Alunos com altas habilidades: Valor preditivo dos critérios de identificação

A identificação dos alunos sobredotados e talentosos implica a ponderação e a adopção de critérios e procedimentos de avaliação que permitam caracterizar com validade os alunos sinalizados. Nesse sentido, a necessidade de contemplar várias fontes de informação pressupõe uma certa complexidade no processo de identificação, sendo que o recurso a uma identificação multi-referencial permite o alargamento do número de alunos que poderá beneficiar de medidas educativas. O principal objectivo desta comunicação é analisar e reflectir sobre os critérios utilizados para a sinalização e a avaliação de alunos com altas habilidades. Procuramos comparar os desempenhos ao nível do raciocínio cognitivo (BPR-5/6 e BPR-7/9) e académico (classificações escolares) de um grupo de alunos identificado com altas habilidades, quando frequentavam o 2º ciclo (5º e 6º ano) [conjugando critérios de avaliação ao nível da criatividade (TPCT), da cognição (BPR-5/6),da inteligência geral (TIG-1) e do rendimento académico (notas escolares)], com os seus desempenhos em anos lectivos posteriores, quando frequentam o 3º ciclo (8º e 9ºano). Além disso, consideramos nesta análise a percepção dos Directores de Turma ao nível da sinalização dos alunos (BISAST-NP e IDT). Genericamente, os resultados sugerem que nem todos os alunos identificados apresentam um elevado rendimento académico nos anos escolares posteriores e que os professores revelam alguma dificuldade na sinalização de alunos com altas habilidades, sendo os resultados dessa sinalização discrepantes face aos resultados nas provas psicológicas.

Vitalidade no centro antigo Teresina, Piauí Praça Marechal Deodoro: uma intervenção contemporânea em área de valor patrimonial

This study deals with the discussions of contemporary interventions in public spaces in areas of heritage value. The product of this dissertation is an Intervention Project to Marechal Deodoro Square located in Teresina/PI center. The starting point for understanding the theme of this study is to investigate the accessibility and vitality of a public space - through relationship between form and uses. The spatial properties of accessibility and visibility as well as the distribution of land use - factors were associated with distinct patterns of vitality - and compared to usage patterns observed in situ and statements from users obtained through the results of the questionnaires. In attention to questions about the building constructed, particularly in historical centers, considers the guidelines to define intervention strategies in the square, consisted in the development of simulations that after evaluation of results of redesign, was chosen the best option to meet the necessary requirements to the performance, considering the spatial properties of integration and visibility that meet these requirements. Therefore, the "Intervention Project" carried out for the Marechal Deodoro Square characterization proposed items are discussed: spatial structure, vegetation, road network, pavements, street furniture and lighting

Efeitos de absorventes de umidade e de aditivos químicos e microbianos sobre o valor nutritivo, o perfil fermentativo e as perdas em silagens de capim-marandu

The objective of this trial was to evaluate the nutritional value, fermentation profile and dry matter losses of Palisadegrass silages ensiled with either dried citrus pulp, soybean hulls, chemical or microbial additives. The trial was carried out in a completely randomized experimental design and in a factorial arrangement (3 x 5), with three dry matter levels (wet forage or forage ensiled with pelleted citrus pulp or pelleted soybean hulls) and five additives (without or with the presence of bacterial inoculants or the addition of: sodium benzoate, formic acid in the concentration of 62% or 44%), totalizing 15 treatments and 60 experimental silos. The variables analyzed were: nutritional value, losses due to gases and effluents, and dry matter recovery. The use of dried citrus pulp or soybean hulls at the ensiling time increased the dry matter content (29.4 and 28,9%) and decreased the effluent production (4.1 and 3.8 kg/t of fresh matter), also providing fermentable substrate to microorganisms, resulting in increased fermentation coefficient and digestibility of silages. The use of formic acid resulted in silages with higher digestibility and increased water-soluble carbohydrates and crude protein content. This additive was also effective in reducing the losses due to gases and, as a result, increased the total dry matter recovery. The treatment containing homolactic bacteria showed similar trend of increasing the digestibility and reducing the losses due to gases. The use of sodium benzoate was less effective in altering the fermentation pattern of tropical silages. The nutritional value and total dry matter losses of silages ensiled without additives can be considered satisfactory. However, wet forage ensiled with dried citrus pulp and, mainly, with soybeans hulls showed the best results. Treatments containing formic acid had a beneficial effect on the fermentation profile of tropical grass silages.