehållsanalys. Resultat: Resultatet visade att en förutsättning för att uppnå målet med tvångsvården genom omvårdnad var att skapa en allians med patienten. Kommunikation som innefattade individuellt anpassad information var en nyckelfaktor till alliansskapande. Omvårdnadsarbetet innefattade samverkan och sjuksköterskorna upplevde ett behov av kompetensutveckling. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskor upplever att omvårdnad enligt LPT är en utmaning och sammankopplat med flertalet svårigheter. Erhålls kompetens, tid för reflektion och trygghet i arbetsgruppen ses dock inte omvårdnaden som en omöjlighet utan kan upplevas som positivt för både den som vårdar och för den som vårdas.

Communication and behavior in high reliability organizations: An Analysis of Communication in Civil Aviation

Communication can be seen as one of the most important features to manage conflicts and the stress of the work teams that operate in environments with strong pressure, complex operations and continuous risk, which are aspects that characterize a high reliability organization. This article aims to highlight the importance of communication in high-reliability organizations, having as object of study the accidents and incidents in civil aviation area. It refers to a qualitative research, outlined by documental analysis based on investigations conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Center of Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents. The results point out that human errors account for 60 to 80 percent of accidents and incidents. Most of these occurrences are attributed to miscommunication between the professionals involved with the air and ground operation, such as pilots, crewmembers and maintenance staff, and flight controllers. Inappropriate tone of voice usage, difficulties to understand different accents between the issuer and the receiver or even difficulty to perceive red flags between the lines of verbal and non-verbal communication, are elements that contribute to the fata of understanding between people involved in the operation. As a research limitation this present research pointed out a lack of a special category of "interpersonal communications failures" in the official agency reports. So, the researchers must take the conceptual definition of "social ability", communication implied, to classify behaviors and communication matters accordingly. Other research finding indicates that communication is superficially approached in the contents of air operations courses what could mitigate the lack of communications skills as a social ability. Part of the research findings refers to the contents of communication skills development into the program to train professional involved in air flight and ground operations. So, it is expected that this present article gives an appropriate highlight towards the improvement of flight operations training programs. Developing communication skills among work teams in high reliability organizations can contribute to mitigate stress, accidents and incidents in Civil Aviation Field. The original contribution of this article is the proposal of the main contents that should be developed in a Communication Skills Training Program, specially addressed to Civil Aviation operations.

Desempenho internacional de empresas exportadoras: um modelo estrutural baseado em capacidades organizacionais e ambiente

The internationalization as an organizational phenomenon fundamentally strategic had as theoretical contributions some Schools that throughout the decades 60, 70, and 80 developed behavioral and economic approaches in order to explain the process. The behavioral approach deals with the perception of phenomenon as a gradual process from the perspective of the executives behavior (JOHANSON and VAHLNE, 1977; HALLÉN and WIEDERSHEIM - PAUL, 1979; CZINKOTA, 1985). This phenomenon in permanent theoretical and managerial evolution made an opportunity to build this investigation, whose goal is to analyse the impact comes from organizational capabilities and the external environment on the international performance of exporting firms. For both, were used as theoretical basis two types of analysis for the comprehension of international performance: Strategic Management - Industrial Organization and Resource-Based View and International Businesses - Current Economic and Behavioral. It was made a cross-sectional survey-based explanatory research, including 150 exporting companies with operations in the Northeast of Brazil. A conceptual model was made with eight constructs and eight research hypotheses, representative of the effects of external factors on international performance. The data were processed using the Exploratory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling. The structural equations model was reespecified and estimated through the use of the maximum-likelihood method up to achieve adequated values of indexes of adjustment. As the main theoretical contribution, were identified organizational and physical resources which shows the importance of the management skills development, of the learning capability and capability to establish strategic alliances abroad. That because the knowledge, as the operational point of view as in its strategic application, offers to organization conditions of market positioning which can create opportunities sustainable competitive advantages and which impact the performance of international companies

Developing Innovative TEL Practice in Teacher Education

This interactive symposium will focus on the use of different technologies in developing innovative practice in teacher education at one university in England. Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is a field of educational policy and practice that has the power to ignite diametrically opposing views and reactions amongst teachers and teacher educators, ranging across a spectrum from immense enthusiasm to untold terror. In a field where the skills and experience of individuals vary from those of digital natives (Prensky 2001) to lags and lurkers in digital spaces, the challenges of harnessing the potential of TEL are complex. The challenges include developing the IT skills of trainees and educators and the creative application of these skills to pedagogy in all areas of the curriculum. The symposium draws on examples from primary, secondary and post-compulsory teacher education to discuss issues and approaches to developing research capacity and innovative practice using different etools, many of which are freely available. The first paper offers theoretical and policy perspectives on finding spaces in busy professional lives to engage in research and develop research-informed practice. It draws on notions of teachers as researchers, practitioner research and evidenc-ebased practice to argue that engagement in research is integral to teacher education and an empowering source of creative professional learning for teachers and teacher educators. Whilst acknowledging the challenges of this stance, examples from our own research practice illustrate how e-tools can assist us in building the capacity and confidence of staff and students in researching and enhancing teaching, learning and assessment practice. The second paper discusses IT skills development through the TEL pathway for trainee teachers in secondary education across different curriculum subjects. The lead tutor for the TEL pathway will use examples of activities developed with trainee teachers and university subject tutors to enhance their skills in using e-tools, such as QR codes, Kahoot, Padlet, Pinterest and cloud based learning. The paper will also focus on how these skills and tools can be used for action Discussant - the wider use of technologies in a university centre for teacher education; course management, recruitment and mentor training. research, evaluation and feedback and for marking and administrative tasks. The discussion will finish with thoughts on widening trainee teachers’ horizons into the future direction of educational technology. The third paper considers institutional policies and strategies for promoting and embedding TEL, including an initiative called ‘The Learning Conversation’, which aims ‘to share, highlight, celebrate, discuss, problematise, find things out...’ about TEL through an online space. The lead for ‘The Learning Conversation’ will offer reflections on this and other initiatives across the institution involving trainee teachers, university subject tutors, librarians and staff in student support services who are using TEL to engage, enthuse and support students on campus and during placements in schools. The fourth paper reflects on the use of TEL to engage with trainee teachers in post-compulsory education. This sector of education and training is more fragmented than primary and secondary schools sectors and so the challenges of building a community of practice that can support the development of innovative practice are greater.

Aprendizaje basado en problemas, ABP : una propuesta para transformar la enseñanza-aprendizaje de las aplicaciones de la trigonometría en la solución de triángulos en el grado 10º

