Traditionally, intelligence has been viewed to be the best predictor of academic achievement in tertiary education institutions. However, research has found the relationship between intelligence and academic achievement to be rather weak and emotional competence is suggested to be a better measure of academic achievement. Even though emotional intelligence (EQ) is the most well-known measure of emotional competence, research on the relationship between academic achievement and EQ has yielded mixed results. EQ further also has limitations which attracts criticism. As a result of these criticism, psychological mindedness (PM), a concept closely related to EQ, is used in this study as a measure of emotional competence. Advantages of PM in comparison to EQ is that it is more comprehensive and also that its nature and meaning are more clear. The objectives of this study were to determine whether there is a correlation between PM and academic achievement, and also whether there are differences in demographics (academic year, gender, race, degree or diploma enrolled for) in relation to both PM and academic achievement respectively. A cross-sectional survey design was used and 211 undergraduate students enrolled for psychology as module, at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University participated. A biographical questionnaire as well as the Psychological Mindedness Scale (PMS) was administered during the scheduled class times for undergraduate Psychology modules, and informed consent have been obtained before the academic records of the participants were drawn from the Student Administration System. In order to be able to interpret the data, correlations, t-tests and a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were calculated. This study has found a positive correlation between PM and academic achievement, but no difference in PM between students of various academic years, genders, races and degrees or diplomas enrolled for, respectively. Thus, even though there is a relationship between PM and academic achievement, other factors that are not related to PM may also play a role. It is recommended that a questionnaire that captures the mood of participants are included when further studies are done on the relationship between PM and academic achievement. A further recommendation is that large and diversified samples are used. The above-mentioned recommendations may result in the achievement of more accurate results that may be generalisable. With regard to further studies, it is recommended that the five factors included in the PMS be analysed separately as this may give an indication of exactly which factors in the scale correlates the best with academic achievement. If this is known specific attention may be given to the development of these factors amongst students who are struggling academically. / Thesis (M.A. (Research Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

Traditionally, intelligence has been viewed to be the best predictor of academic achievement in tertiary education institutions. However, research has found the relationship between intelligence and academic achievement to be rather weak and emotional competence is suggested to be a better measure of academic achievement. Even though emotional intelligence (EQ) is the most well-known measure of emotional competence, research on the relationship between academic achievement and EQ has yielded mixed results. EQ further also has limitations which attracts criticism. As a result of these criticism, psychological mindedness (PM), a concept closely related to EQ, is used in this study as a measure of emotional competence. Advantages of PM in comparison to EQ is that it is more comprehensive and also that its nature and meaning are more clear. The objectives of this study were to determine whether there is a correlation between PM and academic achievement, and also whether there are differences in demographics (academic year, gender, race, degree or diploma enrolled for) in relation to both PM and academic achievement respectively. A cross-sectional survey design was used and 211 undergraduate students enrolled for psychology as module, at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University participated. A biographical questionnaire as well as the Psychological Mindedness Scale (PMS) was administered during the scheduled class times for undergraduate Psychology modules, and informed consent have been obtained before the academic records of the participants were drawn from the Student Administration System. In order to be able to interpret the data, correlations, t-tests and a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were calculated. This study has found a positive correlation between PM and academic achievement, but no difference in PM between students of various academic years, genders, races and degrees or diplomas enrolled for, respectively. Thus, even though there is a relationship between PM and academic achievement, other factors that are not related to PM may also play a role. It is recommended that a questionnaire that captures the mood of participants are included when further studies are done on the relationship between PM and academic achievement. A