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Student engagement in Higher Education, age and parental education level
Covas, Filomena; Veiga, F. H.Within the scope of socio-cognitive theories, student engagement in school has been studied as a multidimensional construct. A four-dimensional perspective was adopted, with the dimensions: affective, cognitive, behavioural and agentic. The objective, to analyse how the variables age and parental education relate to student engagement in school. The sample consisted of 715 Portuguese public Higher Education stu...
Envolvimento dos estudantes no ensino superior: análise em função da residência...
Covas, Filomena; Veiga, F. H.A presente pesquisa analisa as diferenças no envolvimento dos estudantes do Ensino Superior, definido como um processo de investimento motivacional na aprendizagem e na escola, em função das variáveis residência e ano académico. A amostra foi constituída por 715 estudantes tendo os dados sido recolhidos através de um inquérito on-line que incluiu a Escala de Envolvimento dos Alunos na Escola, uma Escala Quadri-...
Predictive effect of self-concept in social competence in career: study with 8t...
Nogueira, Marta; Faria, L.; Taveira, M. C.; Veiga, F. H.Social competencies have been identified by the European Commission as one of the most important precursors of prosperity and well-being in its Member States (EU 2005). In fact, social competence is a multidimensional construct, with emotional, cognitive and contextual dimensions (Lemos & Meneses, 2002). It includes interactions between individual characteristics, social demands, and contextual characteristics....