Den här studien har haft som syfte att undersöka elevernas motivation att lära sig moderna språk i grundskolan. Undersökningen gjordes i en skola i Stockholmsområde under min VFU praktik (VT18). Klasserna som var intressanta för detta arbete och som stod i fokus är två klasser i årskurs 8 (41 elever sammanlagt – 19 elever i 8A och 22 elever i 8B). Den enda klassen (8A) upplevs av läraren att fungera bra medan den andra (8B) fungerar dåligt vad det gäller eleverna motivation. Målet har alltså varit att analysera elevernas inställning till de egna språkstudierna samt deras upplevelser av vad som får dem att blir motiverade eller omotiverade att lära sig spanska. Arbetet har baserats på observationer, enkäter och individuella intervjuer. Följande frågor ställs: (1) Vilka faktorer och händelser är centrala för att skapa motivation som främjar lärandet i spanska? (2) Vilka faktorer och händelser kan få eleverna att tappa motivation i att lära sig spanska? (3) Finns det någon tydlig skillnad mellan de båda studerade grupperna vad det gäller elevernas inställning till lärandet och motivation? Arbetet visar att den mest betydelsefulla bidragande faktor för huruvida eleverna motiveras av sina spanskstudier är hur de upplever deras relation med sin lärare samt variation i undervisningen. Studien visar att eleverna från båda klasserna känner sig omotiverade när spanska blir för svårt och  när det tar för lång tid att lära sig. Den tydligaste skillnaden mellan de grupperna vad det gäller inställning till motivation är att eleverna i 8B upplever att de har en dålig relation med sin lärare medan eleverna i 8A upplever att de har en bra relation. Relationen mellan läraren och eleverna i 8A har positiv inverkar på elevernas motivation medan den har negativ påverkan på eleverna i 8B. Dessa elever strävar efter prestationsmål,  har svårare att samarbeta med klasskamrater, upplever mer stök i klassrummet och har en negativ inställning till sitt lärande.

Purpose: The aim of the study is to investigate the two topteams and two bottomteams scoring statistics from the three top soccer leagues in Europe during the 2016/2017 season. From which zone are the shots taken which results in goals? From which zone are the shots taken on the goal, but do not result in goals? From which zone are the shots taken that end up outside the goal? From which zone are the shots taken that are blocked by opponents? Methods: A quantitative method was used where data was obtained from a website called www.squawka.com. A total of 456 matches from six top teams and six bottom teams were analyzed from the leagues Serie A, La Liga and Premier League during the 2016/2017 season. A template was used to analyze in which zones the shots was taken. The data was analyzed with Chi square crosstab post-hoc test. Results: Both groups scored the most goals from shots taken within the penalty area. These zones also saw the highest rate of shots on goal, but did not result in goals were taken. At shots that ended up outside the goal, both the top teams and the bottom teams took the most shots centrally, outside the penalty area, where the top team also took a large part of the shooting center inside the penalty area. At a shot blocked by opponents, both the top teams and the bottom teams took most shots centrally outside the penalty area, where a large proportion was taken within the penalty area. Conclusions: The study revealed major similarities between the top and bottom teams during the 2016/2017 season, where it was shown that the top team took more total shots over the season and the highest number of shots that resulted in goals. Both groups mostly took the shot at the center of the plane, where the zones within the penalty area are proved to be the most effective zone for goal creation. Through this knowledge of the top team and the bottom team's shot statistics, important attack patterns emerge which may be used for coaches in the higher leagues. Trainers can tactically draw their own players to take shots from the effective zones to increase the chances of scoring goals. The statistics may also be used by teams to plan effective defense-stategies. / Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka skottstatistik för två topp respektive två bottenlag från de tre främsta fotbollsligorna i Europa under säsongen 2016/2017. Från vilken zon utförs de skott som resulterar i mål? Från vilken zon utförs de skott som går på målet, men inte resulterar i mål? Från vilken zon utförs de skott som går utanför målet? Från vilken zon utförs de skott som blockeras av motståndare? Metod: En kvantitativ metod användes där data inhämtades från en hemsida vid namn www.squawka.com. Totalt analyserades 456 matcher från sex topplag och sex bottenlag från ligorna Serie A, La Liga och Premier League under säsongen 2016/2017. En mall användes för att analysera inom vilka zoner skotten utförts. Data analyserades sedan med ett Chi square crosstab post-hoc test. Resultat: Båda grupperna utförde flest skott som resulterade i mål innanför straffområdet. Det var även vid dessa zoner som flest skott som gick på mål, men inte resulterade i mål