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Despite the existence of nineteen universities in Lebanon, student motivation and achievement have not received attention in relation to attribution theory by Lebanese researchers. In the present study, attribution theory is used as a conceptual framework for investigating the motivation of undergraduate business computing students at a Mediterranean university based on their academic achievement in an introductory computer programming course. While numerous studies have used attribution theory as a framework to study student motivation based on hypothetical scenarios or laboratory tasks, this study investigated forty-five male and female business computing students who completed a computer programming course that lasted for a thirteen-week semester. Instead of focusing on either success or failure, the study explored five strata of achievement outcomes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to obtain students' perceptions. The participants made 11 causal attributions for their achievement outcomes. Only two of those 11 causes appeared in the original attribution theory model (Weiner et al. 1971, p.96), but they were amongst those least cited in this study. This study also shows that of the 11 causes, 'lack of study' and 'appropriate learning strategy' were the leading ones. The latter was cited by all high achievers. While there was total agreement on some of the underlying causal properties of some causal attributions, other causal attributions were perceived differently in the causal space. In addition, there was strong evidence that globality is a fourth dimension in this achievement context. Furthermore, the two dimensions of the Expectancy-Value motivation model (Amone 2005, p.4) do not seem to relate to attribution theory dimensions in this study, especially for low achievers. Finally, it was possible to identify some attribution styles that lead to either success or failure, thus supporting the predictive power of attribution theory.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-06-30T15:01:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiza Correia Hruschka.pdf: 1149081 bytes, checksum: cbbd2671588e2b122c2c2fcc472fff7e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-30T15:01:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiza Correia Hruschka.pdf: 1149081 bytes, checksum: cbbd2671588e2b122c2c2fcc472fff7e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-05 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study aims to analyze usage of sociodramatic methodology to improve didactics of Administration undergraduate courses, according to their students’ profiles. The main themes of this research are: Education, Pedagogy and Didactics; Methodology and Didactics of Undergraduate Teaching; Teachers’ Formation and Continuous Development; Teaching-learning Process; Andragogy; Group Theory; Psychodrama and Sociodrama. In that order, a qualitative study with an exploratory approach and experimental aspects was chosen. The instrument used is the TREM – Transform, Highlight, Exclude and Maintain – which refers to an individual evaluation assessment that enables the participant to evaluate the sociodramatic class according to the following criteria: teacher’s posture in the classroom, understanding of the teaching-learning process, and the teacher’s perception about student’s behavior in the class. Nine undergraduate classes’ teachers took part in this study, which seven were from Administration area, one from Pedadogy area and the last one from Automation and High School areas. Collected data from the TREM instrument were divided according to the evaluation criteria in order to improve reader’s understanding about the study. The research concludes that usage of sociodramatic methodology changes the studied teachers’ didactics, since 56% of their difficulties are related do dispersion, disinterest and demotivation, and applying this methodology makes the students more participative and interested in classes, turning them into part of the teaching-learning process. An important result related to the methodology usage is that teachers stimulates students’ participation, improve their listening, includes practical activities, better time management and bigger compliance to proposed program. Relating to teaching-learning process, the students becomes active subject of the process, their experiences are valued, it becomes possible to identify and correct their difficulties, and it highlights teamwork towards developing cooperative construction skills and interpersonal relationships. About the student behavior in the classroom, it becomes protagonist, gains responsibilities and lowers cellphone usage and parallel conversations, since its needed to experience classroom steps, and gives more ease to perform practical activities. As a challenge, for future studies, it needs to improve usage of techniques directed to the stages that compose the sociodramatic classes, mainly, for those teachers who frequently use expository techniques. Another challenge to consider is the technique of dramatization in the teaching-learning process, based on the sociodramatic methodology, which deserves a greater emphasis. / Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar o uso da metodologia sociodramática no aperfeiçoamento da didática dos professores dos cursos de administração, de acordo com o perfil de alunos do nível superior. Os temas que fundamentam esta pesquisa são: Educação, Pedagogia e Didática; Metodologia e Didática do Ensino Superior; Formação e Aperfeiçoamento Contínuo de Professores; Processo de ensino-aprendizagem; Andragogia; Teoria de Grupo; Psicodrama e Sociodrama. Para tanto, optou-se por um estudo de caráter qualitativo com enfoque exploratório e com elementos experimentais. O instrumento utilizado é o TREM – Transformar, Realçar, Excluir e Manter – o qual se refere a um formulário de avaliação individual, em que o participante avalia a aula sociodramática colocada em prática, levando em consideração os seguintes critérios: a postura do professor em sala de aula, a leitura do processo de ensino-aprendizagem e a percepção do professor em relação à postura do aluno com a implantação da referida aula. Os participantes da pesquisa são nove professores, sendo que sete pertencem a área da administração, um a área da pedagogia e outro ao curso de automação e ensino médio. Os dados coletados, por meio do instrumento TREM, estão agrupados de acordo com os critérios de avaliação estabelecidos para facilitar a leitura e a compreensão do estudo. As conclusões da pesquisa revelam que a utilização da metodologia sociodramática produz modificações na didática dos professores pesquisados, uma vez que 56% das suas dificuldades estão relacionadas à dispersão, desinteresse e desmotivação, e com a aplicação da metodologia os alunos tornam-se participativos e interessados na aula, passando a fazer parte do processo de ensino-aprendizagem. Como importantes resultados encontrados, com a utilização da metodologia, em relação à postura do professor tem-se que este passa a estimular a participação do aluno, desenvolve maior escuta, passa a incluir atividades práticas, melhora a administração do tempo e maior fidelidade ao programa. Quanto ao processo de ensino-aprendizagem, o aluno torna-se o sujeito ativo do processo, suas experiências são valorizadas, torna-se possível identificar dificuldades para poder saná-las, além do realce do trabalho em grupo para o desenvolvimento de habilidades de co-construção e de relacionamento interpessoal. E, em relação à postura do aluno em sala de aula, ele torna-se protagonista, aumenta sua responsabilidade, o uso do celular e as conversas paralelas ficam em segundo plano, pois têm que vivenciar as etapas da aula, assim como passam a ter maior facilidade em realizar as atividades práticas. Como desafio, para próximos estudos, faz-se necessário aprimorar a utilização de técnicas voltadas para as etapas que compõem às aulas sociodramática, principalmente, para aqueles professores que empregam frequentemente técnicas expositivas. Outro desafio a se considerar, é quanto a utilização da técnica da dramatização no processo de ensino-aprendizagem, a partir da metodologia sociodramática, a qual merece uma ênfase maior.