Orientador: Maria Cristina Motta de Toledo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T12:44:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Araujo_EliasProfetaRamosde_M.pdf: 6460301 bytes, checksum: 5d1fc49ea63dfc0fb058bd949191d285 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teve como principal objetivo analisar o desenvolvimento de temas de Ciências da Terra em cursos de Ciências Biológicas que habilitam ao ensino de Ciências Naturais na educação básica, a fim de compreender a preparação desses acadêmicos para o ensino de Ciências da Terra, ao assumirem seus cargos de professores, além de propor ações que aprimorem essa formação. No Brasil, os cursos de Ciências Biológicas destinam-se a formar a) profissionais que exercerão atividades técnicas nas áreas biológicas e b) professores de Biologia ou Ciências Naturais. A atual preparação de professores de Ciências Naturais para o ensino fundamental de escolas da cidade de São Paulo, a partir de cursos de Ciências Biológicas de universidades do mesmo município, não se mostra apropriada em conteúdos de Ciências da Terra, conforme resultados desta pesquisa. Os currículos dos cursos de Ciências Biológicas analisados dedicam apenas 1% das suas cargas horárias à disciplina de Geologia, enquanto as provas de conhecimentos específicos, de recentes concursos de admissão de professores para a rede municipal de ensino da citada cidade, realizados pela Fundação Carlos Chagas, nos anos de 2009 e 2011, são compostas por pelo menos 10% de questões relacionadas às Ciências da Terra, além de abordarem também temas de Astronomia, que não são desenvolvidos nos cursos de Ciências Biológicas. Para identificar o conhecimento em Ciências da Terra dos acadêmicos de Ciências Biológicas, foram aplicadas provas com questões relacionadas ao eixo temático Terra e Universo, previsto nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, de Ciências Naturais para o terceiro e quarto ciclos do ensino fundamental, tendo sido essas questões elaboradas durante esta pesquisa e também selecionadas das citadas provas de admissão de professores para a rede de ensino da cidade de São Paulo. O desempenho insatisfatório obtido pelo grupo de universitários nessa prova, de 46,7%, indica conhecimento insuficiente em Ciências da Terra e sugere a revisão dos currículos dos cursos de Ciências Biológicas e dos métodos e planos de ensino das suas disciplinas de Geologia. A preparação ou seleção dos professores universitários de Geologia também merece destaque. Seus conhecimentos não foram avaliados, mas constatou-se que são formados em Geografia ou Biologia, cursos que não possuem, necessariamente, o interesse em preparar professores de Geologia, mas sim profissionais das suas áreas específicas / Abstract: This research aimed to analyze the development of themes of Earth Science in Biological Sciences courses that enable the teaching of Natural Sciences in basic education, in order to understand the academic preparation of these professionals in teaching Earth Sciences, when assuming their positions as teachers, and proposing actions that will improve their training, either. In Brazil, the Biological Sciences courses are intended to form: a) professionals who will be dealing with technical activities in biological areas, b) teachers of Biology and natural sciences. The current preparation of teachers in natural sciences for elementary schools in the city of São Paulo, considering courses of Biology from universities in the same town, considering its contents, is not suitable in terms of Earth Sciences, according to the results of this study. The syllabus of Biological Science analyzed dedicated only 1% of their contents to the Geology subjects, meanwhile, the evidence of expertise in recent selections for teacher's admission in public schools in this city, conducted by Carlos Chagas Foundation in 2009 and 2011 involved at least 10% of questions related to Earth Sciences, and also focused on Astronomy, which are not a part of Biological Science courses. In order to identify the applicants' knowledge in Earth Sciences, they were asked to answer questions about thematic issues related to the earth and the universe, set out in the "PCN's" - The National Curriculum Parameters of Natural Sciences for the third and fourth cycles of basic education, and these questions were elaborated while this research was being developed, being also selected from the previous mentioned test of selection of new teachers to the school employment system in the city of São Paulo. The poor performance obtained by the group of university students evaluated was 46.7%, indicating insufficient knowledge in Earth Sciences and suggesting a revision of the Biological Science syllabus and also in the teaching plans and methodologies of their subjects in Geology, indeed. The training and selection of university professors of Geology is also relevant. Their levels of expertise weren't evaluated, but it's a fact they have got degrees in Geography or Biology courses, in which there aren't any interest in preparing teachers of Geology, but professionals in their specific areas / Mestrado / Ensino e Historia de Ciencias da Terra / Mestre em Ensino e Historia de Ciencias da Terra

