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- 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.
- Estudo de tradução, adaptação e validação do ASSIST numa amostra de estudantes universitários portuguesesPublication . Valadas, Sandra T.; Ribeiro Gonçalves, Fernando; Faísca, LuísNeste estudo são analisadas as abordagens ao estudo, concepções de aprendizagem e preferências por diferentes estilos de ensino características de estudantes universitários. Foi nossa intenção construir uma versão portuguesa do Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students — short version (Tait, Entwistle & McCune, 1998), aferindo a sua validade e fidelidade numa amostra de estudantes universitários portugueses. Os resultados na validade de constructo e os indicadores de fidelidade do instrumento parecem demonstrar que, no global, o ASSIST avalia os constructos teóricos subjacentes e os estudantes que integraram este estudo parecem, de facto, revelar determinadas formas de abordar as tarefas de estudo e de aprendizagem. São, contudo, de destacar algumas limitações, não só características de instrumentos desta natureza, mas também resultantes dos próprios procedimentos e de alguns resultados menos satisfatórios em algumas das subescalas do inventário.
- Students’ voices at a Portuguese University: academic motivation and its relationship with academic successPublication . Valadas, Sandra T.; Ribeiro Gonçalves, Fernando; Faísca, Luís; Vilhena, CarlaIn this paper the authors will try to point out some evidences that emerged from the data collected in the year of 2000 by the Permanent Observatory for Teaching and Learning Quality of the University of Algarve. Data presented here will report exclusively to students’ representations concerning the institution, themselves, their teachers and the curriculum, since we consider that students are the privileged informants about their own academic experience. The main topic explored refers to students’ evaluation of the influence of academic motivation on the abandonment of studies in higher education. Theoretical framework will also be presented. We will present some behavioral symptoms that students evaluated as relevant indicators of lack of academic motivation. Also, the analysis will concern the meanings students attribute to academic failure as well as students’ points of view about their own failure, according to their academic experience.