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GeSec, Jul 21, 2023

Behavioral finance aims to understand the reasoning patterns of investors, constrained by emotion... more Behavioral finance aims to understand the reasoning patterns of investors, constrained by emotional processes, and how they influence the decision-making. This motivated the work, whose purpose is to evaluate individuals' decision-making behavior under risk/uncertainty. The methodological procedure adopted exploratory research through a questionnaire grounded by the prospect theory and the cognitive reflection test with 329 responses from individuals in Portugal. The results are aligned with the Kahneman and Tversky's study. Moreover, they support different behaviors between non-investors and investors, and consistency between non-familiar and familiar with the behavioral finance. Although the ratio of correct answers to the cognitive reflection test is low, it is higher in the group of investors

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2023

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2023

EDULEARN proceedings, 2017

The aim of this article is to present a Project in the Oporto's Institute of Accounting and Admin... more The aim of this article is to present a Project in the Oporto's Institute of Accounting and Administration, which pretends to contribute for a change in the way of teaching and learning Mathematics. One of the main objectives of this project is to innovate the teaching and learning processes, exploring technologies as a pedagogical resource and to induce higher motivation to students, improve the rate of success and make available to students a set of materials adapted to their needs. This concern is justified due to the fact that students have a weak preparation, without consolidated basis. Since the year 2007/2008 the courses were adjusted to the Bologna process, which requires several changes in teacher's and student's roles, methodologies and assessment. The number of weekly classes has been reduced, so it was necessary to develop new strategies and methodologies to support the student. With the implementation of the Bologna Process in the Accounting degree, we felt a great need to provide other types of activities to students. To complement our theoretical and practical classes we have developed a project called MatActiva based on the Moodle platform offered by PAOL-Projecto de Apoio On-Line (Online Support Project). Moodle allows us to use the language T E X to create materials that use mathematical symbols. Using this functionality, we created a set of easy to use interactive resources. In MatActiva project, the students have access to a variety of different materials. We have followed a strategy that makes the project compatible with the theoretical and practical subjects/classes, complementing them. To do so, we created some resources, for instance multiple-choice tests, which are the most accessed by the students. These tests can be realized and corrected on-line and for each wrong answer there is a feedback with the resolution. We can find other types of resources: diagnostic tests, theoretical notes. There are not only the pre-requirements for subjects mathematics, but also materials to help students follow up the programs. We also developed several lessons. This activity consists of a number of pages, where each page has contents and leads to other pages, based on the student's progress. The teacher creates the choices and determines the next page that the student will see, based upon their knowledge. There is also an area of doubts, where the students can place all the mathematical doubts they have, and a teacher gives the answers or clues to help them in their work. MatActiva also offers an area where we can find some humour, curiosities, contests and games including mathematical contents to test the math skills, as well as links to pages about mathematical contents that could be useful for the study. Since ISCAP receives ERASMUS students and some of them attend mathematics, we developed some materials in English, so they can also use MatActiva. The main objectives of our project are not only to bring success in the subjects of mathematics, but also to motivate the students, encourage them to overcome theirs difficulties through an auto-study giving them more confidence and improve their relationship with the mathematics as well as the communication between students and teachers and among students.

Labour market is demanding for highly skilled graduates who are able to respond to a complex and ... more Labour market is demanding for highly skilled graduates who are able to respond to a complex and ever changing world. Higher education institutions need to anticipate the rapid economic and social changes preparing students to this unknown world, promoting the student’s abilities and skills needed to achieve professional and personal success. This context has driven significant changes in learning, teaching and assessment processes. The purpose of this paper is to present an experience of assessment innovation in the course of Forecasting Methods and analyse students’ opinions about the skills developed.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

O progresso contínuo da sociedade exige de todos os atores uma atualização dinâmica e constante, ... more O progresso contínuo da sociedade exige de todos os atores uma atualização dinâmica e constante, quer em termos de acompanhamento e, até mesmo, de adaptação. No que respeita à educação, por muito atualizados que estejamos em relação aos conteúdos, às estratégias didáticas e aos recursos tecnológicos, somos inevitavelmente forçados a nos adaptar a novos paradigmas, sendo levados a reformular os métodos de ensino tradicionais. Neste contexto, surge o contributo das plataformas de e-learning, onde docentes e estudantes têm à sua disposição novos meios de dinamizar o processo ensino e aprendizagem, uma vez que estas plataformas podem ser definidas como um ambiente virtual de apoio ao ensino. No ano 2003, o Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP), integrado no Instituto Politécnico do Porto (IPP), introduziu a plataforma Moodle. Tendo como base toda a experiência de utilização desta plataforma, surgiu em 2007 um projeto online da área científica de Matemática...

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2017

This paper focus on the potential contributes of Learning Analytics in the improvement students l... more This paper focus on the potential contributes of Learning Analytics in the improvement students learning. The analysis of student's data collected from Virtual Learning Environments is important to ascertain student's engagement. This paper presents the analysis of data collected in the ambit of MatActiva project. Data was analysed with Google Analytics, Course Dedication and Moodle Reports. Promising results were obtained.

