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- As abordagens à aprendizagem de estudantes da Universidade do AlgarvePublication . Valadas, Sandra T.; Ribeiro Gonçalves, FernandoNo presente capítulo abordamos a forma como alguns estudantes do Ensino Superior aprendem, partindo das estratégias que operacionalizam as suas motivações para o estudo e para a aprendizagem. Ao concebermos o estudante do Ensino Superior como pertencente a um grupo específico em desenvolvimento, importa, primeiro que tudo, compreender quem é esse estudante, para depois partirmos para a análise das diferentes abordagens à aprendizagem utilizadas pelos estudantes universitários. Neste sentido, começamos com algumas reflexões sobre o conceito de jovem adulto, para depois analisarmos, com base no modelo de avaliação da aprendizagem de John Biggs, as diferentes abordagens à aprendizagem utilizadas por um grupo de estudantes da Universidade do Algarve.
- Abordagens ao estudo e sucesso Académico no Ensino SuperiorPublication . Valadas, Sandra T.; Araújo, Alexandra; Almeida, Leandro S.O sucesso académico no Ensino Superior tem sido associado à qualidade do envolvimento dos estudantes nas tarefas de aprendizagem. Uma das formas de analisar este envolvimento recorre ao conceito de abordagens à aprendizagem ou ao estudo, que têm sido tipificadas como profunda, superficial e estratégica. Este artigo analisa o efeito preditor das abordagens ao estudo no sucesso académico, após a consideração de algumas variáveis pessoais e académicas dos estudantes. Uma amostra de 429 estudantes, repartidos por 1º e 4º anos de cursos na área das Ciências Humanas e Sociais (CH&S) e Ciências e Tecnologias (C&T), respondeu ao Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST), tendo também facultado o número de UC's em atraso. Os resultados sugerem que o número de UC's em atraso, estando logicamente dependente do ano escolar em que os estudantes se encontram, está associado à área do curso (maior insucesso nos estudantes de C&T), sexo (maior insucesso nos estudantes do sexo masculino) e abordagem superficial apática (maior insucesso por parte dos alunos que mais recorrem a estratégias cognitivas e motivacionais superficiais).
- Academic success in schools in the Algarve: when leadership is part of the solution and not of the problemPublication . Quintas, Helena; Gonçalves, José Alberto; Valadas, Sandra T.This paper presents the results of a case study conducted among school principals in the southern region of Portugal, located in urban, suburban and rural settings. The five cases that comprise this study were subjected to a final rating of “Very Good” in the external evaluation process of schools, whose data were collected through semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis (regulations and educational project, reports of the external evaluation of responsibility of Inspeção Geral de Educação e Ciência de Portugal). The data collected in this exploratory study were systematized and analyzed according to the following indicators: the students’ academic success, the teachers’ professional development, the organizational development and the identifying features of schools principals. Overall, we cannot affirm the existence of differences according to geographical area, although some particularities which proved to be interesting and indicative of good leadership practices could be highlighted.
- Approaches to study in higher education portuguese students: a portuguese version of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST)Publication . Valadas, Sandra T.; Ribeiro Gonçalves, Fernando; Faísca, LuísThis paper examines the validity of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students—short version (ASSIST; Tait et al. in Improving student learning: Improving students as learners, 1998), to be used with Portuguese undergraduate students. The ASSIST was administrated to 566 students, in order to analyse a Portuguese version of this inventory. Exploratory factor analysis (principal axis factor analysis followed by direct oblimin rotation) reproduced the three main factors that correspond to the original dimensions of the inventory (deep, surface apathetic and strategic approaches to learning). The results are consistent with the background theory on approaches to learning. Additionally, the reliability analysis revealed acceptable internal consistency indexes for the main scales and subscales. This inventory might represent a valuable research tool for the assessment of approaches to learning among Portuguese higher education students.
- Aspetos metodológicos do inquérito por entrevistaPublication . Valadas, Sandra T.; Ribeiro Gonçalves, FernandoTendo com pano de fundo as perspetivas dos atores mais diretamente envolvidos no processo de avaliação externa de escolas do ensino não superior, iremos centrar-nos, fundamentalmente, na recolha de opiniões junto dos diretores de escolas relativamente ao impacto e efeitos da avaliação externa. A comunicação centrar-se-á nos diferentes tipos de entrevista (diretiva, semi diretiva e não diretiva) e procedimentos (construção, validação e aplicação). A utilização das entrevistas enquanto estratégia metodológica será devidamente contextualizada e apresentadas as vantagens da sua aplicação ao público em causa. Serão também referidas as dimensões em análise, reportadas ao projeto, e que remetem para o impacto e efeitos na escola (organizacionais, pedagógicos e curriculares) e na comunidade. Por fim, serão referidos alguns procedimentos de análise de dados utilizados no quadro de softwares específicos (N-vivo) e outros procedimentos de análise de conteúdo (categorização emergente e pré-determinada).
