Leandro S. Almeida

• PhD Educational Psychology
• Professor (Full) at University of Minho

Diversas investigaciones demuestran los efectos beneficiosos de la inteligencia emocional en el trabajo docente, por lo que se está convirtiendo cada vez más en una competencia esencial para los profesores. Aunque varios estudios han demostrado que la inteligencia emocional tiene un impacto positivo en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje, existen...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention program on career resources in the blended and distance modalities and explores the relationship between changes in career resources and self-determined motivation. For this purpose, two groups of 68 and 72 higher education students participated in blended and distance career interventions,...

Background: The school curriculum is increasingly aligned with real-world contexts and transversal skills. Simultaneously, conceptions of intelligence now emphasize contextual, motivational, and emotional dimensions. These shifts raise questions about the relevance of classical intelligence tests in predicting academic achievement, particularly dur...

Self-regulation of learning (SRL) is a key concept for adaptation and performance at the university, as well as a construct studied by Positive Psychology (PP). Adaptation and success in higher education require from students a broad set of competencies. This study aims to assess different dimensions of self-efficacy, self-esteem, optimism, hope, a...

This study of the use of metacognitive strategies during learning interaction in collaborative groups is considered referential for understanding the development of such strategies. The use of metacognitive strategies is related to better learning outcomes. We monitored the interaction in five collaborative groups at three points in time (initial,...

O programa Boost for Career é um programa de intervenção a distância destinado à promoção dos recursos de carreira de estudantes do ensino superior.

The need for effective, globally validated tools to assess and monitor communication in early childhood has led different populations to explore and adapt tools that have already been validated in other countries and languages. A promising tool to support the assessment and monitoring of early communication is the Early Communication Indicator (ECI...

Resumo Nas últimas décadas ocorre uma expansão do ensino superior (ES) na generalidade dos países, traduzida no aumento de número de institui-ções, de cursos e de estudantes, traduzida numa maior diversificação dos ingressantes. Neste artigo, pretendemos descrever a organização e o processo de acesso ao ES em alguns países de língua portuguesa ou e...

En este capítulo abordamos el éxito académico desde la perspectiva del alumnado y analizamos cómo su participación ha ido cobrando un papel central en la vida académica. Este proceso ha fomentado que el alumnado sea más activo, no solo en su propio aprendizaje, sino también más participativo en las decisiones pedagógicas de las instituciones univer...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity based on relationships with other variables of the Self-Regulation for Reading Comprehension Multidimensional Battery (BAMA-RC). This study was developed quantitatively, with a cross-sectional and correlational design. Participants were 182 middle school students from Brazil. Nine BAMA-RC sc...

Este artigo trata de um estudo longitudinal em que foram acompanhados 106 estudantes ingressantes no ensino superior por um período de seis meses. O objetivo foi verificar uma relação entre as expectativas com que estudantes ingressam e seu posterior bem-estar acadêmico, uma vez já cientes de seu desempenho acadêmico no primeiro período de curso. P...

O Ensino Superior está associado ao desenvolvimento social e econômico dos países, sendo também promotor da qualidade de vida e do emprego qualificado dos seus diplomados. Neste contexto, observa-se internacionalmente uma acentuada expansão do ES traduzida no aumento das instituições de formação, da diversidade e número de cursos oferecidos, e, tam...

Las investigaciones indican que los recursos personales, como la inteligencia emocional, desarrolla un papel importante en el desempeño laboral de los docentes. Sin embargo, la relación entre la inteligencia emocional y la eficacia para la gestión del aula y manejo del comportamiento de los estudiantes en el aula ha sido poco estudiada. Así, el obj...

Managing multiple roles is considered a major challenge that mature working student parents face when they embrace the educational pursuit of enrolling in higher education. Limited research exists on mature working student parents that identify the strategies that concur for a successful journey through their educational paths. The aim of this stud...

This study examines the influence of critical thinking and psychological well-being on the academic performance of first-year college students. It emphasizes the importance of a model of psychological well-being focused on self-acceptance, environmental mastery and purpose in life, along with a critical thinking approach oriented to problem solving...

A procura de uma vaga no Ensino Superior em Angola tem sido um desafio enfrentado pelos jovens. Apesar de ser notório o aumento de Instituições do Ensino Superior, ainda são exíguas as vagas para se atender a uma demanda crescente. Por outro lado, e considerando a vontade e o desejo de frequentar o Ensino Superior (ES), nem sempre os jovens escolhe...

Given the high prevalence of Portuguese children with communication disorders, valid instruments are needed for the early detection of these disorders. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the Early Communication Indicator-Portugal (ECI-Portugal) in identifying the risk among Portuguese children of developing a comm...

