O presente estudo contempla o tema da aprendizagem em ambientes virtuais de ensino. O objetivo geral foi analisar o relacionamento entre o estilo de aprendizagem e a preferência dos recursos utilizados em ambientes virtuais. Ademais, este estudo visa a contribuir com os procedimentos de acompanhamento, adaptações e melhorias dos ambientes virtuais estudados, o Moodle e o LaVie (Laboratório Virtual de Estatística). O trabalho possuiu caráter exploratório e descritivo. A pesquisa exploratória foi realizada por meio de estudo de caso, visando a análise da qualidade do ambiente virtual de ensino, foco deste trabalho. A pesquisa descritiva consistiu em correlacionar o estilo de aprendizagem e uma avaliação de alunos a respeito de atividades de e-learning empregadas na disciplina de Estatística Aplicada à Administração III do curso de graduação em Administração de Empresas da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (FEA-RP/ USP). Os resultados das análises indicaram a existência de relação positiva entre o estilo de aprendizagem e a preferência por alguns recursos de aprendizagem virtual, o que permitiu o desenvolvimento de um protocolo com estratégias e atividades de e-learning para favorecer e estimular os diferentes estilos de aprendizagem. A construção do protocolo de qualidade relacionado aos estilos de aprendizagem constituiu uma ferramenta de auxílio no planejamento e elaboração de programas de educação a distância. / The present study focuses on learning in virtual enviroments. The general objective was to make a correlation between learning style and the preference for some distance learning resources. Moreover, this study aims to contribute with following, adaptation and improvement procedures in the virtual enviroments that were part of this study, the Moodle and the LaViE (Laboratory of Statistics Applied to Administration). A qualitative exploratory case study was conducted for the quality analysis of learning virtual enviroments and a descritive study was conducted to asses the correlation between learning style and students evaluation of e-learning activities in University of Sao Paulo (School of Economics, Business and Accounting of Ribeirão Preto). The results showed a positive relationship between learning style and the preference for some e-learning resources, which permited a development of a protocol for distance learning programs, based on e-learning strategies and activities compatible with each learning style.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Renata Machado de Assis - 2014.pdf: 3001734 bytes, checksum: a0faa654872f3f8d6ddf287ad2cad760 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-28 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / This research has attempted to understand the reality experienced by municipal schools in Jataí - GO, regarding possible interference caused by the Basic Education Development Index (Ideb). In this sense, we analyzed the results submitted by public schools from Jataí, identifying changes in compliance with established goals, in particular those relating to the organization, school management and teaching practice. It tried to further comprise: a) how Ideb was received by the municipal schools in Jataí; b) what has changed in schools with the new content, c) what actions were planned and achieved by schools and the municipal education system to improve the score obtained in Ideb and d) what are the conceptions, perceptions and evaluations of school subjects (directors, coordinators and teachers) regarding the creation of Ideb, the quality of education and possible interference of this index in school evaluation. The research process included theoretical and conceptual research on the subject of study and also examination of policies, programs, actions, legal frameworks indicators on the primary education starting from the 1990s. The research involved 27 municipal elementary schools in Jataí. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used as instruments to collect the data. We interviewed three directors selected from schools that showed the highest score, lowest and median in Ideb in 2009, and also the pedagogical advisor of the initial series from the the Municipal Department of Education in Jataí. Answered the questionnaires coordinators and teachers of the three chosen schools that work in elementary school, and also the other directors of municipal schools (urban and rural). The data from the empirical research allowed examining how the subjects of schools conceive, perceive and evaluate the interference of educational policies and, above all, the Ideb in the organization and management of schools. It was initially carried out a theoretical study on basic education in Brazil, especially on the elementary school, from the years 1990 to 2013, with the intention to verify the actions and the logic of current educational policy in this period. In this context, we aimed to discuss and understand the concepts and conceptions of education, quality and evaluation, especially evaluation of basic education, aiming to grasp what is being produced about the tests, exams and indices established in the country, as well as its potential impact on education systems and public schools. It was also examined some of the indicators that demonstrate the reality of education in Goiás and Jataí, especially those that focus on fundamental teaching and Ideb. It can be stated that the application of Ideb triggered some changes and actions in the municipal schools of Jataí, intending to achieve the goals set out in Ideb. Even without being specifically directed to that end, these interferences have contributed to those targets to be met. The organization and management also felt the effects of this index, since other forms of assessment wereoperationalized in the school context and projects, actions and pedagogical activities were created with the purpose of improving student performance. It was observed, in general, that it is necessary to rethink the standardized evaluation model that is not presenting more effective contributions for schools sample, as merely informing the achievement or non-achievement of targets, without allowing a more effective understanding of the dimensions, variables and aspects that affect the teaching-learning process and the development of students. This thesis was supervised by Professor João Ferreira de Oliveira, on the search line State, Policy and History of Education, on the Graduate Program in Education at the FederalUniversity of Goiás. / Esta pesquisa buscou compreender a realidade vivenciada pelas escolas da rede municipal de ensino de Jataí-GO, referente a possíveis interferências produzidas pelo Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (Ideb). Nesta direção, analisam-se os resultados apresentados pelas escolas públicas do município de Jataí, identificando alterações em atendimento às metas estabelecidas, em especial, as relativas à organização, à gestão escolar e à prática docente. Busca-se compreender ainda: a) de que forma o Ideb foi recebido pelas escolas municipais de Jataí; b) o que mudou nas escolas, com o novo índice; c) que ações foram previstas