El estudio tuvo como propósito determinar la efectividad relativa del ABP, comparado con el método tradicional para desarrollar habilidades de resolución de problemas en el aprendizaje de las aplicaciones de la solución de triángulos en el grado 10º de la Institución Educativa El Progreso, de El Carmen de Viboral, Antioquia. La enseñanza-aprendizaje de las matemáticas sustentadas con la estrategia didáctica Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas permite a los estudiantes y docentes aproximarse al conocimiento de una manera similar a como lo hacen los científicos; el primer paso es una situación de duda, perplejidad del estudiante provocada por la Situación Problema planteada por el docente, el segundo un momento de “sugerencias” en las que la mente salta hacia adelante en busca de una posible solución (Dewey, 1933, p. 102). El tercer paso “intelectualización” de la dificultad que se ha percibido para convertirlo en un problema que debe solucionarse (Dewey, 1933, p. 103). La cuarta es “la idea conductora o hipótesis”, las cuales se basan en la formulación de explicaciones sugeridas o soluciones posibles (Dewey, 1933, p. 104). El quinto paso sería el “razonamiento”, consiste en la elaboración racional de una idea que se va desarrollando de acuerdo a las habilidades de cada persona (Dewey, 1933, p. 105). El paso final es la “comprobación de hipótesis” en situaciones reales. Este proceso se evidenció a través de cuatro Situaciones-Problema enfocadas desde un contexto auténtico “la remodelación del parque principal de El Carmen de Viboral” con el objetivo de motivar a los estudiantes para el aprendizaje de algunos conceptos matemáticos y el desarrollo de habilidades de resolución de problemas. La metodología de la investigación fue un diseño cuasi-experimental con grupo experimental compuesto por 38 estudiantes del grado 10º2 y grupo control con 37 estudiantes del grado 10º1. Se empleó como técnica de recolección de la información una prueba pre-test antes del tratamiento y una prueba post-test que se aplicó después del tratamiento a ambos grupos; se aplicó también una escala de satisfacción de los estudiantes con la metodología tradicional en ambos grupos y una escala de satisfacción con la estrategia didáctica ABP sólo al grupo experimental; la observación directa, y el portafolio que evidenciaba todas las construcciones de los estudiantes. La aplicación de la estrategia didáctica experimental se aplicó durante 4 meses, con una intensidad horaria de cuatro horas semanales, tiempo durante el cual se implementaron las cuatro Situaciones-Problema. Se concluyó entre otros aspectos que el 86,5% de los estudiantes encuentran las clases de matemáticas como interesantes, contextualizadas, aplicables y significativas, mientras que antes del tratamiento sólo el 44,4% se encontraba satisfecho con las clases de matemáticas, con una diferencia en cambio de actitud de 42,1% frente a las clases de matemáticas con la metodología tradicional. En el análisis comparativo de adquisición de competencias específicas se demuestra que el grupo experimental demostró ser matemáticamente más competente con respecto al grupo control en todas las competencias evaluadas: capacidad de modelación, inductiva, comunicativa y habilidad procedimental. Además, el proyecto de investigación tuvo un valor agregado: 10 estudiantes tuvieron la oportunidad de conocer más sobre su cultura ceramista mediante el diseño y construcción de mosaicos que los ofreció la casa de la cultura en forma gratuita.

Aquisição da linguagem na infância: vocabulário e morfossintaxe dos 16 aos 30 meses

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti para a obtenção do grau de mestre em Ciências da Educação, especialização em Educação Especial.

A estrutura psicossocial na turma de uma criança portadora de autismo

Dissertação submetida para satisfação parcial dos requisitos do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Educação — Especialização em Educação Especial

Relatório de estágio de qualificação profissional

Relatório EPE - Relatório de estágio em Educação Pré-Escolar: Resultante de um protocolo entre a Escola Superior de Educação do Porto e a Escola Básica das Antas, a prática pedagógica supervisionada refletida no presente relatório foi desenvolvida no Jardim de Infância desta instituição. Tendo como principal objetivo o desenvolvimento de competências profissionais para a Educação Pré-Escolar, a unidade curricular de prática pedagógica supervisionada coloca o estudante num contexto real de aprendizagem, no qual terá de desenvolver saberes próprios da profissão, construindo uma atitude reflexiva e investigativa apoiada em pressupostos teóricos relevantes para a sua formação. Neste sentido, o relatório de estágio de qualificação profissional é um instrumento que surge como resultado de todo o trabalho desenvolvido ao longo da prática pedagógica supervisionada pelos estudantes em formação. Este reflete não só algumas das estratégias desenvolvidas pela estudante ao longo do seu estágio profissional, mas integra também um conjunto de reflexões, quer individuais quer realizadas em cooperação com outros intervenientes no processo de formação. Este relatório reflete a metodologia de investigação-ação pela qual a estudante enveredou. Esta metodologia permitia à mestranda ter em conta os constrangimentos que surgiam das suas práticas para, posteriormente, através de reflexões sustentadas em pressupostos teóricos pertinentes, conseguir ultrapassá-los e consequentemente melhorar as suas intervenções. Em suma, neste documento a estudante revela as transformações que decorreram quer da análise das suas estratégias pedagógicas, quer das suas competências enquanto futura profissional de educação que permitiram enriquecer a sua formação.