Academic success in Higher Education is a multidimensional construct, influenced by different variables in the student trajectory. Thus, we assessed the academic performance (CRE) of incoming Higher Education students, taking personal/social, adaptive, and learning-related variables, differentiating the analysis according to the nature of the cours...

Academic success in Higher Education is a multidimensional construct, influenced by different variables in the student trajectory. Thus, we assessed the academic performance (CRE) of incoming Higher Education students, taking personal/social, adaptive, and learning-related variables, differentiating the analysis according to the nature of the cours...

Higher education can be hugely transformative for students and has an important role in empowering human capital, innovation, and society's social, cultural, and environmental development. The expansion of higher education has promoted access for a more heterogeneous mix of students, but ensuring access does not guarantee academic success. This pap...

Dropout from higher education is a worldwide phenomenon with negative consequences for students, families, institutions, and society. As student numbers increase, students become more heterogeneous in terms of academic competencies, motivation, and trajectories, creating new challenges for promoting student persistence. Higher education can pose di...

The social contribution of higher education institutions (HEIs) tends to be constrained as a description of HEI activities in terms of outcomes, but no examination of how HEIs face societal problems through collaborative activities has been addressed. One way to explore social strategy pursued by HEIs is through the analysis of their strategic plan...

The main aim of this research was to establish preliminary standards for the Self-Regulation for Reading Comprehension Multidimensional Battery (BAMA-Reading), consisting of nine scales. The study sample comprised 910 Middle School students from Brazilian public schools. Norms for the BAMA-Reading scales, which have a Likert-type response format, w...

Objective The purpose of this article is to describe the development process of a research instrument, in the format of a self-report scale, to investigate the school psychologists’ profile, their competencies and professional activities indicators. It is based on the historical-cultural psychology, critical school psychology, and competence approa...

Introdução Objetivo Metodologia Resultados Discussão e Conclusão Referências Bibliográficas Este trabalho foi financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), através da Bolsa de Doutoramento com a referência SFRH/BD/138965/2018, e pelo CIEC (Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança-Universidade do Minho) com os projetos UIDB/00317...

Este artigo descreve trajetórias de desenvolvimento dos talentos de crianças e adolescentes nas áreas acadêmica, do desporto e artística, tomando as perspectivas das próprias crianças e dos adolescentes, de seus encarregados de educação e de seus professores. Foi finalidade do estudo uma análise dos processos conducentes ao desenvolvimento dos tale...

O consumo de álcool por estudantes do ensino superior tem assumido proporções preocupantes, afetando negativamente o seu envolvimento e sucesso acadêmico. A literatura sugere que tais comportamentos de consumo estão relacionados às percepções que os estudantes apresentam relativamente aos efeitos desse consumo. Neste artigo, descrevem-se os procedi...

A crise de saúde pública provocada pela pandemia da Covid-19 impôs as Instituições de Ensino Superior no Brasil mudanças significativas, com a necessidade da implementação do Ensino Remoto Emergencial (ERE). Este estudo objetiva analisar as variáveis psicossociais que impactaram a adaptação acadêmica dos estudantes do Instituto Federal de Alagoas-...

Resumo A evasão nos cursos de licenciatura impacta os projetos de carreira dos estudantes e a qualidade da educação básica. Esse estudo analisou as influências de variáveis pessoais e da experiência acadêmica na evasão nestes cursos, por meio dos dados do Censo da Educação Superior, de 2016 a 2018, de instituições públicas paulistas, utilizando mod...

The expansion of higher education is associated with the progressive diversification of student’s profiles, such as the increasing number of older, working and female students. The transition to higher education poses challenges for students entering it, generating expectations that can impact academic adaptation. This study compared academic expec...

Objective: This study aimed to test, using the Confirmatory Factor Analysis model, the factor structure proposed in the Intellectual Styles Inventory – Revised 2. Methods: The study involved the participation of 1,556 High School students with a mean age of 16 years and 4 months (SD = 1.17). Results: Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used and the mo...

The development of critical thinking in higher education is fundamental, preparing students to think well, find explanations, make decisions and solve problems. Given the importance of its promotion, its assessment is crucial, since the two are inseparable. Moreover, the number of instruments that are validated to assess critical thinking in the Po...

Professionals need efficient tools in early childhood communication development to identify infants and toddlers who are at risk of communication disorders or language delays. In Portugal, this project was carried out to respond to these needs due to a lack of these resources and a high prevalence of children at risk for communication problems at e...