e concretizadas pelas escolas e pelo sistema municipal de ensino para melhorar a pontuação obtida no Ideb; d) quais são as concepções, percepções e avaliações dos sujeitos escolares (diretores, coordenadores e professores) em relação à criação do Ideb, à qualidade da educação e possíveis interferências desse índice e das avaliações na escola. O processo de investigação incluiu pesquisa teórico-conceitual sobre o objeto de estudo e, ainda, exame das políticas, programas, ações, marcos legais indicadores referentes ao ensino fundamental a partir dos anos 1990. A pesquisa de campo envolveu 27 escolas de ensino fundamental da rede municipal de ensino de Jataí. Foram utilizados como instrumentos de coleta de dados: questionários e entrevista semiestruturada. Foram entrevistados três diretores das escolas selecionadas que apresentaram pontuaçãomaior, menor e mediana no Ideb no ano de 2009, e também a assessora pedagógica das séries iniciais da Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Jataí. Responderam aos questionários os coordenadores e professores das três escolas escolhidas, que atuam no ensino fundamentale, ainda, os outros diretores das escolas municipais (urbanas e rurais). Os dados da pesquisaempírica permitiram examinar como os sujeitos das escolas concebem, percebem e avaliam as interferências das políticas educacionais e, sobretudo, do Ideb na organização e gestão das escolas. Realizou-se inicialmente estudo teórico sobre a educação básica no Brasil, de modo especial sobre o ensino fundamental, dos anos 1990 a 2013, com a intenção de verificar as ações e a lógica da política educacional vigente nesse período. Nesse contexto, buscou-se problematizar e compreender os conceitos e as concepções de educação, qualidade e avaliação, especialmente da avaliação da educação básica, visando apreender o que vem sendo produzido sobre as provas, os exames e os índices instituídos no país,assim como suas possíveis repercussões nos sistemas de ensino e nas escolas públicas. Examinaram-se, também, alguns dos indicadores que demonstram a realidade da educação em Goiás e em Jataí, sobretudo os que enfocam o ensino fundamental e o Ideb. Pode-se afirmar que a aplicação do Ideb desencadeou algumas mudanças e ações na rede municipal de ensino de Jataí, com intenção de alcançar as metas previstas no Ideb. Mesmo sem serem especificamente voltadas para esse fim, essas interferências têm contribuído para que as metas sejam alcançadas. A organização e a gestão também sofreram influências desse índice, pois foram operacionalizadas outras formas de avaliação no contexto escolar e projetos, ações e atividades pedagógicas foram criados com a finalidade de melhorar o desempenho dos estudantes. Observou-se, de modo geral, que é preciso repensar o modelo estandardizado de avaliação que não está apresentando contribuições mais efetivas para as escolas da amostra, pois se limita a informar o alcance ou não de metas, sem permitir uma compreensão mais efetiva das dimensões, variáveis e aspectos que interferem no processo ensino-aprendizagem e no desenvolvimento dos estudantes. Esta tese de doutorado foi orientada pelo professor João Ferreira de Oliveira, na linha de pesquisa Estado, Políticas e História da Educação, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Goiás.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-09-19T15:49:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 joaolibaniocavalcante.pdf: 1018884 bytes, checksum: 511c83f5ff506a54fa60d3024258561e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-09-22T15:05:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 joaolibaniocavalcante.pdf: 1018884 bytes, checksum: 511c83f5ff506a54fa60d3024258561e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-22T15:05:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 joaolibaniocavalcante.pdf: 1018884 bytes, checksum: 511c83f5ff506a54fa60d3024258561e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-24 / A presente dissertação foi desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação (PPGP) do Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). O caso de gestão estudado tem como foco a Meta 7 do Plano Municipal de Educação do município de Itamarati e seu alinhamento com o Plano Estadual de Educação do Amazonas. O objetivo deste trabalho é descrever e analisar as ações de planejamento para o desencadeamento das estratégias e analisar o alinhamento da Meta 7 entre os planos municipal de Itamarati e o Plano Estadual de Educação do Amazonas, em busca de melhoria na qualidade da educação, no primeiro segmento do ensino fundamental, além de propor ações que levem à melhoria do Ideb. O interesse por desenvolvê-lo se deve ao fato de o município, nos últimos anos, apresentar uma regressão na média do Ideb no 5º ano do ensino fundamental. Assumimos como hipótese que o Plano Municipal de Educação tenha sido elaborado de forma participativa e democrática. Como metodologia, utilizamos a pesquisa documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas com profissionais da educação, entre eles gestor, professores, técnicos da equipe de coordenação e um delegado que participou da conferência para aprovação do plano. Os problemas detectados na pesquisa foram, principalmente, a falta de formação para os profissionais da educação, dificuldades para análise e leitura dos indicadores educacionais, e ausência do instrumento de gestão democrática e participativa. Com isso, propomos um plano de ação que vise contribuir para com a elevação do Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica no município, visando às melhorias na qualidade da educação. / This dissertation was developed on the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation of Public Education (PPGP) from the Center for Public Policies and Evaluation of Education from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The management case studied here focuses on the Mark 7 presented on the Municipal Education Plan from Itamarati city (in Brazil), and its alignment with the State Education Plan from Amazonas. The aim of this work is therefore to analyze the Mark 7 and its alignment with the State Education Plan, in order to improve the education quality in the elementary education first segment, and to propose actions which lead to the Ideb improvement. The interest in developing it is due to the fact that in the last years the city presented a regression in Ideb average on the 5th year of elementary school. We hypothesize that the Municipal Education Plan was elaborated in a participatory and democratic way. As a methodology, we used the documentary research and semi-structured interviews with education professionals, including managers, teachers, coordination team technicians and a delegate who participated in the conference to approve the plan. The problems detected in the research were mainly the lack of training for professionals in education, difficulties in analyzing and reading educational indicators, and lack of a democratic and participatory management tool. So, we propose an action plan that aims to contribute to the elevation of Ideb from the city, aiming at improvements on the education quality.

