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Validation and proposal of a short version of the Motivated Strategies for Lear...

Self-regulated learning is one of the most relevant learning concepts, representing cognitive, metacognitive, emotional, behavioural and motivational aspects. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) is the most used instrument to measure self-regulated learning. Though, its 81-item structure is lengthy and presents psychometric issues. Additionally, there is no translation/validation of MSLQ ...

Vocational Education: Discovering the error in statistical graphics

Based on Godino and colleagues’ ontosemiotic approach, we analyze the components of the didactic suitability of the task “Discovering the Error: Revisions of Statistical Graphs” of a didactic intervention in vocational education, level IV (16-18 years, equivalent to secondary school) in Portugal. The didactic suitability of the task is aimed at assessing its adequacy and to what extent it can be improved. This ...

Construção e validação de uma escala de disposições de pensamento crítico para ...

O pensamento crítico (PC) é uma das competências indispensáveis para os estudantes universitários do século XXI, tendo em vista o exercício pleno da sua cidadania, a sua integração no mercado de trabalho e participação ativa numa sociedade em constante mudança. Um bom pensador crítico tem de ter em simultâneo capacidades e disposições de PC. Possuir disposições de PC, a longo prazo, criando assim o hábito de be...

LET’S DO IT AGAIN: A SECOND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PORTUGUESE TEACHERS' ATTITU...

We continue to believe that teachers' attitudes towards statistics can have a significant effect on their own statistical training, their way of teaching statistics, and on the future attitudes of their students. The influence of attitudes in teaching statistics in different contexts was previously studied in several researches, including some of the authors. This work is part of a broader study of Portuguese o...

The views of Engineering Students on creativity

Breaking the habit: engineering students' understanding of mathematical creativity

Fostering critical thinking through peer review between cooperative learning gr...

Educational policies keep stressing the importance of critical thinking skills for promotion of academic success in Higher Education, to facilitate transition into the labour market and to foster livelong learning. Curricula in Higher Education Institutions gradually meet this necessity, integrating strategies foreseeing the development of critical thought in students. However, at this level, we still commonly ...

Fostering critical thinking through peer review between cooperative learning gr...

Take this waltz on creativity: the engineering students' conceptions

Pensamento crítico na educação. Desafios atuais

Embora conste das políticas educativas, a promoção e desenvolvimento de capacidades de pensamento crítico são pouco valorizados a nível curricular, seja no Ensino Pré-Universitário ou no Ensino Superior, insistindo-se ainda demasiado na memorização, evocação, transmissão e reprodução de conhecimentos. Falta, pois, estabelecer um foco concreto na promoção destas capacidades, que não são intuitivas e que devem se...