- Assessment of psychopathological problems in school context: the psychometric properties of a portuguese version of the adolescent psychopathology scale – short formPublication . Lemos, Ida; Faísca, Luís; Valadas, Sandra T.The psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale–Short Form (APS-SF) were studied in a sample of 656 Portuguese adolescents, aged 12 to 19 years, assessed in school context. Also, the aim of the study was to gather data concerning age-and gender-related differences in the expression of psychopathological problems assessed by the APS-SF. Results of the reliability of APS-SF scales are compared with those obtained by Reynolds in the validation studies with the American sample. Factor analysis reproduced the bidimensionality of the original validation studies of the scale. These findings seem to support the use of the APS-SF as a valuable tool for early identification of psychosocial problems in the school context in Portuguese adolescents. Results concerning age-and gender-related differences in the expression of psychopathological problems in the adolescents are discussed.
- Assessment of psychopathological problems in school context: the psychometric properties of a portuguese version of the adolescent psychopathology scale – short formPublication . Lemos, Ida; Faísca, Luís; Valadas, Sandra T.The psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale-Short Form (APS-SF) were studied in a sample of 656 Portuguese adolescents, aged 12 to 19 years, assessed in school context. Also, the aim of the study was to gather data concerning age- and gender-related differences in the expression of psychopathological problems assessed by the APS-SF. Results of the reliability of APS-SF scales are compared with those obtained by Reynolds in the validation studies with the American sample. Factor analysis reproduced the bidimensionality of the original validation studies of the scale. These findings seem to support the use of the APS-SF as a valuable tool for early identification of psychosocial problems in the school context in Portuguese adolescents. Results concerning age- and gender-related differences in the expression of psychopathological problems in the adolescents are discussed.
- Avaliação da implementação da educação sexual em contexto escolar, na região do Algarve a perspetiva de atores educativos responsáveis pela Educação para a Saúde/Educação Sexual.Publication . Paulos, Liliana; Valadas, Sandra T.O presente estudo assume-se como um estudo de caso, insere-se no paradigma interpretativo/qualitativo e pretendeu avaliar a implementação da Educação Sexual (ES) no Algarve. Realizaram-se entrevistas semidiretivas a oito coordenadores da Educação para a Saúde (EpS)/ES e a um diretor de agrupamento de escolas (AE). Os resultados indicaram que a ES foi integrada nos projetos educativos de todos os AE, sendo que os AE situados em concelhos com menos residentes apresentaram um percurso mais próximo das recomendações da lei. Foram nomeados professores-coordenadores para a EpS/ES e apenas um AE não tem o gabinete de apoio a funcionar. A disciplina de Ciências Naturais foi identificada como sendo a mais interveniente na ES. O aumento e a consolidação dos conhecimentos foram objetivos privilegiados numa vertente de prevenção. O pouco apoio do Ministério da Educação e Ciência e a falta de formação, de experiência e de à-vontade dos docentes nesta área foram apontados como limitações no processo de implementação da ES.
- A comparative study on the health and well-being of adolescent immigrants in Spain and PortugalPublication . Hernando Gomez, Angel; Nunes, Cristina; Torres, Carmen Cruz; Lemos, Ida; Valadas, Sandra T.The terms on which the integration of new generations of immigrants into Portuguese and Spanish societies happens will have a decisive influence in the future of both countries. Therefore, promoting their health, well-being, and psychosocial adaptation is a matter of strategic interest. This paper analyses psychosocial factors associated with well-being and psychological adjustment on a sample of 108 adolescents (55 males and 53 females), children of immigrants from Huelva (Spain) and Algarve (Portugal), aged between 10 and 17 years. Adolescents were assessed for demographic characteristics and perceived well-being. We used the “KIDSCREEN-5”, a self-report questionnaire that yields detailed profile information for children aged 8 to 18 years for the following ten dimensions: Physical well-being, Psychological well-being, Moods and emotions, Self-perception, Autonomy, Parental relationships and home life, Financial resources, Social support and peers, School environment, and Social acceptance(Bullying). Overall, significant differences were found between the Spanish and Portuguese samples on physical well-being, psychological well-being, mood, financial resources and social acceptance (bullying). Boys perceived themselves as having a better physical well-being than girls. Mothers’ educational level was associated with psychological well-being and mood. Also, results suggested that residence location and other socio-demographical variables were not associated with the adolescents’ well-being and psychological adjustment.
- Conceptions of learning, approaches to learning and cognitive development: students profiles in a portuguese higher education institutionPublication . Valadas, Sandra T.In this paper we examine concepts referring to learning and teaching in higher education recognized in the literature as study orientations, approaches to learning, study behaviours, approaches to studying and conceptions of learning. We also explored students’ cognitive development and academic success according to some indicators previously studied. An investigation on this subject was developed with emphasis on contextual variables, as well as students’ perceptions about the learning environment, as constructs that can influence the use of more deep or more superficial approaches to learning tasks, according to Entwistle’s work. The Portuguese version of the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students – ASSIST (Valadas, Ribeiro Gonçalves & Faísca, 2009, 2010), as well as of the Parker Cognitive Development Inventory – PCDI (Ferreira & Bastos, 1995) were used to collect data concerning the approaches to studying, conceptions of learning, and levels of cognitive development in college students. Comparative and correlational results from 566 Portuguese higher education students, from different scientific areas (Biological Sciences, Economics, Earth Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical and Technological Sciences) and first and last years’ graduation are presented. We also explored students’ profiles resulting from cluster analysis. Results are consistent with the theory, although some particularities were found.