This study examined the value of the HESI Admission Assessment in predicting student success. Associate degree (N ≤ 68) and baccalaureate (N ≤ 69) nursing students took the HESI Admission Assessment after acceptance into the nursing programs for the purpose of identifying their academic weaknesses and focusing their remediation efforts. Findings indicated that the HESI Admission Assessment was a valid predictor of students' academic ability to succeed in the nursing programs. In the associate degree nursing program, HESI Admission Assessment scores were significantly positively correlated with 88.89% of all nursing course grades in the program and 100% of the beginning-level course grades. In the baccalaureate nursing program, HESI Admission Assessment scores were significantly positively correlated with 50.00% of all nursing course grades in the program and 80.00% of beginning-level course grades. Furthermore, associate degree nursing students who completed the program had significantly higher HESI Admission Assessment scores than those who did not complete the program.

The educational industry has evolved with the development of computer technology. The online education system (OES) provides a more effective and efficient educational strategy for students benefiting from computer science technologies. There is a need for a mapping of knowledge definition from the traditional education system to the data gathered from the non-traditional OES. This would make the measurement of knowledge possible for OES. The study aims to (a) find an appropriate knowledge definition through a literature review process, and (b) based on the definition measure students’ knowledge in OES, such as Hypocampus, by using machine learning techniques. Experiments were conducted using a well-known Bayesian KnowledgeTracing (BKT) model. The evaluation was performed on 3300 students studying medicine in France using Hypocampus OES. As a result, the student’s knowledge was measured in skills, performance, and achievement per subject with 81% average accuracy. The obtained results suggest the potential of the presented approach for measuring students’ knowledge in OES.

This study compares adult education systems in Sweden and Eritrea using a qualitative method based on document analysis. The research fills a gap in the literature by examining the similarities and differences in adult education policies of the two nations. The researcher will look for information on the purposes, legal bases and providers of adult education in Sweden and Eritrea before coming up with an explanation of the parallels and differences he discovered throughout his research. The study covers basic and upper secondary levels of adult education and uses relevant laws, regulations, legislation, and publications. The findings show that adult education is primarily used to foster civic competence, employable skills, and environmental awareness in both countries. However, there are differences between the two nations, such as Sweden's unique non-formal program called popular adult education and Eritrea's focus on literacy and life skills (Integrated functional adult education). Despite these differences, both countries view adult education as essential for fostering a democratic political culture.

This project examines how the confluence of nineteenth-century England’s educational reform, periodical literature, and scientific community growth contributed to a public dialogue between science and spiritualism that positioned the two as antithetical. I argue that this media-borne dialogue entrenched in the public consciousness a scientific domain claiming authority through masculinized, exclusionary language that effectively enclosed knowledge within objective measurement, while dismissing spiritualist notions of embodied knowledges based in affect. In doing so, I locate the under-recognized bridge between the printed medium of the debate itself and its durable influence on public discourse, occurring as it did at precisely the moment to best influence the broadest public. The first chapter examines the confluence of educational reform, burgeoning print culture, and rising science professionalization that formed the ideal delivery platform for the promulgation of a cultural narrative pitting objective knowledge against the subjective. The second chapter examines contemporary newspaper and journal articles to find science repeatedly metaphorized as solid ground, “objective”, and masculinized, while spiritualism is shadowy, irrational, and feminized. Metaphors of light and landscape recur from both sides, with spiritualist voices further claiming unquantifiable and communal experience as of equal value to the material “useful knowledge” privileged by science and institutional schooling. The final chapter analyzes texts from George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marie Corelli, and Richard Marsh for representations of science, scientists, and those deemed outside their circles. There I discern a reflection of the media debate that finds unexpected – if unsettling – compatibilities between spiritualism and science, rejecting the alleged incompatibility of objective and subjective knowledge. All the texts speculate as to the parameters of human physical and mental life, but notably, none resolve the argument. