Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudio_Toscano_de_Araujo.pdf: 1146316 bytes, checksum: c3c222de69ceb3bb9f4d0fbedf38e415 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-31 / The Comptrollership is a subject of the most interesting, is by aspects that cause divisions of opinions as for existing career opportunities in the area. However, both to position itself as to apply for vacancies, it is necessary that the professional has a training that empower. Most courses of accounting Sciences in Brazil and particularly in the greater of the S??o Paulo are offered during night and frequented by students who came from the public school with serious educational deficiencies, working during the day and are faced with several difficulties. The problem investigated in this study concerns the conditions of education of the discipline Comptrollership in Accounting Sciences courses of IES of the metropolitan region of the S??o Paulo, where there are significant differences between these conditions in the courses well evaluated by MEC in relation to the other and what is the perception of teachers and coordinators responsible for such courses with respect to the subject. The work was based on field research conducted with teachers and coordinators of 21 IES divided into 2 groups, being the Group 01 composed 14 IES with the concept of minimum grids 3 and 7 with IES group 02 with concept less than 3. There was also the documentary research grounded in teaching plans of discipline in multiple IES search object. The aspects evaluated as differences of group IES were 01: indication of other sources besides books, teacher is professional experience in the area of the Comptrollership, discussion of the contents of the Comptrollership with other teachers of the course and identification by the students of the integration of the contents of other subjects of the course with Comptrollership. Documentary research pointed as key differentiators of group IES 01: greater diversity and detailing of contents covered; indication of a greater number of bibliographic references that include foreign authors, less transparency as to the final/end evaluation on discipline and greater variation in teaching strategies used. / Controladoria ?? um assunto dos mais interessantes, seja pelos aspectos que causam divis??es de opini??es como pelas oportunidades profissionais existentes na ??rea. Todavia, tanto para posicionar-se como para candidatar-se ??s vagas existentes, ?? necess??rio que o profissional tenha uma forma????o que o capacite. A maioria dos cursos de Ci??ncias Cont??beis no Brasil e em particular na Grande S??o Paulo s??o oferecidos no per??odo noturno e freq??entados por alunos que vieram da escola p??blica com s??rias defici??ncias educacionais, que trabalham durante o dia e se defrontam com diversas dificuldades. O problema investigado neste estudo diz respeito ??s condi????es de ensino da disciplina Controladoria em cursos de Ci??ncias Cont??beis das IES da regi??o metropolitana de S??o Paulo, se h?? diferen??a significativa entre essas condi????es nos cursos bem avaliados pelo MEC em rela????o aos demais e qual ?? a percep????o de professores e coordenadores respons??veis por tais cursos com rela????o ao assunto. O trabalho foi elaborado com base em pesquisa de campo realizada com professores e coordenadores de 21 IES divididas em 2 grupos, sendo o grupo 01 composto por 14 IES com conceito de ENADE m??nimo de 3 e o grupo 02 com 7 IES com conceito menor que 3. Houve tamb??m pesquisa documental fundamentada nos planos de ensino da disciplina nas v??rias IES objeto da pesquisa. Os aspectos avaliados como diferencias das IES do grupo 01 foram: indica????o de outras fontes bibliogr??ficas al??m de livros; experi??ncia profissional do docente na ??rea de Controladoria; discuss??o dos conte??dos de Controladoria com outros professores do curso e identifica????o por parte dos alunos da integra????o dos conte??dos de outras disciplinas do curso com Controladoria. A pesquisa documental apontou como principais diferenciais das IES do grupo 01: maior diversidade e detalhamento dos conte??dos abordados; indica????o de um maior n??mero de refer??ncias bibliogr??ficas que incluem autores estrangeiros; menor transpar??ncia quanto ?? avalia????o final na disciplina e maior varia????o nas estrat??gias de ensino utilizadas.