Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:33:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Heloisa_Figueiroa.pdf: 408255 bytes, checksum: 43d07904b62832fa64a3975e61bb4b58 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-08-27 / The idea of this research has emerged from the researcher's interest in knowing the expectations that really lead professionals who are more and more young and inexperienced in the work market to seek specialization through lato sensu post graduation courses, derived from questions posed by students, in her closeness to them as a teacher in such courses. In order to understand the sources and references that most motivate students in the choice of an institution to take a lato sensu post graduation course, and the intensity with which these information correlate according to the evaluation of students themselves, concepts of behaviors of customers of services have been applied, aiming to check their adequacy to such a specific and complex service, not only by the high level of participation demanded from students, but also by course terms, financial investment, and lack of guaranty of obtaining the final result which is the title. The sources and nature of expectations, obtained through bibliographic survey and exploratory approaches, have been evaluated in the classroom, through a quantitative research, with a self assessment questionnaire with 310 students who were taking a lato sensu post graduation course in Business Administration, at a private institution in the city of S??o Paulo, in March, 2004. The statistical analysis of the results, through multivariated techniques of factorial analysis and discriminant analysis have proved that the main expectations of these students are connected to the acquisition of professional competitiveness and the school choice fundamentally depends on the reliability that it is able to win regarding the possibility to confer such competitiveness, through the combination of several aspects that go from the rules that are established by the school, to tangible service aspects, to explicit communication promises, to the reputation of the school in the specialized media and in the market place, to word-of-mouth information process. Another interesting aspect revealed by the discriminant analysis is that the importance of such expectations and sources of reference are independent from the course, the student's gender, age, or professional experience, but not from the fact that the company is or not paying for the studies. / A id??ia desta pesquisa surgiu do interesse do pesquisador em conhecer as expectativas que realmente levam os profissionais cada vez mais jovens e inexperientes no mercado de trabalho a buscarem a especializa????o atrav??s da p??s-gradua????o lato sensu, a partir das quest??es colocadas pelos alunos na conviv??ncia com eles como docente desses cursos. Para entender as fontes e refer??ncias que mais motivam os alunos, na escolha de uma institui????o para cursar a p??s-gradua????o lato sensu, e a intensidade com que essas informa????es se correlacionam nas avalia????es dos alunos foram aplicados os conceitos de comportamento do cliente de servi??os a fim de verificar como estes se adequam a um servi??o t??o espec??fico e complexo, n??o s?? pelo alto grau de participa????o que exige do aluno, mas tamb??m pelo prazo de realiza????o, investimento financeiro, e a n??o garantia de obten????o do resultado final que ?? a titula????o. As fontes e natureza das expectativas, obtidas atrav??s de levantamento bibliogr??fico e abordagens explorat??rias, foram avaliadas em sala de aula, atrav??s de uma pesquisa quantitativa, com question??rio de auto-preenchimento junto a 310 alunos que estavam cursando a p??s-gradua????o lato sensu em Administra????o, numa institui????o de ensino privada na cidade de S??o Paulo em mar??o de 2004. A an??lise estat??stica dos resultados atrav??s das t??cnicas multivariadas de an??lise fatorial e an??lise discriminante mostraram que as principais expectativas desses alunos est??o ligadas ?? obten????o de competitividade profissional e que a escolha da escola depende fundamentalmente da confian??a que ela consegue conquistar quanto a oferecer essa competitividade, atrav??s da combina????o de v??rios aspectos que v??o desde as regras estabelecidas pela escola, os aspectos tang??veis do servi??o, as promessas expl??citas da comunica????o, a reputa????o da escola na m??dia especializada e no mercado de trabalho, at?? as informa????es obtidas no boca a boca. Outro aspecto interessante, ?? que a import??ncia dessas expectativas e fontes de refer??ncia independem de curso, sexo, idade, tempo de experi??ncia na profiss??o, e sim do aluno ou a empresa custearem esses estudos, segundo a an??lise discriminante.