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This project examines the ways nineteenth-century England’s educational system, periodical literature, and growing science community contributed to a public dialogue between science and spiritualism. The knowledge and practices privileged by science were repeatedly framed as more valuable than, and irreconcilable with, the subjective, personal knowledges of spiritualism, which posited a spiritual human self beyond the limits of the material body. This paper uses examples from contemporary newspaper and journal articles to study the dialogue between science and spiritualism, and finds science metaphorized as solid ground, “objective”, and masculinized, while spiritualism is shadowy, irrational, and feminized. These positions became entrenched enough in the public mind to affect the era’s speculative fiction, but in analyzing texts from George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marie Corelli, and Richard Marsh, the author also finds an embrace of science and spiritualist themes as sometimes compatible, blurring the simple “sides” of the media conversation.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-21T12:46:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Mirian Nere Martins Zanotta.pdf: 2842279 bytes, checksum: 6f796a81a4c3543fd026f03cfdfd976b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-21T12:46:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mirian Nere Martins Zanotta.pdf: 2842279 bytes, checksum: 6f796a81a4c3543fd026f03cfdfd976b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-10 / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / The present research has as its theme the identification of curriculum conception in corporate education. Thus, its objectives are focused on: identifying the skills that compose the construction of this curriculum, as well as the skills essential to the formation of the corporate educator. We also seek to describe the strategic concept of corporate education, represented in this study by corporate education systems (SECs), its principles, processes and objectives. From this perspective, we seek to answer the questions that guide this research, contextualizing the competency-based curriculum, as well as the essential competences that build the training of corporate educators. The methodology used for this study is documentary research in the qualitative approach. Regarding the results obtained through this research, we verified the character of the competency-based curriculum as the curriculum closest to the organizational context and which competences build it. We identify the progress of the area and its challenges to be achieved. As well, we also note the importance of corporate education, in the context of continuing education, as a continuous process of learning, in the sense of lifelong learning / A presente pesquisa tem por tema a identificação da concepção de currículo na educação corporativa. Assim, seus objetivos estão focalizados em: identificar as competências que compõem a construção desse currículo, bem como as competências essenciais à formação do educador corporativo. Buscamos, também, descrever o conceito estratégico de educação corporativa, representado nesse estudo pelos sistemas de educação corporativa (SECs), seus princípios, processos e objetivos. Sob essa perspectiva, buscamos responder às questões que direcionam essa pesquisa, contextualizando o currículo baseado em competências, assim como as competências essenciais que constroem a formação dos educadores corporativos. A metodologia usada para este estudo é a pesquisa documental na abordagem qualitativa. Quanto aos resultados obtidos por meio desta pesquisa, constatamos o caráter do currículo baseado em competências como o currículo mais aproximado ao contexto organizacional e quais competências o constroem. Identificamos os avanços da área e seus desafios a serem conquistados. Assim como, constatamos também a importância da educação corporativa, no contexto da educação continuada, como processo contínuo de aprendizagem, no sentido de aprendizagem para a vida toda

O mercado global dos sistemas educacionais Web (WES, do inglês, Web Educational Systems) continua a mudar, crescer e evoluir em todo o mundo, impulsionado por diversos fatores, entre eles, pelas novas tendências em tecnologias emergentes e ferramentas que dão suporte aos WES e, ainda, ao papel crescente da aprendizagem social como prioridade para o processo de desenvolvimento de tais sistemas. Os Sistemas Educacionais baseados em Web Semântica (SWBES, do inglês Semantic Web-based Educational Systems) são plataformas educacionais Web desenvolvidas para resolver diversos problemas enfrentados pelos alunos e outros usuários, como dificuldades relacionadas à busca, compartilhamento e reutilização de recursos educacionais. SWBES têm sido frequentemente usados como motores de busca para plataformas MOOC e Sistemas Tutores Inteligentes (STI). Portanto, é necessário garantir a qualidade desses sistemas para possibilitar melhores experiências de ensino e aprendizagem. No entanto, a avaliação da qualidade dos SWBES é uma tarefa complexa, uma