Prontidão de alunos do ensino superior para a aprendizagem de álgebra linear

Neste artigo estuda-se a prontidão de alunos do ensino superior para a aprendizagem de álgebra linear, salientando a natureza teórica desta área de conhecimento. Participaram no estudo alunos do ensino superior, de uma turma do 1.º ano, de um Instituto Politécnico do norte de Portugal. Os alunos responderam a um teste diagnóstico, cujas questões incorporavam conteúdos lecionados durante os anos escolares anteriores à entrada no ensino superior, considerados como pré-requisito para a aprendizagem de álgebra linear numa vertente mais teórica. Dos resultados do estudo, destacam-se as grandes dificuldades dos alunos em todos os conteúdos avaliados, verificando-se que mais de metade apresentou respostas incorretas ou não respondeu às questões colocadas, donde se conclui que os alunos não apresentam um grau de prontidão adequado para aprendizagem de álgebra linear.

A importância da metodologia das oficinas formativas na educação sexual na escola

Enquadramento: O interesse pelo tema Educação Sexual germinou da conscientiza-ção de que a sexualidade está na essência do homem, com o ideal de ser experimentada e vivida; procura-se cada vez mais expandir esses conhecimentos com responsabilidade e naturalidade, principalmente frente à responsabilidade de educadores por participar de uma capacitação oferecida pelo grupo do Instituto Kaplan Programa / PROJETO VALE SONHAR. Objetivo: Proposemo-nos analisar a importancia da metodologia das oficinas formati-vas na Educação Sexual na Escola;Determinar a eficácia das oficinas nos conhecimentos sobre sexualidade nos adolescentes;Construir conhecimento sobre sexualidade, desmitifi- cando conceitos. Método: Foi desenvolvida uma intervenção formativa com aplicação de 03 (três) ofi-cinas, em que foram avaliados os conhecimentos antes e após a intervenção formativa. Du-rante estas oficinas foram aplicados questionários e coleta de depoimentos dos participantes. A amostra foi constituída por adolescentes de ambos os sexos, que frequentavam o 1º ano do ensino médio na Escola Estadual de Educação Básica Costa Rêgo, no ano letivo de 2013 e 2014. Resultados: Os conhecimentos sobre planejamento familiar, infecções sexualmente transmissíveis e reprodução dos adolescentes na maioria aumentaram após a intervenção formativa no âmbito da afetividade/sexualidade na adolescência. Os conhecimentos estão relacionados com a idade no sentido em que são os mais novos que demonstram mais co-nhecimentos. Na separação dos conhecimentos por sexo são as meninas que manifestam mais conhecimentos, assim como os residentes em meio urbano. A existência de irmãos, a idade e escolaridade dos pais não influenciam os conhecimentos dos adolescentes. Obser-vou-se também que os adolescentes que já tinham iniciado relações sexuais são aqueles que detêm menos conhecimentos. Conclusão: Os dados mostram que as oficinas realizadas e os questionários servi-ram para conscientização dos alunos e contribuiu para a redução dos índices de evasão escolar por motivos de gravidez, mostrando assim a importância de se tratar de educação sexual no ambiente escolar. Palavras-chave: Adolescência, Sexualidade, Educação Sexual, Planejamento Famili-ar, Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis.

Medical Building. Chemical Laboratory

A. J. Jordan, architect. Built in 1856. First chemical laboratory at a state university. Building served medical students and others as both laboratory and classroom. Situated just west and south of the original medical building. Additions made to the one-story building in 1861, 1866, 1868, 1874. In 1880 a two-story addition was added with subsequent additions in 1889 and 1901. Became Economics Building in 1908. Pharmacology occupied north wing 1908-1981. Destroyed by fire Christmas Eve 1981.On mount: T.D. Tooker Photographer

Medical student scholarship program, Illinois Department of Public Health, Pursuant to The Family Practice Residency Act (110 ILCS 935.1 et seq) : annual report FY... /

Description based on FY1993 ; title from caption.

Interior medical school

Instructor in histology, probably Carl Huber, and students using the microscopes purchased by [Charles] Stowell. Histology was variously associated with pathology, physiology, and anatomy. (source: Not Just Any Medical School by Horace W. Davenport).

Medical School lectures; surgery and anatomy classes; amphitheater views

On verso: Alice Hamilton, 3rd row, 8th from left

Female students in dissection room

Dissection room for female students, called hen medics, first floor of the Anatomical Laboratory. The women had separate dissection rooms until 1908 (source: Not Just Any Medical School by Horace W. Davenport.)

Female students in dissection room

Dissection room for female students, called hen medics, first floor of the Anatomical Laboratory. The women had separate dissection rooms until 1908 (source: Not Just Any Medical School by Horace W. Davenport.)

West Medical

Spier & Rohns, architect. Cornerstone laid on October 15, 1901; building occupied in 1903. Originally West Medical Building; became Samuel Trask Dana Building. Also known as Natural Resources Building. Medical students on steps and in top floor windows. Dirt road in front of building.

