Esta pesquisa tem o intuito de estudar as concepções dos mediadores do museu de ciências - Catavento Cultural e Educacional - acerca do que é a mediação. Nosso interesse se resume em conhecer essas concepções e analisar seus fundamentos. Com isso esperamos apontar possíveis rumos para o processo de formação dos mediadores e de divulgação da ciência com subsídios trazidos por esta pesquisa empírica. Esta investigação foi desenvolvida sob a luz da teoria da Biologia do Conhecer de Humberto Maturana e Francisco Varela a qual considera a explicação como um fenômeno humano e biológico e que só existe quando é aceito pelo observador. Os dados que serviram para análise neste trabalho foram obtidos durante a realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas com os mediadores do museu investigado. Após a coleta dos dados transcrevemos as entrevistas e elaboramos quatro mapas conceituais correspondentes a cada uma delas. Em seguida pedimos para que os entrevistados reconhecessem seu mapa e elaborassem de forma colaborativa um mapa conceitual com a mesma questão focal dos mapas individuais: o que é a mediação no museu de ciências? A partir disso, com ajuda do nosso referencial teórico e dos mapas conceituais, construímos nossas categorias e analisamos as concepções dos mediadores. Os resultados dessa análise revelaram que suas explicações sobre a mediação no museu de ciências possuem uma predominância de concepções embasadas na experiência do viver dentro do espaço museal. Suas distinções sobre o assunto não se valeram de reflexões teóricas, principalmente, daquelas que tratam da comunicação e do ensino nesses espaços, pois a formação acadêmica e a oferecida no museu foram insuficientes. / This research aims to study the conceptions of mediators of the Science museum - Catavento Cultural e Educacional - about what is mediation. Our interest boils down to knowing these views and analyze its foundations. With this we hope to identify possible directions for the process of training of mediators and the dissemination of science with subsidies brought by this empirical research. This research was developed in the light of the theory of Biology of Cognition Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela which considers the explanation as a human and biological phenomenon that exists only when it is accepted by the observer. The data used for analysis in this study were obtained during the performance of semi-structured interviews with the mediators of the museum investigated. After collecting the data, transcribed the interviews and prepare four concept maps corresponding to each of them. Then we ask that respondents recognize your map and draw up collaboratively a single concept map with the same focal issue of individual maps: what is mediation in the science museum? From this, with the help of our theoretical framework and conceptual maps, build our categories and analyzes the concepts of mediators. The results of this analysis revealed that his explanations of mediation in the science museum have a predominance of informed views on the experience of living within the museum space. His distinctions about it not relied on theoretical reflections, mainly those dealing with communication and education in these areas, because the academic and the one offered in the museum were insufficient.

Concept Maps (CMs) are considered a well-known pedagogy technique in creating curriculum, educating, teaching, and learning. Determining comprehension of concepts result from comparisons of candidate CMs against a master CM, and evaluate "goodness". Past techniques for comparing CMs have revolved around the creation of a subjective rubric. We propose a novel CM scoring scheme called MAnanA based on a Fuzzy Similarity Scaling (FSS) score to vastly remove the subjectivity of the rubrics in the process of grading a CM. We evaluate our framework against a predefined rubric and test it with CM data collected from the Introduction to Computer Security course at the University of New Orleans (UNO), and found that the scores obtained via MAnanA captured the trend that we observed from the rubric via peak matching. Based on our evaluation, we believe that our framework can be used to objectify CM analysis.