further recommendation is that large and diversified samples are used. The above-mentioned recommendations may result in the achievement of more accurate results that may be generalisable. With regard to further studies, it is recommended that the five factors included in the PMS be analysed separately as this may give an indication of exactly which factors in the scale correlates the best with academic achievement. If this is known specific attention may be given to the development of these factors amongst students who are struggling academically. / Thesis (M.A. (Research Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T13:54:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARCIA CORDEIRO COSTA.pdf: 5352353 bytes, checksum: 10e2e3e7aba42dee853fce1351937cc2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-30 / This investigation objective rescue and analyze the academic Student s Movement in Maranhão between 1930 and 1950, in a period that is organized and expanded the university teaching in our state, identifying the student s social and politics practices came back to structure this teaching. It focuses, in the initial, the study of Student s Press, adopting the methodology of the historic research and the documental analysis of the periodic press produced by the academics, localized in Biblioteca Pública Benedito Leite. The periodic analyzed are: Folha Acadêmica (1934), Esquerda (1934), Voz Universitária (1954), Universitário em Marcha (1955), Vigilância (1957), Movimento (1958) e Universitário (1958). It is emphasized the importance of this study made by a inside into the press to the History of Education (NOVÓA, 1993; CATANI E BASTOS, 1997), where the New Cultural History has made possible a theoretical subsidy to the research in this area (CERTEAU, 1994; CHARTIER, 1990). In this perspective, it accosts the representation of the research s fountains to a History of Education like a memory place (LE GOFF, 2003; NORA, 1993; BARBOSA, 1996). It emphasizes the contribution of this research to the reconstitution of History of the Education in the state of Maranhão, when the results of research giving a large vision for the facts and happenings of the university teaching and about the importance that the academics had and still haven in story of the education, thus, they cannot be silenced in the history of Brazilian education. / Objetiva-se resgatar e analisar nesta investigação o Movimento Estudantil acadêmico no Maranhão entre 1930-1950, período em que se organiza e expande o ensino superior em nosso estado, identificando as práticas estudantis, sociais e políticas, voltadas para a estruturação desse ensino. Focaliza-se inicialmente o estudo da Imprensa Estudantil, adotando como metodologia a pesquisa histórica e a análise documental da imprensa periódica produzida pelos acadêmicos localizados na Biblioteca Pública Benedito Leite. Os periódicos analisados são: Folha Acadêmica (1934), Esquerda (1934), Voz Universitária (1954), Universitário em Marcha (1955), Vigilância (1957), Movimento (1958) e Universitário (1958). Destaca-se a importância desse estudo feito a partir do conteúdo dos impressos para a História da Educação (NOVÓA, 1993; CATANI E BASTOS, 1997), onde a Nova História Cultural tem possibilitado um aporte teórico para as pesquisas nessa área (CERTEAU, 1994; CHARTIER, 1990). Nessa perspectiva abordam-se as representações das fontes de pesquisa para a História da Educação como lugar de memória (LE GOFF, 2003; NORA, 1993; BARBOSA, 1996). Ressalta-se a contribuição dessa pesquisa para a reconstituição da História da educação no estado do Maranhão, onde os resultados da pesquisa deram uma visão ampla dos fatos e acontecimentos do ensino superior e sobre a importância que os acadêmicos tiveram e tem na história da educação, não podendo, assim, serem silenciados na historiografia da educação brasileira.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:32:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amalia Galvao Idelbrando.pdf: 754023 bytes, checksum: 1a175dac1a4c3ece880dfeba5ca0a088 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present study aims at verifying the relationship between the actions of a Student´s Body of a Public Primary School on the Municipality of São Paulo city and the development process of establishing the students´ citizenship. This research has a qualitative approach. It included literature studies on the area and analysis of legal documents on the Student´s Body, aligned with an empirical research where meetings of Student´s Body and meetings of the School Board were observed by the researcher on their own school environment. The following people of the school were interviewed: the Principal, the President of the Student´s Body school´s group, the Professor in charge of the student´s collegiate and the teacher who helped on the Student´s Body implementation by means of flexible and semi-structured guidelines. The study was based on the theorists Apple and Beane (2001), Apple (1989,2006) and Gimeno Sacristán (1999,2001,2002), Gimeno Sacristán e Pérez Gómez (1998) among others. The results showed that the activity of the Student´s Body of a Public Primary School on the Municipality of São Paulo city is