Simulating Nursing: Rhetoric, Materiality, and Disciplinary Learning

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Using student feedback to construct an assessment rubric for a concept map in physiology

Constructing quality assessment rubrics can be challenging, especially when they are used for integrated, group-centered, applied learning. We describe a collaborative assessment task in which groups of second-year dentistry students developed a complex concept map. In groups of four, the students were given a written, simulated, medical history of a patient and required to construct a concept map illustrating relevant pathophysiological concepts and pharmacological interventions. This report describes a research project aimed at making educational goals of the task more explicit through investigating student and faculty member understandings of the criteria that might be used to assess the concept map. Information was gathered about the perceptions of students in relation to the learning goals associated with the task. These were compared with faculty member perceptions. The findings were used to develop an assessment rubric intended to be more accessible to learners. The new rubric used the language of both faculty members and students to more clearly represent expectations of each criterion and standard. This assessment rubric will be used in 2005 for the next phase of the project.

Choosing to have children or choosing to be childfree: Australian students' attitudes towards the decisions of heterosexual and lesbian women

Research has demonstrated that voluntarily childless heterosexual women, and lesbian women choosing to become mothers, are negatively stereotyped. However, there is little recent Australian research, and attitudes may have changed in line with changing family formation patterns. This study assessed young Australians' attitudes towards either a lesbian or a heterosexual woman who was planning, or not planning, to have children. One hundred and nineteen first year psychology students, and members of the general public, participated. The majority of participants were under 20, female, European Australian and single. Participants read a brief description of a woman who was variously described as having a male or a female partner, and as planning or not planning to have children. As expected, participants rated the heterosexual woman more favourably than the lesbian, and the woman wanting children more positively than the woman not wanting children. However, there was a trend for the lesbian woman planning to have children to be rated as happier, more mature and more individualistic than others. The legal and social implications associated with wanting to be a lesbian mother in Australia make motherhood a more difficult process for lesbian women than it does for heterosexual women, and may explain why lesbian women who have decided to take this difficult path are seen as happier and more mature, than women making more conventional life choices. While the predominantly young, female student sample limits the generality of the findings, they suggest that social attitudes towards female sexual orientation and women's childbirth decisions are changing.

Freshman 15: Fact or fiction?

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate changes in body weight, BMI, body composition, and fat distribution among freshman women during their 1st year of college. Research Methods and Procedures: Freshman women during the 2004 to 2005 academic year were recruited to participate. The initial baseline visit occurred within the first 6 weeks of the fall 2004 semester, with the follow-up visit occurring during the last 6 weeks of the spring 2005 semester. At each visit, height, weight, BMI, waist and hip circumferences, and body composition (by DXA) were obtained. Results: One hundred thirty-seven participants completed both the fall and spring visits. Significant (p < 0.0001) increases between the fall and spring visits were observed for body weight (58.6 vs. 59.6 kg), BMI (21.9 vs. 22.3), percentage body fat (28.9 vs. 29.7), total fat mass (16.9 vs. 17.7 kg), fat-free mass (38.1 vs. 38.4 kg), waist circumference (69.4 vs. 70.3 cm), and hip circumference (97.4 vs. 98.6 cm), with no significant difference observed in the waist-to-hip ratio (0.71 vs. 0.71; p = 0.78). Discussion: Although statistically significant, changes in body weight, body composition, and fat mass were modest for women during their freshman year of college. These results do not support the purported freshman 15 weight gain publicized in the popular media.

Teaching business students law by virtual means

In this article from the Spring 2008 issue of Directions Odette Hutchinson (Birmingham City University) details her experience introducing video lectures to first year business students studying the English legal system as part of a business law pathway.

Professionalisation and ophthalmic optics

This thesis is a sociological study of the ophthalmic optical profession in Britain. It includes a survey of the development of ophthalmic optics as an occupation and three questionnaire, surveys, one each of first and final year ophthalmic optics students, and one of practising opticians. The developmental survey showed that four themes have been important in the occupation's process of professionalisation - the actions of the opticians' leaders, the gradual unification of the bodies, representing segments of the profession, the struggle with medicine and the involvement of ophthalmic opticians in state-organised optical welfare schemes. The student surveys showed that the profession is now recruiting largely from middle class, state educated groups, and increasingly from women, who hold significantly different attitudes to income, independence and career commitment. In general, both first and final year students considered service to be rather more important than furthering knowledge. Practising opticians have been recruited increasingly, from middle class backgrounds, mostly from state selective secondary schools, but with a large minority from non-state schools. The self-recruitment rate of the profession (18.9%) is very similar to that for British medical students. Significant differences in concepts of professionalism were found among ophthalmic opticians of different ages, sexes and types of practice but few among those in different areas of practice. In general, ophthalmic opticians seemed to stress service more·than furthering knowledge. It is suggested that the leaders of the profession have 'negotiated' considerable autonomy for its members and that the possibilities for commercialism within the ophthalmic optician's professional role are intrinsically no greater than those in more 'established' professions.