Technology enhancements of the past two decades have not successfully overcome the problem of low motivation in Kindergarten through Grade 12 (K-12). Motivation and math achievement have been identified as major factors contributing to the high school dropout problem (30-50% in traditional/online programs). The impact of extrinsic rewards on achievement and the dropout problem, however, remains a subject of debate. This dissertation seeks first to address this debate, through an investigation of reward system effectiveness in the blended learning environment, on at-risk students with varied intrinsic motivation factor scores. Next, the dissertation explores the importance of fit between students' reward perceptions and reward values when motivating student progress. To this end, the author has developed a new 6-factor motivation orientation model for students in blended learning environments, and a learner-configurable progress-based reward system (PBR) for Learner Content Management Systems (LCMS) based on this model. The hypothesized model was tested for fit with a sample of 353 at-risk high school math students in Miami, Florida. The PBR was developed based upon the findings from interviews with subject matter experts and students, factor and regression analyses used to test hypotheses about learner motivation and predict learner progress. Conclusions from the study informed the design of an integrated PBR. A 6-factor motivation orientation model was found to explain more of the variance (74%) in student motivation than earlier models. Contrary to Deci et al. (1999), hypothesis test results did not confirm adversarial extrinsic rewards/intrinsic motivation relationships. Furthermore, consistent with person-environment fit theory, learners demonstrated superior progress and achievement when extrinsic reward perceptions and values were well aligned. With critical input from flexible learning theorists, teachers, and students, the emerging PBR design may ultimately be integrated through mobile learning applications and social media, within LCMS solutions such as Blackboard, and systems commonly used in K-12, such as Apex. Although beyond the scope of the dissertation, the emerging Web-based design promises to play an important role in engaging a K-12 Community of Practice (CoP), consisting of telecommunications partners, game developers, retailers, and education stakeholders sharing a significant interest in future innovations that address the dropout problem.

With an increasingly technological and competitive world economy, more jobs require employees to have achieved the advanced skills and knowledge gained only through postsecondary education. The data regarding the supply and demand between the workforce and higher education present a challenge for community college technical programs. These are the programs charged training the new workforce. An effort to increase the persistence and three-year graduation rate for technical students is one of Tarrant County College District's initiatives to prepare students for the workforce. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine factors that contribute to the three-year graduation rates of students enrolled in technical programs at the Northwest Campus of the Tarrant County College District. A quantitative survey approach was selected for this study targeting 191 technical students. The results of this study showed that females, who had established a degree plan and declared a major during the first two semesters at the urban community college campus under study, graduated in three years. The graduation rates for males in this study were lower than for females. Also, technical students who were 18 to 35 years old were more likely to graduate. Students who did not complete a degree plan in the first two semesters did not graduate in the three-year time frame. For the 77 respondents, students were more likely to graduate if they declared a major and established a degree plan. Implications for practice and recommendations for further study are provided.

