The International Conference BBC'22 aims to provide an opportunity for all academic and non-academics to share their personal experiences and projects, presenting their contributions and getting feedback from other attendees.
The COVID pandemic has touched many aspects of everyone’s life. Education is one of the fields greatly affected by it, as students and teachers were forced to move online and quickly adapt to the online environment. Assessment is a crucial part of education, especially in STEM fields. A gap analysis was performed by expert groups in the frame of an Erasmus+ project looking at the practices of six European count...
The main objective of the present work is to verify if, and in what extent, there is a correlation between gender and grades in a topic that is regarded as a core competence of chemical engineering. This analysis is based on data collected through a questionnaire concerning students’ perceptions. Besides no statistical difference on final student's marks, specific differences were obtained and discussed, namely...
Embracing tertiary education system represents the beginning of a transition and adjustment period for several students. Most of these have just finished high school where the environment is strictly defined, controlled, stable and attendance is mandatory. Higher Education changes the role of students’ responsibility and this can cause stress and difficulty in the transition to selfdirected learning and autonom...
Apesar de todos os cursos de licenciatura da Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo (ESHT) do Politécnico do Porto (P.PORTO) possuírem o termo Gestão nas suas designações, as áreas do Ensino Secundário admitidas para a entrada nestes cursos são as mais variadas, indo de Ciências e Tecnologias às Artes e Humanidades. Verifica-se, assim, que as competências dos estudantes são muito heterogéneas e essa heterogenei...
O modelo de ensino invertido (flipped classroom) tem atraído a atenção da comunidade educacional global, em particular de muitos docentes e investigadores em várias instituições de ensino superior (IES). Este novo esquema organizacional para o paradigma do ensino-aprendizagem, representa a inversão pedagógica do processo académico tradicional. O primeiro contacto dos estudantes com os temas em estudo, é realiza...
Na última década tem-se verificado que com a utilização da inovação tecnológica, o Ensino Superior tem vindo a modificar a forma como transmite e partilha o conhecimento. O aumento do uso de ambientes online, que permite aos estudantes aceder ao conhecimento a qualquer hora e em qualquer lugar, e o uso de outras tecnologias para apoio ao processo de ensino/aprendizagem, geram um grande volume de dados. A partir...
The present work was developed considering the learning assessment vector and linking it to students’ general satisfaction with the engineering course. The key findings show a positive association between students’ general satisfaction and the learning assessment, specifically with the assessment methodologies effectiveness regarding the different subjects taught. Globally,studentsconsidered the assessment meth...
The contemporary skillset of undergraduates includes a degree of sophistication in the application of ICT within their daily lives as well as within the higher education environment. The assumption of the student as a digital native, with the ability to cognitively process information in an ICT focused educational environment, is omnipresent in higher education. It has been suggested this assumption does not ai...
Flipped classroom pedagogy has become popular in several different courses in Higher Educational Institutions (HEI). Important advantages being the increased level of lecturer and student interaction, which can have a strong impact on students’ motivation, engagement, satisfaction and performance. A flipped based experiment was implemented in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 in a Mathematics Course, at the Institute of ...