Autor(es):
Seco, Graça Maria dos Santos Batista 
; Filipe, Luís Pereira ; Ana Pereira, Patrícia ; Alves, Sandra
Data: 2009
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/56
Origem: IC-online
Assunto(s): Promotion of communication competences; Study strategies; Emotional intelligence; Self-regulated learning
Descrição
Research has been stressing the importance and relevance of intra and interpersonal competence
development in the promotion of the student academic success and general wellbeing. In the
transition to Higher Education, the individual is confronted with different challenges and changes to
which he must try to answer in a correct way so as to reach a positive and satisfactory adaptation.
Separation from family and friends, the adaptation to new tasks, new personal, social and academic
demands are considered inherent difficulties to this process of transition.
As far as the academic dimension is concerned one of the most relevant difficulties is related to the
adequacy of study strategies, used in secondary education, to the demands of the new context. The
recent course changes concerning the Bologna Process demand the student the need to develop an
active and more self-controlled learning process.
The consciousness of the importance that the student should become a real manager of his study and
communicational competences, led the Student Support Service of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
(SSS/PIL) to implement two training programmes focused on the following transverse competences:
Communication and Emotional Intelligence and Study Methods and Time Management, with the
duration of 9 hours each.
Those programmes, supervised on active methodologies, had, as their main objective, not only the
development of adequate strategies in communication and interpersonal relationship, but also the
achievement of strategies that contribute to improve the academic work and performance, stressing,
thus, the importance of self-regulation to the success of the PIL student.
In this context, with this paper proposal, we want to show the structure and implementation as well the
main results of the two training programmes developed by SSS, in the 4 campus of PIL, in which 126
students were involved.
In general, the programmes were assessed, very satisfactorily, by students who highlighted the
importance of this type of training, especially in the context of the changes that took place, in Higher
Education, due to the Bologna Process.