This paper presents a survey within the framework of teacher education from a textbook analysis activity offered by the National Textbook Program. With this, the aim is to investigate how the process of assigning meaning around the content of Spatial Geometry by academics of course degree in mathematics at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. For this, we used the preparation of conceptual maps (Novak, 1984) as a method for the evaluation of existing concepts in cognitive structure of participants and a screenplay by analysis, which contained the steps of analysis and, finally, a questionnaire with subjective questions about the activity carried out. This work was conducted in the contributions of the theory of meaningful learning (Ausubel, 2003), which defines the meaningful learning as the relationship between the concepts present in the cognitive structure (subsumer) and which will be learned. Besides, sets a potentially significant material as being that able to relate to the prior knowledge of the learner. That way, you want to show to future teachers a educational material cannot be chosen anyway as instructional material, it is necessary to know if your student will be able to learn the desired content through the way it is exposed in the book. With the activity performed, one can show the importance of this conscious choice, since, when research participants drew up a second concept map in order to detect learning met cases where failed to learn from the material which were told to analyze. / Este trabalho apresenta uma pesquisa no âmbito da formação de professores a partir de uma atividade de análise de livros didáticos oferecidos pelo Programa Nacional do Livro Didático. Com isso, busca-se investigar como se dá o processo de atribuição de significado em torno do conteúdo de Geometria Espacial pelos acadêmicos do curso de Licenciatura em Matemática da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Para isso, utilizou-se a elaboração de Mapas Conceituais (Novak, 1984) como método de avaliação dos conceitos existentes na estrutura cognitiva dos participantes e um roteiro de análise, que continha os passos da análise e, por fim, um questionário com perguntas subjetivas sobre a atividade realizada. Este trabalho foi realizado nos aportes da teoria da Aprendizagem Significativa (Ausubel, 2003), que define a aprendizagem significativa como sendo a relação entre conceitos, os presentes na estrutura cognitiva (subsunçores) e os que serão aprendidos. Além do mais, define um material potencialmente significativo como sendo aquele capaz de se relacionar com o conhecimento prévio do aprendiz. Dessa forma, deseja-se mostrar aos futuros professores que um material didático não pode ser escolhido de qualquer maneira como material instrucional, é necessário saber se seu aluno terá condições de aprender o conteúdo desejado através da maneira como está exposto no livro. Com a atividade realizada, pode-se mostrar a importância dessa escolha consciente, visto que, quando os participantes da pesquisa elaboraram um segundo mapa conceitual no intuito de detectar a aprendizagem, encontrou-se casos onde não conseguiram aprender com o material ao qual foram orientados a analisar.

Esta pesquisa tem o intuito de estudar as concepções dos mediadores do museu de ciências - Catavento Cultural e Educacional - acerca do que é a mediação. Nosso interesse se resume em conhecer essas concepções e analisar seus fundamentos. Com isso esperamos apontar possíveis rumos para o processo de formação dos mediadores e de divulgação da ciência com subsídios trazidos por esta pesquisa empírica. Esta investigação foi desenvolvida sob a luz da teoria da Biologia do Conhecer de Humberto Maturana e Francisco Varela a qual considera a explicação como um fenômeno humano e biológico e que só existe quando é aceito pelo observador. Os dados que serviram para análise neste trabalho foram obtidos durante a realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas com os mediadores do museu investigado. Após a coleta dos dados transcrevemos as entrevistas e elaboramos quatro mapas conceituais correspondentes a cada uma delas. Em seguida pedimos para que os entrevistados reconhecessem seu mapa e elaborassem de forma colaborativa um mapa conceitual com a mesma questão focal dos mapas individuais: o que é a mediação no museu de ciências? A partir disso, com ajuda do nosso referencial teórico e dos mapas conceituais, construímos nossas categorias e analisamos as concepções dos mediadores. Os resultados dessa análise revelaram que suas explicações sobre a mediação no museu de ciências possuem uma predominância de concepções embasadas na experiência do viver dentro do espaço museal. Suas distinções sobre o assunto não se valeram de reflexões teóricas, principalmente, daquelas que tratam da comunicação e do ensino nesses espaços, pois a formação acadêmica e a oferecida no museu foram insuficientes. / This research aims to study the conceptions of mediators of the Science museum - Catavento Cultural e Educacional - about what is mediation. Our interest boils down to knowing these views and analyze its foundations. With this we hope to identify possible directions for the process of training of mediators and the dissemination of science with subsidies brought by this empirical research. This research was developed in the light of the theory of Biology of Cognition Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela which considers the explanation as a human and biological phenomenon that exists only when it is accepted by the observer. The data used for analysis in this study were obtained during the performance of semi-structured interviews with the mediators of the museum investigated. After collecting the data, transcribed the interviews and prepare four concept maps corresponding to each of them. Then we ask that respondents recognize your map and draw up collaboratively a single concept map with the same focal issue of individual maps: what is mediation in the science museum? From this, with the help of our theoretical framework and conceptual maps, build our categories and analyzes the concepts of mediators. The results of this analysis revealed that his explanations of mediation in the science museum have a predominance of informed views on the experience of living within the museum space. His distinctions about it not relied on theoretical reflections, mainly those dealing with communication and education in these areas, because the academic and the one offered in the museum were insufficient.

