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Continuous training as a promoter of the professional development of AT workers: the supervision and evolution of pedagogical practices
No full textNuma sociedade em constante mudança, para que as organizações e instituições consigam
atingir os seus objetivos, precisam ter equipas competentes capazes de responder aos
desafios e demandas, que se impõem. Nesse sentido, é preciso que a formação contínua
ministrada permita aos trabalhadores desenvolver as competências necessárias para o
desempenho cabal das suas funções. No entanto, não foram localizados estudos sobre o
processo formativo na Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira (AT).
Assim, este trabalho de investigação, foi desenvolvido com objetivo de verificar qual o
contributo da formação contínua na promoção do desenvolvimento profissional dos
trabalhadores da AT.
Pretendeu-se perceber, tanto quanto possível, como é que a formação dos trabalhadores tem
evoluído, qual a perceção dos trabalhadores sobre a formação ministrada, qual o papel da
supervisão pedagógica nas práticas formativas, qual a perceção dos decisores da formação
sobre a supervisão, o contributo das decisões para o desempenho profissional dos
trabalhadores e, por fim, que modelos de supervisão estão presentes na formação contínua
da instituição. Como metodologia optou-se por uma abordagem mista, na modalidade de
estudo de caso, com o objetivo exploratório e descritivo. Como técnicas de recolha de dados
usamos o inquérito por entrevista e por questionário.
Os dados indicaram que as práticas formativas têm sofrido algumas alterações, com o intento
de preparar os funcionários para o desempenho das funções atuais ou as que venham a
desempenhar. Verificou-se que, a supervisão da formação na AT não existe de forma
estruturada e definida, no entanto, foram apurados dados que indiciaram que existe uma
supervisão em vários níveis e entre vários atores, essencialmente vertical e diretiva, muito
embora se vislumbre que possa haver alguma supervisão colaborativa.The demands of an ever-changing and globalized society dictate the need for competent
teams with the ability to face challenges, in order to ensure institutions do achieve their goals.
It is very important that the workplace continuous training courses offered by the institutions
provide the employees with the necessary skills to perform their functions to the best of their
ability and to the highest standards. However, there are no studies or research work on the
formative process of the Portuguese Tax and Customs Authority (AT) employees.
The purpose of this research work was to investigate the relevance of continuous workplace
training courses to the professional development of the AT employees and how these courses
affect their performance.
We aimed at verifying, as accurately as possible, how the training of employees has evolved,
what their perception about the training courses provided by the institution is, what role does
the pedagogical supervision in training practices have, and what the perception of training
decision-makers on supervision is. We would also like to grasp the contribution of such
decisions to the professional performance of employees, as well as the type of supervision
models present in the institution's training courses. As a methodology, a mixed approach
was chosen, in the form of a case study, with exploratory and descriptive purpose. Survey
by interview and by questionnaire was the data collection technique chosen.
The data collected suggested that the training practices have undergone some changes, aimed
at preparing employees for their current duties and for duties they might carry out in the
future. We concluded that the supervision of training courses by the AT does not exist in a
structured and well-defined form. However, there is some evidence of supervision at various
levels and amongst several participants, essentially vertical and directive, although some
collaborative supervision may be glimpsed as well.A investigação realizada no âmbito desta Dissertação de Mestrado está integrada nas linhas de investigação da Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento - Laboratório de Educação a Distância e eLearning (UID 4372/FCT), da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia do Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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