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- Alterações geradas pela avaliação externa de escolas: estudo de casoPublication . Tomás, Ana; Henriques, Susana; Abelha, MartaAvaliar a organização escolar de forma sistemática é um procedimento relativamente recente que procura garantir a qualidade de todo o sistema educativo, capacitando-o para dar resposta a uma sociedade em constante transformação. O presente texto integra-se no âmbito do mestrado em Administração e Gestão Educacional da Universidade Aberta. O trabalho aqui apresentado foi tido como ponto de partida para uma investigação mais profunda em curso, centrada na avaliação externa de escolas e na sua relação com a autoavaliação de um agrupamento de escolas do Algarve. Enquadrado no paradigma qualitativo, e realizando uma análise exploratória da informação disponível nas páginas das escolas do Algarve acessíveis na internet, foi definido como objetivo analisar a informação sobre a autoavaliação aí disponível. A presente investigação permitiu elencar um conjunto de informações que são divulgadas pelas escolas nas suas páginas web. No entanto, de acordo com a análise às referidas páginas, dos 40 agrupamentos de escolas do Algarve, a divulgação dos procedimentos de autoavaliação revela-se incompleta ou inexistente, na maior parte dos casos. Os resultados surpreendem na medida em que trata de procedimentos, os de autoavaliação e de avaliação externa de escolas, que se encontram regulamentados há mais de vinte anos, desde a publicação da Lei nº 31/2002, de 20 de dezembro.
- A avaliação ao serviço da melhoria das aprendizagens: a metodologia PBL no ensino superiorPublication . Fernandes, Sandra; Abelha, Marta; Pereira, Adelaide; Anunciação, CarolinaEste artigo apresenta uma experiência com a abordagem pedagógica Project-based Learning (PBL) e tem como objetivo analisar o modo como as diversas modalidades e instrumentos de avaliação no âmbito do PBL estão ao serviço da melhoria das aprendizagens. O objeto de análise são duas unidades curriculares, numa turma do 2º ano da licenciatura em Educação Social. Este estudo de caso tem a análise documental e a entrevista semiestruturada como métodos de recolha de dados. Com base no quadro conceptual de Flores (2019) sobre as modalidades da avaliação (avaliação das aprendizagens, avaliação para as aprendizagens e avaliação como aprendizagem), foram analisados os conteúdos das Fichas das duas Unidades Curriculares (FUC’S) numa perspetiva de interdisciplinaridade; os dados da entrevista a uma das docentes responsáveis e as reflexões dos estudantes. Nas FUC´s expressa-se a avaliação das aprendizagens; a entrevista à docente evidencia o feedback, das docentes e dos pares, nos vários momentos de avaliação, correspondendo a uma avaliação para as aprendizagens contribuindo, significativamente, para a aquisição de competências; nas reflexões dos estudantes identifica-se a avaliação como aprendizagem nas descrições sobre o desenvolvimento significativo, no seu processo de aprendizagem. Conclui-se positivamente quanto à metodologia PBL e modalidades de avaliação utilizadas, ao melhorarem, notoriamente, as aprendizagens dos estudantes.
- Avaliação externa de escolas (3º ciclo): perspectivas de avaliaçãoPublication . Henriques, Susana; Seabra, Filipa; Abelha, Marta
- Decision making in virtual classrooms: a case for organisational democracy in teacher education for democracyPublication . Neves, Claudia; Oliveira, Juliana; Almeida, Ana Patrícia; Abelha, Marta; Abrantes, PedroOrganizational democracy in education emphasizes participatory decision-making processes, involving teachers, students, and other stakeholders in shaping educational policies and practices. In teacher education, organizational democracy involves decision-making that empower them to contribute to the design and improvement of educational programs. This concept underscores the importance of cocreating with teachers to foster democratic values and equip them with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to promote democratic principles within students and learning community. This approach fits into the ongoing discussion about education and the common good, questioning how education itself can be understood as “common” and as a promoter of common goods (Bollier, 2018; Velicu & Garcia -Lopez, 2020). Analyzing organizational democracy involves examining various dimensions to gain a comprehensive understanding of how democratic principles are embedded within the organizational structure and culture. The AECED project aims to develop a prototype of a pedagogical framework and guides to practice that encourages the development of activities based on arts-based embodied methods in order to provide experiences of democracy-as-becoming. The Portuguese case will carry out 4 of the case studies of the project based on the development of an online training course for teachers and educators who, using a Participatory Action-Research (PAR) methodology (Cornish, et al. 2023), will test the framework and guide in early years, primary and vocational education. In this paper we will present a set of data relating to the perceptions of teachers and educators that participated in the online course about the organizational transformation before and after the development of the activities based on the pedagogical framework and guides of AECED project. Our aim was to identify perceptions about the organizational transformation on the following dimensions: transformative dialogue, power sharing, holistic learning, relational well-being, collaborative decision-making, shared leadership, innovation, and Creativity; Conflict Resolution and Inclusivity and Diversity. By examining these dimensions, researchers and organizations can gain insights into the level of organizational democracy and identify areas for improvement or refinement.