O objetivo principal deste artigo é analisar a percepção de docentes do ensino superior quanto as suas competências do ensino, tomando amostra de docentes em três países: Brasil, Portugal e Espanha. Como objetivo específico analisa-se, ainda, uma eventual diferenciação em função da variável país e variável gênero. Esta pesquisa, de caráter transver...

This article investigates the relationship of cyberbullying to motivation to learn and the use of digital information and communication technologies (DTIC). The survey included 529 high school and 293 higher education students who answered the Motivation to Learn Scale with the use of DITC Scale and the Cyberbullying Assessment Scale. Statistically...

This systematic review aims to verify whether tools designed to assess Ayres Sensory Integration constructs take into account the basic principles of current early childhood intervention approaches, namely the family-centered approach, child and family routines, and natural contexts. This systematic review was based on a standard protocol construct...

Advances in neuro-technology provide new insights into how individual students learn in educational contexts. However, applying it poses challenges for teachers in natural settings. This paper presents an example of the use and applicability of eye-tracking technology in Higher Education. We worked with a sample of 20 students from three universiti...

Causal attributions, achievement goals, and self-efficacy comprise the motivational dimension of self-regulated learning. Due to the absence of scales to assess the causal attributions of Brazilian middle school students, this study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Causal Attributions Scale for Reading Comprehension. The stud...

A legislação sobre as pessoas com necessidades especiais constitui um mecanismo importante à inclusão. O objetivo deste estudo foi apresentar a panorâmica sobre o enquadramento legal de estudantes com necessidades educativas especiais (NEE) no ensino superior privado português. Realizou-se uma análise documental, em 2020, em 25 das 62 instituições...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.15.2022.e760 -- Desde hace bastantes años la evaluación docente incluye información obtenida mediante cuestionarios auto-administrados en los que el alumnado valora a su profesorado a través de preguntas más o menos cerradas. Una pregunta que ha resultado con un alto poder predictivo de la satisfacción global con...

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Chatbots are a promising resource for giving students feedback and helping them deploy metacognitive strategies in their learning processes. In this study we worked with a sample of 57 university students, 42 undergraduate and 15 Master's degree students in Health Sciences. A mixed research methodology was applied. The quantitative study analysed t...

Today’s world demands new ways of dealing with problems and different ways of preparing for them. Some studies argue that these new demands also require new skills. Critical thinking (CT) involves a set of skills that are entirely relevant to today’s adaptive needs. In this study, we explore the extent to which CT serves to both account for and imp...

The expansion of Higher Education increased the diversity of students, with heterogenous characteristics, needs, and values. Institutions, intending to preserve the mission and the transformative potential of the tertiary level of education, are facing and implementing policies and practices that enhance success conditions, persistence, and avoid s...

Increased attention has been paid to the way Higher Education institutions contribute to the development of graduates’ employability. Such issue is particularly relevant in the light of the current uncertainty experienced in the labour market, particularly among younger people, that was recently exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Building...

The Inventory of Educational Social Skills of the University Professor - Student Version (IESS-UP-Student) assesses university teachers’ educational social skills (ESS) from the perspective of their students. This paper examined the validity evidence of the instrument based on its internal structure. Analysis of the responses provided by 1406 stude...

Resumo: O desenvolvimento da comunicação, linguagem e literacia emergente é fundamental para o desenvolvimento global da criança. Por isso, dificuldades nestas áreas podem influenciar negativamente a criança, nomeadamente ao nível comportamental, socio-emocional e cognitivo. Face à elevada prevalência de crianças portuguesas com dificuldades na com...

O presente estudo investigou a evidência de validade da adaptação à realidade pandêmica do Questionário de Satisfação com a Experiência Acadêmica (QSEA-R). Participaram do estudo de abordagem quantitativa 365 estudantes matriculados no ensino remoto emergencial (ERE) dos cursos superiores do Instituto Federal de Alagoas. Os resultados confirmaram a...

Desde hace bastantes años la evaluación docente incluye información obtenida mediante cuestionarios auto-administrados en los que el alumnado valora a su profesorado a través de preguntas más o menos cerradas. Una pregunta que ha resultado con un alto poder predictivo de la satisfacción global con cada docente suele tener una redacción del tipo “es...

Este artigo apresenta os resultados da investigação sobre os fatores psicossociais que impactaram a satisfação acadêmica dos estudantes do Ensino Superior relacionados ao seu desempenho acadêmico durante o Ensino Remoto Emergencial. Por meio da aplicação do Questionário de Satisfação com a Experiência Acadêmica Remota, objetivou-se avaliar o nível...

Self-handicapping strategies refer to the set of choices and attitudes adopted to minimize blame for failure and increase the value of success in achievement situations. This paper aims to describe the stages of construction and the psychometric analysis of a scale to measure the self-handicapping strategies of university students. In study 1, the...

Dropping out of Higher Education has implications for students and universities, and the identification of variables associated with dropout makes it possible to develop actions that reduce its occurrence. This study analyzes the direct and mediated impacts of self-efficacy, income, sex, age, receipt of social assistance grants and entry into a pre...

Dropping out of Higher Education has implications for students and universities, and the identification of variables associated with dropout makes it possible to develop actions that reduce its occurrence. This study analyzes the direct and mediated impacts of self-efficacy, income, sex, age, receipt of social assistance grants and entry into a pre...

Face às exigências do processo de ensino-aprendizagem na universidade, a literatura mostra a importância de se identificar dimensões que melhor descrevam os métodos de estudo para explicar o rendimento acadêmico dos estudantes. Este artigo descreve a construção e os estudos preliminares de validação de um questionário de avaliação dos métodos de es...

This study examined the content validity and preliminary structural validity of the Sensory Integration Infant Routines Questionnaire (SIIRQ), a tool designed to screen for behaviors reflecting possible sensory integration concerns in children aged between 8 and 24 months. This study included two main phases. In phase 1, we examined content validit...

Transition to higher education is increasingly becoming a common stage in young adulthood, which highlights the importance of studying what could contribute for a better adaptation to higher education. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between academic expectations, self-efficacy, and adaptation to higher education during the fi...

RESUMO Estudos enfatizam o papel de variáveis psicológicas como favorecedoras da aquisição de conhecimentos e de competências transversais no Ensino Superior, assim como do desempenho e sucesso acadêmico dos estudantes. Entre as variáveis psicológicas, destacam-se a percepção de autoeficácia, a motivação para aprender e as estratégias de aprendizag...

Studies emphasize the role of psychological variables as favoring knowledge acquisition and transversal competencies in Higher Education, as well as students’ performance and academic success. Among the psychological variables, self-efficacy perception, motivation to learn and learning strategies stand out. This study aimed to evaluate the relation...

It has been postulated that emotions play essential roles in conflict situations and that excessive expression of emotions or inappropriate display can reduce the capacity to manage conflict. However, there is a lack of research that relates teachers’ emotion-regulation ability to managing conflict. To bridge this gap, this pilot study aimed to exa...

A compreensão das variáveis que influenciam a adaptação e sucesso dos estudantes da educação superior é fundamental para definição de ações institucionais que favoreçam o sucesso e a permanência acadêmica, em especial dos estudantes de primeiro ano. Neste estudo, analisamos como o coeficiente de rendimento escolar de 715 estudantes do primeiro ano...

Este estudo teve como objetivo principal revisar as produções científicas, publicadas entre o período de 2014 a 2019, concernentes à prática do cyberbullying. Para tanto, realizou-se um levantamento das produções científicas em diferentes repositórios de artigos científicos. A análise das publicações contemplou os seguintes critérios para categoriz...

O artigo trata sobre a temática da satisfação acadêmica no Ensino Superior brasileiro. O tema tem sido amplamente estudado em âmbito internacional em decorrência da ampliação do ensino superior e do aumento da diversidade de estudantes na universidade. Buscou-se explorar, na produção nacional, quais são os trabalhos publicados que tratam sobre a te...

El grit es una variable importante para predecir indicadores de éxito en diversos contextos entre los que se encuentra el académico. Sin embargo, son escasos los instrumentos de medida de grit bien validados en apoyo a la investigación. El objetivo del presente estudio es consolidar la validación de la Escala Grit de Oviedo (EGO) presentando datos...

Resumo Nos estudos relacionados à psicologia da educação, o fenômeno da adaptação acadêmica tem sido recorrente por sua estreita relação com o sucesso ou evasão do estudante na universidade. Durante a pandemia de Covid-19, o processo de ensino-aprendizagem passou por mudanças significativas e a implementação do Ensino Remoto Emergencial (ERE) teve...

The Reasoning Tests Battery (BPR-5) is widely used in Brazil for the assessment of intelligence. It has three different forms: children (1st to 6th grade of elementary school), Form A (7th to 9th grade of elementary school) and Form B (high school and higher education). This study describes the steps followed to create a common metric across the fo...

Editorial do Volume Temático: Almiro, P. A., Almeida, L. S., Bernardo, A., & Cervero, A. (Eds) (2022). Desafios do Ensino Superior no Século XXI, Desafíos de la Educación Superior en el Siglo XXI [Volume Temático]. Revista E-Psi, 11(1). (ISSN: 2182-7591, 273 páginas, https://revistaepsi.com/2022-ano-11-volume-1/ )

As intensas mudanças ocorridas nas últimas décadas impactaram os indivíduos, as organizações e a sociedade como um todo. Neste contexto, o ensino superior passou a ser entendido como tendo um papel central na compreensão dos processos e desafios de tais mudanças, bem como na busca de soluções para os problemas atuais e futuros. O presente trabalho...

The transition and adaptation of students to higher education (HE) involve a wide range of challenges that justify some institutional practices promoting skills that enable students to increase their autonomy and to face the difficulties experienced. The requirements for this adaptation were particularly aggravated by the containment and sanitary c...

Higher education in the 21st century faces the challenge of changing the way in which knowledge is conveyed and how teachers and students interact in the teaching-learning process. The current pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has hastened the need to face up to this challenge and has furthered the need to approach the issue from the perspective of dig...

Higher Education (HE) has great socioeconomic importance, with it being essential to evaluate its processes and impacts. The quality of HE relates to the ability to retain students and ensure course completion, which is associated with institutional and personal variables. Among the individual variables, self-efficacy, learning strategies and motiv...

RESUMO Com as medidas para conter o avanço do novo coronavírus, as Instituições de Ensino Superior precisaram impor aos estudantes um novo cenário educacional. Este estudo objetiva analisar os efeitos do Ensino Remoto Emergencial (ERE) na vi-vência dos estudantes. Foi aplicado o Questionário de Adaptação ao Ensino Superior Remoto (QAES-R), adaptado...

University dropout is a phenomenon that is a concern in many countries all over the world. However, although there are studies in which the direct relationship of the personal and contextual variables is observed individually to predict dropout, there is little research to know whether any of these variables mediate each other in a more dynamic and...

Higher education is one of the driving forces behind the social and economic development of countries, with the ultimate aim of providing quality academic training. At present, teaching-learning models in virtual environments face a number of important challenges, particularly in the current situation caused by COVID-19. Some of these challenges wi...

Digital simulators have an interesting potential to explain the relationships between two or more variables in a system, facilitating the activation of learning processes and favoring the occurrence of meaningful learning with positive impact on academic performance. To study the impact of the use of digital simulation on learning and academic perf...

RESUMO: Nos estudos relacionados à psicologia da educação, o fenômeno da adaptação acadêmica tem sido recorrente por sua estreita relação com o sucesso ou evasão do estudante na universidade. Durante a pandemia de Covid-19, o processo de ensino-aprendizagem passou por mudanças significativas e a implementação do Ensino Remoto Emergencial (ERE) teve...

O ingresso no Ensino Superior é um momento determinante na vida dos estudantes, caracterizado por inúmeras mudanças nas diferentes áreas de vida. Considerando a riqueza do contexto do Ensino Superior em termos de desafios e oportunidades que coloca aos estudantes, as primeiras semanas de frequência universitária são particularmente relevantes. Aind...

A diversified set of career resources has been related in the literature with career development and career success. The Career Resources Questionnaire (CRQ), based on the Career Success framework, was proposed by Hirschi and colleagues (2018) as an instrument aggregating several constructs that emerged as important predictors of career success. Th...

Teaching in higher education in the 21st century is moving towards e-Learning or b-Learning teaching models. This situation has increased due to the SARS CoV-2 health crisis. Therefore, teaching–learning models must be based on the use of active methodologies that facilitate students’ motivation to work in learning management systems (LMS). One of...

Background: The article focuses on the relationship between students' expectations and persistence in the context of higher education. It explores the role that high expectations play in increasing the probability of adult students' persistence, controlling for individual sociodemographic attributes, skills preparation, values, and commitments. M...

The transition from university to the labour market is a crucial period for graduates. It is typically characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Self-efficacy may be a determinant in the process, but the research so far has only considered students or graduates shortly after graduation, strongly compromising its conclusions on the findings. Th...

Abstract Higher education is one of the driving forces behind the social and economic development of countries, with the ultimate aim of providing quality academic training. At present, teaching-learning models in virtual environments face a number of important challenges, particularly in the current situation caused by COVID-19. Some of these ch...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore employment perception of students as a relevant indicator of higher education quality, using blended multi-criteria decision-making methods. Design/methodology/approach The differential impact of these variables was analyzed in this paper taking a sample of 641 students and six higher education lectu...

Background: Dropout in higher education is a concern for students, families, educational institutions, and society. Tertiary education is an important mechanism for empowering people and STEM courses are vital to countries’ development. Method: The study combined quantitative and qualitative data. Step 1 was an analysis of personal and contextual v...