a space more tutored by teachers supervision rather than the political education upbringing on the way where these students development of a construction process of citizenship, criticism and autonomy in order to solve either collective or individual problems as well as for preparing them to intervene politically, enabling them to change their own reality. There are reminiscences of the arbitrary regime of the 1960s that had as goal the student´s political disarticulation, highlighting sports and recreation activities. The reflections of lack of politicization are felt, on the one hand, as the Student´s Body does not establish an organizational culture in their school, and on the other hand, for assuming specific characteristics of a class society. The school academic and administrative management, without including the Student´s Body as an established organization, expressed a tutoring and reproductive perspective without stimulating the expansion of political participation / O presente estudo objetiva verificar qual a relação entre as ações de um Grêmio Estudantil de uma Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental de São Paulo e o processo de formação da cidadania dos alunos. A pesquisa teve uma abordagem qualitativa e incluiu estudos e análises de documentos legais sobre o Grêmio e da literatura, alinhada a uma pesquisa empírica na qual reuniões do Grêmio Estudantil e do Conselho de Escola foram observadas pela pesquisadora no ambiente escolar natural. Foram entrevistados o diretor da escola, a presidente do Grêmio Estudantil, a professora que acompanhou o colegiado de alunos e o professor que ajudou na implantação do mesmo por meio de roteiros semiestruturados e flexíveis. Teve como apoio teórico Apple e Beane (2001), Apple (1989, 2006), Gimeno Sacristán (1999, 2001, 2002) e Gimeno Sacristán e Pérez Gómez (1998) entre outros. Os dados revelaram que o exercício do Grêmio Estudantil em uma Escola de Ensino Fundamental de São Paulo é um espaço mais em direção à tutela pelos educadores do que para formação política no sentido de os alunos desenvolvam um processo de construção da cidadania, criticidade e autonomia para a resolução de problemas individuais ou coletivos e para intervirem politicamente, possibilitando alteração da própria realidade. Há reminiscências do regime arbitrário da década de 1960 que objetivava a desarticulação política do alunado, enfatizando atividades de esporte e recreação. Os reflexos da despolitização são sentidos por um lado, à medida que o Grêmio Estudantil não estabelece uma cultura gremista na escola, e por outro, por assumirem características próprias de uma sociedade de classes. A gestão administrativa e pedagógica da escola, sem incluir o Grêmio Estudantil como órgão instituído, expressou uma perspectiva de tutela e reprodução sem estimular a ampliação de participação política

I denna studie undersöks vilka uppfattningar SUM-elever, elever med särskilda utbildningsbehov i matematik, har av matematikundervisning när de i klassrummet får specialpedagogiskt stöd i ämnet och hur de känner sig när de följer med specialläraren ut från klassrummet. Det övergripande syftet med studien är att belysa inkludering och exkludering ur ett elevperspektiv. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats och har genomförts i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta SUM-elever från åk 4 och 5. Till grund för analysen används Asp-Onsjös (2006) tre olika aspekter på inkludering; rumslig, social och didaktisk.   Resultatet visar att den inkludering som eleverna anser vara viktigast när de lär sig matematik är den didaktiska inkluderingen, inte den rumsliga eller sociala. Alla elever i studien kände sig socialt inkluderade och vad gäller den rumsliga inkluderingen spelade den inte någon större roll för dessa SUM-elever. Däremot visade elevuppfattningarna att de kände sig didaktiskt exkluderade i matematikklassrummet. Faktorer som påverkar detta är bland annat brist på konkret material, långa arbetspass samt möjlighet att kommunicera matematik för att förstå den. / Abstract This study investigates the perceptions that SEM-students, special education need in mathematics, have when they receive special education in mathematics and how they feel when they leave the classroom to do mathematics with the special education teacher. The overall aim of this study is to highlight the inclusion and exclusion from a student perspective. The study has a qualitative approach and has been implemented in the form of semi-structured interviews with eight students in special education need in mathematics, SEM-students, from grades 4 and 5 in Sweden. The basis for our analysis is three different aspects of inclusion; spatial, social and didactic (Asp-Onsjö, 2006). The results show that the aspect of inclusion that students consider to be most important is didactic inclusion. All the students in the study felt socially included and the spatial inclusion did not play a major role for these SEM- students. The students did articulate that they felt didactical excluded in the classroom. Factors that affected this feeling of exclusion was lack of concrete materials, long working hours and the ability to communicate math to understand it.

