The purpose of this study was to test a teacher inservice training model which was designed to increase the number and use of hands-on science activities, increase the number of times teachers teach science, and improve students' perceptions of science.

Este estudo foi realizado com os enfermeiros de um hospital universitário da cidade de São Paulo e teve como objetivo conhecer a percepção sobre a avaliação da aprendizagem nos treinamentos desenvolvidos. Para a coleta de dados utilizamos um instrumento contendo a pergunta: qual a sua percepção sobre a avaliação da aprendizagem nos programas de treinamento e desenvolvimento? Os discursos obtidos foram categorizados, segundo o referencial de Bardin, na modalidade análise de conteúdo, numa perspectiva qualitativa. Os resultados mostram que para esses sujeitos, a avaliação da aprendizagem se configura para o ponto que denominamos de avaliação do processo ensino-aprendizagem como um ato processual e permanente, para rever e refletir o passado para se construir o futuro no presente. É através da avaliação que iremos adequar os métodos didáticos às diferentes necessidades individuais, propiciando uma aprendizagem mais satisfatória e que leve a um crescimento integral. Esse processo mostra alguns fatores que dificultam ou impedem a avaliação como o fator tempo, despreparo do avaliador, sentimentos de medo, resignação e ansiedade. Referem-se também quanto à metodologia desenvolvida que inicia no diagnóstico das necessidades de treinamento indo até à questão de aquisição, retenção e transferência do aprendizado a curto e longo prazo. E que o aprendizado se faz nos planos afetivos, motor e cognitivo, sendo a pessoa o agente determinante das mudanças da realidade na qual esta inserida. / This study was made by a group of nurses from a University Hospital located in São Paulo city. The objective is to know the perception of learning valuation in developed trainings. The assessment was gathered by a tool containing a question: What is your perception on learning valuation in the training and developing programs? The answers obtained were set in categories according to BARDIN\'s analysis contents in a qualitative perspective. The results show that to these people, the learning valuation converges to the point we denominate valuation of the teaching-learning process as a processual and permanent act. This act leads us to review and ponderate on the past and build the future in the present. It\'s through the valuation that we can adequate pedagogic methods to the individual different necessities, then after provide a more satisfactory learning taking to a fully development. Such process shows some factors that make more difficult and restrain the valuation as a time factor, unprepared valuators, fear, resignation and anxiety. It also refers to methodology developed, which starts at the diagnostic of training needs and goes up to the acquisition question, retention and transferring of learning for short and long term. And also that learning acts on affective, motor and cognitive levels, being the person the determinant agent responsible for the changes of reality in which this person is involved.