Mapa conceitual (MC) é uma técnica de organização e representação do conhecimento através de uma rede proposicional. Ainda que utilizado no âmbito da educação formal poucos trabalhos mencionam a importância e necessidade da capacitação na técnica para que se possa desfrutar de seus benefícios. Este estudo desenvolveu um instrumento para avaliar o nível de conhecimento de mapeadores após o processo de capacitação em MCs. A tabela de clareza proposicional, o MC semiestruturado e a aprendizagem colaborativa expandida foram três estratégias instrucionais desenvolvidas a fim de permitir que os alunos compreendessem os quatro conceitos centrais do mapeamento conceitual: proposição, questão focal, recursividade e hierarquia. Um questionário (escala Likert 5-níveis) contendo cinco afirmações foi desenvolvido, validado (? de Cronbach 0,902) e aplicado para medir a compreensão dos alunos sobre os MCs. Os questionários (n = 232) foram coletados na última aula da disciplina Ciências da Natureza, oferecida aos alunos ingressantes da Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH/USP Leste) em 2009 e 2010. Quatro turmas receberam treinamento sistemático em MCs (grupo experimental) enquanto uma turma não recebeu o mesmo treinamento (grupo controle). A análise dos dados envolveu o tratamento estatístico de comparação entre médias por teste-t de Student e a estatística multivariada exploratória com métodos de reconhecimento de padrões através das análises hierárquica de agrupamentos (HCA) e de componentes principais (PCA). O resultado do teste-t confirmou que o questionário foi capaz de diferenciar alunos do grupo experimental em relação ao grupo controle. A HCA agrupou os alunos de acordo com seu nível de entendimento em mapeamento conceitual e a PCA, além de corroborar com os resultados da HCA, indicou que o entendimento da clareza semântica de proposições e da importância da pergunta focal são críticos para se tornar proficiente na técnica. / Concept Map (Cmap) is a technique to organize and represent knowledge through a propositional net. Although the fact that concept maps are used in formal education context few papers has mentioned the importance and necessity of a straight-forward training session on the technique, which allow to enjoy its benefits. This study develops an instrument to assess the level of knowledge of mappers after the straight-forward training session. The propositional clarity table, the half structured Cmap and the expanded collaborative learning were the three strategies responsible to guarantee the understanding of four central concepts in conceptual mapping: proposition, focal question, recursivity revision and hierarchy. Five statements\' questionnaire (five-level Likert\'s scale) was developed, validated (Cronbach\'s alpha 0.902) and tested to assess the students\' understanding about Cmaps. Those questionnaires (n = 232) was collected on the last class of Natural Science course offered to first year\'s students of the Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (School of Arts, Science and Humanities - University of São Paulo) in 2009 and 2010. Four classes was systematic trained (experimental group) and one class does not received the same training (control group). The data analysis involved the statistical treatment to comparison between the means by Student\'s t-test and non-supervised exploratory multivariate analysis for pattern recognition by Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The results of t-test confirmed the questionnaire capability to distinguish the students of experimental from control group. HCA clustered the students according to their knowlodge level in concept mapping. PCA not only agree with the HCA results but also demonstrated that the understanding of propositional clarity semantic and the importance of focal question are critical to students that desire to be proficiencies in Cmaps.

