The purpose of this study was to compare the relationship between the American College Test (ACT) sub-test scores, nursing courses' grade point average, college cumulative grade point average and the State Board Test Pool Examination (SBTPE) sub-test scores. Data from 227 nurses were analyzed utilizing three procedures: Pearson product-moment coefficient; multiple correlation coefficient; and linear regression equations. Conclusions were that several ACT sub-test scores could yield useful information on admission; the college cumulative grade point average was the most reliable indicator of success on the SBTPE; and an ACT composite score of eleven was the minimum value required to pass the SBTPE sub-tests with a score of at least 350.

This study compared data related to National Board Certification (NBC) of mathematics teachers in a South Florida school district. Data included 1,162 student scores on the 2014 AP Calculus AB exam, student gender, student grade level, and eligibility for free or reduced price lunch (FRL) status. Teachers completed the Standards' Beliefs Instrument (SBI) (Zollman & Mason, 1992) to determine alignment of their beliefs with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards. Interviews were conducted with five NBC mathematics teachers to understand how they incorporate best mathematics teaching practices in their daily instruction. A t-test analysis revealed that students taught by NBC teachers scored significantly higher (M = 3.70) on the AP Calculus AB Exam than those taught by non-NBCTs (M = 2.74); Cohen's d (.6429) indicated a moderately large effect size. No causation is to be implied; various confounding factors may also contribute to the variance in student scores. Three factorial ANOVA tests were performed to test interaction effects. Two significant interaction effects were detected: (1) NBCT status and student grade level; and (2) NBCT status and student FRL (free and reduced price lunch) status. No significant interaction was found between NBCT status and student gender. With a reliability estimate using Cronbach's alpha, a second t-test was conducted. A statistically significant difference was found regarding the mean scores of NBCTs and non-NBCTs regarding their beliefs according to the vision of the NCTM. NBCTs generally have practices that align more with the NCTM mathematics teaching standards. Interviews with five NBC teachers of AP Calculus provided rich qualitative descriptions of their teaching philosophies, approaches, and best practices contributing to student success. The results of this study reinforce evidence from previous research that the process of obtaining the NBC contributes to a teacher's professional expertise and is related to student success; however, since there may be other confounding factors related to teachers, students, and their schools, the NBC cannot be considered the sole factor contributing to student success in AP coursework and exams. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-04T11:45:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adilson_Luizao.pdf: 1232176 bytes, checksum: 44317ff4256a02b3709927fd010d3b1c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-09-13 / Facing the need and interest, of the accounting class, in protecting the quality of rendered service by professionals of the area, the Federal Accounting Board (Conselho Federal de Contabilidade CFC) created a Capacity Exam required to obtain the Public Certification in the Regional Accounting Board (Conselho Regional de Contabilidade CRC). The Federal Accounting Board established the contents requested for the Capacity Exam aiming at the demands of the working market. This research is focused on verifying the adequacy among the syllabuses of universities which offer Accounting courses in the city of S??o Paulo. Tabulating the answers of the questionnaire sent to all the universities which offer Accounting courses in the city of S??o Paulo, it was verified an adequacy among the accounting courses syllabuses and the contents of the Capacity Exam. In this way, the objective of the research was achieved through the contribution which result is the study of this topic. / Diante da necessidade e interesse da classe cont??bil de resguardar a qualidade dos servi??os prestados pelos profissionais da ??rea cont??bil, o Conselho Federal de Contabilidade - CFC, criou o Exame de Sufici??ncia. A aprova????o neste Exame ?? condi????o indispens??vel para a obten????o do registro profissional nos Conselhos Regionais de Contabilidade - CRC's. O CFC estabeleceu o conte??do program??tico a ser exigido na realiza????o do Exame de Sufici??ncia partindo da premissa de que tais conte??dos