Alexandra Ribeiro Costa

Polytechnic Institute of Porto | IPP · Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

During 2020 and 2021, the world experienced a global change in everyone’s daily lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were confined in their homes but, luckily, had access to online classes. This study aims to assess the changes in self-efficacy perceived by engineering students in a school in Portugal. By helping to understand how students...

How can STEM education be enriched by means of digital technology? This key question was addressed by the “Research On STEM Education in the Digital Age” conference (ROSEDA). It took place in Porto from February 23 to 25, 2023, and focused on teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with digital technology. During...

In recent years, bibliometrics has been widely used as a methodology for the analysis of scientific production, proving to be an excellent instrument for supporting scientific policy decisions. In this paper, we present a bibliometric analysis of the 12 editions of the Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). Several indicators were used,...

Technology plays an important role in everyday life and can be used in education. Video is a source of material that can play an important role in the teaching and learning field. Using videos engages students, aids student retention of knowledge, motivates interest in the subject matter, and illustrates the relevance of many concepts. In this chap...

This paper intends to present an interdisciplinary project carried out in a School of Engineering, and to refer to its effects in the development of students’ skills. This project’s main goal was to present students with an intellectually demanding challenge which implied overcoming the disciplinary barriers thus integrating knowledge to solve the...

W e present the results of a study conducted with first-year students from the Euro-region of Galicia-North Portugal, with the aim of replicating the psychometric properties of the instrument as obtained from a prior version. Participants included 1268 first-year students with ages ranging from 17 to 52 years (Mdn = 18; 7.4% with ages above 23 yea...

Based on a multidimensional definition of academic expectations (AEs), the authors examine students’ AE component scores across countries and genders. Two samples (343 Portuguese and 358 Spanish students) completed the Academic Perceptions Questionnaire (APQ) six months after enrolling in their universities. Factorial invariance was ensured across...

This paper is an extension of work originally presented at the 2nd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education and aims to describe an interdisciplinarity teaching experiment involving three subjects of the scientific area of Mathematics and a fourth one in the area of Management. Using only one project, the student...

La entrada en la Enseñanza Superior (ES) presenta a los estudiantes diversas exigencias y oportunidades, derivadas de sus necesidades de afrontamiento de metas educativas, de regulación de su aprendizaje, de gestión del tiempo de estudio y ocio, de participación en el campus y en las aulas y de representación estudiantil, en un contexto de mayor de...

Previous research report abundantly that management practices are impregnated with national culture, in particular the practices of project management. This is an area with a high impact on the sustainability of countries and organizations, given the importance of efficiency and effectiveness of project management for the economic and social develo...

In this work, we describe an interdisciplinary teaching experiment involving three subjects of the scientific area of Mathematics and a fourth one in the area of Management. Using only one project, the students developed skills, in an integrated way, in the fields of the subjects involved. The structure of the project is described in detail. It is...

p>Com a expansão do acesso ao Ensino Superior, nas últimas décadas assistimos a uma maior heterogeneidade de estudantes neste nível de ensino. Uma das variáveis que importa considerar na análise dos perfis de estudantes universitários são as suas expectativas académicas, uma vez que as mesmas estão associadas a níveis diferentes de envolvimento,per...

Desde una concepción multidimensional de las expectativas, este artículo pretende analizar la validez y precisión psicométrica de una escala para su medida en los estudiantes universitarios de primer año. La muestra (N = 759) estaba compuesta por alumnado de primer año, de diversas titulaciones académicas de la Universidad de Vigo-Campus de Ourense...

Culture is understood as the sharing of history, beliefs, ideologies, traditions and language systems. Some authors report that there is a strong relation between national culture and the way projects are managed, and specifically, in the way professionals value and perform project planning and control activities. Furthermore, the relevance of thes...

De entre o amplo conjunto de variáveis pessoais e contextuais que poderão estar associadas às dificuldades sentidas pelos estudantes ao ingressarem no ensino superior (ES), as expectativas académicas serão o foco deste estudo. As expectativas académicas representam aquilo que o estudante espera concretizar no decurso da sua vida académica. Este est...

A autoeficácia refere-se às crenças que o indivíduo tem nas suas próprias capacidades para organizar e executar as ações necessárias à concretização de determinados objetivos. Por seu lado, engagement refere-se ao estado psicológico positivo e motivacional, relacionado com o bem-estar individual. Nesta investigação procurou-se estabelecer a relação...

Resumo O estudo das expectativas académicas de estudantes do primeiro ano tem mostrado a sua importância na qualidade da adaptação, persistência e sucesso académico no Ensino Superior. O Questionário de Perceções Académicas – Expectativas (QPA-E; Almeida, Deaño, et al., 2012) constitui um instrumento de avaliação destas expectativas, avaliando as m...

Resumo Face à relevância do envolvimento académico dos estudantes, e à necessidade da sua avaliação, este artigo analisa a validade interna e externa de uma escala junto de estudantes de Engenharia. Uma amostra de 360 estudantes preencheu o Inventário de Envolvimento Académico de Estudantes do Ensino Superior (USEI). Os resultados da Análise Fatori...

Resumo Neste artigo descrevemos uma experiência pedagógica realizada no âmbito da licenciatura em Engenharia Eletrotécnica – Sistemas Elétricos de Energia do Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP). Com esta experiência, tivemos como objetivo realizar um projeto multidisciplinar envolvendo quatro unidades curriculares do primeiro ano da li...