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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...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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...

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....

Schools' evaluation drift: inconsistencies and interpellations of a high-stake ...

A consensus exists in transnational educational policy regarding the relevance of accountability and the contribution of school evaluation to education quality. This paper scrutinises the evaluation results of Portuguese schools provided by the Inspectorate services using a pairwise comparison between 194 schools evaluated in 2018-2020 and 2021-2023. Regarding the literature gap on the behaviour of accountabili...

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

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...

The internet of things in education. Technology, pedagogy and learning

Our society, driven by technological innovations, has become increasingly digital and interconnected, making operating tasks easier and faster. The Internet of Things is based (IoT) on a set of technologies that allows intelligent devices, such as sensors, to connect objects to the Internet and collect data that will be stored for later analysis and control. According to the Hype Cycle, it is one of the emergin...