Orientador: Dirceu da Silva / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2019-01-02T16:34:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Stevao_ChristianeBellorioGennariDeAndrade_D.pdf: 3637193 bytes, checksum: 59618eefb30d1940e3b80146e8614f26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este estudo fundamenta-se na avaliação dos aspectos positivos da aplicação da Teoria da Resposta ao Item (TRI) na definição da nota de corte da 1ª fase do processo seletivo do vestibular da UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista), bem como na adoção de um instrumento que subsidia a seleção dos candidatos a serem convocados para a 2ª fase, mantendo-se o cálculo da nota final do processo pela Teoria Clássica de Medidas (TCM). O modelo da TRI utilizado é o de três parâmetros, considerando que na prova do vestibular sempre existe a possibilidade de resposta ao acaso. O objetivo principal da pesquisa é mostrar a implantação de uma metodologia para estabelecer um cálculo, que permita selecionar os mais bem preparados sem prejudicar o aluno que por engano possa colocar a resposta errada em uma questão ao passá-la para o gabarito e, desse modo, determinar que a nota de corte não avance muito com o passar dos anos. Este trabalho possibilita aumentar o número de alunos classificados para a 2ª fase do vestibular com a certeza de estar selecionando os alunos com maior habilidade em todas as disciplinas avaliadas, sem prejudicá-los em um único item. O problema levantado por esta pesquisa vem da implantação do Vestibular UNESP 2010 com a 1ª fase eliminatória (Prova de Conhecimentos Gerais). Com a metodologia proposta foi possível conseguir um modelo matemático para o cálculo do número de candidatos para a 2ª fase nos próximos vestibulares e apresentar um estudo preliminar para a necessidade do aumento de vagas nos cursos mais concorridos no decorrer dos próximos anos. Neste estudo considerou-se também o questionário respondido pelos concorrentes ao efetuar a inscrição para verificar como se classificam os alunos das escolas públicas e de baixa renda. Para isso trabalhou-se com amostras de três cursos selecionados: Direito da cidade de Franca curso diurno, Engenharia Civil da cidade de Guaratinguetá em período integral e Medicina da cidade de Botucatu período integral, nos vestibulares de 2010 e 2012 / Abstract: This study is based on the evaluation of the positive aspects from the Item Response Theory's (TRI) application in defining the minimum score of the first phase of the selection process, of UNESP's (Universidade Estadual Paulista) Entrance Exam, as well as in the adoption of an instrument that subsidizes the selection of candidates to be called for the second phase, keeping the calculation of the final grade of the process by the Classical Theory of Measures (TCM). The TRI model used will be the one of three-parameter considering that in vestibular there is always the possibility of random response. The main objective of this research was the implementation of a methodology for establishing this calculation, which allows select the better prepared without harming the student who mistakenly can put the wrong answer on a question when transferring it to the final answer paper, and this way determine that the minimum score do not advance much over the years. This work makes it possible to increase the number of students classified for the second phase of the Entrance Exam with the certainty of being selecting students with higher skills in all evaluated subjects, without harming them into a single item. The problem raised by this research comes from the deployment of the 2010 UNESP entrance examination with the 1st knockout round (General Knowledge Test). With the proposed methodology was possible to achieve a mathematical model for calculating the number of candidates for the second phase of the upcoming university entrance exams and submit a preliminary study for the need to increase the vacancies in courses with greater demand over the next few years. In this study it was also considered the questionnaire answered by competitors when making the inscription to check how students from public schools and with low income are classified. For this, it was made a sample of three selected courses: Law, from Franca city, a daytime course, Civil Engineering from the city of Guaratinguetá, a full-time course, and Medicine from Botucatu city, a full-time course, in the entrance exams of 2010 and 2012 / Doutorado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Doutora em Educação

