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No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Erikson Custódio Alcântara - 2017.pdf: 2750850 bytes, checksum: 9f97b00402a4bd9aad08052aee1aa37c (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-01 / Background: Video Lesson is a multimedia system, with text narration and illustration, capable of promoting the training of Primary Care professionals. To evaluate the effect of training, an assessment tool is needed, however, there are no validated instruments that measure knowledge about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) among these professionals. Objective: Validate a knowledge questionnaire about COPD for Primary Care professionals and train them on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Methods: Initially, a methodological study was carried out with 88 Primary Care professionals to elaborate and validate a questionnaire. Then, quasiexperimental study with 36 primary care professionals in order to enable them, through videotapes. The knowledge of the professionals was measured before, shortly after and three months after being trained by the "Primary Care - COPD Knowledge Questionnaire (QAP-COPD)". To analyze the reproducibility and reliability of the questionnaire, the Kappa and α Cronbach tests were applied respectively. In the evaluation of the knowledge, the tests of Friedman and Tukey a posteriori, Bonferroni correction and the χ2 test were used. A significance level of 5% was adopted. Results: The questionnaire presented reproducibility in most items (87.5%) from good to excellent (Kappa: 0.61 - 0.88) and reliability with α Cronbach = 0.763. Of the 16 items in the questionnaire, the professionals who indicated the "agree" option, before the training, soon after opting for the "totally agree" option, in 11 items (68.8%). Fourteen items had a significant difference before and after training, but in the moments just after and three months after the training, 14 items did not present significant differences. The median score of the participants' questionnaire increased from 60 points before training to 77 shortly after and three months after training (p <0.001). In the three months after there was no significant statistical difference, in relation to the soon after (p = 0.38). Conclusions: The questionnaire met the psychometric properties and proved to be reproducible and reliable in the evaluation of knowledge about COPD among primary care professionals. The videotaped training presented satisfactory results observed by the good performance of the knowledge of Primary Care professionals, before and shortly after the training and the maintenance of this knowledge after three months of the training program. / Introdução: A videoaula é um sistema de multimídia, com narração de texto e ilustração, capaz de promover a capacitação de profissionais da Atenção Primária. Para avaliar o efeito da capacitação é preciso um instrumento de avaliação, no entanto, não há instrumentos validados que meçam o conhecimento sobre Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crônica (DPOC) entre esses profissionais. Objetivo: Validar questionário de conhecimento sobre DPOC para os profissionais da Atenção Primária e capacitá-los sobre doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica. Métodos: Inicialmente realizouse estudo metodológico com 88 profissionais da Atenção Primária para elaborar e validar um questionário. Em seguida, estudo quase experimental com 36 profissionais da Atenção Primária com intuito de capacitá-los, por meio de videoaulas. O conhecimento dos profissionais foi medido antes, logo após e três meses após a capacitação pelo “Questionário de Conhecimento sobre DPOC na Atenção Primária – (QAP-DPOC)”. Para análise da reprodutibilidade e confiabilidade do questionário, aplicou-se o teste Kappa e α Cronbach respectivamente. Na avaliação do conhecimento utilizou os testes de Friedman e Tukey á posteriori, correção de Bonferroni e o teste χ2. Foi adotado um nível de significância de 5%. Resultados: O questionário apresentou reprodutibilidade na maioria dos itens (87,5%) de bom a excelente (Kappa: 0,61 – 0,88) e confiabilidade com α Cronbach = 0,763. Dos 16 itens do questionário, os profissionais que assinalaram a opção “concordo”, antes da capacitação, logo após optaram pela opção “concordo totalmente”, em 11 itens (68,8%). Quatorze itens apresentaram diferença significativa antes e logo após a capacitação, porém nos momentos logo após e três meses após a capacitação, 14 itens não apresentaram diferenças significativas. A mediana do escore total do questionário dos participantes aumentou de 60 pontos antes da capacitação para 77 logo após e três meses após a capacitação (p < 0,001). Nos três meses após não houve diferença estatística significante, em relação ao logo após (p = 0,38). Conclusões: O questionário atendeu às propriedades psicométricas e mostrou-se reprodutível e confiável na avaliação do conhecimento sobre DPOC entre profissionais da Atenção Primária. A capacitação por videoaula apresentou resultados satisfatórios observados pelo bom desempenho do conhecimento dos profissionais da Atenção Primária, antes e logo após a capacitação e a manutenção deste conhecimento decorrido três meses do programa de capacitação.