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-04T11:45:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivelise_de_Maria_Mena_Barreto_Moreira.pdf: 850162 bytes, checksum: 023b8d8220ded1c3a5c9d8dc5042c551 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-10-26 / This research aims at identifying the reasons for the main difficulties faced by the novice students at UFMA's Accounting Course in the subjects Basic and Intermediate Accounting when they start the course. It also aims at identifying the teaching techniques that may contribute to the improvement of these subjects. To reach the proposed aims, field research methodologies were adopted, such as: literature review and questionnaires to novice students of the course as well as Accounting Professors. The data collected allowed us to make a comparison of the situation of UFMA's Accounting Courses in the cities of S??o Luis and Imperatriz. The findings show that a great part of the students are single males, with age varying from 18 to 25. They also show that most professors use the lecture technique and blackboard, and want a change in the curriculum of the course. Both professors and students think the course's teaching conditions are inadequate, what contributes to their lack of motivation. It was concluded that development courses in the Didactics and Teaching Methodology should be offered to the Academic Staff of UFMA by its Business Administration and Accounting Department, what may contribute to improve the teaching of the Basic and Intermediate Accounting subjects. / Este trabalho tem por objetivo conhecer as principais causas que contribuem para as dificuldades encontradas pelos alunos iniciantes no curso de Ci??ncias Cont??beis da UFMA nas disciplinas de Contabilidade B??sica e Intermedi??ria, ao ingressarem no curso, e identificar as t??cnicas de ensino que possam contribuir para o aprimoramento dessas disciplinas. Na tentativa de atingir o objetivo proposto no presente trabalho, optou-se por adotar metodologias de pesquisa de campo tais como: pesquisa bibliogr??fica e aplica????o de question??rio aos alunos iniciantes no curso e aos professores de Contabilidade. Os dados coletados permitiram uma compara????o entre a situa????o dos cursos de Ci??ncias Cont??beis da UFMA, sediados em S??o Luis e Imperatriz. Os resultados mostram que uma grande parte dos alunos s??o do sexo masculino, solteiros, e, na faixa et??ria de 18 a 25 anos. Observa-se tamb??m que, a maioria dos docentes pesquisados utiliza a t??cnica da aula expositiva por meio do quadro-de-giz, e, ?? favor??vel ?? mudan??a da grade curricular. Na opini??o, tanto dos docentes como dos discentes as condi????es de ensino do curso s??o inadequadas, o que contribui para a falta de motiva????o destes, Ao final deste estudo conclui-se que dever??o ser promovidos por parte do Departamento de Ci??ncias Cont??beis e Administra????o da UFMA, cursos de aperfei??oamento aos docentes principalmente na ??rea de Did??tica e Metodologia de Ensino, o que poder?? contribuir para o aprimoramento do ensino das disciplinas objeto desse estudo.

Submitted by Elba Lopes (elba.lopes@fecap.br) on 2016-01-26T21:10:41Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Janete_de_Fatima_Mendonca.pdf: 932624 bytes, checksum: 67d14617b1df6f791d62ead903b2f7e6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T21:10:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Janete_de_Fatima_Mendonca.pdf: 932624 bytes, checksum: 67d14617b1df6f791d62ead903b2f7e6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-21 / The Graduating of Accounting professionals in the globalized world brings a discussion concerning the main subjects in the Accounting field, which can be perceived in its perfil profissiogr??fico (PPP- a type of document of the Brazilian high education). The aim of this dissertation was to identify the perception of some Accountig professors regarding the importance of interdiciplinarity for the professionals of this field, as such professors are to contribute for the future of Accounting professionals, who should be able to interact and compete in a dinamic market. Firstly, it was carried an experimental study through documentary and bibliographic research. The results disclosed that the interdisciplinarity is more a conceipt than a real application in the Brazilian Accounting universities. Secondly, it was carried a field research, through an interview with some Accounting professors in the of four universities, all of them located in S??o Paulo city. The results confirm the conclusions of the literature and highlight that there is still a gap between the conceipt of interdisciplinarity and its real application by the interviewed professors, even though they are aware of its importance. / A forma????o de profissionais de Ci??ncias Cont??beis no mundo globalizado traz ?? tona a discuss??o sobre a grade curricular dos cursos dessa ??rea, a respeito da legisla????o que direciona tais curr??culos e da necess??ria rela????o com o mercado de trabalho, traduzida em seu perfil profissiogr??fico. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi identificar a percep????o dos professores de Controladoria do curso de Ci??ncias Cont??beis sobre a import??ncia da Interdisciplinaridade na forma????o do Contador, j?? que cabe a eles contribuir para a forma????o de futuros profissionais, aptos ao mercado de trabalho din??mico e exigente de compet??ncias. Para atingir esse objetivo, utilizou-se, em uma primeira etapa, o estudo explorat??rio por meio de pesquisa documental e bibliogr??fica, resultando dessa ??ltima a constata????o de que o fen??meno da Interdisciplinaridade ?? mais pensado e falado que efetivamente realizado no ensino superior brasileiro de Ci??ncias Cont??beis. A segunda etapa da pesquisa consistiu de pesquisa de campo, por meio de entrevista realizada com professores de Controladoria de quatro IES - Institui????es de Ensino Superior situadas no munic??pio de S??o Paulo. As informa????es obtidas confirmaram as constata????es da revis??o bibliogr??fica e chamaram a aten????o para o fato de que, embora sensibilizados pela import??ncia da Interdisciplinaridade na forma????o dos futuros contadores e, em sua maioria, praticantes intuitivos da Interdisciplinaridade, ainda h?? uma dist??ncia entre o falado e pensado e o efetivamente colocado em pr??tica pelos professores de Controladoria entrevistados.

While research on peer feedback in L2 writing has proliferated over the past two decades, not much is known about how EFL writers, driven by their motives and situated within their social, cultural and historical contexts, participate in group peer feedback of L2 writing. To fill such an important void, the present study investigates six Chinese EFL university students’ participation in group peer feedback activities of L2 writing from a sociocultural and activity theory perspective. Based on sociocultural theory and activity theory in particular, the present study proposes a tentative group peer feedback activity system model and explores Chinese EFL writers’ motives for participating in group peer feedback, how their motives influence group interaction and text revisions, and how they employ mediating strategies to facilitate group interaction and realize their motives during group peer feedback activities. / The study adopts a case study approach with a multiple-case design and collects multiple sources of data including video recordings of peer feedback sessions, semi-structured interviews, stimulated recalls, and drafts of student texts. Six Chinese EFL university students were selected through purposive sampling to participate in the study. Data analyses indicate that EFL students’ group peer feedback activities are driven and defined by their motives and mediated by their social, cultural and historical contexts. The findings revealed four major types of student motives for group peer feedback activities in the writing classroom: (1) feedback-giving and the learning process; (2) feedback-receiving and the learning product; (3) fixing errors in writing; and (4) getting the job done, which were shaped by a myriad of individual and sociocultural factors such as students’ personal belief systems, their secondary education experiences and the exam-oriented learning culture and education system. The study also found that student motives for peer feedback have great influences on students’ stances for group peer feedback and the patterns of group interaction, as well as the text revisions. Driven by different motives, the students were involved in different peer feedback systems in which they took different stances for peer feed-back and interacted differently with their group members, even though some of them were working in the same group and of similar English proficiency level. The study also reveals four major types of mediating strategies in peer feedback activities of L2 writing: artefact-mediated, rule-mediated, community-mediated, and division of labour-mediated strategies. The six students made use of these mediating strategies at different levels to realize their motives in the peer feedback activities. / Informed by the peer feedback activity system and the major findings of the present study, a tentative model to conceptualize the effective peer feedback activity in the EFL writing classroom has been proposed, which serves as a tentative conceptual and pedagogical model for research and practice in peer feedback of L2 writing. This study contributes new knowledge to the field by relating students’ motives to other key elements in peer feedback such as mediating strategies, peer stances, group interaction and student revisions of L2 writing, yielding a deepened understanding of students’ participation in and engagement with peer feedback in EFL writing. / 儘管在二語寫作領域有大量研究關注同伴回饋，但鮮有研究者探討外語寫作學習者如何在其動機的驅使下和社會文化環境的影響下參與小組同伴回饋活動。