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- Aprendizagem da matemática através de e-conteúdos: um estudo de casoPublication . Ferreira, Fernanda; Soares, Filomena Baptista; Lopes, Ana Paula; Nunes, PaulaApesar de todos os cursos de licenciatura da Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo (ESHT) do Politécnico do Porto (P.PORTO) possuírem o termo Gestão nas suas designações, as áreas do Ensino Secundário admitidas para a entrada nestes cursos são as mais variadas, indo de Ciências e Tecnologias às Artes e Humanidades. Verifica-se, assim, que as competências dos estudantes são muito heterogéneas e essa heterogeneidade apresenta um impacto significativo, complexo e contraproducente, quando se trabalham temas específicos relacionados com a Matemática e com o raciocínio lógico-dedutivo que esta ciência envolve e desenvolve. Neste trabalho, descreve-se sucintamente o processo de entrada no Sistema de Ensino Superior Português, em particular na ESHT do P.PORTO, bem como os objetivos gerais e específicos e competências esperadas da unidade curricular de Métodos Quantitativos (MQ). Apresentam-se, seguidamente, os diferentes recursos desenvolvidos especificamente para a unidade curricular de MQ, do 1º semestre do 1º ano curricular (um curso de Matemática Elementar para Gestão), disponibilizados através da plataforma Moodle institucional, e a forma de interação pretendida e planeada. Seguidamente, analisa-se o impacto da utilização dos vários recursos e e-conteúdos, e a existência (ou não) de diferentes resultados (impacto da metodologia desenvolvida) em função das áreas de estudo dos estudantes, tendo como base a avaliação e os resultados de aprendizagem. Para concluir, apresentam-se os resultados da avaliação como ferramenta de apoio à aprendizagem, realizada pelos estudantes, cruzando-se estes resultados com o sucesso dos estudantes nesta unidade curricular. Esta análise sugere que a metodologia utilizada neste estudo poderia contribuir para melhorar o desempenho de aprendizagem dos estudantes.
- Assessment experiences in a math coursePublication . Soares, Filomena Baptista; Nunes, Paula; Lopes, Ana PaulaThe role of a teacher, as knowledge promoter and learning facilitator, is frequently opposed to the simultaneously inherent “validation” tasks, as far as grading and assessing are concerned, fundamentally from the students’ point of view, but, sometimes, even from our own. The generalised Math “trauma” is a difficult start-up invisible barrier that we must overcome every single semester, by implementing different strategies, developing new materials, motivating with digital and technological resources (using students’ digital skills), among many other tactics and schemes. But, in the end, the numerical grade – the knowledge and skills construction validation – must appear posted in the “system”. As Math lecturers in a Higher Education Institution, for more than twenty years, these problems are a daily challenge we face, and the issues we intend to analyse here, emerge as a consequence of a certain "emptiness" we feel regarding the assessment we have to carry out, in the sense that we still don’t have an answer to the following question: “Is it legitimate to "close your eyes" to the basic errors (some severe) when assessing learning outcomes in advanced subjects?” We teach at "end of the line", as far as General Mathematics is concerned, since our students are, essentially, from Management and Accounting Bachelor degrees. This paper will be structured in four distinct parts, starting with the Specific and General Outcomes and skills in the Math course in question, giving also a global vision of all its syllabus components and the teaching Methodologies implemented. Subsequently, we will refer to the coherence between teaching methods and the course learning objectives as well as their connection to the syllabus items. Finally, we will go through a section of small questions and answers, with their respective detailed analysis, in order to provide an objective reading material, trying to promote a fruitful and open discussion on the subject
- Levelling up math literacy through e-contents : an example of portuguese students from Hospitality and Tourism Management Bachelor degreesPublication . Soares, Filomena Baptista; Lopes, Ana Paula; Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Nunes, PaulaDespite the global and general Management Area, common to all the bachelor degrees in the School of Hospitality and Tourism (ESHT) from the Polytechnic of Porto (P.PORTO), the pre-university areas admitted for entering these degrees are the most varied, going from Sciences and Technologies to Arts and Humanities. The students' abilities are very heterogeneous and this heterogeneity proves to be very awkward and complex when dealing with specific themes related to Mathematics and to the deductive-logic reasoning that this science involves and develops. In this article, we begin with a brief description of the process for entering into the Higher Education Portuguese System, in particular in ESHT. We describe the different resources developed and available in the institutional Moodle platform, with a reference to the general and specific outcomes and competences expected from Quantitative Methods (QM) course. Then, we analyse the impact of using several e-contents and resources, specifically developed for QM course, in the first semester of the first year (the usual General Mathematics course in any Management Degrees) and try to differentiate the “impact perception” from the background students study field, based on students’ direct assessment and their real learning results. To conclude, the results of the resources evaluation as learning support tools, made by students, are presented and we cross these with the students’ success in this course. These findings suggest that the methodology used in this research could be a promising way of enhancing students’ learning performance.
- Revenue management prlcing in Douro Hotels [Study Group Report]Publication . Correia, Elisete; Dias, Sónia; Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Moura, Ana; Nunes, Paula; Pereira, Maria Teresa Ribeiro; Santos, Jorge; Pereira, Carla Santos; Soares, Filomena Baptista; Soares, JoãoThe Douro Palace Hotel management wants to develop a software that helps them with the dynamic pricing of the hotel rooms. Revenue Management software is widely used for data analysis of demand and prices. However the hotel barely follows the software recommendations for pricing decisions, mainly due to the lack of understanding of the rationale and the inherent difficulty in validating pricing decisions. The hotel would like to have a reliable model in order to give to the manager an overview of the business and how to act to improve the sales. The questions raised at the study group are related to this. In this report, we present two distinct methodologies to address the hotel request. The first approach is excel based and more practically oriented towards to be an immediate help of the current pricing decisions. A second approach is more formal, mathematically speaking, but requires a more time consuming implementation. It is based on a recent operations management/operations research paper. On short term plan, we propose the implementation of an automatic generation of excel files that will enable Douro Palace Hotel react more often/finely to the competition pricing. A thorough statistical analysis of the Demand function and the corresponding segmentation is also required - for simulation purposes or decision support. We think that Douro Palace Hotel should differentiate prices more often and promptly (both upwardly and downwardly) depending on the perception of the demand and the competitors prices. On a long term plan, we propose the implementation of more sophisticated approaches, mathematically speaking, such as the one described in this report.