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Students' Acceptance of an Educational Videos Platform: A Study in A Portuguese University
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Costa, Carolina; Alvelos, Helena; Teixeira, Leonor – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2018
The Educast is an educational videos' platform that captures simultaneously video and digital support materials. This paper presents a study on the acceptance of Educast, by students, using the Technology Acceptance Model--TAM. The data was collected through a questionnaire applied to 54 students which results were analyzed using descriptive…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Positive Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
The Use of Web 2.0 Tools by Students in Learning and Leisure Contexts: A Study in a Portuguese Institution of Higher Education
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Costa, Carolina; Alvelos, Helena; Teixeira, Leonor – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2016
This study analyses and compares the use of Web 2.0 tools by students in both learning and leisure contexts. Data were collected based on a questionnaire applied to 234 students from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the results were analysed by using descriptive analysis, paired samples t-tests, cluster analyses and Kruskal-Wallis tests.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies, College Students, Questionnaires
Effects of an In-Service Training Program Using the Routines-Based Interview
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Boavida, Tânia; Aguiar, Cecília; McWilliam, R. A.; Correia, Nadine – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2016
The focus of this study is an in-service training program rooted in routines-based early intervention and designed to improve the quality of goals and objectives on individualized plans. Participants were local intervention team members and other professionals who worked closely with each team. This training program involved a small number of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Personnel, Training
Ethical Perceptions of Accounting Students in a Portuguese University: The Influence of Individual Factors and Personal Traits
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Costa, Alberto J.; Pinheiro, Margarida M.; Ribeiro, Mariana S. – Accounting Education, 2016
Our purpose is to empirically examine whether gender, age, work experience, and attendance of a course on ethics affect the ethical perceptions of Portuguese accounting students and analyze the influence of some individual factors that may affect their ethical decision-making. Additionally, we consider the degree of importance assigned to a list…
Descriptors: Ethics, Accounting, Gender Differences, Entrepreneurship
Secondary Student Perceptions of Factors Effecting Failure in Science in Portugal
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Fonseca, Jesuína M. B.; Conboy, Joseph E. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2006
High rates of failure in secondary level science classes are a problem worldwide. Effective teaching and efficient management of schools requires information as to the causes of failure. One approach to acquiring this information is to improve our understanding of what the students themselves perceive as the causes and antecedents of school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Science Achievement, Academic Failure