本研究目的為建構中小學校長在職專業增能課程指標，提供校長專業發展支持機構、教育行政機關作為校長在職增能與專業發展相關課程與政策制定之參考。研究方法部分，經由文獻探討分析初擬中小學校長在職專業增能課程指標，邀請13位相關領域專家學者以及資深經歷之中小學校長針對指標進行適切性評估與指標修訂，而後以概念構圖法進行指標分群與重要性評定，得出上位概念之指標構面及權重，建構中小學校長在職專業增能課程指標系統，依據研究結果與分析歸納結論與建議如下。 結論： （一）本研究建構之中小學校長在職專業增能課程指標系統共計五構面22項指標，構面分別為：「一、課程教學與學生學習」構面含5項指標、「二、領導知能與溝通決策」構面含4項指標、「三、資源運用與空間規劃」構面含5項指標、「四、行政實務與知識管理」構面含4項指標、「五、學校行銷與品牌形塑」構面含4項指標。 （二）「領導知能與溝通決策」構面為最重要之中小學校長在職專業增能課程指標構面。 （三）學生適性學習及危機管理為最重要之中小學校長在職專業增能課程指標。 （四）中小學校長在職專業課程指標於不同對象之重要性有其差異，學者專家認為「學生適性發展」及「危機管理與實務」兩項最為重要；資深經歷中小學校長則認為「學生適性發展」、「學校領導知能與實務」及「辦學理念與校務發展規劃」最為重要。 建議： （一） 中小學校長在職增能宜建立有系統化之課程指標作為參照。 （二） 中小學校長在職專業增能課程首重於領導知能與溝通決策。 （三） 中小學校長在職專業增能課程宜著重於學生適性發展。 （四） 中小學校長在職專業增能課程建構應參酌不同利害關係人意見。 / The purpose of this study is to construct the indicators of inservice professional development course for elementary and secondary school principals, which provide principals professional development support agencies and educational administration departments as a reference for planning principals inservice professional development course and policy related to professional growth and professional development. As for research method, by means of literature review, 22 indicators of inservice professional development course for school principals had been organized based on an expert survey, which survey 13 experts. Concept mapping questionnaire used to analyze experts' opinion on the importance of each indicator and to help indicator selection. At last stage, find the weight of each indicator within each dimension and construct the system of indicators of inservice professional development course for school principals. The main conclusions as below: 1.　This study constructs an indicator system of inservice professional development course for school principals of 5 dimensions and 22 indicators in total. The 5 dimensions are: I. curriculum, teaching and student learning, which include 5 indicators. II. leadership knowledge, communication and decision making, which include 4 indicators. III. resource utilization and campus space planning, which include 5 indicators. IV. administrative practice and knowledge management, which include 5 indicators. V. school marketing and brand shaping, which include 5 indicators. 2.　Leadership knowledge, communication and decision-making is the most important dimension of inservice professional development course for school principals. 3.　Adaptive learning and crisis management are the most received expert attention. 4.　The importance of different objects have their differences of inservice professional development course for school principals. Scholar think Adaptive learning and crisis management are the most important indicators. on the other hand, school principal think Adaptive learning, school leadership knowledge and practice, and school philosophy and development planning are the most important indicators. According to the result, here are some recommendations as below: 1.　It is advisable to establish systematic curriculum indicators as a reference for inservice professional development course for school principals. 2.　Inservice professional development course for school principals most emphasis on leadership knowledge and communication and decision-making. 3.　Inservice professional development course for school principals most emphasis on Adaptive learning. 4.　Inservice professional development course for school principals should take into account the views of different stakeholders.

The overall purpose of this collected papers dissertation was to examine the utility of a cognitive apprenticeship-based instructional coaching (CAIC) model for improving the science teaching efficacy beliefs (STEB) of preservice and inservice elementary teachers. Many of these teachers perceive science as a difficult subject and feel inadequately prepared to teach it. However, teacher efficacy beliefs have been noted as the strongest indicator of teacher quality, the variable most highly correlated with student achievement outcomes. The literature is scarce on strong, evidence-based theoretical models for improving STEB. This dissertation is comprised of two studies. STUDY #1 was a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study investigating the impact of a reformed CAIC elementary science methods course on the STEB of 26 preservice teachers. Data were collected using the Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEBI-B) and from six post-course interviews. A statistically significant increase in STEB was observed in the quantitative strand. The qualitative data suggested that the preservice teachers perceived all of the CAIC methods as influential, but the significance of each method depended on their unique needs and abilities. STUDY #2 was a participatory action research case study exploring the utility of a CAIC professional development program for improving the STEB of five Bahamian inservice teachers and their competency in implementing an inquiry-based curriculum. Data were collected from pre- and post-interviews and two focus group interviews. Overall, the inservice teachers perceived the intervention as highly effective. The scaffolding and coaching were the CAIC methods portrayed as most influential in developing their STEB, highlighting the importance of interpersonal relationship aspects in successful instructional coaching programs. The teachers also described the CAIC approach as integral in supporting their learning to implement the new inquiry-based curriculum. The overall findings hold important implications for science education reform, including its potential to influence how preservice teacher training and inservice teacher professional development in science are perceived and implemented. Additionally, given the noteworthy results obtained over the relatively short durations, CAIC interventions may also provide an effective means of achieving improvements in preservice and inservice teachers’ STEB more expeditiously than traditional approaches.