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Formative assessment: a study of students' and teachers' perceptions

Formative assessment is a pedagogical practice that has a recognized impact on promoting the quality of teaching and learning. To know, in context, the assessment practices implemented by a pedagogical team of teachers and the perceptions that teachers and students have of them, a case study was carried out, involving three classes of a Portuguese secondary school. This qualitative, naturalistic, exploratory st...

Editorial: leadership, learning, well-being, and justice in educational organiz...

School leadership and organization in times of complexity: paths to a collabora...

This article describes a possible metamorphosis of school grammar—the underlying structures, practices, and norms that shape how schools function—through the organization of teaching by educational teams. Educational teams can serve as catalysts for transforming schools into more personalized, flexible, interactive, and adaptive systems. It also discusses the implications of these structural changes for the shi...

Happiness in school organizations: the role of leadership (a scoping review)

Introduction: Educational organizations are increasingly concerned with students’ well-being and happiness in order to improve the quality of learning and promote the sustainability of teaching. Literature has shown that teacher happiness is related to students’ happiness and contributes to better academic performance, greater motivation and psychological well-being. In an increasingly uncertain, unpredictable ...

Avaliação formativa: um estudo das perceções de alunos e professores

A avaliação formativa constitui uma prática pedagógica que tem um impacto reconhecido na promoção da qualidade do ensino e das aprendizagens. Com o objetivo de conhecer, em contexto, as práticas de avaliação implementadas por uma equipa pedagógica de professores, e as perceções que professores e alunos tecem das mesmas, foi realizado um estudo de caso, implicando três turmas de uma escola secundária portuguesa....

Development and validation of a scale to measure students’ feelings about schoo...

Over the past fifty years, schools have undergone significant changes in terms of technology and digitalization, as well as pedagogical, organizational, social, and cultural shifts, which have led to transformations in relationships between students and teachers, peers, and within the broader school environment. Dynamic contexts impose new challenges to teaching and learning, and emotions, feelings, and moods p...

Innovation in Portuguese schools: what is the grammar of its conceptualization?

Massification of schooling ensured all students access to education. Until now, the industrial school model was ideal, however, due to the coexistence of cultural and socioeconomic differences, it has become ineffective. Consequently, problems of school failure, dropout and hidden school dropout related to the school mission emerged. Thus, the solution reached, after several relatively unsuccessful “top-down” r...

Innovation plans in Portuguese schools: the importance of the aspects and locus...

Academic failure and social inequalities are becoming more prevalent in schools. While knowledge has evolved and society has undergone significant transformation, schools have largely remained structured around a uniform model applied indiscriminately to all. In Portugal, efforts were made to initiate change through the conceptualisation and implementation of innovation plans to alter the prevailing grammar of ...

Modelos locais de governação na educação

A transferência de competências na área da educação assume em 2023 um ponto incontornável na agenda das autarquias e das escolas. Quer a nível local, quer a nível territorial, os modos de regulação na área da educação poderão corresponder a modelos de domínio e de subordinação, ou de participação, coautoria ou regulação sociocomunitária. Estes diferentes modos de regulação, contraditórios e ambíguos, podem colo...

Organizational learning within the context of the functioning of educational te...

Responding to contemporary global challenges will require quality education, which presupposes changes in schools’ organizational structures, new roles and mentalities for the players involved and a culture of learning at the different levels of organizations. In this regard, we strive to understand how changing certain organizational structures, more specifically the organization of teaching by educational tea...