Advanced Placement and dual credit programs are designed for high school students and are used to earn college credit and possibly gain college admissions advantages. The present research examined the impact of participation in one or both programs on four-year college graduation rates. Findings indicated significant differences between the programs as well as with students who did not participate in either program. Students in AP achieved the highest four-year graduation rate, followed by students in dual credit, both programs, and neither program. These findings indicate the need for further study to determine whether the programs substantially contribute to four-year graduation rates and what the implications are.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:24:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Carla Botelho.pdf: 495852 bytes, checksum: 0c1b8f4e028e6abea87634bc02d93236 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-05 / This dissertation had as main objective to analyze the Brazilian academic productions, through its post-graduation, on the subject aphasia. Based on Foucault`s thought a classification of the statements in four discursive formations was accomplished: the organicistic-biomedical, the neurolinguistic, the discursive-enunciative linguistic, and the humanistic. In the organicistic-biomedical formation there is a vision focused on the localization principle, revealing an interest in studying the brain-language relation as regarding the cortical substratum of this. The discursive neurolinguistic formation arises as a criticism to the supposed reductionism of the organicistic-biomedical formation, through a holistic conception, claiming that the complex mental phenomena are resultant of the whole brain activity. On the other hand, in the enunciative-discursive linguistic formation there is a lesser concern with the language structure, the syntax, the morphology and the phonetics, than with the sociolinguistic context and the subjects involved. Finally, in the humanistic formation the subject of the language is valued in their respective singularity and in their sociocultural and familiar environment. In the methodological aspect, a documentary study of the abstracts of fifty Master`s degree dissertations and nine doctorate thesis, produced in the years of 1987 to 2003, among several universities from Brazil. The Coordination for Superior Level Personnel Perfecting (Capes) online theses database was used. In regard to the knowledge areas, it there was a larger numerical prominence in the areas of Linguistics, Letters and Arts, followed by Health Science and Human Science. The prominent subjects were the Linguistics, the Phoniatrics and the Applied Linguistics, emphasizing, respectively, the enunciative linguistic, the neurolinguistic and the humanist discursive formations. Moreover, these productions were more prevalent in universities located in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. This work might bring a multidisciplinar contribution, for it interests the phoniatricians, doctors, linguists, psychologists, pedagogues, social scientists, as much in regarding an archaeology of knowledge and making science, as for the contents on aphasia, to slide among several areas of knowledge / Esta dissertação teve. como objetivo principal. analisar as produções acadêmicas brasileiras de pós-graduação, sobre o tema afasia. Fundamentando-se no pensamento foucaultiano houve uma classificação dos enunciados em quatro formações discursivas: a organicista-biomédica, a neurolingüística, a lingüística enunciativo-discursiva e a humanista. Na formação organicista-biomédica há uma visão focada na teoria localizacionista, revelando um interesse em estudar a relação cérebro-linguagem, no que diz respeito ao seu substrato cortical. A formação discursiva neurolingüística surge como crítica ao suposto reducionismo da formação organicista-biomédica, através de uma concepção holística, postulando que os fenômenos mentais complexos são resultantes da atividade de todo o cérebro. Por sua vez, na formação lingüística enunciativo-discursiva, existe uma preocupação menor com a estruturalidade da língua, a sintaxe, a morfologia e a fonética, do que com o contexto sociolingüístico e os sujeitos envolvidos. Finalmente, na formação humanista, o sujeito da linguagem é valorizado na respectiva singularidade e no seu ambiente sociocultural e familiar. No aspecto metodológico, ocorreu um estudo documental dos resumos de cinqüenta e uma dissertações de Mestrado e nove teses de Doutorado, produzidas nos anos de 1987 a 2003, em várias universidades do Brasil. Foi utilizado o banco de teses online da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes). No tocante às áreas de conhecimento, houve um maior destaque numérico nas áreas de Lingüística, Letras e Artes, seguido pelas Ciências da Saúde e Ciências Humanas. As disciplinas proeminentes foram a Lingüística, a Fonoaudiologia e a Lingüística Aplicada enfatizando, respectivamente, formações discursivas lingüísticas, enunciativo- discursivas, neurolingüísticas e humanistas. Além disso, estas produções apresentaram-se mais prevalentes em universidades localizadas no eixo Rio-São Paulo. Este trabalho pode trazer uma contribuição interdisciplinar, pois interessa a fonoaudiólogos, médicos, lingüistas, psicólogos, pedagogos, cientistas sociais, tanto no sentido de uma arqueologia do saber e do fazer ciência, como pelo conteúdo sobre afasia, a deslizar entre várias áreas do conhecimento

Orientador: Francisco Hashimoto / Banca: Luiz Antonio Nogueira Martins / Banca: Wilka Coronado Antunes Dias / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a prevalência de estresse no estudante de Medicina. A Faculdade de Medicina de Marília (FAMEMA) foi escolhida por utilizar, desde 1997, no lugar do método tradicional, uma nova metodologia de ensino, a Aprendizagem Baseada em Problemas (ABP). Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram quatrocentos e treze estudantes, do ano de 2003, equivalente a 87,5% dos estudantes matriculados naquele ano. Foi aplicado o Inventário de Sintomas de Stress para Adultos de Lipp aos sujeitos da pesquisa durante os meses de abril a outubro de 2003. Observou-se a presença de estresse em 57,83% dos estudantes. A prevalência de estresse foi menor nos estudantes do primeiro ano em relação aos estudantes dos demais anos, e essas diferenças foram estatisticamente significantes. A prevalência de estresse foi maior no gênero feminino em relação ao masculino (p < 0,05). Nos estudantes que apresentaram estresse, 63,71% apresentaram predominância de sintomas psíquicos, 24,05% de sintomas físicos e 12,24% sem predominância. Nos estudantes que apresentaram estresse, 88,19% encontravam-se na fase de resistência, 4,64% na fase de alerta, 5,06% na fase de quase exaustão e 2,11% na fase de exaustão. Esses resultados sugerem que o curso médico é um agente estressor, mesmo numa faculdade que utiliza em seu currículo a ABP e, também, que há uma associação maior entre o estresse e o gênero feminino. Os resultados obtidos nesta pesquisa fazem considerar a necessidade de repensar o ensino médico, dando condições ao estudante de aprender a lidar com o estresse causado pelo curso, pois a maioria dos estudantes ainda se encontra na fase de resistência, portanto, sem uma doença instalada. / Abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of stress among medical students of the Faculdade de Medicina de Marília (FAMEMA). This institution was chosen as it utilizes the Problem Based Learning (PBL) method of teaching, instead of the traditional one since 1997. The research subjects were four hundred and thirteen students, equivalent to 87.5% of all registered the students in 2003. Between April and October of this year was applied to the research subjects the Lipp's Inventory of Symptoms of Stress for Adults. It was observed the presence of stress on 57.83% the students. The prevalence of stress was minor in the sophomore students in relations to those of the other years, and these differences were significant. The prevalence of stress was higher on the female genus comparing to the male genus (p < 0.05). Of the students that presented stress 63.71% presented predominance of psychic symptoms, 24.05% physical symptoms, and 12.24% with no predominance. On the students that presented stress, 88.19% were on the resistance phase, 4.64% on the alert phase, 5.06% on the almost exhausted phase and 2.11% on the exhausted phase. These results suggest that the medical course is a stressor agent; even in a College that utilizes on its curriculum the PBL, as well as there is an association between the stress and the female genus. The results obtained in this research make us to considerer the possibility of acting on the medical teaching, giving conditions for the student to learn to struggle with the stress caused by the course, as the majority of the students still are on the resistance phase, consequently, without an installed disease. / Mestre