seriam os adequados para atender ao quanto ?? solicitado pelo mercado de trabalho. Este trabalho de pesquisa est?? centrado na verifica????o da adequa????o entre as grades curriculares do Exame de Sufici??ncia e das grades curriculares das Institui????es de Ensino Superior que oferecem o Curso de Ci??ncias Cont??beis, dentro do munic??pio de S??o Paulo. Atrav??s de question??rio enviado a todas as Institui????es de Ensino Superior - IES - do munic??pio de S??o Paulo que oferecem o Curso de Ci??ncias Cont??beis, verificou-se se havia uma adequa????o entre as grades curriculares dos cursos de Ci??ncias Cont??beis com o conte??do program??tico do Exame de Sufici??ncia, o que restou plenamente comprovado ao final da an??lise das respostas apresentadas. Desta forma o objetivo da pesquisa foi atendido atrav??s desta contribui????o ao estudo do presente tema.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-13T11:44:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Aparecido de Araujo.pdf: 1727976 bytes, checksum: 57f211d3d15a5185ec09108366336d53 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-13T11:44:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Aparecido de Araujo.pdf: 1727976 bytes, checksum: 57f211d3d15a5185ec09108366336d53 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-10-25 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The objective of this study is to analyze the history exams for admission to public secondary education in São Paulo in the 1950s and 1960s, a period marked by struggles to expand access to free secondary education, while legal determinations imposed the obligation of admission examinations as a single means of entering junior high school. It analyzes which historical knowledge was selected so that part of the students had the right to enter the gymnasium sand how the evaluation system was constituted and its power to determine the primary level curriculum regarding contents and teaching methods. It uses as sources curricular and didactic manuals used as preparatory to the exams, published and commercialized by several publishers of the period for the 4th and 5th year of primary education, besides the own exams of History elaborated by several official institutions of the state for entrance to these condary education, especially the São Paulo State College, known as the State's first public high school. The procedures of analysis of the documentation have as the oretica references works by André Chervel, Gimeno Sacristán, David Hamilton and Ivor Goodson who discuss questions about curriculum and school subjects, by Circe Bittencourt about the teaching of the discipline of History and especially of text books, as well Alain Choppin / O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar os exames de História para a admissão ao curso secundário público em São Paulo nas décadas de 1950 e 1960, época marcada por lutas pela ampliação do acesso ao ensino secundário gratuito, ao mesmo tempo em que determinações legais impunham a obrigatoriedade da aprovação nos exames admissionais como um único meio de ingresso aos cursos ginasiais. Entender como os conhecimentos históricos eram selecionados para que parte dos alunos tivesse o direito de ingresso aos ginásios; e como se constituiu o sistema avaliativo e seu poder de determinar o currículo do nível primário, no que diz respeito aos conteúdos e métodos de ensino. Foram utilizados, como fontes de pesquisa, programas curriculares e livros didáticos utilizados como preparatórios para os exames, publicados e comercializados por diversas editoras do período para os 4º e 5º anos do ensino primário, além dos próprios exames de História elaborados por diversas instituições oficiais do estado para ingresso ao ensino secundário, em especial o Colégio Estadual São Paulo, conhecido como a primeira instituição de ensino secundário público do Estado. Os procedimentos de análise da documentação têm como referenciais teóricos trabalhos de André Chervel, Gimeno Sacristán e David Hamilton, que discutem questões acerca do currículo e das disciplinas escolares; e de Circe Bittencourt a respeito do ensino da disciplina de História, e especialmente dos livros didáticos, assim como Alain Choppin