A construção da educação permanente em saúde ultrapassa a existência de uma política de indução, pois essa prática educativa é parte constitutiva do trabalho em todas as dimensões que o compõe: a política, a organização e o cuidado. Ela ocorre no campo da micropolítica do encontro e, por isso, no campo das relações do trabalho vivo em ato. Objetivos: conhecer o processo de educação permanente em saúde no município de Sorocaba, na perspectiva dos profissionais; construir um plano de ações para avaliação de necessidades educativas, na lógica da educação permanente em saúde e planejar uma intervenção educativa, a partir da avaliação de necessidades. Metodologia: Adotamos a pesquisa-ação, considerada uma pesquisa social de cunho qualitativo e por sua coerência com os pressupostos da educação permanente em saúde. A primeira etapa do estudo contemplou 17 entrevistas, pautadas em questões norteadoras, com sete gestores e dez profissionais de saúde, incluindo médicos, dentistas, enfermeiros, técnicos de enfermagem e agentes comunitários de saúde, que atuam nos serviços de saúde do município; os relatos foram submetidos à analise de discurso do sujeito coletivo. A segunda etapa foi desenvolvida a partir de cinco encontros de grupo focal que tiveram a participação de seis técnicos de enfermagem e cinco enfermeiros que atuam na atenção primária à saúde do município. Resultados: Os principais resultados apontam que a percepção de educação permanente em saúde diverge entre os gestores e os trabalhadores; o movimento de educação permanente está acontecendo no município, embora, sem a legitimação necessária para o seu reconhecimento, entretanto, o cenário atual favorece a sua ampliação. Existem desafios para consecução da educação permanente, tais como a necessidade de superar a coexistência de paradigmas educativos contraditórios e de mobilizar potências nas pessoas envolvidas. O plano de ações para avaliação de necessidades educativas foi construído com base na experiência vivida no grupo focal e ancorado nas bases teóricas da educação permanente e obteve avaliação inicial favorável. O planejamento da ação educativa, elaborado pelos integrantes do grupo focal, apresentou como tema a Comunicação prejudicada no ambiente de trabalho, selecionado como prioridade dentre as necessidades. Esta ação envolve gestores, trabalhadores e usuários e consiste em estratégias de baixo custo, aplicáveis em diversos cenários e pautadas em ações simples e potencialmente capazes de qualificar as relações no cotidiano de trabalho. Considerações Finais: A educação permanente é uma prática possível no campo estudado, visto que seus princípios e objetivos têm acontecido de maneira informal e porque encontra, na atual organização administrativa, espaço formal de reconhecimento. Para concretizar esta prática, é preciso, daqui para frente, superar a contradição dos paradigmas coexistentes e avançar nos movimentos de sensibilização para valorização e legitimação do espaço do trabalho como um espaço de educação. O tema Comunicação, escolhido para a ação educativa, é significativo em um cenário de construção de educação dialógica. Este trabalho terá continuidade com a realização da ação ora proposta / The construction of permanent health education goes beyond the existence of an induction policy, as this educational practice is an integral part of the work in all dimensions that compose it: politics, organization and care. It occurs in the field of micro policy of meeting and therefore in the field of live work relationship in action. Objectives: know the process of permanent health education in the city of Sorocaba, from the professionals perspective; build a form of assessment of educational needs in health work subsidized by the premises of permanent health education and plan an educational intervention from the necessities evaluation. Methodology: We adopted the research-action, considered a social research with qualitative approach and also for its consistency with the assumptions of permanent health education. The first stage of the study included 17 interviews based in guided questions with 07 managers and 10 health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses, nurse technicians and community health workers who work in the municipal health services; the reports were submitted to discourse analysis of the collective subject. The second stage was developed from 05 focus group meetings that had the participations of six nursing technicians and five nurses who work over the primary attention of municipal health. Results: The main results show that the perception of permanent health education diverges between the managers and the workers; the continuing education action is happening in the city, although without the necessary legitimation for its recognition, on this way, the current scenario favors its expansion. Among the challenges is highlighted the necessity to overcome the coexistence of contradictory educational paradigms and to mobilize the potential in the involved people. The research of educational necessities model was built based on the experience lived in this study, in the results found and grounded on the theorical bases of permanent education. Among the emerged diagnostics, the intervention priority was focused on the Communication, including managers, employees and users. The educational proposal, drawn up by members of the focused group, consists of low cost strategies, applicable in various scenarios and guided by simple actions and potentially able to qualify the daily work relationships. Final Thoughts: The permanent education is a possible practice in the studied field since its principles and objectives has happened informally and thus it founds in the current administrative organization formal space of recognition; it is necessary now to proceed in the mobilization movements, aware the people involved and to overcome the contradiction of coexisting paradigms. The evaluation model of educational needs has shown successful in its application and had favorable initial evaluation. Communication the theme chosen for the educational action is significantly in a dialogical education building scenario that supports the permanent health education. This work will have continuity with the implementation and evaluation of this proposal

The need for inservice training of teachers has increased as the nature of schooling changes, and underlying philosophies, structures and theories undergo revision. An understanding of how teachers perceive inservice courses may assist in designing inservice programs which best meet the needs of education systems, schools and individual teachers. This study examined teachers' perceptions of inservice as it affects them in their schools, and their acceptance of different content and structures of inservice models. It also examined different groups within the teacher sample, to establish whether differences in gender, the area of teaching they are involved in, their years of teaching experience, or the number of inservice courses they attend affect their perceptions. The subjects for the study were a group of Kindergarten to Year 12 teachers from randomly sampled schools in the Western Region of New South Wales Department of School Education. The survey was completed by 304 respondents and a randomly selected sub-sample participated in a semi-structured interview. Results of the study shows generally that teachers do value the impact of inservice courses, both in the classroom and on their own sense of professional development, and that they have preferences for particular content and models of inservice courses.

School Psychologists may be well-suited to provide Professional Learning (PL) to assist schools in meeting increased student standards, responding to demands for accountability, and meeting the needs of a diversifying population. School psychologists possess a depth and breadth of knowledge and skills; and, certain aspects of the school psychologist role (e.g., flexibility in service delivery and scheduling) may enable them to reap the potential benefits of broader impact and preventive focus through PL. Little is known about the PL practices of school psychologists due to a lack of research. This study attempts to fill the research gap by exploring the perceptions and practices of school psychologists as related to providing PL. The research identifies situational and personal variables that might contribute to the likelihood of providing PL as a service. Finally, motivations for provid­ing PL and levels of satisfaction derived from the provision of PL are explored. The survey method for this study consisted of a three stage recursive process in which earlier stages informed modifications to later stages based on feedback. First, interviews informed the construction of an initial survey. The survey was piloted with two consecutive groups and amended to assist with clarification. The final survey was sent to a stratified, random, national sample of practicing school psychologists. Descriptive statistics were used to describe PL practices, the personal and situational variables under investigation, motivations for providing PL and satisfaction derived from PL delivery. Inferential statistics were used to investigate relationships between personal and situational variables and PL delivery.

Diss. Linköping : Univ., 2001.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1944.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1981.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1944.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1981.