Abstract This longitudinal study analyses the differences between the students' concept of health at different stages of basic medical education. The collected data were processed through phenomenographic analysis and qualitative concept map analysis. The purpose of this study was to determine whether medical students adopt the biopsychosocial model of health, and if so, whether that complete model strengthens during their education or students' concept of health changes towards the narrower biomedical model. The research material consists of 720 concept maps drawn by the 274 students who began their education in the fall 2006 at the medical faculties of the Universities of Turku and Oulu. An initial evaluation of medical students' concepts and thinking was performed in the beginning of their first academic year; thereafter, the change of the concepts was followed annually in the spring of the first, third and fifth academic year and finally in the winter of the sixth academic year. This study is part of the longitudinal Learning Medical Expertise (LeMEx) study. The obtained findings show that the students' concept of health became slightly more extensive during the first year of studies. After the first year of clinical studies, the students' concept of health was more biased. Students' concept of health was the most biased after the fifth year of studies. The last summer's health centre work and the studies of the last spring had a positive influence and students' concept became significantly more biopsychosocial. University of Turku students' concept of health was more extensive than that of the University of Oulu students' until the end of the fifth academic year, but the situation was reversed at the end of the education. The significant change towards a more extensive concept in Oulu appears to arise from the changes to the structure and content of some final-year courses. This study revealed some problematic points of basic medical education. The results can be utilized in development of medical education. / Tiivistelmä Tutkin tässä pitkittäistutkimuksessa sitä, miten lääketieteen opiskelijoiden käsitys terveydestä muuttuu lääketieteellisen peruskoulutuksen aikana. Analyyseissa olen käyttänyt fenomenografista lähestymistapaa sekä laadullista käsitekartta-analyysia. Tutkimalla opiskelijoiden käsityksiä ja niiden muutoksia olen halunnut selvittää, omaksuvatko opiskelijat lääketieteellisen koulutuksen keskeisenä tavoitteena olevan biopsykososiaalisen mallin terveydestä ja vahvistuuko tuo kokonaisvaltainen käsitys opintojen edetessä, vai muuttuuko opiskelijoiden käsitys mahdollisesti kohti yksipuolisempaa biolääketieteellistä näkemystä. Tutkimuksen aineiston muodostivat Turun ja Oulun yliopistojen lääketieteellisissä tiedekunnissa vuoden 2006 syksyllä opintonsa aloittaneiden 274:n lääkäriopiskelijan laatimat 720 käsitekarttaa. Ensimmäinen opiskelijoiden ajattelua ja käsityksiä kartoittava kysely toteutettiin heti koulutuksen ensimmäisellä viikolla, jonka jälkeen opiskelijoiden käsitysten muuttumista seurattiin ensimmäisen, kolmannen ja viidennen lukuvuoden keväällä sekä koulutuksen loppuvaiheessa kuudennen lukuvuoden talvella. Tutkimus on osa Learning Medical Expertise (LeMEx) pitkittäistutkimusta. Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että koulutuksen ensimmäinen vuosi muutti opiskelijoiden käsitystä terveydestä hieman laaja-alaisemmaksi. Ensimmäinen kliininen opiskeluvuosi puolestaan muutti opiskelijoiden käsitystä yksipuolisempaan suuntaan. Opiskelijoiden käsitys terveydestä oli yksipuolisimmillaan koulutuksen viidennen lukuvuoden jälkeen. Koulutuksen lopussa tapahtui käänne ja viimeisen kesän terveyskeskustyöskentely sekä koulutuksen viimeinen syksy muuttivat opiskelijoiden käsityksen laaja-alaisempaan suuntaan. Turun yliopiston opiskelijoilla oli oululaisia laaja-alaisempi käsitys terveydestä viidennen lukuvuoden kevääseen asti. Koulutuksen lopussa tilanne kääntyi päinvastaiseksi. Oulussa tapahtuneen selkeän käsitysten laaja-alaistumisen taustalla näyttävät olleen onnistuneet ratkaisut opetussuunnitelmatyössä. Tutkimuksen avulla on löydetty lääketieteellisen peruskoulutuksen sisällön ongelmakohtia. Tuloksia voidaan hyödyntää kehitettäessä lääketieteellistä koulutusta.