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:31:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Estela A B Jacomette.pdf: 3322493 bytes, checksum: 34236e3ed596da07362393bc7f764286 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-12 / With the advent of globalization, the development of different technologies, the increase of competitiveness and the quest for leadership by the organizations, came to sight significant changes too in the type, quality, quantity, and nature of the job of people who are inserted in them. This phenomenon demands a performance more globalized from the organizations, new competences from their professionals and the management of labor in a way more flexible. This scenery has generated significant impact on institutions of higher education, especially in the lato sensu programs considered vocational This research aims to develop an innovative curriculum in a shared way with teachers, board of directors of teaching institution, coordinator, technical adviser, students and market executives in a lato sensu post-graduation course in business management, having the sustainability in its cross-sectional, aiming at to execute the demands of this new society. From the principles of action research used a qualitative approach, the study makes a theoretical-reflective survey of the different actors of the innovative curriculum: macroeconomic context, professional skills demanded to professional management, lato sensu post-graduation courses, integrated curriculum and teacher´s training. After research undertaken about the subjects inquired, the research shows elements to respond to the problems proposed. We conclude that s possible to develop an innovative curriculum, in a shared way, since it´s founded on a solid pedagogical approach and the training of teachers staff is adequate to the proposed model / Com o advento da globalização, a evolução das diferentes tecnologias, o aumento da competitividade e a busca da liderança pelas organizações, surgem também mudanças significativas no tipo, qualidade, quantidade, e natureza do trabalho das pessoas que nelas estão inseridas. Tal fenômeno demanda uma atuação mais globalizada das organizações, novas competências de seus profissionais e o gerenciamento da mão de obra de forma mais flexível. Esse cenário tem gerado impacto significativo nas instituições de ensino superior, principalmente nos programas de lato sensu considerados profissionalizantes. Esta pesquisa tem o objetivo de desenvolver um currículo inovador de forma compartilhada com professores, diretoria da instituição de ensino, coordenadora, orientadora técnica, alunos e executivos de mercado em um programa de pós-graduação lato sensu em gestão de negócios, tendo a sustentabilidade em sua transversal, visando atender as demandas dessa nova sociedade. A partir dos princípios da pesquisa-ação aplicados a uma abordagem qualitativa, o estudo faz um levantamento teórico-reflexivo dos diferentes participantes do currículo inovador: contexto macroeconômico, competências profissionais demandadas aos profissionais da gestão, pós-graduação lato sensu, currículo integrado e formação de professores. Após a investigação desenvolvida acerca dos objetos inquiridos, a pesquisa apresenta elementos para responder aos problemas propostos. Concluímos que é possível desenvolver um currículo inovador, de forma compartilhada, desde que ele esteja fundamentado numa proposta pedagógica sólida e que a formação do corpo docente esteja adequada ao modelo proposto

<div> <p>In the last several years, it has become apparent that racial/ethnic minority graduate students face an increased risk for mental health issues (Clark, Mercer, Zeigler-Hill, & Dufrene, 2012; Paradies et al., 2015). Contextualizing their experiences and determining what factors play a role in increasing this risk specifically for racial/ethnic minority graduate students could help provide information about areas for intervention. However, there is a lack of literature on the experiences of racial/ethnic minorities in graduate school and the implications of those experiences for their mental health. It is important to understand their experience in the context of minority status stress through the use of Stress Process Theory (Pearlin, Menaghen, Lieberman, & Mullan, 1981). As such I hypothesized several positive and unique contributions to depressive symptoms by career and education barriers and minority status stress. Additionally, I hypothesized that minority status stress would mediate the relationship between career and education barriers and depressive symptoms, and that perceived family social support would moderate the relationships between career and education barriers, minority status stress, and depressive symptoms. To this end I used this regression-based, quantitative study to examine the associations between the perception of career and education barriers, minority status stress, perceived family social support, and depressive symptoms among a sample (<i>N</i> = 311) of domestic racial/ethnic minority graduate students currently enrolled in degree granting programs. The results revealed that the perception of career barriers uniquely contributed to depressive symptoms, although not in the hypothesized direction with career barriers being a negative predictor of depressive symptoms. Minority status stress uniquely contributed to depressive symptoms in the hypothesized directions and serves as a mediator between the perception of career barriers and depressive symptoms. The perception of education barriers did not uniquely contribute to depressive symptoms. Additionally, perceived family social support moderated only the relationship between the perception of career barriers and depressive symptoms; a moderator effect was not found in any other relationship. Implications for future research and practice, as well as the study’s limitations are discussed<b></b></p> </div> <b><br></b>