Despite an increasing demand for college graduates skilled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") fields, a substantial number of students who choose these majors leave after taking their first-year "gateway" math and science coursework. Research has shown GPA to be a salient predictor of persistence in STEM majors: Students who earn high grades in gateway courses are more likely to continue, and those who earn low grades are more likely to leave. However, a small number of students defy that expectation: Despite a low gateway course GPA, they persist not just to the sophomore year but all the way to graduation. The purpose of this study was to determine what other experiences, motivations, or attributes aside from academic performance influence these students to persist. A qualitative approach was taken with the use of semi-structured interviews, which provided a means for analysis based on insights directly from students. An invitation was sent to a cohort of graduating math and science majors at a large public institution, and 10 eligible volunteers were chosen to participate. A thematic analysis was conducted to seek common themes in the students' interviews regarding their experiences in their gateway coursework, their feelings towards their chosen major, their beliefs about their academic proficiency, their motivations for continuing in their major, and other prominent characteristics they attributed to their persistence. Five themes were found: Ambition, dedication, achievement, culture shock, and resilience. Of the five themes, four are attributes of the students themselves: Ambition, dedication, achievement, and resilience. The fifth, culture shock, is something that happened to them, although it does contain information about the students insofar as how they handled the situation. The end result was the identification of a specific group of students: High achievers majoring in math and science who are self-driven and independent, as well as confident in their abilities. A student fitting this profile is likely to persist in a math or science major despite any initial setbacks they may endure in the first year of coursework. In terms of application, institutions can implement initiatives for incoming freshmen to orient them to their STEM majors and guide them in understanding the attitudes, motivations, and practices that will help them succeed.

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Nationally an estimated 41% of traditional students who begin seeking an undergraduate degree do not persist through degree attainment. Guided by Tinto's theory of student departure and the theory of social integration, the purpose of this study was to identify the reasons students withdrew from college prior to degree completion. A qualitative case-study design was implemented, and 13 former college enrollees were purposefully selected for individual semistructured interviews. The students graduated from one high school in the Southeastern United States. Data analysis was conducted using open coding procedures with iterative recategorization to identify key themes. Findings indicated that inadequate preparation, lack of guidance, and ineffectual support structure as high school students contributed to subsequent early withdrawal from college. As former college enrollees, participants identified mandatory enrollment in remedial courses, lack of maturity, and a lack of nonacademic support services as causes that led to early withdrawal. Based on these findings, leading recommendations for high schools include providing more rigorous coursework and higher academic expectations. Recommendations for colleges and universities include strengthening academic and social support systems for first-year students. These results may encourage high school leaders and educators to design and implement strategies to improve college readiness initiatives, retention programs, and support services in institutions of higher education.

Abstract Improving the academic success and graduation rates of African-American males has been a major focus of both scholars and practitioners in the United States. Locally, African-American males at an urban Title 1 school were experiencing the lowest grade point averages, American College Test scores, and graduation rates in the district. In response to these academic declines, this study focused on the tenets of Bechtol's sports participation theory, which holds that students who play sports experience greater academic achievement and adult success in life. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between total hours of high school athletics participation and earned GPAs for African-American male students at the school under study for 1 academic year and across each term (4) of the school year. A correlational research design was used to identify if a relationship existed between hours of sports participation and the GPAs of African-American male student-athletes from the 2012 ' 2013 school year (N = 36). The results of the 5 Pearson correlation analyses indicated no statistically significant relationship between the total hours African-American male student-athletes spent participating in sports and their GPAs. The sample size was a limitation of the study design, therefore it was recommended to conduct the investigation with a larger sample size. The results of the study prompted the design of a professional development program for local administrators, faculty, and staff called Championing Higher Achievement Matriculation, Preparation, and Success for Student Athletes (CHAMPS). The CHAMPS program prepares school personnel to more effectively mentor, coach, tutor, and teach African-American male student-athletes. The program can improve the quality of education that can serve as the stimulus for social change through improved educational outcomes for African-American male student athletes.