utfördes. Vid skott som hamnade utanför målet så utförde både topplagen och bottenlagen flest skott centralt, utanför straffområdet där även topplagen utförde stor del av skotten centralt innanför straffområdet. Vid skott som blockerades av motståndare så utförde både topplagen och bottenlagen flest skott centralt utanför straffområdet men även flertalet skott innanför straffområdet. Slutsatser: Studien påvisade stora likheter mellan topplagen och bottenlagen under säsongen 2016/2017, där det resulterade i att topplagen utförde fler skott totalt över säsongen och även flest skott som resulterade i mål. Båda grupperna utförde mestadels skotten centralt på planen, där zonerna innanför straffområdet är det området som är den mest effektiva zonen för skapande av målchans. Genom denna vetskap om topplagen respektive bottenlagens skottstatistik så framkommer viktiga anfallsmönster vilket kan vara till användning för tränare i de högre ligorna. Tränare kan med taktiska drag få sina egna spelare till att utföra skott från de effektiva zonerna för att öka chanserna till att göra mål, samtidigt som informationen kan användas för att försvara sig på ett effektivt sätt.

A global race between countries for the most valuable medals has triggered the demand of the athletes even more than before. To cope with the increased pressure the athletes not only need physical but also mental strength. Athletes and coaches stresses the importance of motivation to build the mental strength that is needed. This study researched Swedish wrestling and was built on eight elite wrestlers thoughts and experiences regarding motivation. The goal was to examine these experiences in relation to the athletes ongoing athletic career and goal achievement. The study started as a working project from the Swedish Wrestling Association and their purpose was to study the athletes road to becoming wrestlers at the highest levels of the game. Qualitative data form the eight elite wrestlers was gathered from interviews with questions regarding their journey from starting with wrestling to becoming athletes at the highest level of the game. The respondents ages varied from 19 to 31 and during the interviews they had to reflect on the subjects at hand. Results of the study pointed out the importance of high objectives and the self belief that is necessary to become the best in the world. The athletes that participated in the study also felt the need for interim goals to push forward and pinpointed all the sacrifices that is key to succeed at the highest level of international wrestling. The paper also discusses three key psychological needs within the Self-Determination theory connected with the athletes experiences. The essential need to be apart of something larger, be able to influence their own existence and also be pushed to limits where development occur but not surpass their own ability. As a conclusion this study tries to give answers to how the athletes stay motivated in the ever-changing sports climate.

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Orientador: Fernando Augusto da Silva Marins / Resumo: Em diversas áreas de trabalho, da Engenharia à Economia, os problemas se apresentam como sendo multiobjetivos, característica que torna complexa a tomada de decisão. Geralmente, estes objetivos são conflitantes e faz-se necessário o uso de técnicas de otimização para a obtenção de melhores resultados. Na presente dissertação serão estudados alguns métodos para a resolução destes problemas, com o objetivo de aplicar métodos de aglutinação em problemas de projetos de experimentos com múltiplas respostas. Deste modo, inicialmente foi realizada uma análise bibliométrica sobre os diferentes métodos utilizados para a resolução destes problemas. A partir disto, foi desenvolvida uma nova abordagem, utilizando a Programação por Compromisso (Compromise Programming – CP) e a Programação por Metas (Goal Programming – GP), bem como diferentes algoritmos (Gradiente Reduzido Generalizado – GRG e a metaheurística do software Optquest) que são usualmente adotados, com comparação de resultados e análise. De modo geral, esta nova proposta apresentou resultados melhores em relação à abordagem tradicional (desirability), qualificando este procedimento como uma alternativa na otimização de múltiplas respostas. / Mestre

A performance docente vem sendo estudada há muitos anos, no sentido de analisar tanto a eficácia do ensino quanto a melhoria da ação pedagógica. Essa discussão coloca o ensino com a possibilidade de múltiplas práticas, ou seja, não linear, mas variável e evolutiva, tendo em vista diversos estilos metodológicos, entendidos aqui como a forma de atuação do professor, seja referente à sua ação, seja à forma de comunicação. A Educação Física escolar consolidada como componente curricular tem como alicerce a cultura corporal do movimento. Contudo, o grande questionamento da disciplina relaciona-se com a qualidade de suas aulas, isto é, com a capacidade dos professores em elencar objetivos e planejar e organizar conteúdos específicos da área. Percebe-se, assim, na literatura, uma lacuna sobre como os conteúdos