EDULEARN proceedings, 2017

ICERI2021 Proceedings, 2021

EDULEARN Proceedings, 2018

Sustainability, 2022

The mass production paradigm on which much of the industry was based has changed. The market is i... more The mass production paradigm on which much of the industry was based has changed. The market is increasingly demanding, requesting diversity and products that are more and more adapted to personal wishes and requirements. This implies producing a greater diversity of products in smaller quantities. Competitiveness is enormous, which forces most companies to be truly effective and efficient, taking care of product quality, delivery time, and final cost. Lean methodologies have been a valuable aid in this field. The diversity of Lean tools has been shown to have answers to the most diverse challenges, and companies are aware of this, increasingly adopting methodologies and processes that aim to progressively reduce waste and adapting their production paradigm to what the market requires. This work intends to provide a vision, as global as possible, of the pathway of Lean implementation in the Portuguese industry. For this purpose, a survey was carried out with a significant sample of ...

EDULEARN Proceedings, 2020

2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2021

The year 2020 has been a year of disruption in our World, at all levels, from society, economics,... more The year 2020 has been a year of disruption in our World, at all levels, from society, economics, and education. The World, as we knew it, left to never return. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the existing major differences in life styles, working conditions, etc. The education sector was severely shaken, with all courses abruptly sent to an online framework, despite the scientific area or level of education. Every player in Education sector had to adjust their performance. Teachers and students were unexpectedly thrown to online communication platforms, namely Teams, Zooms, and asked to continue classes on a new framework, without a priori preparation. This teaching style is defined as emergency remote teaching (ERT), contrasting to the planned and designed online learning. The echo from this teaching paraphernalia is felt in learning quality, motivation and engagement in students, peers’ support, communication, and time management.In this paper, we focus on adaptation to ERT by students attending two Baccalaureate degrees in Engineering, one in Informatics and one in Biomedical Engineering. We gauge the influence of students’ ICT (Information, and Communications Technology) backgrounds in the way they perceive their learning process. The analysis of the data collected, from a survey made to the two groups of students, reveals common challenges faced by the students, from learning physical conditions to difficulty in focusing during online classes, and heartfelt absence of the social part in Education. The higher ICT level from the students attending the Baccalaureate in Informatics Engineering, with respect to students attending the Biomedical Engineering, may explain why 7% of these students choose an exclusively online regime. Nevertheless, the other 93% prefer either b-learning or face-to-face. Students in Biomedical Engineering did not consider the exclusively online learning hypothesis.

GeSec, Jul 21, 2023

Behavioral finance aims to understand the reasoning patterns of investors, constrained by emotion... more Behavioral finance aims to understand the reasoning patterns of investors, constrained by emotional processes, and how they influence the decision-making. This motivated the work, whose purpose is to evaluate individuals' decision-making behavior under risk/uncertainty. The methodological procedure adopted exploratory research through a questionnaire grounded by the prospect theory and the cognitive reflection test with 329 responses from individuals in Portugal. The results are aligned with the Kahneman and Tversky's study. Moreover, they support different behaviors between non-investors and investors, and consistency between non-familiar and familiar with the behavioral finance. Although the ratio of correct answers to the cognitive reflection test is low, it is higher in the group of investors

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2023

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2023

EDULEARN proceedings, 2017

The aim of this article is to present a Project in the Oporto's Institute of Accounting and Admin... more The aim of this article is to present a Project in the Oporto's Institute of Accounting and Administration, which pretends to contribute for a change in the way of teaching and learning Mathematics. One of the main objectives of this project is to innovate the teaching and learning processes, exploring technologies as a pedagogical resource and to induce higher motivation to students, improve the rate of success and make available to students a set of materials adapted to their needs. This concern is justified due to the fact that students have a weak preparation, without consolidated basis. Since the year 2007/2008 the courses were adjusted to the Bologna process, which requires several changes in teacher's and student's roles, methodologies and assessment. The number of weekly classes has been reduced, so it was necessary to develop new strategies and methodologies to support the student. With the implementation of the Bologna Process in the Accounting degree, we felt a great need to provide other types of activities to students. To complement our theoretical and practical classes we have developed a project called MatActiva based on the Moodle platform offered by PAOL-Projecto de Apoio On-Line (Online Support Project). Moodle allows us to use the language T E X to create materials that use mathematical symbols. Using this functionality, we created a set of easy to use interactive resources. In MatActiva project, the students have access to a variety of different materials. We have followed a strategy that makes the project compatible with the theoretical and practical subjects/classes, complementing them. To do so, we created some resources, for instance multiple-choice tests, which are the most accessed by the students. These tests can be realized and corrected on-line and for each wrong answer there is a feedback with the resolution. We can find other types of resources: diagnostic tests, theoretical notes. There are not only the pre-requirements for subjects mathematics, but also materials to help students follow up the programs. We also developed several lessons. This activity consists of a number of pages, where each page has contents and leads to other pages, based on the student's progress. The teacher creates the choices and determines the next page that the student will see, based upon their knowledge. There is also an area of doubts, where the students can place all the mathematical doubts they have, and a teacher gives the answers or clues to help them in their work. MatActiva also offers an area where we can find some humour, curiosities, contests and games including mathematical contents to test the math skills, as well as links to pages about mathematical contents that could be useful for the study. Since ISCAP receives ERASMUS students and some of them attend mathematics, we developed some materials in English, so they can also use MatActiva. The main objectives of our project are not only to bring success in the subjects of mathematics, but also to motivate the students, encourage them to overcome theirs difficulties through an auto-study giving them more confidence and improve their relationship with the mathematics as well as the communication between students and teachers and among students.