Adopting both qualitative and quantitative approaches with a strong element of triangulation, the present research aimed to investigate the issues of reticence and anxiety in oral English classroom-learning and testing situations at the tertiary level in Mainland China. / Following the ground work phase, the main study, which was divided into two phases, got underway. In the first phase, a 124-item survey was distributed to approximately 570 first-year undergraduate non-English majors at three different proficiency levels at Tsinghua University; 547 valid questionnaires were processed. In the second phase, three English language classes (one from each different proficiency group) were selected for the case study which continued for the full term: the students were required to write reflective journals with one entry per week for six consecutive weeks, the teachers were asked to observe and keep a weekly record of the students' reticence and anxiety in classroom activities during the whole term, the three classes were observed and video-taped twice, 7 students from each group and their teachers were invited for semi-structured interviews, and the final oral English test given to the students was observed and video-taped. / The large-scale survey was analyzed using SPSS 11.00---descriptive statistics, reliability, correlation, factor analysis, t-test, and ANOVA to examine students' self-reported reticence and anxiety and their relationships with other variables such as students' self-rated English proficiency. The journals, interviews, and observations were subjected to a thematic content analysis to explore students' reticence and anxiety during oral English lessons and tests, and identify factors underlying reticence and anxiety in oral English classroom-learning and testing situations as well as corresponding coping strategies adopted by the participants. / The major findings were: (1) a considerable number of students self-reported and were observed to be reticent and nervous during oral English lessons and tests. The more proficient students tended to be less reticent and anxious, (2) the more reticent student tended to be more anxious during oral English lessons and tests, (3) reticence and anxiety negatively affected students' performance in oral English, (4) student reticence and anxiety varied from activity to activity in the classroom and changed during both the term and final oral English test, (5) multiple factors contributed to student reticence and anxiety during oral English lessons and tests, (6) the majority of the participants felt helpless about student reticence and anxiety. Most teachers and students were not aware of how to effectively cope with them, and (7) reticence and anxiety interacted with each other in both situations. Based on these findings, certain pedagogical implications were discussed to reduce students' reticence and anxiety in oral English classroom-learning and testing situations, thus enhancing the teaching and learning of oral English in Mainland China. In addition to contributing to the overall literature of research on reticence and anxiety in Chinese and FL learning contexts, the present research revealed some areas for future research. / Liu Meihua. / "July 2005." / Adviser: Jane Jackson. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0167. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-360). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

A dengue à transmitida por mosquitos hematÃfagos do gÃnero Aedes das espÃcies aegypti e albopictus. O vÃrus dengue (DENV) pertence à famÃlia Flaviviridae do gÃnero FlavivÃrus e possui quatro sorotipos que foram designados como: DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 e DENV-4. A doenÃa pode manifestar-se como uma enfermidade infecciosa aguda, caracterizada por um amplo espectro clÃnico que varia desde formas de infecÃÃo assintomÃtica ou febre indiferenciada atà as formas graves, com hemorragia e/ou choque. Este estudo apresentou como objetivo descrever os aspectos epidemiolÃgicos, clÃnicos e laboratoriais de pacientes com suspeita de dengue atendidos no Hospital SÃo Josà de DoenÃas Infecciosas (HSJ) e no Hospital Nossa Senhora da ConceiÃÃo (HDNSC) no perÃodo de fevereiro a dezembro de 2010. Dessa forma, foram recrutados 93 pacientes, sendo que, 86 preencheram os critÃrios de inclusÃo. Os pacientes foram recrutados por busca ativa nas emergÃncias e nas enfermarias dos referidos hospitais e submetidos a um protocolo de acompanhamento por meio de uma ficha de avaliaÃÃo clÃnica inicial (1 ao 5Âdia de doenÃa) e de uma ficha de avaliaÃÃo subsequente (6 ao 7 dia de doenÃa). Foram realizadas pelo menos duas mensuraÃÃes de hematÃcrito, plaquetas, alÃm de exames bioquÃmicos e exames especÃficos para dengue. Os sinais e os sintomas mais prevalentes nos pacientes com suspeita de dengue foram: febre, cefaleia e mialgia. Vinte e cinco pacientes (29%) apresentavam manifestaÃÃes hemorrÃgicas espontÃneas, sendo que, as hemorragias cutÃneas (petÃquias e equimoses) foram as mais encontradas (15%). Quando avaliada a populaÃÃo feminina em idade reprodutiva, 6% apresentaram metrorragia. A prova do laÃo foi