Gabriel Mares

• PhD
• Associate professor at University of Bacău

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have been increasingly confronted with significant challenges at the international, national, and regional levels, such as the difficulty of switching back from online to face-to-face education, the major trend towards digitalisation and its integration into the academic educatio...

Inclusive education is a key aspect of quality assurance in higher education, closely linked to equity and diversity issues. The attitudes of higher education teachers play a crucial role at the decision-making and policy levels, as well as in their practical teaching approaches. This study aims to explore teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive educ...

Our study is rooted in a theoretical analysis of the concepts of personal self-efficacy and career choice, which are deeply interconnected. In response to the question, “What is the relationship between self-efficacy and career decision-making?” we have synthesised various insights from the literature with potential applications in career counselli...

The university and the labour market can no longer be considered as separate entities because they are deeply interconnected, and their relationship is characterised by mutual influence. In order to ensure this relationship is functional and beneficial for all parties involved, it is highly important not only to listen to employers’ voice (which is...

The factors influencing university dropout are varied, complex, and not easily identifiable. The aim of this study is to assess students’ perceptions of these dropout factors. A total of 36 students from “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău participated in the research, which included a focus group to identify the main factors contributing to dr...

The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Myofascial Release Technique (MRT) along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on pain, craniovertebral angle (CVA), and neck disability in university students with chronic neck pain and forward head posture. A total of sixty-six eligible participants with ch...

Virtual environments allow teachers to approach the teaching process inclusively and creatively, to facilitate the effective transfer of learning and to support student learning with new technologies regardless of various barriers. The hereby study evaluates the students’ views concerning the virtual delivery of courses during their learning proces...

The concept of social inclusion is about accepting diversity and acknowledging the need to find solutions and mechanisms to meet the specific particularities of all types of people. The issue of social inclusion was particularly relevant in the past century context and it has maintained its topicality in the social-economic and political context of...

Considering the rising prevalence of smartphone usage among adolescents with intellectual disabilities and their frequent motor challenges, understanding its impact on their physical well-being is important. This study aims to investigate the impact of smartphone activities on postural balance in adolescents with intellectual disabilities. Two grou...

Lucrarea reprezintă o sinteză a informațiilor generale specifice TSA (tulburării de spectru autist), dar aduce ca element de noutate o serie de aspecte care țin de educația părinților copiilor cu TSA și de implicarea acestora în demersurile terapeutice. Această dimensiune este ilustrată prin analiza rolului părinților/aparținătorilor din perspectiv...

The main scope of the paper is identifying some categories of challenges in career decision process for teenagers from disadvantaged areas. The study purposes are as follows: 1. identifying the decisive factors influencing the career decision and their power in students’ choices; 2. establishing the information resources considered by the students...

Background: Although athletes' experiences of autonomy, competence, and relatedness play in key role in their motivation, performance-related outcomes, and wellness, there is no evidence to date on measures of autonomy, competence, and relatedness in the Romanian sport context. Building upon self-determination theory, the objective of this researc...

Background Despite the importance attributed to athletes’ motivation in sports performance and well-being; no measures of motivation toward sport were found in the Romanian sport context. Objective Grounded in self-determination theory, this research aimed to adapt and to gather validity and reliability evidence supporting the use of the Behaviora...

The proposed study is based on a double causality, such as: the need to improve the counselling tools for high school students for the appropriate choice of a career development path; the existence of the category of disadvantaged students from an economic perspective, whose difficulties in choosing a training path for their career have been augmen...

This chapter aims to explore academic integrity and how we can relate to it in the technology-driven education era. To this end, we aim to systematize some of the current challenges of academic integrity from the perspective of the digital age; to list the most common forms of academic dishonesty; to highlight a series of specific and general measu...

The educational area is a social sector where the COVID-19 pandemic impact involves making many exponential changes. In many countries, the transition from face-to-face education to on-line education implies a revolution in the hierarchy of job domains/jobs offer. Young people’s career plans may be different under the impact of internal and externa...

The importance of social media in reinforcing brands is generally recognized by taking into consideration several benefits, such as: generated content, messages adapted to the customer profile, one-to-one communication, open interaction and feedback. Communication and community have become essential for the online learning environment. Fast but ver...

Access to education, equal opportunities in education represent attractive needs which unfortunately can encounter many obstacles in real life (economic, social, cultural), causing disadvantaged students to have limited access to secondary education and increasingly restricted access to university studies. Moreover, given the context of the current...

