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Vocational Education: Discovering the error in statistical graphics
Bogas, Helena; Morais, Eva; Nascimento, Maria ManuelBased 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 ...
Stairway to the Stars: Comparing Health and Tourism Professionals Views About C...
Nascimento, Maria Manuel; Silva, Helena; Morais, Felicidade; Pedrosa, Daniela; Cruz, Gonçalo; Payan-Carreira, Rita; Dominguez, CarolineThe 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...
Morais, Felicidade; Silva, Helena; Cruz, Gonçalo; Pedrosa, Daniela; Payan-Carreira, Rita; Dominguez, Caroline; Nascimento, Maria ManuelPromoting 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...
Implementar práticas pedagógicas promotoras do pensamento crítico nos curricula...
Cruz, Gonçalo; Dominguez, Caroline; Payan-Carreira, Rita; Nascimento, Maria Manuel; Silva, Helena; Morais, FelicidadeO desenvolvimento do Pensamento Crítico (PC) é considerado um objetivo fundamental para as Instituições de Ensino Superior Europeias. No sentido de alcançar esse objetivo de forma explícita, sistemática e sustentada, um protocolo educacional é proposto baseado nas diferentes atividades e resultados obtidos no âmbito do projeto Europeu CRITHINKEDU (Elen et al., 2019) . O protocolo aqui apresentado é o resultado ...
Desafiar alunos, professores e empresas a pensar criticamente os problemas do s...
Cruz, Gonçalo; Dominguez, Caroline; Payan-Carreira, Rita; Nascimento, Maria Manuel; Silva, Helena; Morais, FelicidadeNunca antes foi tão urgente pensar criticamente sobre os problemas reais que nos desafiam enquanto indivíduos, profissionais e cidadãos. A discrepância entre o perfil dos recém-formados e as necessidades do mercado de trabalho, a incapacidade de avaliar falsas notícias, o desconhecimento das nossas heurísticas e vieses cognitivos, entre outros, colocam o desenvolvimento do Pensamento Crítico (PC) como um objeti...
Teaching practice of a mathematics teacher regarding systems of equations
Teixeira, Isabel; Costa, Cecília; Catarino, Paula; Nascimento, Maria ManuelThis study aims to investigate aspects of the teaching practice of a Mathematics teacher, regarding Systems of Equations in the academic year 1989/1990. The data were collected from the official curriculum guidelines, the manual adopted, the daily notebook of a student and the interview made to the teacher. Content analysis and cross-checking were performed. The study considered shows that the teachers’ classes...
Sítio do pica-pau amarelo: a statistical activity in the 2nd cycle of portugues...
Nascimento, Maria Manuel; Paula, Marlúbia de; Catarino, PaulaThis work presents how a 5th year student from a public school in Portugal (ages 10-11) solved statistical holiday homework with the aim of using a daily life context familiar to that student. It is a qualitative approach in order to analyze the activity carried out from the point of view of a pedagogical act and its semiotic approach aspects also. The contribution of this work lies in the fact that the use of ...
Contradicting the “oldman of Restelo”: global analysis and components of the at...
Martins, José Alexandre; Estrada, Assumpta; Nascimento, Maria ManuelThe need to know the attitudes of teachers in relation to Statistics is recognized. Therefore, it’s possible to know better the teachers predisposition and commitment in the teaching and learning processes and also in their training. This study with 1098 teachers of the 1st and 2nd cycle of portuguese basic education focuses on the measurement of attitudes towards Statistics and theirs components by using a tes...
Estudio de las Actitudes hacia la Estadística en Estudiantes de Psicologia
Comas, Carles; Martins, José Alexandre; Nascimento, Maria Manuel; Estrada, AssumptaLa Estadística se ha incorporado en la mayoría de las carreras universitarias y entre ellas en el grado de psicología donde la enseñanza de conceptos estadísticos presenta problemas didácticos específicos debido a que los estudiantes que lo cursan tienen una base matemática muy heterogénea. En este trabajo nos centramos en el estudio de sus actitudes, por su influencia en el proceso de aprendizaje, y las analiz...
LET’S DO IT AGAIN: A SECOND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PORTUGUESE TEACHERS' ATTITU...
Martins, José Alexandre; Nascimento, Maria Manuel; Estrada, Assumpta; Morais, EvaWe 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...