鑒於此，本研究在社會文化理論和活動理論的基礎上，構建了外語寫作小組同伴回饋活動系統，並以該活動系統為概念框架探究六位中國外語寫作學習者的小組同伴回饋動機，分析其與小組交互和文本修改的關係。本研究還探討外語寫作學習者如何採取仲介策略輔助小組交互和實現回饋動機。 / 本研究採用多案例個案研究的範式，通過目的性抽樣原則，從中國大陸某大學選取六位英語寫作學習者作為被試，收集了多種形式的資料，包括同伴回饋錄影、半結構性訪談、刺激性回憶和寫作文本資料。資料分析顯示外語寫作學習者的小組同伴回饋活動由學生的動機驅使，並受到學生所處的社會文化環境影響。研究發現四種類型的同伴回饋動機：（1）回饋給予與學習過程型；（2）回饋接收與學習結果型；（3）修改文本錯誤型；和（4）完成任務型。這四類同伴回饋動機是在學習者個體因素（如學生的信念、中學學習經歷等）和社會文化因素（如考試取向的教育環境等）的交互影響下形成的。本研究還發現回饋動機對學習者的回饋立場、小組交互模式及其文本修改都會有一定的影響。在不同類型動機的驅使下，即使學習者來自同一小組或英語水準相當，他們也嵌套于不同的同伴回饋系統中，其回饋立場和交互模式也會有所不同。研究還揭示出學生在小組同伴回饋中採用四種仲介策略實現其回饋動機：人工製品仲介策略、規則仲介策略、社群仲介策略和任務分工仲介策略。 / Yu, Shulin. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-275). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on 21, December, 2016). / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only.

"The objectives of this research were (1) to develop experimental active-based-learning curricula for undergraduate courses in transportation engineering and (2) to assess the effectiveness of an active-learning-based traffic engineering curriculum through an educational experiment. The researcher developed a new highway design course as a pilot study to test selected active-learning techniques before employing them in the traffic engineering curriculum. Active-learning techniques, including multiple-choice questions, short problems completed by individual students or small groups, and group discussions, were used as active interludes within lectures. The researcher also collected and analyzed student performance and attitude data from control and experimental classes to evaluate the relative effectiveness of the traditional lecture (control) approach and the active-learning (experimental) approach. The results indicate that the active-learning approach adopted for the experimental class did have a positive impact on student performance as measured by exam scores. The students in the experimental class also indicated slightly more positive attitudes at the end of the course than the control class, although the difference was not significant. The author recommends that active interludes similar to those in the experimental curricula be used in other courses in civil engineering."

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching reading through discussion of text structures on students' reading comprehension. The design of the study was a Pretest-Posttest Control-Group Design. One hundred twenty-six sophomore and senior Thai college students majoring in English and attending afternoon English classes participated in the 10-week study and were randomly assigned to an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group received reading instruction in the characteristics of narrative and expository text structures and how to discuss the details of story by applying knowledge of text structures. The control group, on the other hand, read each story silently by themselves and answered comprehension questions. The posttest means of the two groups were compared, and a t test was used to test the significance difference of the means. The results did not reveal any differences between the means. The short time of the intervention may be a crucial factor that made the two strategies yield the same effects. However, the survey responses showed the participants liked reading through discussion of text structures more than reading by themselves.

Thesis (Ph. D. (Educational Administration) -- University of Limpopo, 2017 / Refer to the document

Short-term intercultural exchange programs provide a wealth of information and experiences for participants. Participants are given the opportunity to travel out of their native country and are exposed to new languages and cultures. This case study looks at the Japanese sojourners in the Northwest/ Pacific Rim {NWPR) summer program. The purpose was to examine the language use of the Japanese sojourners throughout the course of the NWPR program. This case study sought to determine when the Japanese sojourners used English and/or Japanese, in which situations, what strategies the Japanese sojourners employed and who initiated contact with whom. All of the data was gathered from a participant observer who also employed various ethnographic methods. The Japanese sojourners were observed informally and six were interviewed formally. All four of the ESL teachers were also formally interviewed to provide as wide a range of information as possible. The results showed that the Japanese sojourners did, in general, have a positive experience in the NWPR program but they did not learn as much English and intercultural sensitivity as they could have. Although this case study was focused on the language use of the Japanese sojourners aspects of program evaluation inevitable infiltrated in.