da Educação Física escolar irão traduzir-se em aprendizados concretos. A partir dessa problemática, é evidenciada, na presente pesquisa, uma série de inquietações que tratam da docência dos professores de Educação Física e da responsabilidade com os objetivos desse componente curricular, ou seja, de como a Educação Física escolar vem se apresentando no âmbito educacional. Para tal, o objetivo geral deste estudo foi delinear os estilos de ensino inerentes a práxis dos professores de Educação Física. Como objetivos específicos, visaram-se à identificação dos objetivos e dos conteúdos do Ensino Fundamental da Educação Física escolar; à avaliação do envolvimento do professor durante a aula prática de Educação Física escolar; e à analise da consistência entre os objetivos e os conteúdos evidenciados e o envolvimento dos professores participantes desta pesquisa em suas aulas. Com base nos objetivos deste trabalho, propôs-se um estudo com delineamento descritivo exploratório, para o qual se utilizou abordagem mista. Nesse modelo, técnicas quantitativas e qualitativas são utilizadas simultaneamente durante a fase de coleta de dados, e os resultados, compartilhados durante a fase de interpretação. A amostra é constituída por professores de Educação Física do Ensino Fundamental da rede municipal de Porto Alegre. A comunicação inicial foi a partir de endereço eletrônico, via Secretaria Municipal de Educação, com o qual se entrou em contato com 54 escolas, das quais 4 escolas constituíram a amostra de pesquisa, resultando em 5 professores participantes. Para a coleta de dados, foram utilizados dois instrumentos. O primeiro deles foi uma entrevista semiestruturada, empregada com professores de Educação Física, cujas questões objetivaram investigar concepções sobre a disciplina de Educação Física, sobre o seu ensino-aprendizagem e sua ação pedagógica, ou seja, seus objetivos, conteúdos, procedimentos metodológicos e características. As entrevistas realizadas foram gravadas e transcritas, sendo posteriormente feita a análise do conteúdo gerado. O segundo instrumento utilizado para as observações das aulas foi o SOFIT (System for Observing Fitness Instruction Time), ferramenta que objetiva avaliar a qualidade do ensino de Educação Física. A observação com o SOFIT foi dividida em duas fases (contexto/conteúdo e envolvimento do professor). Seguindo o protocolo desse instrumento, foram filmadas duas aulas de cada professor, nas quais foram sorteados 6 alunos (3 meninos e 3 meninas), dos quais 2 (1 menino e uma menina) foram alunos reservas, caso precisasse de substituição dos alunos observados. As análises das fases foram feitas e incluídas no discurso sobre a ação pedagógica do professor Como resultados, foram identificados o perfil dos sujeitos de pesquisa, suas concepções metodológicas e algumas estratégias. De acordo com os dados apresentados, não foram identificados muitos estilos pedagógicos, mas um padrão de discursos e atuações: os professores estudados, em sua maioria, apresentaram objetivos, contexto e envolvimento nas aulas semelhantes. Em maior parte, os contextos das aulas foram relacionados com habilidades motoras, jogos (motores e esportivos) e com a explicação de regras e conhecimentos. A postura dos professores esteve centrada em dar instruções e administrar as atividades, ou seja, os professores participantes passaram mais da metade do tempo de aula envolvidos com as atividades e com os alunos. Com esta pesquisa, concluiu-se que a Educação Física escolar aqui vista é uma disciplina planejada e estruturada, e seus resultados positivos fazem com que ela consolide sua identidade no contexto escolar e no meio acadêmico. / A performance analysis is studied over many years, a perspective of analysis of teaching effectiveness and improvement of pedagogical action. This discussion about teaching with the possibility of multiple practices, that is, non linear, but variable and evolutionary, considering different methodological styles. The concept of styles here present has as a form of action of the teacher, referring to its action, and form of communication. The School Physical Education consolidated as a curricular component is based on a body culture of the movement. However the great questioning of the discipline is related to a quality of its classes, that is, with a capacity of professors in objectives to list, to plan and to organize specific contents of the area. In the literature there is a lack of knowledge about how the contents of school physical education will translate into concrete learning. From these gaps, it is evident that a series of surveys that deal with the teaching of physical education teachers and the responsibility with the objectives of curricular components, or as a Physical Education school has been presenting in the educational scope. For the general purpose of this study was considered as one of the styles of fundamental and professional teaching of physical education teachers and as specific objectives to consider the objectives and contents of elementary school physical education; The evaluation of the teacher during a practical class of