A crescente internacionalização do ensino superior (MOROSINI, 2006) tem feito com que tanto instituições financiadoras quanto universidades pressionem pesquisadores a publicarem internacionalmente (MUELLER, 2000). Visando a aumentar a visibilidade da pesquisa local dentro do cenário acadêmico internacional (FLOWERDEW, 1999), a publicação em periódicos com alto fator de impacto geralmente ocorre em inglês, a língua franca das ciências (HÜLMBAUER et al., 2008). Entretanto, publicar em inglês, que desafia pesquisadores não nativos de inglês em geral (OLIVEIRA, ZUCOLOTTO E ALUÍSIO, 2006), é ainda mais desafiador para neófitos com pouco domínio daquela língua. Apesar de bastante estudadas no exterior, tanto do ponto de vista discente (LEKI E CARSON, 1994; CABRAL E TAVARES, 2005; LAVELLE E BUSHROW, 2007; ENE, 2014) quanto do docente (ENGLISH, 1999; PEDRA E NOCITO, 2012; CARRIÓ-PASTOR E MESTRE-MESTRE, 2014; DAVOUDI, NAFCHI E MALLAHI, 2015) ou de ambos (CASANAVE e HUBBARD, 1992; BITCHE-NER E BASTURKMEN, 2006; DONOHUE E ERLING, 2012), no Brasil, nunca foi feito um estudo que reunisse as principais dificuldades de pós-graduandos com a escrita acadêmica em inglês. Com o intuito de contribuir para o melhor conhecimento da complexidade do esforço de inserção de pesquisadores iniciantes na comunidade acadêmica global via publicação internacional, esta pesquisa de mestrado objetivou conhecer as dificuldades de pós-graduandos de uma universidade pública brasileira com a escrita acadêmica em inglês tanto na percepção discente quanto na docente e averiguar se haveria convergências ou divergências naquelas percepções. Dois questionários foram confeccionados e aplicados eletronicamente, angariando 385 participações (303 pós-graduandos e 82 professores). As análises quantitativa e qualitativa dos dados mostraram convergência nas percepções das duas maiores dificuldades de pós-graduandos (escrever um texto que soe natural em inglês e usar preposições adequadamente). Os dados não só revelaram uma crença predominantemente alinhada com uma visão tradicionalista do ensino da escrita em inglês (FERREIRA, 2007), mas também indicaram que as percepções de pós-graduandos sobre suas próprias deficiências com a escrita em inglês não eram claras. O conhecimento das dificuldades específicas de pós-graduandos com o inglês acadêmico escrito possibilitará o alinhamento das percepções de discentes e docentes, contribuindo assim para melhor orientar futuras iniciativas pedagógicas e institucionais que beneficiem tanto pós-graduandos quanto professores. / The growing internationalization of higher education (MOROSINI, 2006) has caused funding agencies and universities to put pressure on researchers to publish internationally (MUELLER, 2000). In order to increase the visibility of local research within the international academic context (FLOWERDEW, 1999), publication in high-impact factor journals usually occurs in English, the lingua franca of science (HÜLMBAUER et al., 2008). However, publishing in English challenges most non-native English speaking researchers (OLIVEIRA et al., 2006), especially junior researchers with little mastery of English. Although graduate students main difficulties have been regularly studied abroad, either from their own perspective (LEKI & CARSON, 1994; CABRAL & TAVARES, 2005; LAVELLE & BUSHROW, 2007; ENE, 2014), from their professors (ENGLISH, 1999; PEDRA & NOCITO, 2012; CARRIÓ-PASTOR & MESTRE-MESTRE, 2014; DAVOUDI, NAFCHI & MALLAHI, 2015) or from both (CASANAVE & HUBBARD, 1992; BITCHENER & BASTURKMEN, 2006; DONOHUE & ERLING, 2012), in Brazil those students perceptions of their difficulties with academic English writing had never been gathered in one single investigation before. Hoping to cast light on the complex effort involved in junior researchers indictment into global academia through international publication, this research aimed at uncovering the difficulties graduate students in a Brazilian public university face with academic writing in English. Students and professors perceptions of the formers difficulties were investigated and then compared in order to reveal points of convergence or divergence. Two questionnaires were designed and applied, yielding 385 participants (303 graduate students and 82 professors). One of the main findings of the quantitative and qualitative data analysis is that students and teachers perceptions converge regarding the students main difficulties with writing in English: writing texts that would sound natural in English and using prepositions adequately. The data not only revealed a predominant belief in the traditional teaching of English and of writing (FERREIRA, 2007), but they also indicated that students perceptions of their own writing difficulties in English were unclear. The knowledge of specific challenges to graduate writing in English will facilitate the alignment of students and professors perceptions, thus contributing to inform future pedagogical and institutional initiatives benefitting both staff and students.

