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Training Critical Thinking and Decision-Making Using SWOT Matrices
Payan-Carreira, Rita; Silva, Ruben; Rebelo, Hugo; Sebastião, LuisThe SWOT analysis, originally a strategic planning tool used in business, has been spread into different contexts, namely as a pedagogical approach to inculcate critical thinking skills, enabling individuals to better assess situations and make informed decisions. The SWOT matrix can be a useful tool for training informed decision-making and strengthen students critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills...
Changes in critical thinking using a blended curriculum in a veterinary gynecol...
Payan-Carreira, Rita; Sacau, Ana; Silva, Ruben; Rebelo, Hugo; Sebastião, LuisThe Think4Jobs Project aimed to integrate critical thinking (CT) into apprenticeships and courses, focusing on assessing changes in CT skills and dispositions. In the second term of the 2022/23 academic year, in the Gynecology, Andrology, and Obstetrics course within the Veterinary Medicine Master’s Programme at the University of Évora, a CT blended curriculum was developed, engrained in case-based strategies a...
CHANGES IN CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND DISPOSITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE IMPLEM...
Payan-Carreira, Rita; Sacau, Ana; Ferreira, David; Rebelo, Hugo; Sebastião, LuisThis paper reports on the implementation and evaluation of critical thinking (CT) blended curricula in three courses of a Veterinary Medicine Programme, as part of the Think4Jobs Project (https://think4jobs.uowm.gr/). The project aimed to foster CT development through discipline-specific interventions and assess their impact on students' CT skills and dispositions. During the 2022/23 academic year, three course...
CRITICAL THINKING IN VETERINARY MEDICINE EDUCATION: PERCEPTIONS OF VETERINARIAN...
Rebelo, Hugo; Cristóvão, Ana; Sebastião, Luis; Payan-Carreira, RitaThe transition from higher education to the professional environment remains a critical phase for new graduates, particularly in fields that require both technical expertise and strong decision-making abilities, such as Veterinary Medicine. Recent research highlights a persistent skills gap between what students develop in university programs and what employers expect from entry-level professionals. Among the k...
Co-design creation of Critical Thinking embedded activities in clinical courses
Payan-Carreira, Rita; Simões, Margarida; Máximo, Margarida; Rebelo, Hugo; Sebastião, LuisThe existence of a skills’ gap in graduates at day 1 compared to the needs of the labour market is often mentioned. Typically, those gaps revolve around communication, collaboration and teamwork, problem-solving, and critical thinking (CrT) (Vista 2020; Thornhill-Miller et al. 2023). In the workplace context, CrT is essential for problem-solving, decision-making, and innovation. In the field of health sciences,...
Enhancing Critical Thinking: Exploring the Impact of Blended Learning on Veteri...
Payan-Carreira, Rita; Sacau, Ana; Ferreira, David; Rebelo, Hugo; Sebastião, LuisThe Think4Jobs Project, available at https://think4jobs.uowm.gr/, aimed to introduce blended curricula focusing on critical thinking (CT) into apprenticeships and courses, and to evaluate the resulting changes in CT skills and dispositions (Rebelo et al., 2023). This initiative targeted the enhancement of critical thinking alongside the core knowledge proposed for the courses. In the academic year 2022/23, thre...
Business-University collaboration in designing Work-based experiences.
Payan-Carreira, Rita; Rebelo, Hugo; Sebastião, Luis; Máximo, MargaridaSome authors have claimed that a gap exists between the competences presented by university students at graduation and the needs of the labor market organizations. Albeit previous studies suggest that, in recent times, students have been prepared with growing amounts of knowledge (cognitive skills) and technical abilities, but it seems that they still falter with respect of some crucial soft skills. Critical th...
Alteração das competências de Pensamento Crítico em alunos de disciplinas pilot...
Payan-Carreira, Rita; Sacau, Ana; Ferreira, David; Rebelo, Hugo; Sebastião, LuisO "Projeto Think4Jobs" propôs-se implementar currículos mistos de pensamento crítico (PCr) e avaliar os seus reflexos nas capacidades e disposições de PCr dos estudantes. Numa fase inicial do projeto organizaram-se grupos focais para reunir as opiniões de alunos, professores e profissionais (jovens e seniores) sobre as competências de PCr à entrada do mercado do trabalho. Com base nas capacidades e disposições ...
THINK4JOBS Critical Thinking blended apprenticeships curricula
Mäkiö, Juho; Mäkiö, Elena; Pnevmatikos, Dimitriοs; Christodoulou, Panagiota; Payan Carreira, Rita; Georgiadou, Triantafyllia; Lithoxoidou, AngelikiThe current Report namely, the third Intellectual Output (IO3) describes 12 Critical Thinking (CT) blended apprenticeships curricula. The development of these curricula was enabled and enhanced through the training that was carried out for Higher Education (HE) Instructors and Labour Market Organisation (LMO) Tutors (IO2). In this training, the participants learned how to promote, develop, support, and assess c...
Faria de Vasconcelos and the New Education in Natural Sciences
Bonito, Jorge; Sebastião, LuisAdolphe Ferrière says the School at Bierges-les-Wavre, founded by the Portuguese educator Faria de Vasconcelos, in 1912, fulfilled 28 of the 30 programmatic points of the New Education movement. Thus, the figure of Faria de Vasconcelos is established as a pillar of this movement of pedagogical renewal that swept the educational panorama like a hurricane in the Western world in the first quarter of the 20th cent...