SILVA, João Eudes Moreira da. O Vestibular da UFC. Implicações para o Ensino Médio: um estudo de caso a partir das mudanças realizadas de 1978 a 2004. 2007. 117f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2007. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-02-14T16:46:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2007-DIS-JEMSILVA.pdf: 351896 bytes, checksum: acce2d5f173bad8aba4d9cb51363fe7a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-02-14T16:57:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2007-DIS-JEMSILVA.pdf: 351896 bytes, checksum: acce2d5f173bad8aba4d9cb51363fe7a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-02-14T16:57:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2007-DIS-JEMSILVA.pdf: 351896 bytes, checksum: acce2d5f173bad8aba4d9cb51363fe7a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / This study intends to investigate changes brought about in the College Entrance Examinations (Vestibular) of the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) in the last 26 years and its effects in the Brazilian Secondary Education. Specifically, the explanations for several modifications established - each at a different time and manner - are analyzed based on interviews with presidents and vice-presidents of the Examination’s Coordination Committee (CCV). Through the speech of the teachers responsible for the elaboration of the Biology tests, the impact of the vestibular exams are revealed as well as the effects in the subjects dealt with in Secondary School. This investigation confirms the historicity of the change process by utilizing documents from the Education, Research and Community Service Council (CEPE) and the Call for Exams Publications from 1978 to 2007. This qualitative research chose a semi-structured interview and document analysis as tools for data survey, focusing especially on the sayings of the presidents and vice-presidents of the CCV related to the changes that took place in UFC’s Vestibular examinations from 1978 to 2007; the sayings of teachers who developed the Biology tests in he UFC Vestibular; as well as on documental analysis of these Biology tests and official documents. In the text, the ability of private schools to adapt to the innovations proposed by the CCV is highlighted and the lack of visibility of these actions by public schools is noticed. It is concluded that the access system to the university has an indisputable influence in Secondary School, both in content and in its epistemological approach, however this influence can only be positive if there is a convergence between the access system to Higher Education and the objectives in Secondary School itself. It is shown that UFC needs to review its selection criteria, resize the contents required and invert the way it contributes with the evaluation process, centralizing its concerns in the construction of an educational proposal that may shape individuals capable of thinking, proposing and making changes that can transform the course of history. / Este estudo se propôs a investigar as mudanças provocadas nos vestibulares da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), nos últimos 26 anos e suas repercussões no Ensino Médio. De modo mais específico analisa-se a partir das entrevistas com os presidentes e vice-presidente da Comissão Coordenadora do Vestibular (CCV) as explicações para as diversas modificações implantadas por cada um ao seu tempo e ao seu modo. Através da fala dos professores elaboradores de provas de Biologia revela-se o impacto causado pelas provas do vestibular e sua repercussão nos conteúdos abordados no Ensino Médio.Esta pesquisa, confirma a historicidade do processo de mudanças fazendo uso dos documentos do Conselho de Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão (CEPE) e dos editais de convocação dos vestibulares compreendidos entre 1978 e 2007. A pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa adota como instrumento de levantamento de dados a entrevista semi-estruturada e análise de documentos concentrando-se especialmente: nas falas dos presidentes e vice-presidentes da CCV relacionadas com as mudanças ocorridas nos vestibulares da UFC no período de 1978 a 2007; nas contribuições dos professores elaboradores de provas de Biologia do vestibular da UFC; na análise documental das provas de Biologia do vestibular da UFC; e na apreciação dos documentos oficiais. Destaca-se no texto a capacidade de adaptação das escolas particulares às inovações propostas pela CCV, e se notifica a pouca visibilidade de iniciativas tomadas nesse sentido pela escola pública. Chega-se à conclusão que o sistema de acesso à universidade tem uma influência inegável no Ensino Médio, tanto no conteúdo como no seu enfoque epistemológico; entretanto essa ascendência pode ser positiva desde que haja convergência entre o sistema de acesso ao Ensino Superior e os objetivos do próprio Ensino Médio. Evidencia-se a necessidade da UFC repensar os critérios utilizados no processo de seleção, redimensionando os conteúdos exigidos e centralizando sua preocupação na construção de uma proposta educativa que forme sujeitos capazes de pensar propor e realizar mudança que transformem o curso dessa história. Palavras-Chaves: Vestibular; Mudanças; Ensino Médio.

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

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Social Sciences

The problem of this study was an analysis of the relationships between performance on certain admissions measures and academic achievement of students in master's degree programs in music education. The purposes of the study were (1) to determine the strength of relationships between scores on each measure included in an admission battery and the academic achievement of master's degree music education students; (2) to determine the strength of the relationship between the final grades in Admission Seminar and the academic achievement of master's degree music education students; and (3) to determine which combination of admissions measures best predict the academic achievement of master's degree music education students.

This dissertation includes three essays that examine the potential of policies, interventions, and curricula in improving transitions to four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. The first essay provides a novel investigation of New York City’s adoption of SAT School Day (SSD), which provides universal access to college entrance exams for high school juniors. I examine the causal impact of the policy on SAT taking and four-year college enrollment patterns for the first three post-policy cohorts. Using a two-way fixed effects differences-in-differences (DID) model, I find that the SSD policy increases SAT-taking rates by 20% but has little impact on four-year enrollment. These findings suggest that increased college entrance test participation alone is not sufficient to increase enrollment to four-year colleges. The second essay provides a systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 studies on the causal impact of late pre-college advising interventions, which I refer to as LPCAIs. LPCAIs aim to connect juniors and seniors with pre-college advisors to guide them through the complex college application process. The studies use experimental and quasi-experimental designs to identify the causal effect of LPCAIs on postsecondary enrollment outcomes for historically underrepresented students. I find that the offer of an LPCAI, on average, increases postsecondary enrollment and improves institutional choices. However, the in-person advising format accounts for nearly all of the positive impact derived from LPCAIs. Several implications of these findings are discussed, particularly in the context of COVID-19. The third chapter presents a correlational study that uses transcript data from a statewide community college system to estimate how well GPA, credit accumulation, and course taking at community college predict upward transfer and baccalaureate completion. While GPAs and credit accumulation rates in all academic branches are strong, positive predictors of transfer, GPAs in humanities are significantly more predictive of transfer compared to GPAs in non-humanities branches. GPAs and successful credit accumulation rates in humanities courses are also associated with greater likelihoods of baccalaureate completion, conditional on transfer. However, humanities courses are equally valid predictors of baccalaureate completion as courses in other academic branches. In contrast to strong academic performance, taking more courses in humanities, although associated with greater likelihoods of vertical transfer, is associated with lower likelihoods of baccalaureate completion. Taken together, these essays contribute to our understanding of approaches to improve transitions to four-year colleges and universities. They also highlight the importance of academic preparation and advising within transitional pathways.

