Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2018-03-15T13:45:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIANA PEREIRA DA SILVA.pdf: 1495567 bytes, checksum: cfe3269f86ef6ee276b2a7ebc6ca324d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-15T13:45:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIANA PEREIRA DA SILVA.pdf: 1495567 bytes, checksum: cfe3269f86ef6ee276b2a7ebc6ca324d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-01-30 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico - CNPq / This dissertation presents the results of an ?intervention-research?, which is so named due to the relevance of the intervention in the whole process. In this way, the objectives were to promote an intervention in a reflection group about work and health with workers from an automobile industry and to analyze the health-disease process experienced by them. It was attended by 14 workers from the same company whose form of organization of work and the productive processes is characteristic of Toyotism, a model of organization that stimulates individualism, competitiveness, outsourcing, flexibility and thus may favor the processes of work-related mental disorders. These workers shared their daily experiences related to work and reflected on them in a group, performed at CEREST in Campinas ? SP, over 11 meetings, during the period of six months. The group had an open character and was built together to the participants. The information shared by them showed that, initially, they wanted a lot to join the company, and while being admitted, they felt they have achieved a dream. During time, however, that dream has become a nightmare, as they experienced a context of psychological violence and demands for a high rate of production, which ended up favoring the development of physical injuries. As a result, the work-related mental suffering was intensified, as the injured workers were excluded, humiliated and reinserted to work in incompatible functions. In this sense, in the reflection group, subjects such as work under capitalism, flexible speech, the workers? guilt for illness, their life stories, new life projects, the union and solidarity among them, among other examples were discussed through conversation wheels and use of mediating materiality. It is possible to say that this kind of group assisted in the promotion of elements for the development of more critical reflections by the workers, who closed the meetings feeling less blame, stronger, united, in solidarity to each other, more active and responsible for social transformation. / Esta disserta??o apresenta os resultados de uma ?interven??o-pesquisa?, que est? sendo assim denominada devido ? relev?ncia da interven??o em todo o processo. Desse modo, os objetivos foram promover uma interven??o em um grupo de reflex?o sobre trabalho e sa?de com trabalhadores de uma ind?stria automobil?stica e analisar o processo de sa?de-adoecimento vivenciado por eles. Participaram 14 trabalhadores de uma mesma empresa, cuja forma de organiza??o do trabalho e dos processos produtivos ? caracter?stica do Toyotismo, um modelo de organiza??o que estimula o individualismo, a competitividade, a terceiriza??o, a flexibiliza??o e, assim, pode favorecer os processos de adoecimento mental relacionados ao trabalho. Tais trabalhadores compartilharam suas viv?ncias cotidianas relacionadas ao trabalho e refletiram sobre elas em um grupo, realizado no CEREST de Campinas - SP, ao longo de 11 encontros, durante o per?odo de seis meses. O grupo tinha um car?ter aberto e foi constru?do juntamente aos participantes. As informa??es compartilhadas por eles mostraram que, inicialmente, desejavam muito ingressar na empresa e, ao serem admitidos, sentiam ter realizado um sonho. Com o passar do tempo, no entanto, esse sonho se tornou pesadelo, na medida em que vivenciavam um contexto de viol?ncia psicol?gica e exig?ncias por alto ritmo de produ??o, o que acabava favorecendo o desenvolvimento de les?es f?sicas. Com isso, o sofrimento mental relacionado ao trabalho foi se intensificando, pois os trabalhadores lesionados eram exclu?dos, humilhados e reinseridos ao trabalho em fun??es incompat?veis. Nesse sentido, no grupo de reflex?o, se discutiu, por meio de rodas de conversa e utiliza??o de materialidades mediadoras, temas como o trabalho no capitalismo, o discurso flex?vel, a culpabiliza??o dos trabalhadores pelo adoecimento, suas hist?rias de vida, novos projetos de vida, a uni?o e a solidariedade entre eles, entre outros exemplos. Pode-se dizer que essa modalidade de grupo auxiliou na promo??o de elementos para o desenvolvimento de reflex?es mais cr?ticas pelos trabalhadores, que encerraram os encontros sentindo-se menos culpados, mais fortalecidos, unidos, solid?rios uns aos outros, mais ativos e respons?veis pela transforma??o social.