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The school environment presents a valuable opportunity for the identification, monitoring and support of children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS and poverty. Many children are caring for parents suffering from AIDS-related illnesses and/or they are the main breadwinner of the household. As a result of HIV/AIDS and poverty therefore, children might be dropping out of school, or their ability to perform adequately at school might be significantly reduced. The aim of this study was to use a case study approach to explore and describe support provision in a South African formal school, examining, in particular, the relative significance of leadership, organisational development and gender-related matters in addressing the needs of children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS and poverty. The availability and quality of this support is analysed within the context of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) transforming itself from a system focused on controlling schools to a system focused on supporting schools. The reflexive qualitative research approach was decided upon m order to describe and understand how, and to what extent, the teachers and the principal of a poverty-stricken primary school might benefit from the WCED's systemic change processes when addressing issues related to HIV/AIDS and poverty. The methodological rationale for this qualitative research approach forms part of a search for meaning within the cultural context(s) of the school in an effort to understand issues related to HIV/AIDS in schools. The research's second aim was to establish principles for an approach to educational support, which would be applicable in similar situations elsewhere. In the case study, the focus is on the WCED supporting the principal and teachers at a poverty-stricken primary school in carrying out their roles as leaders, teachers and caregivers. In order for the principal and teachers to provide quality support to the learners, they themselves need to receive appropriate forms of support from the education system. For this research to be contextually grounded, questions around HIV/AIDS and the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children in many communities were considered. One of the central questions was: How are the challenges of daily life in the running of a school met where issues related to poverty and health are dominant? Gender-based sexual violence and sexual abuse of children, as well as other social problems affecting learners in the school investigated for this thesis were included in the addressing of the main questions The complexity of the issues involved when exploring the research questions became increasingly more apparent during the research journey of this thesis. I experienced fully the potential of the case study to provide a 'thick' description and contribute significantly to an in-depth understanding of a complex phenomenon from a local and holistic perspective. I was able to focus on how the macro-narratives of support policy connected to the micro-narratives of teachers in primary schools. Based on the findings of the research, I concluded that the problems of HIV/AIDS-affected children, families and communities do not only overlap considerably with the problems related to poverty - a widely held view among researchers - but that poverty-related problems may, indeed, conceal the very existence of HIV/AIDS. The investigation shows that the wide-spread poverty affecting the case school learners, seems to have 'blinded' teachers in terms of 'seeing' the learner in a context of HIV/AIDS. This phenomenon in the case school was observed in spite of the HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinator claiming that the district's teachers had learned to 'see' the learner in ways which they had not prior to the introduction of the WCED's HIV/AIDS Life Skills Programme I trust that the different stakeholders within the field of education and HIV/AIDS will benefit from the findings and recommendations flowing from this investigation. First and foremost, I believe that the lessons learnt from the fieldwork, could be of use to South African stakeholders generally, and, in particular, to the Western Cape Education Department and those working as school support staff at district level (the EMDCs). The findings of the study may provide valuable feedback to the current practices of the school support structures, including the voluntary HIV/AIDS support structure, and form a basis for informed further action by the relevant government departments and other stakeholders in education. In this way, the thesis could contribute to improved formal school support provision in the context of HIV/AIDS, and therefore, serve to enhance the quality of education for all children.

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<p>Content about learners with gifts and talents is not necessarily a part of most teacher education programs. Without high quality training and professional development opportunities, preservice and inservice teachers are left with no tools to identify and serve the students with gifts and talents. However, adding more content is not enough. The successful translation of training and professional development into effective practice depends on understanding teacher motivation, debunking misconceptions, building adequate knowledge base, and building teacher identity. I adopted several theoretical perspectives in this study: teacher identity formation (Gardner & Kaplan, 2018), Teacher Efficacy (Tschannen-Moran et al., 1998), Teacher Goal Orientations (Butler, 2007), beliefs about gifted learners and gifted education (Gagne & Nadeau, 1991; McCoach & Siegle, 2007), desire to teach (Watt & Richardson, 2007). My participants were 236 preservice teachers who desire to teach learners with gifts and talents and inservice teachers in gifted education.</p><p>The objectives of this mixed-methods investigation were: (1) identifying the differences between preservice and inservice teachers in measures of identity, beliefs, motivation, and desire to teach learners with gifts and talents, (2) modeling the structural relationships among dimensions of identity, motivation, beliefs, and desire to teach, and (3) understanding how participants experiences and perceptions inform their identity, motivation, and belief systems. I used a combination of Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and qualitative thematic analysis to answer my research questions.</p><p>Findings revealed inservice teachers (n=155) have high levels of relational goals, instructional efficacy, positive beliefs, and teacher identity, while preservice teachers (n=81) have high levels of intrinsic motivation and social value for gifted education. SEM showed that teacher identity, mastery goals, influenced positive beliefs; teacher identity was influenced by efficacy, mastery and relational goals. The strongest predictors of desire to teach learners with gifts and talents were teacher identity, teacher efficacy, and relational goals. Qualitative findings indicated that self-perceptions as gifted played a meaningful role in participants deciding to become teachers, understanding the needs of gifted learners, and advocating for gifted education.</p>

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