vez que requer um amplo conhecimento sobre as tecnologias da Web Semântica, Educação a Distância, Engenharia de Software, além das normas e padrões utilizados para a Avaliação da Qualidade de Software. O problema identificado foi a ausência de uma abordagem de avaliação de qualidade desses sistemas a partir dos elementos da arquitetura do sistema, ou seja, a atuação e estruturação dos agentes inteligentes, ontologias, objetos de aprendizagem, repositórios, metadados etc. Nesse contexto, o objetivo dessa tese foi desenvolver uma abordagem para a avaliação de qualidade de SWBES. Para atingir o objetivo proposto, foram necessários identificar os critérios de qualidade utilizados na avaliação de qualidade de software, de WES (incluindo recursos educacionais, tais como os objetos de aprendizagem), das tecnologias da Web Semântica (tais como ontologias). Esses critérios foram classificados, analisados e ajustados, com base nos requisitos de qualidade dos SWBES apontados na literatura. Em seguida, um conjunto de fatores de qualidade foi estabelecido, com subfatores e critérios que serão utilizados como diretriz geral para avaliar e comparar a qualidade de SWBES. Foram definidos os avaliadores responsáveis de acordo com os papéis que representam no sistema. Estabeleceu-se também quais os artefatos do SWBES que devem ser avaliados pela abordagem, de modo que o processo de avaliação seja simplificado. A abordagem foi automatizada em uma ferramenta Web e validada por meio de estudos de caso, por meio de especialistas no domínio da Web Semântica, Informática e Educação. Espera-se que a abordagem desenvolvida possa contribuir com profissionais, desenvolvedores e outros usuários (professores, educadores, alunos, mediadores, tutores e gestores) que desejam ou necessitam adquirir e utilizar SWBES, de forma que possam efetuar a aquisição adequada às suas necessidades e objetivos. Além disso, espera-se poder colaborar no processo de desenvolvimento de SWBES, a partir dos fatores de qualidade estabelecidos para a abordagem, e promover a garantia de qualidade desde o início do processo do desenvolvimento. Como trabalhos futuros, pretende-se ampliar os fatores de qualidade e estender a abordagem para permitir a avaliação de outros Sistemas baseados em Web Semântica, em outros domínios do conhecimento. / The Web education systems (WES) global community is in continuous change, growth and evolve all around the world, driven by several factors, including new trends in emerging technologies and tools that support WES, and even the growing role of social learning as a priority for the development process of such systems. Semantic Web-based Educational Systems (SWBES) are Web-based educational platforms designed to address a variety of problems faced by students and other users, such as difficulties in finding, sharing, and reusing educational resources. SWBES have often been used as search engines for MOOC platforms and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). Therefore, ensuring the quality of these systems is necessary to enable better teaching and learning experiences. However, SWBES quality assessment is a complex task, since it requires extensive knowledge about Semantic Web technologies, Web Educational Systems, Software Engineering, and software quality assessment standards. The problem identified was the absence of a quality evaluation approach of these systems from the elements of the system architecture, ie, the role and structure of intelligent agents, ontologies, learning objects, repositories, metadata etc. In this context, the purpose of this thesis was to develop an approach for the quality evaluation of SWBES. In order to achieve the proposed objective, it was necessary to identify the quality criteria used in software quality assessment, WES (including educational resources, such as learning objects), Semantic Web technologies (such as ontologies). These criteria were classified, analyzed and adjusted, based on the quality requirements of SWBES in the literature and named as factors. Next, a set of quality factors was established, with subfactors and criteria that will be used as a general guideline to evaluate and compare the quality of SWBES. The evaluators designated to evaluate the SWBES were defined according to the role they represent in the systems. It was also established which SWBES artifacts should be evaluated by the approach, in order of making the evaluation process simplified. It was developed a Web tool to automate the approach developed which were validated through case studies by specialists in the related research fields. It is expected that the approach will contribute with professionals, developers and other users (teachers, educators, students, virtual tutors and managers) in acquiring and using SWBES, so that they can choose the appropriate system to fill out their needs and goals. In addition, it is expected to collaborate in the SWBES development process, based on the quality factors established, and promoting quality assurance since the beginning of the development process. As future work, it is intended to broaden the quality factors and extend the approach allowing the evaluation of other Semantic Web-based Systems in other knowledge domain.