The purpose of this study was to determine which types of student application information, as well as demographic information obtained through a questionnaire after matriculation, best predicted later academic performance in an international English-medium university in Japan, and to examine the "big picture" of how cognitive and non-cognitive variables interact over time in accounting for student success in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program and in the regular university program. The study was divided into three parts that separately examined student application information, university entrance examinations, and the larger picture of student success. In the first part of the study, a hierarchical multiple regression was employed to determine the extent to which a variety of variables derived from application information predicted grade point average (GPA) in the EAP program, as well as first-year GPA and final GPA in the regular university program. The independent variables examined in the main regression analysis were: high school grade point average (HSGPA); ITP TOEFL scores obtained in April of the students' first year at the university; and hensachi rankings of the students' high schools. Results indicated that HSGPA was a consistently significant predictor of all levels of university GPA. ITP TOEFL scores significantly predicted EAP GPA, and <italic>hensachi / CITE/Language Arts

University of Macau / Faculty of Education

Mathematics achievement has been of great concern to researchers involved in mathematics education. This concern has resulted in research seeking to determine for example, the factors that positively or negatively contribute to student performance in mathematics. Many of the reported studies in the literature have investigated the factors within the context of mathematics teaching and learning in general. Very few studies have investigated the factors contributing to student achievement in mathematics when learning takes place in a computer aided environment. With the pervasiveness of computers in education in general, studies in this direction become imperative. The present study fills this gap in the literature by examining the extent to which selected variables (mathematics attitude, mathematics aptitude, computer attitude, computer prior experience, computer ownership, proficiency in language of instruction, and learning style) contribute to students' achievements in pre-calculus algebra classes that are supplemented with a computer lab program. The participants in the study were 120 students sampled from the population of students enrolled in the second pre-calculus algebra course at the preparatory year program of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals during the 2003/2004 academic session. The instruments used to measure the study constructs were the mathematics attitude scale (Aiken, 1979), the computer attitudes scale (Loyd & Gressard, 1984a), and the learning styles questionnaire (Honey & Mumford, 1992). New instruments to measure computer prior experience and computer ownership were developed for the present study. Hypotheses formulated for the study were tested using multiple regression and other statistical techniques. The results show that mathematics aptitudes and English language proficiency are the most significant contributors to students' mathematics achievement. No other variables show statistically significant effects on students' achievement. Together, the selected variables explain more than 41 percent of the total variance of students' achievement. Theoretical and policy-making implications of the results are outlined and discussed. / Mathematical Sciences / D. Phil. (Mathematics, Science and Technology Education)

Mathematics achievement has been of great concern to researchers involved in mathematics education. This concern has resulted in research seeking to determine for example, the factors that positively or negatively contribute to student performance in mathematics. Many of the reported studies in the literature have investigated the factors within the context of mathematics teaching and learning in general. Very few studies have investigated the factors contributing to student achievement in mathematics when learning takes place in a computer aided environment. With the pervasiveness of computers in education in general, studies in this direction become imperative. The present study fills this gap in the literature by examining the extent to which selected variables (mathematics attitude, mathematics aptitude, computer attitude, computer prior experience, computer ownership, proficiency in language of instruction, and learning style) contribute to students' achievements in pre-calculus algebra classes that are supplemented with a computer lab program. The participants in the study were 120 students sampled from the population of students enrolled in the second pre-calculus algebra course at the preparatory year program of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals during the 2003/2004 academic session. The instruments used to measure the study constructs were the mathematics attitude scale (Aiken, 1979), the computer attitudes scale (Loyd & Gressard, 1984a), and the learning styles questionnaire (Honey & Mumford, 1992). New instruments to measure computer prior experience and computer ownership were developed for the present study. Hypotheses formulated for the study were tested using multiple regression and other statistical techniques. The results show that mathematics aptitudes and English language proficiency are the most significant contributors to students' mathematics achievement. No other variables show statistically significant effects on students' achievement. Together, the selected variables explain more than 41 percent of the total variance of students' achievement. Theoretical and policy-making implications of the results are outlined and discussed. / Mathematical Sciences / D. Phil. (Mathematics, Science and Technology Education)