Physical Education school; And an analysis of the consistency between the objectives and the evidenced contents and the involvement of the teachers. Thus, it is a study with an exploratory descriptive design that uses a mixed approach. In this model, quantitative and qualitative techniques are used simultaneously during a data collection phase and the results shared during an interpretation phase. The sample is constituted by the Physical Education teachers of Elementary School of the municipal network of Porto Alegre. An initial communication to an electronic address via the Municipal Department of Education. We contacted by email with 54 schools, are a sample was effectively constituted by 4 schools resulting in 5 teachers. For data collection for two instruments. The first instrument used in the field research for a semistructured interview with Physical Education teachers. The issues related to the discipline of Physical Education and teaching-discipline and its pedagogical action, ie, its objectives, contents, methodological procedures and characteristics of the classes. As interviews were recorded and transcribed and an analysis of the generated content was done later. The second instrument used as lecture notes for the SOFIT (aptitude instruction time observation system). SOFIT is a tool that aims to evaluate the quality of physical education teaching. An observation with the SOFIT instrument is divided into two phases. Following the protocol of this instrument, two classes of each teacher were recorded, six lessons (3 boys and 3 girls), two, one boy and one girl, an example of substitution of the observed students. As analyzes of the phases were made and included in the discourse on the pedagogical action of the teacher. As results, it was identified as the profile of the research subjects, their methodological conceptions and some strategies. According to the results, it is not identified with the pedagogical styles, but with the pattern of speeches and performances. The teachers studied, for the most part, presented objectives, context, and involvement in similar classes. For the most part, the contexts of the classes were related to motor, motor and sports skills and with explanation of rules and knowledge. The teachers' attitude towards the issue of education and the administration of the activities, that is, the participating teachers, spent more than half of the time of class involved with the activities and with the students. So to conclude, the School Physical Education seen here is a discipline, planned and structured. These results are positive for the Physical Education school to consolidate its identity without school context and not academic environment.

Consumidores usam produtos como meios de obtenção de objetivos. Às vezes, entretanto, os consumidores somente compram o produto e não o consomem. Isso ocorre, especialmente, quando os produtos comprados estão associados a objetivos contínuos, isto é, objetivos que requerem tempo e esforço para o seu cumprimento. Esta tese investiga se os consumidores percebem a compra de produtos associados a um objetivo contínuo como um progresso neste, seguindo a lógica desenvolvida por Fishbach e Dhar (2005), a qual propõe que quando os consumidores percebem um avanço na busca de um objetivo, tornam-se mais suscetíveis a adotar escolhas subsequentes inconsistentes com a busca desse objetivo. Ainda, demostra-se que a percepção de progresso no objetivo é contingente da força de associação entre objetivo e produto. Quatro experimentos foram desenhados para testar estes efeitos, o primeiro testa o efeito da compra em relação a um grupo de controle, o segundo testa o efeito da compra em relação a uma ação efetiva na busca do objetivo, o terceiro verifica o impacto da percepção de progresso na motivação e o último apresenta a interação entre a ação (compra vs efetiva) e força de associação do produto no progresso percebido. / Consumers often use products to help them pursue their goals. Sometimes, however, consumers only purchase the products and do not use them. This occurs especially when the purchased products are associated with ongoing goals, i.e., goals that require time and effort toward goal attainment. This dissertation investigates whether consumers perceive the purchase of a product that is related to an ongoing goal as goal progress, based on the rationale developed by Fishbach and Dhar (2005), which proposes that when consumers perceive an action as goal progress, their subsequent actions are more likely to be inconsistent with the focal goal. Furthermore, it is proposed that the perception of goal progress is contingent to the strength of the association between goal and product. Four experiments were designed to test these effects, the first test the effect of purchase compared to a control group, the second test the effect of purchase in relation to an effective action in goal, the third study verifies the impact of perceived progress in motivation and the last study shows the interaction between the action (purchase vs effective) and the strength of association in the inference of goal progress.