Prática de ensino supervisionada em Educação Pré-escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

A realização do presente relatório pretende dar resposta a uma exigência pedagógica da unidade curricular de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES) do Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Bragança. Tem como objetivo principal reconhecer as atividades de Expressão Plástica implementadas ao longo da PES, descrevendo as experiências que denotem o desenvolvimento da criatividade, capacidade de comunicação e expressão, observando o grau de concretização das atividades, através da análise das notas de campo e fotografias recolhidas, distinguindo a temporalidade na sua realização e identificando o contributo da expressão plástica para o desenvolvimento de competências das crianças em contexto de Creche, Educação Pré-escolar e do 1.º CEB. A PES foi desenvolvida com 6 crianças, com idades de 3 meses a 3 anos, no âmbito da Creche, com 18 crianças com idades de 3, 4 e 5 anos, em contexto de Educação Pré-escolar e com 18 crianças de 6 anos de idade, no âmbito do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Utilizou-se uma metodologia qualitativa, aplicada através da observação participante, com reflexão sobre as notas de campo e fotografias registadas e recolhidas, como suporte de recolha de dados. A questão de investigação pressupunha identificar de que forma a Expressão Plástica permite a aquisição de competências no processo ensino-aprendizagem, enquanto área facilitadora de aprendizagens e desenvolvimento das crianças, em ambos os contextos de ensino e tendo em conta a sua transversabilidade com as restantes áreas. Assim, após o enquadramento teórico justificativo da temática, caraterizou-se o ambiente educativo, a metodologia de investigação e a descrição e análise de experiências de ensino-aprendizagem concretizadas, relacionado-se uma com a Creche, três ao contexto de Educação Pré-Escolar e três ao contexto de 1.º CEB. De acordo com os dados recolhidos não só do enquadramento teórico, mas também da investigação e experiências analisadas concluiu-se que a Expressão Plástica é uma área fulcral e imprescindível para o sucesso do processo ensino-aprendizagem, pois potencia características intrínsecas e extrínsecas essenciais para o desenvolvimento e aquisição de competências das crianças, muito precocemente, sendo uma área de integração com as restantes áreas do saber, promovendo a concretização dos objetivos e metas de aprendizagem exigidos para cada um dos níveis de desenvolvimento da infância.

Prática de ensino supervisionada em Educação Pré-escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

Este documento espelha o relatório final de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, realizado no âmbito do curso de Mestrado em Educação Pré-escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, e procura focalizar-se nas práticas realizadas em contexto de Educação Pré-escolar e de 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, onde se destaca a arte como um meio pedagógico através do qual as crianças de dois níveis de ensino, Pré-Escolar e 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, se apropriaram de novos conhecimentos. Assim, o tema escolhido para este estudo foi A educação pela arte: olhar, ouvir e sentir, e prendeu-se com a necessidade de familiarizar a criança com a arte, pela importância que esta assume no seu desenvolvimento pessoal, social e cultural na medida em que a construção do conhecimento se efetiva através de recursos expressivos que preconizam criação, participação e envolvimento, dando a ver e a sentir, oferecendo ainda possibilidades interpretativas. Destaca-se ainda a importância da cooperação com outros profissionais, a interação com as crianças, a reflexão sistemática antes, durante e após a ação e pesquisa contínua, com vista à melhoria das nossas práticas e do sucesso das crianças. Desta forma, pensamos na seguinte questão problema: Como explorar a arte com as crianças em situações de aprendizagem plurais, através de um objeto real e/ou imaginado, de uma forma concreta e lúdica, apelando a diversas formas de expressão artística? e estipulamos como intencionalidades: (i) compreender os olhares das crianças sobre a imaginação, (ii) conhecer as conceções que as crianças têm sobre a arte e os artistas; e, (iii) compreender a importância da Educação e Expressão Plástica para o desenvolvimento da criança. Em termos metodológicos posicionamo-nos numa abordagem qualitativa e para a recolha de dados atendemos à observação, às notas de campo, aos registos em áudio e fotográficos, e ao inquérito por entrevista. Pensamos que as experiências de aprendizagem que realizámos com as crianças contribuíram, de forma positiva, para o desenvolvimento de competências em vários domínios das diferentes áreas do conhecimento, envolvendo a arte, vivenciada em espaços plurais. As atividades realizadas despertaram nas crianças participantes a imaginação, a sensibilidade, o sentimento e a criatividade. Da análise e reflexão ao trabalho realizado conclui-se que a Arte deve ser assumida no ensino e seriamente desenvolvida, pois é de extrema importância o seu contributo na formação das crianças.