2024

Follow-up Seminar and Support for Research II

Name: Follow-up Seminar and Support for Research II
Code: PED12160M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

This is a curricular unit designed to share, among students and dissertation/internship supervisors, the evolution of the implementation of dissertation/intervention projects, discussing methodological procedures, results achieved, difficulties overcome.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

This UC intends to contribute to the operationalization and development of the dissertation/intervention projects elaborated in the UC Research Project Seminar I. This operationalization and development are carried out through scientific and systematic monitoring in conjunction with students and supervisors, where sharing and collaborative work should be highlighted. Thus, the objectives are:
O1. Operate systematic literature review procedures according to the research/intervention objects
O2. Operate technical procedures for collecting, processing and analyzing empirical information, appropriate to the scientific problems addressed
O3. Argue and discuss critical judgments about their research/intervention work and the work of other students
O4. Communicate research/intervention procedures and results rigorously, according to academic canons

Contents

The curricular plan is not closed since this is a training and discussion seminar opened to the diversity, interests and needs of the students’ individual projects in view of the lines of work to which they belong. Content is continuously updated and is organized along the following lines:
1. exploration of systematic literature review according to the objects of study
2. Improvement of specific tools for collecting and processing data and its suitability to the object’s nature and research/intervention issues.
3. Exploitation of computational techniques for processing and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data
4. Dissemination of research and intervention results

Teaching Methods

Students, supervisors and UC professor, in the seminar sessions, get together to discuss the productions, meanwhile, made. It is intended to spark the debate on the development of each student's dissertations/interventions. Thus, it is characterized by the exposure of each student followed by a debate with the other students and advisors, which favors an active role in the construction of learning and autonomy. The dynamics of each session have three moments: exposure, discussion, conclusion.
Continuous assessment focuses on argumentation(CA) in the presentation of the work developed within the dissertation/intervention(60%) and the scientific quality(QCTE) of the written work(40%). The evaluation is shared between the supervisor and the student's supervisor. Final Class=(6*CA+4*QCTE)/10.
In the final assessment scheme the student presents and discusses(AD)(60%) a report of the evolution of the dissertation project/intervention (RPD)(written doc)(40%). Final Class=(6*AD+4*RPD)/10

Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )