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Download full textMartins, André Dutra; Barreyro, Gladys Beatriz – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
This study shows findings of an investigation into the forms of institutionalizing academic rankings as accountability tools for Brazilian public universities. The absence of institutional conditions which allowed the rise of these league tables in other countries - competitive admission markets and incorporation into public policies - evinces the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
Direct linkPalma, Lisiane Celia; de Oliveira, Lessandra Medeiros; Alves, Nilo Barcelos; Figueiró, Paola Schmitt – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to analyze the extent to which sustainability and its related core aspects have been integrated in the curricula of Business Administration programs in Brazilian federal public universities over the past ten years. Design/methodology/approach: A longitudinal exploratory study, with a descriptive scope, was carried out to…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Business Administration Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Cavalheiro, Adail de Castro; Grebot, Guy – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
This work presents an evaluation of a unified Calculus 1 course in a large Brazilian federal university. By course unification we mean having all the sections following the same weekly schedule, under the same syllabus and common assessment. We analyse two sets of data: pass rates relative to the 9 semesters prior to the unification and to the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Calculus, Undergraduate Students
Carrazoni, Guilherme Salgado; Chaves, Amanda Dalla'corte; da Rocha, Claudio Felipe Kolling; Mello-Carpes, Pâmela Billig – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
We created the "3-dimensional synaptic puzzle" (3Dsp) as an educational resource for the physiology teaching of synaptic transmission (ST). In this study, we aimed to apply and evaluate the use of 3Dsp. For this, we divided 175 university students from public and private universities into two groups: (1) control (CT; students that were…
Descriptors: Physiology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Schoeffel, Pablo; Ramos, Vinicius F. C.; Cechinel, Cristian; Wazlawick, Raul Sidnei – Informatics in Education, 2022
This paper proposes and validates a short and simple Expectancy-Value-Cost scale, called EVC Light. The scale measures the motivation of students in computing courses, allowing the easy and weekly application across a course. One of the factors related directly to the high rate of failure and dropout in computing courses is student motivation.…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Computer Science Education, Factor Analysis, Student Attitudes
Silveira, Lucas Fagundes; Xavier, Christian Santos; Perez, Maíra Alexandre; Bozza, Dandie Antunes; Furtado-Alle, Lupe; Hass, Iris; Tureck, Luciane Viater – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
In this paper, we describe a dynamic-model as a strategy to teach DNA transcription and translation in an active way. This activity aims to provide learning beyond memorisation through the simulation of molecular processes, stimulating the elaboration of questions and hypotheses by students. The dynamic consists of four steps, starting with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Steppacher, Damian; Cannarozzo Tinoco, Maria Auxiliadora; Caten, Carla Schewengber ten; Marcon, Arthur – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper proposed a valid and reliable perceived quality assessment framework of administrative services in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in the Brazilian context. The method was in two main stages: (i) map a set of quality attributes and dimensions for administrative services in HEI, (ii) build and test the perceived quality assessment…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, College Administration, Foreign Countries
Gomes Junior, José Carmino; Dalila Corbari, Sandra; Kniess, Cláudia Terezinha; Nogueira da Silva, Gérsica Moraes; Piontkewicz, Simone Caroline; de Souza Melo, Maiara; Silveira Carbone, Amanda; Mantovaneli, Oklinger, Jr.; Martins Sobral, Maria do Carmo; Philippi Junior, Arlindo; Fernandez, Felipe; de Aguiar Dutra, Ana Regina; Birch, Robert Samuel; Guerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade; Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Cioce – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aim to propose a methodological mapping approach for the evaluation of dissertations and theses of graduate programs in the area of environmental sciences in Brazil in relation to the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach: The research is characterized as exploratory with qualitative/quantitative…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Well Being, Correlation
de Oliveira, Édison Trombeta – Open Praxis, 2021
Netnography is a research procedure to analyse people inserted in digital communities applied, in this research, at Virtual University of the State of São Paulo, the first Brazilian public institution that offers only distance education. The aim of this paper is to know what happens in the course Calculus III, of the undergraduate in Physics, with…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Processes, Distance Education, Virtual Universities
Sentanin, FrancianiCassia; da Rocha, Ariane Carolina; Parra, Kenia Naara; Lanza, Marcos R. V.; Kasseboehmer, Ana Claudia – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Science dissemination or popularization of science refers to the act of facilitating the understanding of research and works of scientific and/or technological origin among the general public. Science dissemination is a relevant issue in the realm of public policy. Considering that in Brazil, the university is responsible for most of the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Research
Galleli, Barbara; Teles, Noah Emanuel Brito; Freitas-Martins, Mateus Santos; Semprebon, Elder; Hourneaux Junior, Flavio – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to analyse the insertion of Sustainability in Management undergraduate courses in Brazilian higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: Through content analysis, the authors have mapped the curricular grids of the Management courses simultaneously best classified in an independent national ranking…
Descriptors: Management Development, Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Undergraduate Students
Carnut, Leonardo – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2021
The examination of neo-fascism, especially in Latin American countries such as Brazil requires the examination of some differences that make the expression of the phenomenon irreplicable in social backgrounds as different as in Brazil. Thus, the objective of this article was to problematize the contemporary socio-political configuration of Brazil…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, State Universities
Mello, P. S.; Natale, C. C.; Trivelato, S. L. F.; Marzin-Janvier, P.; Vieira, L. Q.; Manzoni-de-Almeida, D. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2019
This article examines student engagement in an inquiry-based learning activity, planned to provide students with elements in the social, epistemic, and conceptual dimensions related to the scientific practice in immunology. The activity was applied to 39 groups of students enrolled in immunology or biochemistry courses in a public university in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Learning Activities, Epidemiology
Lee, Justine H. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
Following months of debate in 2012, Brazilian President Rousseff signed the Quota Law establishing quotas for the percentages of Black, Brown, and indigenous public secondary school students that public universities must enroll. Guided by a social dominance theory framework, this paper examines the extent to which such a policy can challenge an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Affirmative Action, Secondary School Students
School Occupations, Knowledge Production and New Strategies in Defence of Public Education in Brazil
Goulart, Débora C.; Cássio, Fernando L.; Ximenes, Salomão B. – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2019
The uprising of secondary school students in the state of São Paulo (Brazil) is related to a type of collective action that, although recent, finds support in other anti-neoliberal and anti-capitalist movements, with forms of action and organizational dynamic. For a long time, no social movement had expressed such power of mobilization, rupture…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Strategies, Correlation, Social Action
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