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    As explicações (aulas particulares) no ensino secundário e superior em Portugal: apresentação de um estudo
    (2009) AZEVEDO, Sara; NETO-MNDES, António
    In this article we present some of the work that is currently being undertaken as part of a PhD dissertation. This research has as its goal to study the private tutoring phenomenon in secondary and higher education. To deepen our knowledge about this phenomenon we decided to explore the reasons that lead students to use this type of service, the existing legislation that regulates this activity in different countries and how this service is used by students. To attain these goals we will make use of different methods: reading specific bibliography, undertaking a questionnaire directed at higher education students and conducting interviews with students, individuals in charge of private tutoring centres and private tutors. In this text we present some preliminary results obtained through the questionnaires undertaken with higher education students attending two Portuguese universities that were collected in the 2008/2009 academic year. This preliminary analysis shows that the use of private tutoring is a practice that occurs in both secondary and higher education, although the attendance registered in the former case is about six times that of the latter.
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    O fenômeno das explicações: aspectos da realidade portuguesa e do contexto global
    (2007) COSTA, Jorge Adelino; NETO-MENDES, Antônio; VENTURA, Alexandre; AZEVEDO, Sara
    Private tutoring, as a phenomenon that occurs mainly outside of school, can be interpreted through several points of view: as a pedagogical instrument for pupils who have already experienced or think they will experience school failure; as something that helps families in "conquering" the best positions to compete in the selective process to enter a university; as an expression of the education market, in which families exercise their freedom of choice; as a phenomenon that can put external pressure on schools, namely when it is identified by its "consumers" (families) as a symptom of the reduced quality and efficiency of schools; or, on the other hand, as an ally of schools in securing better exam results, having in view the improvement of their position in the so-called school ranking. The perspective adopted notwithstanding, it seems essential to us to further explore the contours of this phenomenon, in Portugal, and in other national contexts. As a follow-up to the research on private tutoring began in 2001, which now has five consecutive years of information gatherings, carried out through a questionnaire aimed at 12th year pupils (last year of Portuguese secondary education, the school year preceding higher education entry) of four secondary schools of a city located in the Portuguese coast, which we call Aquarela City, we present here some data concerning the 2005