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Formação como fator de diferenciação profissional

Este artigo aborda a crescente importância da formação enquanto fator de diferenciação profissional, no contexto de um mercado de trabalho permeado pela constante transformação digital, onde a atualização e reconversão de competências se revelam essenciais na preparação de estudantes e quadros profissionais para esta nova realidade.

Boosting undergraduate students' academic integration through educational hacka...

This paper presents a mixed-methods pre-experimental study with a one-group pre-test-post-test design. It explores the academic integration of a sample of 29 Bachelor (BSc) Informatics Engineering students before and after participating in a 6-hour educational hackathon: the ‘UTAD Code and Conquer’ (UCC) hackathon. The UCC hackathon challenged a total of 63 participants to solve an adapted version of the Travel...

Performance analysis during small-sided games played by senior and professional...

Aeronave de propulsão elétrica para instrução básica/elementar na Força Aérea

A propulsão elétrica tem sido adotada em diferentes tipos de veículos mas excluída da aeronáutica. As crescentes preocupações económicas e ecológicas, aliadas à tecnologia, possibilitam atualmente algumas soluções para nichos da aviação. Este estudo avalia a adequabilidade destas soluções para a missão de instrução de pilotagem na Força Aérea. Metodologicamente, caracteriza-se por um raciocínio dedutivo, assent...

Motivating students to learn computer programming in higher education: the SimP...

This paper presents an action research study aiming to motivate undergraduate students to develop their computer programming learning skills, particularly within the transition from beginner to proficient level. The SimProgramming motivational approach is presented as a didactic proposal for this context. From the results of this iterative research process, we concluded that SimProgramming is a promising tool f...

Citânia de Briteiros: programa de investigação e valorização do monumento

A Citânia de Briteiros adquiriu notoriedade na Arqueologia devido a um conjunto de factores extraordinários, no contexto português. Num período em que ainda não se tinham definido, em Portugal, o objecto, os métodos e as técnicas em Arqueologia, a curiosidade e o interesse de Francisco Martins Sarmento permitiram o desenvolvimento de um projecto pioneiro de investigação e conservação, a...

The effectiveness of critical thinking instructional strategies in health profe...

This review intends to reveal the current status of the instructional practices used to enhance Critical Thinking (CrT), Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgement (CJ) skills and dispositions in Health Sciences Higher Education programmes. After a three-step filtering process, 28 empirical studies on the effectiveness of the instructional strategies were analysed, following PICOS methodology. The analysis tackl...

Students’ Study Routines, Learning Preferences and Self-regulation: Are They Re...

Good self-regulatory skills and study habits seem to be essential conditions to students’ engagement with active learning approaches, critical thinking development and academic achievement. This exploratory research study aimed to assess possible relationships between students’ self-regulation, learning preferences and study routines towards their engagement in student-centered approaches. Seventy-nine undergra...

Stairway to the Stars: Comparing Health and Tourism Professionals Views About C...

The relevance of critical thinking in the twenty-first century is indisputable. Although several authors discuss the need for preparing Health and Tourism students for careers in the twenty-first century some recognize the need to bridge the gap between the market needs – employers view – and the graduate profile – higher education institutions view. The CRITHINKEDU ERASMUS+ project started questioning professi...

Perceptions of Portuguese University Teachers About Critical Thinking Education...

Promoting students’ Critical Thinking (CT) in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) has been an essential and challenging goal in the 21st century. This exploratory research study attempted to characterize how CT is being fostered in Portuguese HEI. Semi-structured interviews were carried-out with 5 university teachers from different domains, focusing several topics: CT notion, CT aims, CT approach, interventions...