ABSTRACT
The importance of interpersonal work relationships has brought new demands for the professional development of college students, specifically, in relation to the teaching and development of interpersonal skills coupled with academic and technical skills. This study evaluated a social skills training program with students from Exact Sciences careers. Participants were 35 undergraduates, 23 males and 12 females, distributed in three different groups of consecutive interventions. The students were evaluated with Social Skills Inventory (IHS) before, in a intermediate session, immediately after and three months after the intervention program. The analysis in group and individually showed significant acquisitions in social skills and their maintenance, especially in the total score and F1 - Self-affirmation when coping with risk and F4 - Exposure of self with strangers and in new situations subscales of social skills. These results indicated the efficiency and effectiveness of an interpersonal professional development program for undergraduates in transition to labor market and suggest new research questions
The importance of interpersonal work relationships has brought new demands for the professional development of college students, specifically, in relation to the teaching and development of interpersonal skills coupled with academic and technical skills. This study evaluated a social skills training program with students from Exact Sciences careers. Participants were 35 undergraduates, 23 males and 12 females, distributed in three different groups of consecutive interventions. The students were evaluated with Social Skills Inventory (IHS) before, in a intermediate session, immediately after and three months after the intervention program. The analysis in group and individually showed significant acquisitions in social skills and their maintenance, especially in the total score and F1 - Self-affirmation when coping with risk and F4 - Exposure of self with strangers and in new situations subscales of social skills. These results indicated the efficiency and effectiveness of an interpersonal professional development program for undergraduates in transition to labor market and suggest new research questions
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Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Social Behavior , Students/psychologyABSTRACT
Este estudo relata o emprego de um sistema lingüístico em miniatura para investigar a aprendizagem de leitura. Vinte estudantes de graduação (10 da área de exatas e 10 de humanas) aprenderam a relacionar figuras e pseudo-palavras impressas às correspondentes pseudo-palavras ditadas, em tarefas de discriminação condicional realizadas em computador. Sessões de ensino foram intercaladas com testes de leitura de palavras novas, formadas pela recombinação de elementos das palavras ensinadas (generalização recombinativa). Nove estudantes de exatas e quatro de humanas apresentaram leitura recombinativa após a aprendizagem de 12 palavras. Os escores em leitura de palavras novas aumentaram à medida que aumentava o número de palavras ensinadas. Ambos os achados podem ser interpretados como efeitos de experiências de aprendizagem com relações simbólicas. As diferenças entre estudantes das áreas de humanas e exatas podem também refletir fatores motivacionais.
This study reports the use of a miniature linguistic system in order to investigate reading acquisition. Twenty college students, 10 from Natural Sciences and Engineering (NSE) and 10 from Health and Social Sciences (HSS) courses, learned to relate pictures and printed pseudo-words to dictated pseudo-words in conditional discrimination tasks presented by a computer. Teaching sessions were interspersed with tests of reading new words formed by recombination of elements of taught words (generative recombination). Nine students from NSE and four from HSS developed generalized reading after learning 12 relations with pseudo-words. Reading scores of new words increased as number of taught words increased. Both findings could be interpreted as effects of learning experiences with symbolic relations. Differences between the NSE and the HSS students could also reflect motivational factors.