Lopes, Filomena Castro

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Filomena Castro

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Filomena Castro Lopes

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Lecturer since October 1986. Associate Professor at Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique since September 2003, where she also held the following positions: chairwoman of the University¿s Pedagogical Council (2002-2003), representative of the Department of Information Technologies to the Pedagogical Council (2004-2005), programme director for the undergraduate degree in Computation and Management (2002-2006), admissions officer for the technological specialisation programmes (2004-2006), programme director for the PhD degree in Information Technologies (2009-2015), head of the Department of Innovation, Science and Technology (November 2006-April 2014), and head of the Department of Economics, Management and Information Technologies (April 2014-April 2018). Lecturer at the University of Aveiro (2005-2009) and the Catholic University of Braga (2006-2007). Lectured several courses in the area of Information Systems and Technologies at the undergraduate, Masters and PhD levels, as well as postgraduate specialisation degrees.

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0000-0002-4891-6929
0613-8BB6-9E9F
G-9298-2016

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REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies
Centro de investigação que que tem como objetivo principal produzir e disseminar conhecimento teórico e aplicado que possibilite uma maior compreensão das dinâmicas e tendências económicas, empresariais, territoriais e tecnológicas do mundo contemporâneo e dos seus efeitos socioeconómicos. O REMIT adota uma perspetiva multidisciplinar que integra vários domínios científicos: Economia e Gestão; Ciências e Tecnologia; Turismo, Património e Cultura. Founded in 2017, REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies is a research unit of Portucalense University. Based on a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective it aims at responding to social challenges through a holistic approach involving a wide range of scientific fields such as Economics, Management, Science, Technology, Tourism, Heritage and Culture. Grounded on the production of advanced scientific knowledge, REMIT has a special focus on its application to the resolution of real issues and challenges, having as strategic orientations: - the understanding of local, national and international environment; - the development of activities oriented to professional practice, namely in the business world.

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    PublicaçãoAcesso Aberto
    Human interaction skills and employability at information technology internships
    2017 - Costa-Lobo, Cristina; Magalhães, Miguel; Lopes, Filomena Castro; Durão, Natércia; Santos-Pereira, Carla
    To implement internships with undergraduate students is a pedagogical option with some good results perceived by academic staff, employers, and among graduates. The Human Interaction Skills development as well as the attractiveness of such experiences for higher education students are topics assumed as core in the conception and management of the activities implemented in the undergraduate courses offered at the last three decades in computer science degree and in information systems technologies degree at one Portuguese private university. The objectives of this paper are to gather evidence of the Human Interaction Skills explained and valued at Information Technology Internships and to evaluate the importance and the relevance of these experiences in promoting employability after the Information Technology Internships. Data collection was based on the application of questionnaire to trainee supervisors and to students who have completed Information Technology Internships in the last decade at one Portuguese private university. The trainee supervisor, responsible for monitoring the student`s performance at Information Technology Internships, evaluates the following Human Interaction Skills: Motivation and interest in the activities developed, interpersonal relationship, cooperation in company activities, assiduity, ease of knowledge apprehension, compliance with norms, insertion in the work environment, productivity, initiative, ability to take responsibility, creativity in proposing solutions, and selfconfidence. The results show that in the concluding phase of these undergraduate courses students have positive levels of development of Human Interaction Skills and that these students, once they finish their degree, initiate remunerated work functions, mainly by invitation of the institutions in which they perform Information Technology Internships. Findings provided strong evidence of Human Interaction Skills advantages contribute to widen the analysis of its effectiveness in terms of future research and actions in regard to the transition from Higher Education pathways to the Labour Market.
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    Analysis of students performance in a higher education institution - conditioning factors and new strategies: an approach based on business intelligence
    2020 - Pereira, José; Lopes, Filomena Castro; Seruca, Isabel
    The trend of massification seen in recent years in Higher Education (HE) in Portugal has provided access to groups of students very different socio-culturally from each other, with a greater presence of non-traditional students, that is, worker-students, International students, students from professional and technological specialization courses and special regimes (e.g. Higher than 23 years). Associated with the diversity of students who access HE, the question arises of their academic skills and motivations, since the instituted numerus clausus system favors the increase in the percentage of students not placed in first option “course-institution” pairs. On the other hand, the implementation of quality assurance systems in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the increased requirements for accreditation of courses and research centers lead HEIs to be increasingly concerned with issues related to improving teaching-learning and training efficiency. HEIs therefore need instruments that allow them to better understand who their natural candidates are and what factors influence the academic success rate of students enrolled in their courses. With this information available, they will be able to act more precisely in the specific and more personalized follow-up of groups of students with characteristics of identified education path/academic results, as well as optimize their resources in the training offer and consequently in attracting students. The work reported in this paper aims to analyze, using a Business Intelligence (BI) system, the characteristics of students enrolled in the various courses of a Portuguese HEI, and to determine the influence of several factors on students' academic success. These factors include data related to students’ academic background prior to entering HE and sociodemographic data that will be crossed with information regarding students' performance along and in the completion of the HEI enrollment course. For this purpose, a sample of students enrolled in 1st cycle courses of the HEI between 2011 to 2019 was used, considering the following variables for the analysis: secondary school attended, admission regime and grade, gender, age, region of provenance, educational level and parents’ professional situation. These data were previously anonymized and correlated with data related to the students' performance during the course and employment situation at the end of the course. The QlikSense BI tool was used and the analysis of indicators and correlations carried out were made available through a performance monitoring system. The contribution of this work is two-fold. On the one hand, the study of the indicators and segmentation of students carried out within the scope of this project may serve as a basis for a better knowledge of the profiles of students of the target HEI and an understanding of the factors that influence the academic and professional success of students. With the knowledge obtained, the HEI will be able to more easily design a differentiating strategy for the enrolled students, taking into account their respective profiles and evidenced needs, improving the training offer and creating opportunities at curricular and extracurricular level, as well as providing adapted tutoring projects to the various groups. On the other hand, the training efficiency indicators and correlations identified may serve as a basis for other projects and initiatives to analyze the performance of students in HE.