La culture informationnelle constitue une des compétences attribuées à l’employabilité des individus dans l’actuelle société de l’information, des connaissances et du savoir (SICS). En exigeant des compétences employables (CE), celle-ci prend à notre sens une nouvelle dimension (SICS&CE) faisant ainsi transiter le marché du travail du concept du « marché d’emploi » d’attributions fixes et de routines classiques à celui du « marché d’employabilité (MEMP) » sollicitant la flexibilité et les compétences adoptives et adaptatives aux changements socio-économiques. Désormais, la veille stratégique en général et précisément numérique, œuvre par son « Processus de production d’information et des connaissances » à développer la culture informationnelle de veille sur Internet (CIVI) pour améliorer les diverses compétences individuelles. Dans ce sens, cette thèse vient dans le cadre d’une analyse qualitative et une approche exploratoire interprétative, traiter la problématique du développement de la qualité des compétences définissant l’employabilité des apprenants, futurs diplômés universitaires. Elle cherche à savoir dans quelle mesure une veille pédagogique et stratégique universitaire peut améliorer la qualité de leurs compétences employables en culture CIVI, en adoptant dans son processus de production informationnelle, un marketing relationnel orienté-marché impliquant les apprenants universitaires en tant que « clients internes », aussi bien que les acteurs du marché d’employabilité en tant que « clients externes » ? En évoluant dans une perspective socio-constructiviste, des séries d’évaluations sur les compétences et les satisfactions des apprenants aussi bien que des modèles d’évaluation de leurs compétences en CIVI ont été élaborés dans le cadre d’une approche par compétence (APC) adoptant un marketing relationnel interne et externe. Cette approche se caractérise en premier lieu par une : « Orientation-Implication des Apprenants-Clients : OI-APCL » et en second lieu par une « Orientation-Implication du Marché d’employabilité : OI-MEMP », se basant sur un blog pédagogique en tant que Système informationnel et outil de veille Web.2.0, destiné à développer la compétence en culture informationnelle des apprenants. Ceci nous a conduit à constater dans le cadre de l’orientation vers une université d’employabilité, l’amélioration des taux des compétences par la baisse des groupes profanes en culture CIVI, passant de 88,74% à 41,94% et un taux de besoin de formation en culture CIVI passant de 89,50% à 46,50% conduisant à la satisfaction des apprenants et des acteurs d’employabilité impliqués dans notre travail et le recrutement de trois groupes des 20 binômes apprenants/diplômés concernés par notre travail, Ces résultats amènent à recommander l’adoption d’une « veille d’employabilité » pour le développement de la qualité des compétences individuelles dans une société SICS&CE sollicitant désormais en plus des connaissances et du savoir, l’actualisation par l’apprentissage à vie et la flexibilité d’adaptation aux changements et innovations, définissant ainsi l’employabilité des individus. / Information literacy is one of competences conferred to individual employability in information and knowledge society (IKS). By Requiring employable skills (EC), this society acquires a new dimension (SICS & CE) and passes labor market from classic concept of "job market" to "employability market (MEMP)" seeking flexibility and adaptive skills to changes. Foresight Scanning in general and specifically digital one, works by its "Information and Knowledge Production Process" to develop information literacy/Internet (CIVI) to improve various individual skills. In this sense, this thesis evolves in a qualitative and interpretative exploratory approach, to treat the issue of quality skills development, defining the employability of university students. It seeks to know how a universities’ foresight scanning will improve quality of their employable CIVI culture skill, by adopting in its informational production process, a market-oriented relational marketing involving university students as "internal customers ", as well as employability market actors as" external customers " ?Evolving in a socio-constructivist perspective, series of evaluations on skills and satisfactions of learners as well as their skills CIVI assessment models were developed as part of a competency based approach (SBA) adopting a relational internal and external marketing. This approach is characterized firstly by an "Orientation-Involvement of Learners-Clients: OI-APCL" and secondly by an "Orientation-Involvement of employability market: OI-MEMP," based on an educational blog as informational Web.2.0 System and monitoring tool designed to develop competency in information literacy learners. This led us to conclude in the orientation forward an employability university, skills levels improvement by declining secular groups CIVI culture, from 88.74% to 41.94% and a need for training CIVI rate of Culture from 89.50% to 46.50% resulting to learner employability and the recruitment of three groups of the 20 pairs graduate students involved in our work, This recommends adoption of an " Foresight Scanning employability" for quality development skills in SICS&CE society seeking now more than information and knowledge, but also flexibility skills to adapt changes and innovations defining really individual employability.