An effective hypermedia educational system should be easy to use and understand. Different hypermedia educational systems have been evaluated for this purpose by researchers but there is no such study of student wiki system. To evaluate usability of a student wiki system i.e. FUKTwiki in the context of higher education, the authors adopt a multi-phased research approach. They conduct usability test of the system where graduate students are taken as subjects. The system is evaluated on the basis of results of usability test and a questionnaire specifically designed to know the subject‟s opinion. Further, to validate the findings a number of individual subjects participated in usability test and questionnaire are interviewed. The authors find that for higher education, student wiki systems could prove effective in student‟s learning but not with current set of tools and interfaces. Moreover it is important that a system should have sufficient amount of relevant and useful educational contents. There is need to improve student wiki systems in terms of interfaces, contents, and set of tools for creating and editing pages. / 0046739717017

Syftet med denna studie varatt jämföraom manliga och kvinnliga studenters humorstilar skiljer sig åt efter livstillfredsställelsen kontrollerats för. Humorstilarna som jämfördes kommer från mätinstrumentet HSQ och är uppdelade i två positiva humorstilar som anses gynnsamma för välmåendet och två negativa humorstilar som anses skadliga för det. De positiva humorstilarna är ”Relationsförstärkande” och ”Självförstärkande” medan de negativa är ”Aggressiv” och ”Självdestruktiv”. För att undersöka detta användes ANCOVA som analysmetod, den relationsförstärkande humorstilen uppfyllde inte kraven och analyserades med hjälp av en ANOVA-analys. ANCOVA-analyserutfördes påhumorstilarna ”Aggressiv”, ”Självdestruktiv” och ”Självförstärkande”. Resultatet visade att männen använder sigsignifikantmer av den aggressiva humorstilen än kvinnor. Det fanns ingen skillnad mellan män och kvinnor gällandeanvändandet av självdestruktiv eller självförstärkande humorstil. ANOVA-analysenav den relationsförstärkande humorstilen visade inte på någon signifikant skillnad mellan könen. / The aim of this study was to compare if male and female students humor styles differ after controlling for life satisfaction. The humor styles that were compared comes from the Humor Styles Questionnaire and is split into two positive humor styles which are regarded as conducive to well-being and two negative humor styles that are considerate as deleterious to well-being. The two positive humor styles are ”Affiliative” and ”Self-enhancing” and the negative are ”Aggressive” and ”Self-defeating”. In order to analyse this an ANCOVA was used as statistical method, after the assumptions were tested the ”Affiliative” humor style didn’t meet the assumptions. Three ANCOVAs were done on the humor styles”Aggressive”, ”Self-defeating” and ”Self-enhancing. Main findings include more frequent use of aggressive humor style in men compared to women. But no significant difference between the genders regarding self-defeating or self-destructive humor style.The ANOVA analysis of the ”Affiliative” humor style showed no significant difference between the genders.

Diploma thesis is primarily concentrated on the problem of implementation of the tuition fees at public and state universities. There are solved many issues in the thesis, e.g. evaluation of the positive and negative arguments of tuition fees at public universities, actual problems of the Czech tertiary educational system, student's costs, their opinions about the tuition fees, the connection of education and the question of human capital and its influence on different areas. There is mentioned the view on education as an investment into the human capital in the thesis. It is connected with the topic of costs and benefits that brings the investment. The main goal of the work is to analyze if the implementation of tuition fees at public universities is reasonable.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 miri.pdf: 1031536 bytes, checksum: d36ba22fa0c3224bbce6a7dd41ef2924 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-07 / The main subject of this study is the political analysis of the Brazilian federal universities student s assistance. Aiming to recognize and reflect on these policies actions, a research was carried on, through the investigation of websites from the fourteen federal institutions created or federalized during the period between 2003 and 2010, by identifying the ongoing services, projects and programs that referred to the theme Permanence. According to the Student s Assistance National Plan, in order to assure the student s permanence, it is necessary to offer actions for promoting housing, feeding, transportation, child nursery, health and mental care, as well as the appropriate conditions to assist disabled individuals. The results have shown that the majority of institutions already have such actions, mostly grant programs our financial support to pay for housing, feeding and transportation. A few institutions have student housing and restaurant facilities. In relation to health and mental care and assistance to the disabled, very few actions could be identified. The work has also approached the social rights issue, the public policies in education and higher education, focused on the nowadays university access system. In addition, it was also analyzed the work on education policies that the social assistants develop along with the institutions / Este estudo tem como tema a análise da política de assistência estudantil das universidades federais brasileiras. Com o objetivo de conhecer e refletir sobre as ações desta política, foi realizada uma pesquisa, por meio de consulta nos sites das quatorze instituições federais criadas ou federalizadas durante o período de 2003 a 2010, identificando os serviços, projetos e programas existentes no que se refere à linha temática da Permanência. De acordo com o Plano Nacional de Assistência Estudantil, para garantir a permanência é necessário que sejam ofertadas ações de moradia, alimentação, transporte, creche, ações de promoção da saúde física e mental dos acadêmicos e condições adequadas para o atendimento das pessoas com deficiência. Os resultados da pesquisa indicam que a grande maioria das universidades possuem ações neste sentido, prevalecendo programas que ofertam bolsas ou auxílios financeiros para subsidiar os gastos com moradia, alimentação e transporte. No entanto, são poucas as instituições que já possuem residências universitárias, e o restaurante universitário ainda não é uma realidade em todas as universidades. No que se refere a ações de saúde mental e física, assim como o acompanhamento de alunos com deficiência, identificaram-se poucas ações. O trabalho abordou, ainda, a questão dos direitos sociais, da política pública de educação, em geral, e da educação superior, enfocando a questão das políticas de acesso ao ensino superior hoje. Também buscou-se trazer para discussão e reflexão o trabalho que vem sendo realizado pelos assistentes sociais junto à política de educação