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Direct linkCarrazoni, 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
Download full textSchoeffel, 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
Arantes, Pedro Fiori – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2021
This article discusses the recent expansion and democratization of Brazil's higher education system from the beginning of the twenty-first century to the present, concluding with its contemporary clash with the far-right government, which has placed universities and scientific knowledge under attack -- an experience had around the globe. In the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries
Dalmon, Danilo Leite; Fonseca, Izabel; Avena, Cláudio Pondé; Carnoy, Martin; Khavenson, Tatiana – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
How much university students learn in their studies is highly debated and important to understanding the value of higher education. Yet, information on learning gains at this level are scarce. Our paper contributes to the debate by using unique data for Brazil to estimate absolute test score gains across various fields of study in higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, College Students, Achievement Gains
de Melo Gomes, Thayse Ancila Maria; Leher, Roberto; Costa, Hellen Balbinotti – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
This study briefly reports on a range of conflicts involving teaching work in joint-stock higher education organizations which trade shares in [B]3 stock market, especially Ânima, Estácio, Kroton and Ser Educacional. After the systematic organization of empirical observations, we defined our object through a methodology specific to the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Census Figures, Money Management, News Reporting
Chiroleu, Adriana; Marquina, Monica – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2017
In recent decades, many Latin American governments have implemented policies to expand opportunities in higher education, aiming at reducing discrimination and social inequalities. These policies have taken different forms, according to the peculiarities of the respective higher education systems. The purpose of this paper is to explore the scope…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Policy, Access to Education, Foreign Countries
