The intense increase in students in Higher Education, observed in recent decades, has promoted profound changes quantitative and qualitative in demand, frequency, and student profile. In the context of these changes, we conducted a study to evaluate the self-efficacy and academic engagement of students using an online questionnaire. It includes some sociodemographic variables and the Self-Efficacy Scale in Higher Education (AEFS) and University Student Engagement Inventory (USEI). It was possible to verify that students had a score for academic engagement above the average, revealing an overall high level of academic engagement, an indicator of student success. Regarding self-efficacy, the score obtained is above 4 (on a scale of 1 to 5), close to 5, in social interaction, which indicates that these students overall have relatively robust self-efficacy beliefs. In all cases, the low valeus of standard deviation reveal a good degree of agreement between responses.
Livro: ATHENA Research Book, Volume 1
Referência bibliográfica: Amorim, Manuela, Tavares, Diana, lamas, Maria Céu, Mota, Sandra, & Salgado, Ana. (2022). Students’ perception of self-efficacy and academic engagement in School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto: An observational study. Em ATHENA Research Book, Volume 1 (Vol. 1, pp. 137–157). ATHENA European University, University of Maribor Press.
In the academic context, the main activity of ethics committees is evidently to regulate and monitor any investigation carried out within the institution, if the object of study is a person or biological material. However, it is important to note that ethics committee activity does not end, and cannot end, in this sphere of action. These entities are fundamental in raising awareness of the academic community for the assumption and incorporation of certain principles and values in their practices and in those of their members. Those principles and values include professional secrecy, respect for integrity and privacy, principles that become even more relevant when they refer to vulnerable people, such as health users. In a constantly changing world, ethics committees must identify new challenges and anticipate, as far as possible, action strategies. Having an ethics committee in a higher educational institution provides opportunities to, in a timely manner, be aware of the state of the art in bioethics or have access to recent research in healthcare.
Título: The multiplicities of an ethics committee in higher education
Livro: Handbook of Research on Improving Allied Health Professions Education: Advancing Clinical Training and Interdisciplinary Translational Research
Referência bibliográfica: Tavares, D. L., Cruz, A., Cabral, A. P., Machado, A., Sousa, H., Curado, H., Faria, I., Amorim, M., Gonçalves, M. J., Lopes, P. M., & Monteiro, P. R. (2022). The Multiplicities of an Ethics Committee in Higher Education. In R. Almeida (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Improving Allied Health Professions Education: Advancing Clinical Training and Interdisciplinary Translational Research (pp. 51-65). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9578-7.ch004