Assessment, as an integral part of teaching and learning, gained unprecedented prominence in the curriculum in South Africa post 1994. When the new curriculum was introduced, it was assumed that teachers would effortlessly adapt their teaching and assessment practices, and swiftly implement the curriculum. Fourteen years after the inception of the new curriculum, majority of teachers are still grappling with issues of assessment. Previously, there was an exclusive bias towards summative assessment, which is mainly learning product–orientated and less or no focus on the other assessment typologies such as diagnostic and formative assessment, which are learning process–orientated. Of these typologies, diagnostic assessment is not being used maximally to enhance mathematics learning and inform the nature of the interventions to attend to learners’ needs. The study focused on diagnostic assessment by investigating the impact of a particular model, GIST model, on the learning barriers and learner achievement in mathematics among the grade 9 learners. The investigation of the impact of the GIST model was done through the experimental design in four schools with class sizes of d > 40. Data were collected quantitatively through Study Orientation Questionnaire (SOM) and Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) as well as qualitatively through interviews, observations and document analysis. The t–test and the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) revealed that the GIST model improved the learner achievement practically significantly (d = 0.79). However, the GIST model could not mitigate the learning barriers and improve correlations between SOM and MAT. The study, however, does find grounds to conclude that the latter findings can be attributed to teachers’ lacking understanding and implementation of diagnostic assessment, in particular the GIST components. Hence, certain recommendations are posed with regard to the applicable training of teachers in order to empower them to effectively utilize diagnostic assessment and to guide learners in overcoming learning barriers in mathematics. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Mathematics Education))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

Assessment, as an integral part of teaching and learning, gained unprecedented prominence in the curriculum in South Africa post 1994. When the new curriculum was introduced, it was assumed that teachers would effortlessly adapt their teaching and assessment practices, and swiftly implement the curriculum. Fourteen years after the inception of the new curriculum, majority of teachers are still grappling with issues of assessment. Previously, there was an exclusive bias towards summative assessment, which is mainly learning product–orientated and less or no focus on the other assessment typologies such as diagnostic and formative assessment, which are learning process–orientated. Of these typologies, diagnostic assessment is not being used maximally to enhance mathematics learning and inform the nature of the interventions to attend to learners’ needs. The study focused on diagnostic assessment by investigating the impact of a particular model, GIST model, on the learning barriers and learner achievement in mathematics among the grade 9 learners. The investigation of the impact of the GIST model was done through the experimental design in four schools with class sizes of d > 40. Data were collected quantitatively through Study Orientation Questionnaire (SOM) and Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) as well as qualitatively through interviews, observations and document analysis. The t–test and the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) revealed that the GIST model improved the learner achievement practically significantly (d = 0.79). However, the GIST model could not mitigate the learning barriers and improve correlations between SOM and MAT. The study, however, does find grounds to conclude that the latter findings can be attributed to teachers’ lacking understanding and implementation of diagnostic assessment, in particular the GIST components. Hence, certain recommendations are posed with regard to the applicable training of teachers in order to empower them to effectively utilize diagnostic assessment and to guide learners in overcoming learning barriers in mathematics. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Mathematics Education))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In the fields of formal and informal online adult education, the absence of a social context for instruction has been found to present significant limitations for learner persistence and retention. In the field of online psychoeducational intervention, self-administered and self-paced individualized prevention programs have been developed for delivery to large populations of anonymous users. These delivery models provide limited social context for instructional activities, due in part to the anonymity of their participants. When social interaction is included in their prevention programs through voluntary, asynchronous self-help/mutual aid discussion forums, anonymity may still limit social interaction, in favor of observational learning advantages for self-efficacy appraisals derived from "lurking". When these large-group models have been applied to online psychoeducation intervention programs for the purposes of encouraging mutual aid, interactive participation has been limited. This mixed methods study focused on a model for the design of an online small group psychoeducational intervention that integrated individual and social learning in a parent management training program. Self-paced participation was replaced with facilitator-led participation in an asynchronous discussion forum where topics were prioritized and sequenced with learning content from individual web-based training modules. Social interaction was facilitated through online problem-based learning discussion group. Despite assertions that interactive participation in online psychoeducational discussion forums may only be accomplished once a subscriber threshold of several hundred participants has been reached, this study found that small group participation through the program's integrated design resulted large effects for increases in parent self-agency and reduction of over-reactive, coercive parenting behaviors. Participation in the online problem-based group discussion forum was found to have contributed to participant outcomes when posting characteristics revealed the presence of both mutual aid processes and the application of individual learning module content.