Because teacher I student interactions provide opportunities for correction and comprehensible input, a major component of successful language learning, equitable distribution of teacher I student interactions in the language classroom is an important element for the success of all second language students. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether differences in teacher I student interactions based on student gender occurred in four college English as a Second Language instructors' classrooms. The role of instructor gender and student ethnicity in teacher I student interaction content and frequency were also examined. Informal interviews were designed to determine the instructors' awareness of their classroom behaviors as they relate to equality in teacher I student interactions. The subjects in this study were two male and two female ESL instructors and their students from two private Portland area universities. Interaction frequency data were collected using a seating chart instrument which placed interactions into three categories. Interaction content was determined through the use of a modified Equivalent Talk Category Classroom Interaction Inventory (ETC) (developed by Bentley and Miller, 1971) which classified the interactions into eight separate categories. All data were analyzed using a factorial ANOV A for which the mean behaviors per fifty minute observation acted as the dependent variable and student gender, student ethnicity, instructor gender, and category type served as the independent variables. The analysis revealed that one male and one female instructor interacted significantly more frequently with their male students than they did with their female students and one female instructor interacted significantly more frequently with her female students. Student ethnicity was a major contributor to the disparity in interactions in both classrooms in which males interacted more than females. Middle Eastern and African male students were found to interact with their instructor significantly more frequently than Asian male students. No difference in interaction content was found in interactions between instructors and their male and female students. Instructor interviews revealed that all instructors believed they used a variety of methods to ensure interaction equality in their classrooms indicating that they were not aware of the differences in interaction frequencies which were discovered.

Many pre-health students are required to take introductory physics as undergraduates, though they often struggle to see the relationship between medicine and what they learn in these courses. In order to help students make that connection, reformed curriculum was adopted that teaches physics through the context of biomedicine. This dissertation will discuss the development, implementation, and assessment of the reformed curriculum for the introductory and intermediate level physics courses that targets the needs of pre-health students. The curriculum created during this project include laboratory activities, multimedia content, and other instructional materials all of which present physics in biomedical contexts. The laboratory activities focus on exploring the physical principles behind common medical devices or concepts such as body composition analyzers or computed tomography. This often required researching, designing, and building devices for use in the classroom. Videos interviews with biomedical experts detail how physics is used in their fields. The texts written for these courses serve as a fundamental scientific introduction to the physical concepts and technical discussions of their application in biomedicine. An online homework platform allows for the implementation of a flipped classroom. Homework integrates the material, probing both conceptual understanding and problem solving. Multiple forms of assessment have been used to improve the content and clarity of the curriculum. The research for this project includes a study of the impact of these course reforms on students' attitudes toward physics. Shifts in attitudes were assessed using the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS), course surveys, student interviews, and conceptual quizzes. Data was collected from students in the reformed course and a concurrent course taught using a traditional physics curriculum that does not have a focus on biomedicine. The results show that students' attitudes were affected by the reforms in multiple ways including students' ability to contextualize physical phenomenon through biomedical applications. Direct responses from the students indicated that they appreciated that the course included biomedically relevant content. They stated that the course had helped them to make connections with physics that they were not able to make in previous physics classes. However, a portion of the students qualified their approval of the course reforms by stating, for example, that they felt they were missing out on other topics due to the biomedical focus. There is evidence that other factors such as class meeting time could have played a role in students' attitudes as well. Students were surveyed multiple times throughout the year. Results of these surveys show that students' attitudes tend to decrease during fall term, but improve after winter and spring term. These results suggest that greater gains in favorable attitudes could be achieved by course reforms in fall term, where positive attitudes are at a minimum. Illustration-based quizzes were administered to assess students' conceptual understanding and contextualization of different physical phenomena. The quizzes featured open-ended prompts about illustrations similar to those often seen in physics instruction. Few significant differences in conceptual understanding were found between students in the reformed and traditional courses. However, students in the reformed course were more likely to cite biomedical applications of the physical phenomena. These course reforms teach physical principles through their application to biomedical technology and have positively impacted students' appreciation for the relationship between physics and biomedicine.