Πρόσφατα, υπό την επιρροή Διεθνών Οργανισμών και της ΕΕ, η Γερμανία και η Φινλανδία πήραν μέτρα που αφορούν την ανάπτυξη και εξασφάλιση της ποιότητας στην εκπαίδευση γενικά, και στη σχολική μονάδα ειδικότερα. Στην παρούσα μελέτη επιχειρείται η συγκριτική προσέγγιση του γερμανικού και του φινλανδικού εκπαιδευτικού συστήματος στο παράδειγμα της εκπαιδευτικής αξιολόγησης, στην πρωτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση, στη Γερμανία (Βάδη – Βυρτεμβέργη) και στη Φινλανδία. Και οι δύο χώρες αποτελούν μέλη της Ε.Ε. με ισχυρή κρατική πρόνοια αλλά με διαφορετικές ιστορικές, εθνικές καταβολές και διαφορετικό κοινωνικό οικονομικό και πολιτικό υπόβαθρο. / In recent years, under the influence of International Institutes and the EU, initiatives have been taken in Germany and Finland concerning the quality assurance and quality development of education at both the level of the school system and the level of the individual school. In the present study a comparative approach of the German and Finnish educational systems is attempted, in the paradigm of educational school evaluation, focusing on the primary education in Germany (Baden-Wuertemberg) and in Finland. The two countries constitute members of the EU with strong social welfare system but with specific historic and national heritage and different social, economic and political background.

MARINELLI, Marcos. Autoavaliação institucional: estudo de sistemas de educação corporativa em bancos de desenvolvimento brasileiros. 2013. 441f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2013. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-07T14:50:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-TESE-MMARINELLI.pdf: 7026667 bytes, checksum: 4d125d73dcfb76e9ac159f07c36cb810 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-07T17:27:24Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-TESE-MMARINELLI.pdf: 7026667 bytes, checksum: 4d125d73dcfb76e9ac159f07c36cb810 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-07T17:27:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-TESE-MMARINELLI.pdf: 7026667 bytes, checksum: 4d125d73dcfb76e9ac159f07c36cb810 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Esse estudo relata a geração e sistematização de conhecimentos, levando a reflexões conceituais, teóricas e aplicadas sobre sistemas de educação corporativa. Parte do pressuposto de que inexistem processos de autoavaliação institucional para sistemas de educação corporativa, aplicados de forma intencional e sistemática, em bancos de desenvolvimento brasileiros com abrangência regional ou nacional que possuem universidade corporativa. Apresenta como objetivos a verificação de diagnóstico das práticas, das dimensões e fatores de educação corporativa nessas instituições, possibilitando a proposição de modelo de autoavaliação institucional. Vale-se de metodologia quadripolar, expressa nos polos epistemológico, teórico, morfológico e técnico. Considera, ainda, a adoção de abordagens multirreferenciais – métodos analítico e comparativo, e análises sistêmica e crítica. O estudo das categorias educação, desenvolvimento e avaliação possibilita delimitar suposições e marcos epistemológicos e teóricos que fundamentam a proposição de modelo de autoavaliação. Em sua elaboração é considerada a análise de oito modelos de avaliação, incluindo visões nacionais, europeias e norte-americanas, valendo-se de uma perspectiva multirreferencial, que incorpora as dimensões econômica, sociopolítica, ambiental e de gestão, dialeticamente articuladas, tendo como pano de fundo o desenvolvimento sustentável. Esse modelo procura conciliar as perspectivas humanista e construtivista, com seus focos no aprendiz, na autorrealização, com a abordagem crítica, que se norteia pelos resultados da aprendizagem, notadamente com a mudança social, e com uma vida melhor, a partir da autocrítica e da consciência reflexiva dos atores envolvidos no processo de educação corporativa. O modelo proposto serve de insumo para a composição dos instrumentos de pesquisa, sendo analisados em pré-teste e utilizados na pesquisa de campo. Utiliza técnicas qualitativas (entrevista, grupo focal e pesquisa documental), e quantitativas (aplicação de questionário) sendo os dados analisados mediante análise de conteúdo e análise estatística descritiva e inferencial. A amostra envolveu dois bancos de desenvolvimento, com aplicação dos instrumentos junto a 184 sujeitos. O pressuposto foi validado junto aos participantes do grupo de pré-teste, dos dois gestores dos sistemas de educação corporativa entrevistados, dos quatro grupos focais dos dois bancos pesquisados, bem como a partir da análise documental. O