- Happy schools Portugal: elementos definidores da felicidade organizacional das escolasPublication . Gramaxo, Patrícia; Seabra, Filipa; Dutschke, Georg; Abelha, Marta
- Innovation and external evaluation of non-higher education schools in Portugal: a study based on external evaluation reportsPublication . Seabra, Filipa; Henriques, Susana; Abelha, Marta; Mouraz, Anaanswer the complex demands placed by current social dynamics. Responding to this fast-paced changing society, however, has to be a priority of educational systems. Evaluation and accountability processes have been recognized as essential mechanisms in order to validate innovation – both internally – centered on self-regulation and self-evaluation, - and externally – towards the context and society the educational institution answers to. However, external evaluation also carries a number of risks [3], which may lead schools away from innovation, and toward ‘safer’ choices in terms of a culture of performativity or an audit culture [4] [5] [6]. The current model of External School Evaluation of non-higher education schools in Portugal, which was piloted in 2018, stresses innovative practices, as they are a requirement for schools to achieve the maximum evaluation mention, and less directly since indicators related to innovative practices are included in its referential. Our communication is based on the documental analysis of the external evaluation reports produced in the current cycle of evaluation and the previous reports on the schools evaluated in this cycle, focusing on innovative practices and intending to answer the following questions: What kinds of practices are deemed as innovative in external evaluation reports? Were there mentions to innovation in those schools' previous reports? How are innovation practices promoted or hindered by the perspectives present in these reports? Fifteen such reports were analyzed by the authors (higher education teachers involved in a project concerned with external school evaluation funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology: FCT PTDC/CEDEDG/30410/2017). Results show that there are both positive and negative remarks made about innovative practices in schools. Not all reports refer to innovative practices. Aspects considered innovative are mostly related to the domain «provision of educational service», and to a smaller extent, «leadership and management». Preliminary results show that some «innovative» practices may be reinforced by the external school evaluation reports, regardless of the overall assessment of the schools involved.
- Leadership by the curricular department coordinator: teacher' perceptionsPublication . Catarino, Sónia; Abelha, Marta; Lobo, Cristina Costa; Seabra, FilipaThe aim of this paper is to present a case study carried out in two clusters of schools in the metropolitan area of Oporto, Portugal. The study reflects upon the teachers’ perceptions about the coordinator as the "leader" of the curricular department and based on the problem: “What are the contributions of the coordinator’s leadership on the dynamics of teaching, developed in the curricular department? The following aims were defined: to analyze the role and functions of the coordinator of the curricular department from the perspective of the legal diplomas; to understand the coordinator’s perception concerning job accomplishment; to understand which practices are adopted by the coordinator concerning their curricular department in its daily action; to understand teachers’ perceptions with regard to the exercise of the coordinator’s tasks; to understand the coordinator’s influence upon teacher’s teaching practices; to identify features that teachers consider important to acknowledge the department coordinator as a leader. To accomplish this, a qualitative approach has been used, similar to a case study, using techniques such as surveys and interviews. The framework initially focused on an analysis of the legal framework at the level of legislative regulations, essentially, as they regard the position of curricular department coordinator and / or similar; later approaching the concepts of leadership, through a brief history about the theories of leadership. Based on the analysis of teachers’ opinions about the functions and influence of the coordinator, namely representation, communication, interaction, collaboration, promotion of personal initiative, problem solving and common objectives, we conclude that teachers' perceptions point to a coordinator with a predominantly transformational leadership.
- Literacy(ies) and skills in times of digital education: exploring communication and interaction in digitally mediated learning worldsPublication . Correia, Joana Duarte; Henriques, Susana; Fernandes, Sandra; Abelha, Marta; Seabra, FilipaThis article seeks to explore the notions of literacy(ies) and competences in times of digital education. The aim of the study was to understand, from perspectives of experts, what literacy(ies) and competences are in digital teaching-learning contexts, how they are operationalised, which strategies can be used for their development, and what are the opportunities and challenges for their application in digital education. Through a qualitative approach, four experts were interviewed as privileged informants in their areas of expertise. The individuals interviewed are academics with extensive research in the areas of literacy(ies), digital and infocommunication skills and digital education. The interviews were conducted during the first quarter of 2023, as part of a larger ongoing study - digital and infocommunicational competences in virtual learning environments: practices in e-learning curricular units in Portuguese Higher Education. According to these experts, digital is largely responsible for the recent changes in the world, but the most important thing is not learning or teaching digital: it is developing citizens' skills or competences, exploring communication and interaction in digitally mediated learning worlds. This demands the mobilization of competences to search and exchange information, and to interact with another people in digital environments. This can help citizens become more confident, critical, and open-minded users of today’s technologies.