Chinese higher education (HE) has been through a process of profound restructuring, decentralisation, introduction of market incentives, university mergers, internationalisation, and enlarging student enrolment in the past two decades. Along with the expansion of Chinese HE, the issue of quality has become a concern and has attracted a lot of attention in the Chinese HE sector. Developing quality assurance (QA) systems has been given priority in the agenda of most Chinese higher education institutions (HEIs). The nationwide implementation of quality evaluation since 2002 is the main means used by the Chinese government to address the potential quality decline and to realise a macro level control of quality over Chinese HEIs. This study is conducted against the background of the prevailing quality culture, and focuses on student learning rather than the widely adopted top-down scrutiny of teaching as the main component of QA schemes. The purpose of this study is to explore how student learning experiences can be integrated into the QA systems in Chinese HEIs for continuous quality improvement. A qualitative case study approach is adopted in this study. Document analysis, focus groups, and in-depth interviews are used to achieve a comprehensive qualitative inquiry into student learning experiences, HEIs’ QA practice, and the integration of student learning experiences into QA system. Through this study, we find that Chinese universities generally use regulations, teaching inspection/evaluation, and student feedback as the main approaches to manage their QA practice. There is great emphasis on the institutional management and teaching management, but little attention given to what students are actually doing. The analysis of the key issues in student learning experiences, the concept of quality learning, and the analysis of the objectives, control, areas, procedures and uses in the current Chinese QA systems suggest a discrepancy between student quality learning and what the current Chinese QA assures. The findings of this study imply that the current top-down QA has great limitations in addressing key issues in student learning and accordingly plays a limited role in generating educational quality. As the conclusion of this study, a learning-focused QA is proposed to offer insights into integrating student learning generically into the QA process for the purpose of the continuous improvement of HE quality.