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects only the views of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Personal development is NOT one of the main purposes for which students choose to attend the courses of an academic program. However, this process is achieved in the period of university studies and the complete preparation of graduates, from a European perspective, includes both professional and transversal competences. Their cumulative training i...

There is ample specialized literature on CV related issues (content, structure, format, steps in elaboration, modalities of correct elaboration, frequent types of errors). However, there are fewer studies regarding some specific ways of connecting the CV related issues with the new information and communication technologies and with their use in th...

The theoretical/practical interest in identifying significant ways to perform formative evaluation in education is highly topical. Researchers/practitioners are constantly looking for new ways to achieve it, while also identifying and/or structuring appropriate tools. The present study proposes a quantitative-qualitative analysis of a set of pedago...

The university academic training is the correlation of the activation and internalization of convergent values with specific professional specialization, but also with the structuring of specific performance personality values (Snyders, 1993). Currently, higher education is the main guide for the development of professional, societal, moral, and ec...

The study aims to illustrate the way in which the pedagogical essay can be used as part of a summative assessment test in higher education at master level. A quantitative-qualitative analysis was applied to 35 essays. The essay semi-structured elements were: teacher's arguments to use student-centred strategies, opportunities and threats of this ap...

The pedagogical diary may show a versatile utility in the initial teacher training process. Our study aims to highlight the results obtained by capitalizing the pedagogical diary during a semesters activity, the discipline of History of Pedagogy, academic year 2016-2017. The sample consisted of 70 1st-year students from the Pedagogy of Primary and...

Career orientation, factor analysis in making a decision, but also sometimes strong indecision in making a final decision, can constitute complex aspects of a process involving completely the person envisaging a professional career in a particular field.Making a decision involves a previous accumulation of information, but it also depends on less c...

The purpose of this study was to examine the participation motives of children from different sports and examine the reasons why they are continuing or quitting the athletic activity. The study was conducted on 66 girls and 31 boys practicing various sports in Bacau. The average age of the participants was 10.5 years. We constructed a questionnaire...

This article aims to highlight the role and place of the complex factors that influence the decision for career guidance for physical therapy and special motor skills students. Career guidance is an umbrella concept that summarizes the different types of services such as information, assessment, career counseling and education. The research subject...

Aim. Motor development is considered to be an essential stage on developing independent life skills. There is a lack of intervention programs concerning getting and developing motor abilities for people with Down syndrome as well as a lack of opportunities to socially interaction in recreational and sport contexts. The main objective of this study...

Study on service needs among parents of children and young people with ASD

The issue of identifying and hierarchizing the categories of factors which determine the degree of the family's involvement in the education of students is extremely topical. All the more so as we are referring to primary school students, challenged by their first authentic school experience at an early age. The aim of our study is to draw the radi...

This paper constitutes an observational study conducted between February and March, 2011, on 20 coaches from various Romanian clubs. The study aimed to observe the importance of psychological factors for the karate training. We used as a research method a questionnaire with 10 questions, on which each coach had to choose one answer. The answers wer...

The aim of this research is to highlight the efficiency of a new approach for stimulating learning for Physical Education and Sports specialties. Material and methods.This paper is a study ascertained and performed on 30 students of the Faculty of Sports Movement and Health Sciences during the seminar hours. This study was carried out from February...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the utility and necessity of Erasmus intensive programs for our faculty, especially for teachers and students involved in these projects, from license areas Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy. Faculty of Movement, Sport and Health Sciences is a partner within two Erasmus intensive programs, Active Ag...

This paper is an observational study conducted between February and March 2012, on 14 Romanian athletes (hammer throwers) and 12 Romanian coaches, regarding the importance and use of the verbal and nonverbal communication during training and competitions. The study tried to confirm two hypotheses. We used as a research method the inquiry, represent...

Introduction. High performance in track and field is constantly conditioned by the athletes' reaction to different stress factors. The analysis of mental stress on athletes in different situations has made certain specialists to say that the psychological effect of a stress agent (seen as a response of the athlete) is less predictable than the phys...

This text aims to present important role of communication in the process of change from the organizations working in the field of human health. I tried, during this work, to emphasize the elements that could influence the process of change referring to the questions: selective perception, insufficient information, fear of unknown, inertia of the sy...

This paper is an experimental study conducted on 35 subjects, in February 2011, first year undergraduate and second year graduate physical education students. The study was based on the self-knowledge test "Are you a good collaborator?" created by Nicolae Radu, in 2007, pag. 107-109. As research methods, we used the study of specialized literature,...