By
Ana Paula Martins
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
e-ISBN: 978-625-7501-21-7
Publishing Date: December 1, 2021
File Size: 12,234 MB
Length: xii + 222 pages (PDF)
Language: English
Dimensions: 13,5 x 21,5 cm
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Evaluation of BA programs is periodically conducted in the Portuguese public education system, involving inspection of indicators of teaching patterns and student achievement. In its course, primary information is gathered which provides a natural database for a more complex multivariate study of the teaching process. It was the purpose of this research to depart from information collected for the 2000/2001 Self-Evaluation report of the Business BA program of the Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and search for identifying patterns of the teaching-mix, and along with it, of student achievement.
On the one hand, principal component decomposition provided a general view of the programme main features; discriminant analysis confirmed both scientific area and credit score category as providing significant affiliation identity to the programme courses.
On the other, student performance was found significantly related to daily scheduling, teachers profiles and evaluation practices – even if some of the encountered effects may be thought endogenous, but impossible to be controlled for due to the lack of information on student effort.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1
Data formatting and programme characteristics
Chapter 2
Information content of variables and observations: Bundles and clusters
Introcudtion
Operating characteristics
Programme status
Teachers’ profiles
Teaching mode
Overall sorting
Chapter 3
Exam attendance and success rates
Chapter 4
Average passing grades and overall student performance
Chapter 5
Summary and conclusions
Appendices
References
Ana Paula Martins
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Dr. Ana Paula Martins studied Economics in Lisbon at Catholic University of Portugal (BA 1982) and concluded a Ph.D. in New York at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University (1987). She has taught at both schools and at New University of Lisbon graduate and undergraduate courses. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal, where she has been teaching Labor Economics and Econometrics. She has published theoretical and applied research articles in Labor Economics and Quantitative Methods in refereed academic journals, and also been presenter and participant in numerous international scientific Conferences on various fields. She was a member of the Catholic University Library Council representing the Economics field.
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