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Luis Anunciacao; Louise Marques; Anna Gomes; Renato Marca; Adriana Lima; Bruno Oliveira; Christopher Murray – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Growing evidence suggests that providing children and adolescents with explicit opportunities to learn social and emotional skills during elementary and secondary school can support positive developmental outcomes. However, understanding the benefits of social-emotional learning (SEL) programs requires an ability to measure potential changes in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Interpersonal Competence
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Ana Paula Porto Noronha; Leandro S. Almeida; Caroline T. Reppold – International Journal of Testing, 2024
"Grit" is a stable and measurable trait. It refers to the individual's ability to maintain efforts and interest in projects that take time to complete and are useful in educational contexts. In this study we investigated the validity of a short version of the Grit |International Assessment Scale, Portuguese Version (EAGrit-LP) based on…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Psychological Evaluation, Higher Education, Psychometrics
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Ambiel, Rodolfo A. M.; Moreira, Thaline da Cunha; Barros, Leonardo de Oliveira; Martins, Gustavo Henrique; Salvador, Ana Paula; Wille, Bart – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2023
This paper documents the translation and adaptation of the "Career Adapt-Abilities Scale + Cooperation Scale" (CAAS + C; Savickas & Porfeli, 2015) to the Brazilian context and provides initial validity evidence for this instrument by testing its internal structure and exploring its relationships with external variables (i.e., Big…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Vocational Adjustment, Factor Structure
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Parulla, Cibele Duarte; Weissheimer, Anne Marie; Santos, Marlise Bock; Cogo, Ana Luísa Petersen – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have emerged as an affordable way to distribute knowledge and democratize education. The examination of online courses calls for theoretical models and instruments that contemplate its particularities. The community of inquiry (CoI) framework has been used in several studies to analyze the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Communities of Practice, Surveys
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de Francisco Carvalho, Lucas; Santos, Camila Grillo; Fernandes, Nelson, Junior; da Rocha, Rafael Moreton Alves; Flores, Talita Meireles; Machado, Gisele Magarotto – International Journal of Testing, 2023
We aimed to refine the previously proposed antisocial subscale for the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2 (IDCP-ASPD). The sample involved 628 Brazilian adults between 18 and 81 years old. We administered the revised ASPD subscale (IDCP-ASPD-R), the Affective and Cognitive Measure of Empathy (ACME), the Crime and Analogous Behavior Scale…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Antisocial Behavior, Empathy
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Isis Angelica Segura; Hugo Cogo-Moreira; Ali Nouri; Monica Carolina Miranda; Sabine Pompéia – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
Cultural background can influence cognition, including executive functions (EFs), abilities that encompass skills responsible for self-regulation of thoughts and behavior. The seminal unity and diversity model of EFs proposes the existence, in adulthood, of at least three correlated but separable EF latent (shared variance in more than one…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Cross Cultural Studies, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
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de Souza, Renata T. M. P.; da Silva, Matheus dos Santos Barbosa; Barbato, Daniela M. L.; Ruggiero de Guzzi, Mara Eugênia; Kasseboehmer, Ana Cláudia – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
Studies on students' motivation to learn Chemistry in developed countries are largely common in the literature. However, very few studies have been carried out with a view to investigating students' motivation to learn Chemistry in places like Latin America, and specifically in Brazil. The present study sought to translate the Chemistry Motivation…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Learning Motivation, Factor Analysis