Many factors influence quality of higher education. Current research mostly works with economic factors (GDP, higher education expenditures etc.). However, there are also publications that examine an impact of sociological aspects on quality of higher education. My research examined the impact of income inequality on quality of tertiary education. In the analysis of socioeconomic data of 76 countries I have proven that there is no linear relationship between income inequality and quality of tertiary education. According to my results the size of population, GDP per capita and being English speaking country are main drivers of quality of tertiary education. Modified model without outliers also shows that there is a positive effect of R&D expenditures on quality of tertiary education.

In this research I investigate the problem of education quality at the faculties of Social Sciences at four Georgian Public Universities. The findings of research are derived through interviewing of professors and document analysis of Georgian legislation concerning higher education and European-level frameworks supporting the enhancement of education quality. I deal with the problem of quality using the mixture of theories. I divided researched topics in three parts: Ideological, Institutional and personal-level. The majority of theoretical claims were disproved in the local context of Georgia. Education quality and knowledge production are multi-faceted problems at Georgian Public Universities, Faculties of Social Sciences and it mainly is related to the scarce state resources allocated to HEIs in general in Georgia.

The Low-Fee Private Schools (LFPS) sector is globally contested. The debate takes place at the academic and policy levels and calls into question the ethics of deriving a profit from a public good. Several theoretical constructs in educational privatization have informed the debate. These include contract failure, transaction costs, moral hazard, and the obsolescing bargain. Yet, the debate does not acknowledge LFPS types. To this end, the dissertation examined the histories and pathways of different types of LFPS, presented a typology, and investigated to what extent the numerous types of LFPS varied in terms of delivering access, equity, and quality of education. The theoretical framework framing this dissertation was centered on the six pathways to privatization. A case study design was applied to conduct exploratory, inductive research in two research sites—low-income and mixed-income neighborhoods in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. I first implemented a multi-tiered sampling strategy to identify LFPS. This involved conducting on-site school mapping to locate 87 educational institutions, including unregistered LFPS, in the research sites. I then identified 26 LFPS by forwarding a definition of LFPS in Pakistan and assessing which private educational institutions met the parameters of an LFPS. Among other elements, LFPS were defined as private educational institutions that charged a maximum of 24 USD a month in school fees. The data for the dissertation included site visits to, and surveys at 17 LFPS, 45 interviews at the school level, with Rawalpindi educational authority representatives as well as a multilateral agency. Finally, I reviewed 19,320 Facebook pictures uploaded by LFPS, and visually analyzed 1,343 to triangulate claims made in the surveys and interviews. Through this research design, LFPS that were differentiated on the parameters of structure—whether LFPS are part of nation-wide chains or independent entities that have a legacy rooted in the country’s colonial history—and fee range. I found six different types of LFPS: Cheap, Medium-range and Costly Independent LFPS and Cheap, Medium-range and Costly Chain LFPS. The established typology is generalizable to urban areas in Pakistan. An analysis of the histories and pathways of the identified LFPS further revealed that there was a proliferation of LFPS starting in 2004, particularly during two periods—2004 to 2007 and 2015 to 2019—under a supportive enabling environment. Chain LFPS types are competitors to Independent LFPS types in contexts in which they are able to proliferate, such as the mixed-income neighborhoods, where no Independent LFPS has been established since 2017. Path six—De facto privatization in low-income countries—was found to be applicable to Pakistan as the government did not patronize sectoral expansion, and until recently, did not undertake efforts to regulate it. Despite sectoral expansion in recent decades, a trade-off in access, equity, and quality of education at the different types of LFPS was found. If an LFPS enhances access and equity, which was found at Cheap Chain LFPS and Medium-range Chain LFPS, it comes at the expense of quality of education. If an LFPS delivers strongly on educational quality, which is the case as Medium-range and Costly Independent LFPS, it comes at the expense of quality of education.

This study deals with the impact of the Education Quality Improvement Partnerships programme (EQUIP) on school management teams in two rural schools where it was implemented for three years. A qualitative evaluative research design was used involving initial baseline studies, document analysis, observation and eight naïve sketches. The literature study discusses factors that constitute effective management and leadership and characteristics of effective schools. The findings were based on an analysis of the impact of the EQUIP programme on the key performance areas of school management before and after the intervention. Important conclusions derived from this study showed that there was significant improvement in the way schools were managed after the intervention, particularly in achieving the goals of the schools' strategic plans. It was also found that curriculum monitoring was only partially successful and that remedial programmes for learners with reading and other learning challenges needs serious attention. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (Education Management)

This study deals with the impact of the Education Quality Improvement Partnerships programme (EQUIP) on school management teams in two rural schools where it was implemented for three years. A qualitative evaluative research design was used involving initial baseline studies, document analysis, observation and eight naïve sketches. The literature study discusses factors that constitute effective management and leadership and characteristics of effective schools. The findings were based on an analysis of the impact of the EQUIP programme on the key performance areas of school management before and after the intervention. Important conclusions derived from this study showed that there was significant improvement in the way schools were managed after the intervention, particularly in achieving the goals of the schools' strategic plans. It was also found that curriculum monitoring was only partially successful and that remedial programmes for learners with reading and other learning challenges needs serious attention. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (Education Management)

The presented work deals with the quality of education and elaborates upon the implementation of system of quality management ISO 9001 as one of the ways of possible improvement of a process and outcomes of education. Introduction included in the theoretical part is focused on explanation of the concepts of education quality, quality management, quality of a school, quality standards, quality control and quality management models. The subsequent part of the work contains implementation of a quality management system. The following chapter deals with process management as a means of maintaining quality management system. The final chapter of the theoretical part describes cloud computing as the latest and most progressive path of development of quality management. The object of the research is to develop a model of implementation of the quality management system. Actual implementation model build on a previous qualitative research conducted in several schools, performed in a form of a case study. In the appendix part, a number of actual documents are attached in order to better convey the implementation process. KEYWORDS: Education quality, quality management, ISO, quality criteria, quality standards, Office 365, cloud