- Perspectives on preschool curriculum in PortugalPublication . Carrachás, Natércia; Seabra, Filipa; Abelha, MartaThe present communication is focused on the curriculum of preschools in Portugal (ages 3 to 6) and how preschool educators and 1st cycle (ages 6 to 10) teachers, as well as preschool children’s parents perceive it. Firstly, preschool education is contextualized in order to better frame the need for an active investment in the valuing of this educational level. Given its short existence, accompanied by advancements and setbacks, the idea often perceived in social discourse about preschool education in Portugal is often not one of an activity aimed at the global development of children, as assistentialist conceptions persist. However, while there isn’t a structured curriculum for preschool, there are Curricular Guidelines for Preschool Education (CGPE), a set of general principles which contribute to the childhood educators’ decisions about their educational practice and the educational intentionality of the activities developed with children. This document is a referential for the national network of preschool education for the construction of curriculum, which retains a wide margin of decision for the contextualization and differentiation of curriculum, acknowledging the childhood educators’ role as a curriculum decision maker. The aim of this study was to understand the conception that preschool teachers, 1st cycle teachers and some parents have about this level of education as well as to understand if they recognize the importance of developing personal and social skills together with other content areas which might be a facilitating scafold for the entrance in the following cycle. This study, using a mixed methodology, included semi-structured interviews to preschool educators (eight interviewees), and questionnaires to 1st cyle teachers (fourty nine) and parents (seventy-eight) of four schools in a region of inner Portugal, the district of Beja. The research followed the ethical norms for research in the social sciences, namely informed consent by participants and preservation of anonymity. Data gathering instruments were approved by the Ministry of Education as well as by the pedagogical councils and directors of the four school clusters involved. The main results show that all the preschool educators surveyed base their curriculum building process on the CGPE, some referring to this document as their «Bible» and also as the foundation of their planning and assessment practices. However important the document is deemed, it is not the sole foundation for their curricular decision-making, as children themselves and schools’ other internal documents and projects are also taken into account. Although primary school teachers know about the existence of the CGPE, they don’t demonstrate a broad understanding about its content, although they identify practices of coordination with preschool educators to prepare the students’ transition between educational cycles. They also recognize that the work carried out in preschool aims to facilitate future learning processes by the children. On the other hand, parents revealed a more passive attitude towards their children’s activities in preschool.
- O Projeto Coopera Escola+ 21-23 como promotor da aprendizagem cooperativa: efeitos de uma oficina de formaçãoPublication . Mendes, Vanessa; Moreira, Sónia; Abelha, MartaNuma sociedade em constante transformação, as escolas enfrentam enormes desafios. Nesse sentido, emerge o Projeto COOPERA Escola+ 21|23 que pretende impulsionar a transformação de práticas pedagógicas diferenciadoras. Este projeto tem como modelo teórico e pedagógico a Aprendizagem Cooperativa (AC), desafiando professores e alunos a vivenciarem experiências pedagógicas, que trazem identidade às escolas, integrando a Estratégia Nacional da Educação para a Cidadania, a Avaliação Pedagógica, a Educação Inclusiva, o Plano de Transição Digital, o Ensino Experimental das Ciências e o Bem-Estar Social e Emocional, indo ao encontro das competências inscritas no Perfil dos Alunos à saída da Escolaridade Obrigatória (PASEO). O projeto desenvolve diferentes ações, investindo na reconfiguração das práticas pedagógicas com incidência na formação docente. Neste contexto, encontra-se em fase de conclusão, uma dissertação de mestrado, que incide sobre o desenvolvimento do trabalho docente, numa ação de formação, dinamizada pelo Coopera Escola+ 21|23, designada por Comunidades Cooperativas de Aprendizagem Profissional (CCAP), nível 1. Este estudo é centrado, exclusivamente, nos 13 formandos que frequentaram a CCAP, pertencentes a um Agrupamento de Escolas da zona norte, de diferentes níveis de ensino (pré-escolar, 1.º e 3.º ciclos), tendo em conta as sessões presenciais, em que os professores, já em grupos cooperativos experienciam os métodos de AC. O trabalho autónomo implica a implementação desses métodos junto dos alunos. Desta forma, procura-se compreender em que medida os efeitos desta CCAP, no âmbito do trabalho presencial e do trabalho autónomo, se refletem na promoção e utilização da AC em contexto educativo. Os principais resultados obtidos permitem: caracterizar a perceção dos professores relativamente à AC (conceções, mais-valias, dificuldades e motivações); identificar práticas docentes, tendo como modelo a AC que os professores afirmam desenvolver; caracterizar o trabalho em equipa da CCAP e compreender, na perspetiva dos formandos, em que medida a CCAP contribuiu para o seu desenvolvimento profissional.