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Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Starts residencies e territórios criativos: arte, ciência, tecnologia e inovação aberta na Europa
Publication . Teixeira, Luís; Oliveira, Carla Esmeraldo
Os contratos no código comercial português
Publication . Antunes, José Engrácia
Brazilian teachers' knowledge of dyslexia, language, and literacy instruction
Publication . Pollo, Tatiana Cury; Souza, Pablo Edson; Martins, Maria Eduarda de Souza; Lima, Antonia de Fátima
This exploratory study assessed Brazilian teachers’ knowledge of dyslexia, linguistics, and reading instruction methods as well as socioeconomic predictors of their performance. Teachers (N = 214) completed a sociodemographic questionnaire and three instruments assessing knowledge of dyslexia, phonology, and reading instruction. Participants worked in public schools, were predominantly female (98.59%), with a mean age of 41.8 years (SD = 7.98), over ten years of teaching experience, and degrees primarily in Pedagogy. Mean accuracy on the dyslexia items was 67.09%, although 78.5% of participants incorrectly associated reading disability with intelligence. Phonological knowledge was limited (40.3%), particularly in phoneme identification. School location and teaching role predicted teachers’ linguistic knowledge, while additional training emerged as the strongest predictor of dyslexia knowledge. In open-ended questions, the whole-word method was most frequently reported, whereas phonics-based instruction was rarely mentioned and often poorly conceptualized. Overall, Brazilian teachers demonstrated limited knowledge across key literacy domains, underscoring the need for targeted teacher education and literacy policies grounded in the science of reading.
Editorial: biofilms in aquatic environments and new strategies for microbial biofilm control
Publication . Antunes, Jorge T.; Gomes, Inês Bezerra; Proia, Lorenzo
Basic income and employment
Publication . Aloi, Marta; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa
We analyse the general equilibrium implications of introducing a universal basic income (UBI) for employment and income in an economy characterized by involuntary unemployment. Our framework allows tax revenues and workers' reservation wages to adjust endogenously with employment to satisfy the government's budget constraint. We show that multiple equilibria may emerge and that a UBI can support higher employment when the initial equilibrium is characterized by high taxes. However, in this setting, replacing unemployment benefit schemes with UBI proves less effective at fostering employment, ultimately requiring higher taxes and yielding more limited welfare gains.