realizada em 80 pacientes, sendo positiva em 20 pacientes (25%). Dos 86 pacientes, 48 (55,8%) foram positivos para dengue por pelo menos uma das tÃcnicas: imunocromatografia NS1 (16%), RT-PCR (19%), ELISA IgM (44%), imunocromatografia IgM (42%) e ELISA NS1 (27%). O vÃrus dengue foi detectado em 16 pacientes, sendo, DENV-1 em 1 paciente (6,2%), DENV-2 em 14 pacientes (87,5%) e DENV-3 em 1 paciente (6,2%). Vinte e seis pacientes (54,1%) preencheram os critÃrios do MinistÃrio da SaÃde (MS) de Dengue ClÃssica (DC), 10 (20,8%) de Febre HemorrÃgica de Dengue (FHD) e 12 (25%) de Dengue com ComplicaÃÃo (DCC). A relaÃÃo entre sexo feminino e masculino foi de aproximadamente 1,1/1, com predomÃnio maior de adultos jovens. Quanto ao critÃrio de gravidade do MS, 60% dos casos suspeitos de dengue foram classificados como grau II e nenhum caso como grau IV. Dos critÃrios de extravasamento plasmÃtico preconizado pelo MS, a hipoalbuminemia esteve presente em 5 pacientes (10,4%). A queda do hematÃcrito acima de 20% apÃs hidrataÃÃo foi observada em apenas 4 pacientes (8,3%). No perÃodo do estudo, foram diagnosticados dois pacientes com dengue e leptospirose, sendo que um paciente complicou com pÃrpura trombocitopÃnica idiopÃtica, esses pacientes tiveram evoluÃÃo benigna. Portanto salientamos a necessidade de um diagnÃstico precoce, antes do desenvolvimento das manifestaÃÃes graves, de polÃticas de erradicaÃÃo do Aedes e da estruturaÃÃo de um serviÃo de referÃncia. / Dengue is transmitted by blood-sucking mosquitoes of the species of the genus Aedes aegypti and albopictus. Dengue virus (DENV) belongs to the genus Flavivirus of the Flaviviridae family and has four serotypes that were designated as: DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4. The disease can manifest as an acute infectious disease characterized by a wide clinical spectrum ranging from asymptomatic forms of infection or undifferentiated fever to severe forms, with bleeding and / or shock. This study had as objective to describe the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory features of patients with suspected dengue fever treated at the St Joseph Hospital of Infectious Diseases (HSJ) and the Hospital Nossa Senhora da ConceiÃÃo (HDNSC) in the period from February to December 2010. Thus, we recruited 93 patients, 86 met the inclusion criteria. Patients were recruited by an active search in emergencies and in the ward of these hospitals and underwent a follow-up protocol through an initial clinical evaluation form (from day 1 to day 5 of illness) and an evaluation form following (from the 6 to 7 day of illness). Were performed at least two measurements of hematocrit, platelets, and biochemical tests and specific tests for dengue. The signs and symptoms more prevalent in patients with suspected dengue were fever, headache and myalgia. Twenty-five patients (29%) had spontaneous bleeding manifestations and the cutaneous bleeding (petechiae and ecchymosis) were the most frequent (15%). When evaluating the female population of reproductive age, 6% had metrorrhagia. The tourniquet test was performed in 80 patients and was positive in 20 patients. Of 86 patients, 48 (55,8%) were positive for dengue at least one of the techniques: immunochromatography NS1 (16%), RT-PCR (19%), IgM ELISA (44%), IgM immunochromatography (42%) and NS1 ELISA (27%). The dengue virus was detected in 16 patient and, DENV-1 in 1 patient (6.2%), DENV-2 in 14 patients (87.5%) and DENV-3 in 1 patient (6.2%). Twenty- six patients (54,1%) met the criteria of the Ministry of Health (MOH) Classic Dengue (DC), 10 (20,8%) of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) and 12 (25%) of Dengue with complication (DCC). The relationship bet ween females and males were approximately 1.1/1, with higher prevalence in young adults The criterion for severity of MOH, 60% of suspected dengue cases were classified as grade II and none as grade IV. Plasma extravasation of criteria recommended by MOH, hypoalbuminemia was present in 5 patients (10,4%). The drop in hematocrit higher than 20% after hydration was observed in only 4 patients (8,3%). During the study period, two patients were diagnosed with dengue and leptospirosis, and one patient complicated with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, these patients had a benign outcome. Therefore we stress the need for early diagnosis, before the development of severe manifestations, of policies to eradicate Aedes and structure a reference service.