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- Desenvolvimento de Competências Gerais e Específicas em ambiente académico: um estudo em cursos de contabilidade do 1º ciclo do ensino superior português.Publication . Domingos, Alexandra; Sarmento, Manuela; Duarte, ManuelaThe purpose of this study is to analyze, in the perception of final year students, to what extent the practices of the accounting courses of first cycle degrees is aligned to the skills required by the current society of knowledge. This study is based on a quantitative approach, covering 345 final year students of first cycle degrees of accounting courses in Portuguese higher education institutions. The analysis of the results allowed us to conclude that, capacity of reasoning and the lifelong learning capacity are the less developed general skills. On the other hand, capacity to comply with deadlines and rules and capacity to structure a management panel with useful information for decision-making are the less developed specific skills.
- A Multivariate Analysis of the General Skills Developed in Accounting Higher EducationPublication . Domingos, Alexandra; Sarmento, Manuela; Duarte, ManuelaThe literature shows important and crucial changes in higher education, motivated by the rapid advance of technology and a constantly changing organizational environment. This study aims to analyze final-year students’ and accounting lecturers’ perceptions about the development of general skills in first-cycle courses in order to improve skills taught in accounting courses to facilitate students’ entry into the labour market. A questionnaire-based survey was applied to 345 final-year students and 155 accounting lecturers at Portuguese higher education institutions. The answers obtained were statistically analyzed by factor analysis by the principal component method. The results of two individual factor analyses indicated differences in the factors that represent the skills perceived as developed throughout the academic course: students indicated teamwork and pressure tolerance as the factors that explain the most developed skills, while accounting lecturers considered problem-solving as the most developed dimension. These results are very important for accounting educators in Portugal to complement their teaching, along with other learning strategies present in the literature review.
- A perceção dos estudantes finalistas e dos docentes quanto ao desenvolvimento de competências gerais nos cursos superiores do 1º ciclo de Contabilidade: uma análise multivariadaPublication . Domingos, Alexandra; Sarmento, Manuela; Duarte, ManuelaQuer a nível nacional, quer internacional, o conceito de competência tem assumido grande visibilidade, demonstrando um novo entendimento do papel da escola e da formação face a uma sociedade em permanente mudança. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar a perceção dos estudantes finalistas e dos docentes de Contabilidade quanto ao desenvolvimento de competências gerais nos cursos do 1.º ciclo de Contabilidade, em instituições de ensino superior portuguesas. Para atingir este objetivo, construiu-se um questionário de competências associadas ao ensino superior da Contabilidade, aplicado a uma amostra de 345 estudantes finalistas e 155 docentes de Contabilidade. As respostas obtidas foram analisadas estatisticamente e tratadas pela análise fatorial, método das componentes principais. A análise aos resultados permite concluir que, na perspetiva dos estudantes finalistas, a dimensão “trabalho em equipa e tolerância à pressão” (xm=5,44) é a mais desenvolvida, considerando os docentes que os estudantes desenvolvem mais a dimensão “resolução de problemas” (xm=6,14).