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Introduction : Extenso, le centre de référence en nutrition de l’Université de Montréal, a développé les formations Croqu’Plaisir destinées aux intervenants en services de garde à la petite enfance et des nutritionnistes furent sélectionnées afin de les déployer au Québec. Étant donné le volume imposant de nouvelles connaissances à intégrer pour les diététistes-nutritionnistes, l’utilisation d’un outil pédagogique visant à structurer la pensée semblait pertinente. Cette étude avait pour objectif de décrire l’utilisation de cartes conceptuelles par des nutritionnistes formatrices à la petite enfance au Québec. Méthode : Les nutritionnistes formatrices ont assisté à une formation sur les cartes conceptuelles qui leur a permis de développer une carte conceptuelle à l’aide du logiciel CmapTools sur un sujet de leur choix. Puis, leurs perceptions furent recensées lors d'entrevues dirigées et individuelles. Résultats : 8 diététistes-nutritionnistes possédant de 2 à 15 ans d’expérience et ayant animé de 0 à 32 formations Croqu’Plaisir ont participé à l’étude. Les participantes de l’étude ont affirmé être assez autonomes pour utiliser les fonctions de base du logiciel, mais ont vécu des difficultés lors de la conception de leur carte. Conclusion : Plusieurs commentaires des participantes révèlent des barrières à leur utilisation, soit le temps, la résistance au changement et les barrières organisationnelles. Pour que la place des cartes conceptuelles en nutrition se développe et que leur utilisation soit valorisée, un contexte propice à leur utilisation doit être crée, tant d’un point de vue personnel qu’organisationnel, tant en milieu académique que professionnel. / Introduction : Extenso, the nutrition reference center of the Université de Montréal, created the Croqu’Plaisir trainings for the childcare workforce of the province of Quebec. Those training were administered by selected registered-dietitians. Considering the volume of knowledge that had to be assimilated by the dietitians, the use of a thought organising tool became relevant. This study’s main objective was to describe the use of concept maps by Quebec dietitian trainers in early childhood. Method : The dietitians received a training on the use of concept maps that enabled them to create one on a subject of their choosing with the software program CmapTools. Afterwards, their perceptions were collected during an individual and structured interview. Results : 8 dietitians with 2 to 15 years of experience and having given 0 to 32 Croqu’Plaisir trainings participated to the study. The participants were independent enough to basically use CmapTools, but they had some difficulties while creating their concept map. Conclusion : Participant’s comments revealed barriers, such as time, change resistance and organisational barriers. For the place of concept maps to develop in nutrition, it needs a proper context to encourage its use, as much on a personal or organisational level than in an academic or professional environment.

La thèse propose une méthodologie originale permettant de détecter des thèmes potentiels d’innovation et de recherche pouvant conduire à des projets. Cette méthodologie est basée sur la veille et la gestion des connaissances qui sont deux composantes de l’Intelligence Economique. Elle est appliquée à la filière Forêt-Bois-Papier aquitaine et s’appuie sur deux supports informationnels clés de cette filière : la Plateforme Technologique Forêt-Bois-Papier et les COST (European COoperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) « Forest, Products and Services ». Combinant les méthodes de veille et de gestion des connaissances, l’information recueillie et analysée aboutit à la construction de deux cartes cognitives : une carte heuristique et une carte conceptuelle. Ces dernières mettent en évidence des thèmes potentiels c’est-à-dire ceux pouvant faire l’objet d’un projet de recherche et d’innovation. Pour aboutir, ces thèmes potentiels doivent correspondre à des besoins industriels méritant un approfondissement avec les partenaires concernés. La méthode conduit à sélectionner deux thématiques : le revêtement intelligent de surfaces à base de bois et l’utilisation des agro-matériaux dans la construction. Elles aboutissent à la réalisation de trois projets : le projet collaboratif « Smart Wood Coating », le projet COST « Smart and innovating technologies for wood » et le projet collaboratif « Ressource Habitat Evolution Vie (RHEV) ». Il s’agit d’innovations technologiques, les deux premiers projets sont impulsés par la réglementation environnementale et le troisième par la demande sociétale. Cette thèse met en évidence et analyse la manière dont la veille et la gestion des connaissances peuvent catalyser l’innovation. / The thesis proposes an original methodology allowing the detection of potential themes of innovation and research which can lead to projects. This methodology is based on the strategic scanning and the knowledge management which are two components of competitive intelligence. It is applied to the Forest-Wood-Paper sector in Aquitaine and leans on two key informative supports of this sector: the Technology Plateform Forest-Wood-Paper and the COST « Forest, Products and Services ». Combining the methods of strategic scanning and knowledge management, the analyzed information ends in the construction of two cognitive maps: a mind map and a conceptual map. These last ones highlight potential themes, that is: those being able to be the object of a project of research and innovation. To be successful, these potential themes shall deal with industrial needs deserving a deepening with concerned partners. The method leads to select two themes: the intelligent cover of wooden surfaces and the use of agro-materials in the construction, which end in the execution of three projects: the collaborative project « Smart Wood Coating », a COST project « Smart and innovating technologies for wood » and the collaborative project “Housing Resource Evolution Life” (RHEV). All concern technological innovations, the two first ones are determined by environmental regulations and the last one by societal demand. This thesis brings to light and analyzes the way competitive intelligence and knowledge management can catalyze innovation.