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Flores, Maria Assunção; Brown, Gavin; Pereira, Diana; Coutinho, Clara; Santos, Patrícia; Pinheiro, Cláudia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
After 20 years of the Bologna Declaration, Portuguese universities claim to be implementing student-centred and involved assessment practices. Student conceptions of assessment matter when innovations and reforms in assessment practices are being implemented. This study is part of a larger research project entitled "Assessment in higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
Agasisti, Tommaso; Avvisati, Francesco; Borgonovi, Francesca; Longobardi, Sergio – OECD Publishing, 2018
Resilience refers to the capacity of individuals to prosper despite encountering adverse circumstances. This paper defines academic resilience as the ability of 15-year-old students from disadvantaged backgrounds to perform at a certain level in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in reading, mathematics and science that…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement
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Rocha Ferreira, Cristina – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2016
GAME results from the exhaustion of doing the same activities, dealing with unmotivated students and not getting the desired results academically. Thus, I initiated a process of research and training in areas such as Positive Psychology, Neurosciences and Neurolinguistic Programming, which allowed to design an Evidence-Based Intervention. Students…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Efficiency