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Although we give library instruction in graduate courses per request,we reach a small number of students this way. Others will see us oneon-one,but we’re still missing the majority. Nearly all Boot Campersare unknown to us, which means they’ve had no formal graduatelibrary instruction prior to writing the biggest project of their academiclives.To this end, we offered two new strategy-based workshops, whichwe propose to outline as one single-session presentation at USETDAunder the category of “Student Support and Training” (ImpactfulETD Processing).In Boot Camp, Session One covers data management: physical andvirtual workspace organization, file structure, online data storage andbackups. The emphasis here is on where to put data and how to saveit. Online programs covered include free word processing softwaresuch as Google Docs, Word Online, Shutterbug, and Zoho Docs andcloud storage services such as Google Drive, Microsoft’s OneDrive,Mac’s iCloud Storage, Amazon storage, Box and Dropbox.Session Two of Boot Camp addresses research and citation management.Revamped to include the Association of College and ResearchLibraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Framework’s concepts, wepresent systematic research as a transferable skill, not an isolated casetied to one course or problem. This workshop incorporates criticalthinking into showing students how to construct a search; how tokeep on top of research through folders, feeds, and alerts; and how tomanage citations via Mendeley.After the presentation and discussion, attendees should be able torecognize the significant function librarians perform in a targetedprogram such as Boot Camp convey the value of formal, timelyintervention for graduate students assess the benefits of linking ouroverall methodology to the ACRL Framework replicate our offeringsto support their students at the point of need, and beyond.

Abstract Purpose This thesis aims to focus on how master students administer scholarly articles after they have found them. The purpose of the study is to detect how and to what extent people administer their articles from a personal information management-perspective (PIM). Method To answer the research questions, a web-based questionnaire survey was distributed which was announced to around 2,000 master students from different universities in Sweden. Most of the items in the survey focused on individual storage methods. The respondents were asked to rate the frequency of their different information administration behaviors on a seven level Likert-type-scale. Subsequently, items concerning specific information administration behaviors were posed, followed by questions on the respondent's sociodemographic status. The results were based on overall 316 answers. Analysis The quantitative data was analyzed using non-parametric tests such as Friedmans-test, Kruskal-Wallis-analysis, Wilcoxon-Signed Rank-test, Mann-Whitney-U-test and Chi-square-test with the statistical computer program SPSS. Findings The findings generally confirm that the majority of the surveyed graduate students are using scholarly articles. Regarding their information management, it is as usual to store the whole article as it is to store the reference. Further it is more common to choose electronic storage methods for articles and references than to use physical methods. The results highlight that most of the students use several method types and use them to varying extent. Neither age, computer skills, duration of study or satisfaction with their way of information storage influenced the quantity of used methods. Regarding specific handling, the storing of article copies on the computer’s hard drive were most frequently used. The respondents preferred furthermore to read the articles on a screen rather than printed paper versions. The influencing factors of gender, age, computer skills, subject discipline were affecting the choice of methods. General conclusions about these influencing factors are, however, complicated by possible occurring confounders. Moreover, the method types were used to different extents depending of subject discipline. Originality/value Most previous PIM research is concentrating on how people store information in general. The dealing and administrating with specific types of information are, however, rarely discussed. In the context of scholarly articles did research predominantly focus on seeking structures and reading patterns. The step between finding and reading an article has so far not directly been addressed in academic research. The study therefore is unique in addressing information storage systems of scholarly articles on such a large scale. Knowledge about storage patterns will help journal publishers and librarians to design more targeted solutions for journal systems and improve services like courses in information seeking. Paper type Two years master’s thesis

This dissertation adds to the growing body of research on L2 academic discourse socialization in classroom contexts. Although the importance of students' writing in socializing them into their target discourse communities has been well documented, much less has been made of how students learn through online activities when the division between more and less knowledgeable individuals are blurred. Addressing this gap, this qualitative extended case study explored the experiences and perspectives of novice L2 graduate students in academic literacy practices that involved online writing activities. The focal participants included five first-year female graduate students from different cultural backgrounds enrolled in a graduate class during fall 2008 semester. Data sources included interviews with focal students and with the professor, class observations, field notes, questionnaires, handouts, and students' reflective essays. Anchored in language socialization theories (Duff, 1996, 2003; Schieffelin & Ochs, 1986) and the notion of community of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998), this study provides an ecological perspective on these five L2 students' socialization into academic literacy activities. The findings revealed how the students negotiated competence, relations, and identities to participate legitimately as competent members of their classroom communities. This study also contributes to an understanding of the changing role of novice learners in a given academic community by analyzing how they variably exercise their agency and develop their subject positioning in academic literacy activities that are imbricated in social, cultural, and discoursal contexts. Ultimately, this study enriches the notions of academic discourse socialization by demonstrating the dialogic and transformative nature of academic literacy practices mediated by online discourses in order to highlight ever more contextual information. / text

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