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcilio Farias da Silva.pdf: 2141335 bytes, checksum: 164a0489f21f7f26a38436a8d2811b56 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-04-24 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The intention of this dissertation is the elaboration and analysis of a didactic sequence focused to the teaching and learning of examinations for students of the 9th school year in Brazil, using a computer tool. The whole experiment was developed in a Project of Argumentations and test in the Mathematics school (AProvaME), that he/she has as objective to prepare a map on the conceptions of arguments and the students tests in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The elaboration of the didactic sequence was inspired in the questionaire of Álgebra of the project AProvaME, based and analyzed under the perspective from the levels of Balacheff (1988) classification of experiments and ideas related to the roles and functions of the experiments of Villiers (2001) and in the ideas suggested in PCN. We used as computer resource EXCEL, which allowed to the the students the electronic construction of spreadsheets enlarging the data for better analyze and elaborate their conjectures, arguments, justifications and validations. It was analyzed three protocols of three couples with ages between 13 and 14 years old of a private school in the city of Lorena in São Paulo which contributed voluntarialy with the experimentation. Analysing the results we can establish that predominated the formulations of the arguments and conjectures limked to conceptual pragmatic experiments described in the natural languages that in the whole process were empirically justified. A relevant and decisive fact in the successful research was the role of the mediator teacher during the moments of interventions that it provided the interaction student-teacher, necessary in the development of didactic sequences that aim the teaching and learning of arguments and mathematical experiments / O propósito desta dissertação é a elaboração e análise de uma seqüência didática para o ensino e aprendizagem de provas e argumentações, destinada a alunos do 9º ano do Ensino Fundamental, utilizando uma ferramenta computacional. Todo o experimento foi desenvolvido no âmbito do Projeto Argumentação e prova na Matemática Escolar (AProvaME), que tem como objetivo construir um mapa sobre as concepções de argumentação e prova de alunos do Estado de São Paulo. A elaboração da seqüência didática foi inspirada no questionário de Álgebra do projeto AProvaME e fundamentada e analisada sob a perspectiva da classificação de provas de Balacheff (1988), das idéias relacionadas aos papéis e funções das provas de De Villiers (2001) e nas sugestões apresentadas nos PCN. Utilizamos como recurso computacional o Excel, que permitiu aos alunos a construção de planilhas eletrônicas ampliando os dados para melhor analisar e elaborar suas conjecturas, argumentos, justificativas e validações. Foram analisados os protocolos de três duplas, com idades de 13 e 14 anos, de uma escola particular da cidade de Lorena-SP, que contribuíram voluntariamente com a experimentação. Analisando os resultados, constatamos que predominaram as formulações de argumentos e conjecturas vinculadas a provas pragmáticas descritas na língua natural, que, em todo o processo, foram justificadas empiricamente. Um fato relevante e determinante no sucesso da pesquisa foi o papel do professor mediador, durante os momentos de intervenções, favorecendo a interação aluno-professor, necessária no desenvolvimento de seqüências didáticas que visam o ensino e aprendizagem de argumentações e provas matemáticas

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-11T11:12:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabiana Parra De Lazzari.pdf: 14318760 bytes, checksum: 8450b4824e159725f46d37926f5654ab (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-11T11:12:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabiana Parra De Lazzari.pdf: 14318760 bytes, checksum: 8450b4824e159725f46d37926f5654ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-11-30 / The purpose of this study is to profile the proposals of text production from the Brazilian vestibulares (university entrance exams) that are considerably pursued/competitive, in order to provide teachers the conditions for a more complete pedagogical orientation regarding the productions of texts to be performed by candidates in these vestibulares. It is also the objective of this study to investigate whether these identity characteristics are consistent with the context of the candidates in each one of the vestibulares here studied and to assess if such identity characteristics allow a comprehensive and complete evaluation of the candidates. The corpus of the present study includes the vestibulares between the years of 2012 