abstract: Automated planning problems classically involve finding a sequence of actions that transform an initial state to some state satisfying a conjunctive set of goals with no temporal constraints. But in many real-world problems, the best plan may involve satisfying only a subset of goals or missing defined goal deadlines. For example, this may be required when goals are logically conflicting, or when there are time or cost constraints such that achieving all goals on time may be too expensive. In this case, goals and deadlines must be declared as soft. I call these partial satisfaction planning (PSP) problems. In this work, I focus on particular types of PSP problems, where goals are given a quantitative value based on whether (or when) they are achieved. The objective is to find a plan with the best quality. A first challenge is in finding adequate goal representations that capture common types of goal achievement rewards and costs. One popular representation is to give a single reward on each goal of a planning problem. I further expand on this approach by allowing users to directly introduce utility dependencies, providing for changes of goal achievement reward directly based on the goals a plan achieves. After, I introduce time-dependent goal costs, where a plan incurs penalty if it will achieve a goal past a specified deadline. To solve PSP problems with goal utility dependencies, I look at using state-of-the-art methodologies currently employed for classical planning problems involving heuristic search. In doing so, one faces the challenge of simultaneously determining the best set of goals and plan to achieve them. This is complicated by utility dependencies defined by a user and cost dependencies within the plan. To address this, I introduce a set of heuristics based on combinations using relaxed plans and integer programming formulations. Further, I explore an approach to improve search through learning techniques by using automatically generated state features to find new states from which to search. Finally, the investigation into handling time-dependent goal costs leads us to an improved search technique derived from observations based on solving discretized approximations of cost functions. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Computer Science 2012

abstract: The present study examined the association of pain intensity and goal progress in a community sample of 132 adults with chronic pain who participated in a 21 day diary study. Multilevel modeling was employed to investigate the effect of morning pain intensity on evening goal progress as mediated by pain's interference with afternoon goal pursuit. Moderation effects of pain acceptance and pain catastrophizing on the associations between pain and interference with both work and lifestyle goal pursuit were also tested. The results showed that the relationship between morning pain and pain's interference with work goal pursuit in the afternoon was significantly moderated by a pain acceptance. In addition, it was found that the mediated effect differed across levels of pain acceptance; that is: (1) there was a significant mediation effect when pain acceptance was at its mean and one standard deviation below the mean; but (2) there was no mediation effect when pain acceptance was one standard deviation above the mean. It appears that high pain acceptance significantly attenuates the power of nociception in disrupting one's work goal pursuit. However, in the lifestyle goal model, none of the moderators were significant nor was there a significant association between pain interference with goal pursuit and goal progress. Only morning pain intensity significantly predicted afternoon interference with lifestyle goal pursuit. Further interpretation of the present findings and potential explanations of those inconsistencies are elaborated on discussion. Limitations and the clinical implication of the current study were considered, along with suggestions for future studies. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Psychology 2014

abstract: The present study focused on those who had recently been involved in a romantic relationship that ended in a breakup. Data was collected from 326 participants using an online questionnaire. Participants were asked questions about goal linking, rumination, self-efficacy, Facebook ORI behaviors, and emotional response questions. The results indicated that there were two types of Facebook ORI behaviors: explicit and covert. Explicit ORI was predicted by self-efficacy among those whose partner ended the relationship, as well as goal linking when the breakup was self-initiated. Covert ORI was predicted by rumination across all levels of breakup initiator (self, partner, or mutual). Moreover, only general negative emotions predicted Covert ORI, but general negative emotion and positive emotion predicted Explicit ORI. Finally, the results showed that those who were broken up with engaged in more Covert ORI behaviors than those who ended the relationship themselves or who mutually ended the relationship. These results suggest that Relational Goal Pursuit theory, which is commonly used to explain ORI behavior, be reconceptualized. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Communication Studies 2014