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202. Educational tools to promote school engagement: Data and implications for practice

The research team GUIA (Grupo Universitário de Investigação em Autorregulação) from the Escola de Psicologia da Universidade do Minho, enroll researchers from Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Mozambique and Chile. Throughout the last years this research team has been conducting research projects and educational interventions to promote school engagement. The corpus of research produced has been focused in the general population of students from elementary and junior high school, but has also included students with specific educational needs and students from marginalized ethnic populations. In this symposium we present communications representing the distinct lines of research above described.
The four communications address school engagement in different educational settings as follows: i) homework as an educational tool to increase 6th-grade students’ behavioral engagement and mathematics achievement, ii) the description of intervention programs to promote 4th graders’ cognitive engagement and writing quality, iii) a story-tool project to enhance gypsy students’ cognitive and behavioral engagement, and iv) a single case study of a child with Cerebral Palsy addressing the educational diet their parents are following at home and the consequences to their child school engagement and achievement.
Each of the communications will discuss educational implications of the findings and present new avenues for future investigations.

Author(s):

Tânia Nunes    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Jennifer Cunha    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Pedro Rosário    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Ana Rita Nunes    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Celso Fulano    
Universidade Pedagógica de Moçambique
Mozambique

Julia Högemann    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Sonia Fuentes    
Universidad Central de Chile
Chile

Anair Mello    
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias Professor Dirson Maciel de Barros, Faculdade de Formação de Professores de Goiana
Brazil

Natalia Reoyo    
Universidad de Valladolid
Spain

Raquel Azevedo    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Raquel Pereira    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Tânia Moreira    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Armanda Pereira    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Carla Magalhães    
Associação de Paralisia Cerebral de Braga
Portugal

Paula Magalhães    
Universidade do Minho
Portugal

Cleidilene Magalhães    
Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
Brazil