and 2015 for admissions into the Universidade de São Paulo (prepared by the Fundação Universitária para o Vestibular), the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (prepared by the Fundação para o Vestibular da Unesp), and the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (prepared by the Comissão Permanente para os Vestibulares). The method for our analyses is based on the triad Descriptions-Comparisons-Weighting. The reference for the analyses is Textual Linguistics. We also make use of theoretical contributions from studies of Rhetoric and New Rhetoric / Este estudo tem como objetivo traçar o perfil das propostas de redação de vestibulares brasileiros bastante procurados/concorridos, a fim de se proverem docentes de condições para uma mais completa orientação pedagógica acerca das produções textuais a serem realizadas por candidatos, nesses vestibulares. Também é objetivo deste estudo analisar se características identitárias delineadas são condizentes com o contexto encontrado pelo candidato, em cada um dos vestibulares por nós estudados e ponderar se tais características identitárias permitem que o candidato seja avaliado de maneira ampla. O corpus do presente estudo é formado pelas provas de redação aplicadas entre os anos de 2012 e 2015, nos vestibulares para ingresso na Universidade de São Paulo (vestibular realizado pela Fundação Universitária para o Vestibular), na Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (vestibular realizado pela Fundação para o Vestibular da Unesp) e na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (vestibular realizado pela Comissão Permanente para os Vestibulares). A metodologia de nossas análises embasa-se na tríade Descrições-Comparações-Ponderações. O referencial para as análises é a Linguística Textual. Também nos valemos de aportes teóricos advindos de estudos da Retórica e da Nova Retórica

The international drive among western countries to shift from industrial to knowledge economies has focussed considerable attention on education. United Kingdom government educational policy, influenced by the global knowledge economy, has shifted responsibility for learning work skills from the workplace to schooling and post-compulsory education. Government policy emphasises the importance of education's role in preparing students with the skills, knowledge and understanding required to enhance the United Kingdom's competitiveness in the global market. In contrast to the work-related emphasis of the wider educational context, music education emphasises the enrichment of experience. The value of music education is related to people's needs, and the functions it performs in their lives. Music education should be transformative, creative, enriching and relevant. Participation in music education is motivated by the intrinsic satisfaction of making music, rather than the extrinsic need for work-related competencies and qualifications. Music education competes for students with other subjects in the educational marketplace when the music curriculum ceases to be compulsory at age fifteen. Therefore, it is important to understand how students relate not only to music education, but also to the wider work-related educational context in which their subject participation choices are made. Therefore, the purposes of this study are twofold: (1) to establish an overview of how students perceive music education and the factors that influence their enrolment intentions, and (2) to establish an overview of how students perceive music within the wider context of education. Statements were chosen that were considered representative of the rationales for education presented by the government and the music education community. Questionnaires and interviews were developed using the statements, and were ii administered to a random sample of Year Nine and Ten (GCSE Music and non - GCSE Music) students Music was not a relevant subject for most students. However, the perceptions of a small percentage of students (mainly Music students) did find music education relevant in the ways the literature suggested it should be. The most common influences on enrolment were perceptions of ability and enjoyment (or lack of). Despite the strong emphasis on work-related skills and qualifications in the wider educational context, students generally agreed that Music was a subject better suited to enhancing life and lifestyle than career options. However, reflecting the wider educational context, Music was perceived as being more careers/future study orientated than transformative, creative, enriching and relevant.

University of Macau / Faculty of Business Administration / Department of Management and Marketing