instrumento (Apêndice 2) demonstrou alto nível de consistência interna, com coeficiente Alfa de Cronbach superior a 0,900 para os critérios considerados na avaliação do questionário (relevância 0,946, utilidade 0,940 e viabilidade 0,938). A aplicação do instrumento (Apêndice 2) com os grupos focais e treinandos aponta que a média geral das dimensões do questionário foi relevante, útil e viável. Os resultados apresentados permitem elaborar um conjunto de evidências sobre a situação dos sistemas de educação corporativa nos bancos de desenvolvimento brasileiros estudados, identificando as principais características (dimensões, fatores e variáveis) necessárias à proposição de modelo de autoavaliação institucional para sistemas de educação corporativa em bancos de desenvolvimento brasileiros.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:05:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2131.pdf: 8350502 bytes, checksum: 4dc12e822d8a4aeea41a8ba2b85769f2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-22 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The development of technologies that assist in the teach-learning process is an rgued subject in some areas of knowledge. The great diffusion of Web-based Educational Systems (WbE-S) has been shown the popularization of distance learning and its support tools. The Tidia-Ae project, support by FAPESP, aim at the development of a WbE-S that can use the concept about high velocity internet. But, the WbE Systems don t have a personal treatment of user s necessities. So, the offers of personalization resources for systems aim at improving the teach-learning process using the treatment of real necessities of each user. The content recommendation, more specifically a recommendation system, is one of several techniques for that and it is a non-intrusive meaning of help user s in a system with a lot of information. This technique was used in Tidia-Ae environment to development of this thesis. This thesis presents the I2P model based on metrics of Interests, Preferences and Popularity which are acquired by the measuring of the relationship of users and system resources. These metrics provide a form to calculate the recommendation offers of resources. The calculation is done using Collaborative Filtering technique and the personalization is offered in collaborative form, considering the group learning. / O desenvolvimento de tecnologias que auxiliem no processo de ensinoaprendizagem é assunto discutido em várias áreas do conhecimento. A grande difusão de Sistemas Educacionais baseados nas tecnologias existentes na Web (também chamados de Sistemas Educacionais baseados na Web Web-based Educational Systems WbE-S) demonstra a popularização da educação a distância e das ferramentas de suporte a esta. O projeto Tidia-Ae, financiado pela FAPESP visa, sobretudo, o desenvolvimento de um WbE-S que possa explorar os conceitos da internet de alta velocidade. Os WbE-S, comumente, não possuem um tratamento personalizado das ações dos usuários no sistema. Assim, a oferta de recursos de personalização de sistemas visa melhorias no processo de ensino-aprendizagem através do tratamento das necessidades reais e pessoais de cada aluno. A recomendação de conteúdo é uma das possíveis técnicas para oferta de personalização. Trata-se de uma forma não intrusiva de auxiliar o processo de escolha dos usuários num sistema com grande conjunto de informações. Está técnica foi amplamente explorada e, junto com o projeto Tidia-Ae, serviu como base para a criação do modelo I2P. Este trabalho define e propõe o modelo I2P baseado em métricas de Interesses, Preferências e Popularidade obtidas no relacionamento entre os usuários e os recursos do sistema. Estas métricas fornecem o embasamento para oferta de recursos adequados às necessidades dos usuários num WbE-S. O cálculo para oferta de recomendação é realizado com a técnica de Filtragem Colaborativa e, assim, a personalização é oferecida de forma colaborativa, considerando o aprendizado em grupo.

This thesis revises the position of young people on labour markets in the EU. It focuses on all the three parties involved in the problem: on young people and their school preparation for work (level, quality and structure of the education); on labour markets and what they can offer to young people; and on the European Union as an institution which should ease the entrance of young people to the working life. The author suggests, on basis of the data presented, some mesures to improve the employment of young people. That should happen especially by changing the education systems which must focus more on practice and job-related experience.