Labour market is demanding for highly skilled graduates who are able to respond to a complex and ... more Labour market is demanding for highly skilled graduates who are able to respond to a complex and ever changing world. Higher education institutions need to anticipate the rapid economic and social changes preparing students to this unknown world, promoting the student’s abilities and skills needed to achieve professional and personal success. This context has driven significant changes in learning, teaching and assessment processes. The purpose of this paper is to present an experience of assessment innovation in the course of Forecasting Methods and analyse students’ opinions about the skills developed.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

2022 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)

O progresso contínuo da sociedade exige de todos os atores uma atualização dinâmica e constante, ... more O progresso contínuo da sociedade exige de todos os atores uma atualização dinâmica e constante, quer em termos de acompanhamento e, até mesmo, de adaptação. No que respeita à educação, por muito atualizados que estejamos em relação aos conteúdos, às estratégias didáticas e aos recursos tecnológicos, somos inevitavelmente forçados a nos adaptar a novos paradigmas, sendo levados a reformular os métodos de ensino tradicionais. Neste contexto, surge o contributo das plataformas de e-learning, onde docentes e estudantes têm à sua disposição novos meios de dinamizar o processo ensino e aprendizagem, uma vez que estas plataformas podem ser definidas como um ambiente virtual de apoio ao ensino. No ano 2003, o Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP), integrado no Instituto Politécnico do Porto (IPP), introduziu a plataforma Moodle. Tendo como base toda a experiência de utilização desta plataforma, surgiu em 2007 um projeto online da área científica de Matemática...

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2017

This paper focus on the potential contributes of Learning Analytics in the improvement students l... more This paper focus on the potential contributes of Learning Analytics in the improvement students learning. The analysis of student's data collected from Virtual Learning Environments is important to ascertain student's engagement. This paper presents the analysis of data collected in the ambit of MatActiva project. Data was analysed with Google Analytics, Course Dedication and Moodle Reports. Promising results were obtained.

EDULEARN proceedings, 2017

ICERI2021 Proceedings, 2021

EDULEARN Proceedings, 2018

Sustainability, 2022

The mass production paradigm on which much of the industry was based has changed. The market is i... more The mass production paradigm on which much of the industry was based has changed. The market is increasingly demanding, requesting diversity and products that are more and more adapted to personal wishes and requirements. This implies producing a greater diversity of products in smaller quantities. Competitiveness is enormous, which forces most companies to be truly effective and efficient, taking care of product quality, delivery time, and final cost. Lean methodologies have been a valuable aid in this field. The diversity of Lean tools has been shown to have answers to the most diverse challenges, and companies are aware of this, increasingly adopting methodologies and processes that aim to progressively reduce waste and adapting their production paradigm to what the market requires. This work intends to provide a vision, as global as possible, of the pathway of Lean implementation in the Portuguese industry. For this purpose, a survey was carried out with a significant sample of ...

EDULEARN Proceedings, 2020

2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2021

The year 2020 has been a year of disruption in our World, at all levels, from society, economics,... more The year 2020 has been a year of disruption in our World, at all levels, from society, economics, and education. The World, as we knew it, left to never return. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the existing major differences in life styles, working conditions, etc. The education sector was severely shaken, with all courses abruptly sent to an online framework, despite the scientific area or level of education. Every player in Education sector had to adjust their performance. Teachers and students were unexpectedly thrown to online communication platforms, namely Teams, Zooms, and asked to continue classes on a new framework, without a priori preparation. This teaching style is defined as emergency remote teaching (ERT), contrasting to the planned and designed online learning. The echo from this teaching paraphernalia is felt in learning quality, motivation and engagement in students, peers’ support, communication, and time management.In this paper, we focus on adaptation to ERT by students attending two Baccalaureate degrees in Engineering, one in Informatics and one in Biomedical Engineering. We gauge the influence of students’ ICT (Information, and Communications Technology) backgrounds in the way they perceive their learning process. The analysis of the data collected, from a survey made to the two groups of students, reveals common challenges faced by the students, from learning physical conditions to difficulty in focusing during online classes, and heartfelt absence of the social part in Education. The higher ICT level from the students attending the Baccalaureate in Informatics Engineering, with respect to students attending the Biomedical Engineering, may explain why 7% of these students choose an exclusively online regime. Nevertheless, the other 93% prefer either b-learning or face-to-face. Students in Biomedical Engineering did not consider the exclusively online learning hypothesis.