Lourdes Mata

Biographic Data

ID3883884
NAMELourdes Mata
GIVEN NAMESLourdes
FAMILY NAMEMata
SIGNATUREMATA L
AFFILIATIONSISPA - Instituto Universitário
ORCID0000-0001-8645-246X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR19
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for Family Engagement

    Open AccessSónia Cabral, Lourdes Mata et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2026

    Initial teacher education plays a decisive role in preparing future educators to establish meaningful and reciprocal relationships with families that support children’s learning across contexts. Moving beyond traditional, school-centred notions of family involvement, this study adopts a family engagement (FE) perspective to examine preservice early childhood teachers’ perceptions of their preparation, the difficulties they anticipate, and their s…

  • Organisation of Early Childhood Education Environments

    Open AccessMónica Pereira, Carla Fernandes et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2026

    The primary aim of this study was to validate a self-assessment instrument about the organisation of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) environment and to investigate how early childhood educators perceive their educational environments, including quality, intentionality (specifically, their anticipatory considerations in planning the ECEC environment) and pedagogical dynamics. The EduIn&Out Organisation of ECEC Environments Questionna…

  • Portuguese Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices About Transition from Preschool to Primary School

    Open AccessCarla Costa Fernandes, Lourdes Mata et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2026

    The transition from preschool to first grade is a crucial milestone in early education, influencing children’s academic and social development. This process involves significant changes in educational settings, teaching approaches, and peer interactions. Teachers play a crucial role in shaping children’s transition experiences and understanding their beliefs and practices can provide valuable insights into improving transition support strategies.…

  • Scared, Bored or Happy? Latent Profile Analyses of Primary School Students’ Academic Emotions about Math

    Open AccessJelena Radišić, Francisco Peixoto et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2024

    Emotions and motivation are central to learning. Control–value theory (CVT) and expectancy–value theory (EVT) explain how emotions and expectations of success affect students’ task engagement. Supported by these two frameworks, this study investigates the emotion profiles for maths among fourth- and fifth-grade students (N = 6778) from three European countries and their links to motivation and achievement. Methods: Using latent profile analysis (…

  • Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for Family Engagement

    Open AccessSónia Cabral, Lourdes Mata et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2024

    Family involvement and participation in education (FIPE) profoundly impacts the quality of students’ academic and social development. Initial teacher education contribution in fostering attitudes, skills, and strategies for effective FIPE is therefore unquestionable. We aimed to find out to what extent Portuguese pre-service teachers are prepared to engage families. A document analysis was conducted to establish explicit information regarding FIP…

  • ‘Am I to blame because my child is not motivated to do math?’

    Open AccessFrancisco Peixoto, Lourdes Mata et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Psychology of…2024

    Research on parental involvement is broad and specifies diverse kinds of parental practices that have specific associations with children’s learning outcomes. However, the involvement of parents in education, the dynamics of parent–child interactions and the actions and practices they employ and their impact on student’s motivation and achievement are intricate processes characterised by numerous intervening variables that require further clarifi…

  • Emotional profiles regarding maths among primary school children – A two-year longitudinal study

    Open AccessLourdes Mata, Vera Cristina Monteiro et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Psychology of…2022

    Learning maths is challenging for many primary school students, and teachers must understand students’ learning and emotional processes specific to learning maths. The current research, grounded in control-value theory, focused on achievement emotions regarding maths. Primary school students (N = 71) were studied with the primary objective of examining the longitudinal trajectories of achievement emotions of third graders over two years. The Port…

  • Assessment Conceptions and Practices

    Open AccessVera Cristina Monteiro, Lourdes Mata et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2021

    Students’ and teachers’ conceptions of assessment are important because they guide how teachers’ assessments are implemented in the classroom and determine how students study. This multiple-case design study examined 1) how teachers and students view assessment, 2) how teachers assess their students’ learning, and 3) the similarities and disparities that occur when students’ and teachers’ conceptions and teachers’ practices of assessment are comp…

  • Psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire for Elementary School

    Open AccessCristina Sanches, Vera Cristina Monteiro et al.ARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2020

    Os principais objetivos do corrente estudo consistiram na tradução e adaptação do Achievement Emotions Questionnaire – Elementary School (AEQ-ES) para Português e na análise das suas propriedades psicométricas. Uma amostra de 350 alunos portugueses do terceiro e quarto ano de escolaridade (com idades compreendidas entre os 7 e os 12 anos) completou a versão portuguesa do AEQ-ES (AEQ-ES-P). Tal como a versão original, o AEQ-ES-P mede o prazer, o a…

  • The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire

    Open AccessMarta Gomes, Vera Cristina Monteiro et al.ARTICLEPsicologia Reflexão e Crítica2019References: 50

    BACKGROUND: Several studies have focused on the assessment of students' motivation because this construct is very important to understand students' learning and how to enhance it. The Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ-A), based on the self-determination theory is a self-report instrument developed to access the reasons why students do their school work. However, there is no Portuguese version of this questionnaire for late elementary st…

  • Mathematics

    Open AccessVera Cristina Monteiro, Francisco Peixoto et al.ARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2017

    This research analyses achievement emotions and their relationship to perceived classroom support (teacher and peers) as well as the effects of grade, achievement and gender on emotions in a specific subject domain: mathematics. The participants were 1,494 Portuguese students from the sixth and eighth grades who were asked about their perceptions of teacher and peer support and their achievement emotions towards mathematics (Boredom, Hopelessness…

  • To learn, or to be the best?”

    Open AccessFrancisco Peixoto, Joana Pipa et al.ARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2017

    This study aimed to examine the achievement goal orientation profiles of 5 th and 7 th grade students and the profile differences in academic achievement and anxiety. Participants were 1652 Portuguese students who responded to the Achievement Goals Scale and the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire. Based on a person-centered approach, cluster analysis identified six groups of students with distinct motivational profiles: task oriented, ego oriente…

  • Emoções face à matemática e progressão na escolaridade – Estudo longitudinal com alunos do 5o e 7o anos de escolaridade

    Open AccessLourdes Mata, Francisco Peixoto et al.ARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2017

    À medida que os alunos progridem na escolaridade enfrentam novos desafios que poderão ter influência nas emoções vivenciadas em contexto educativo. Para uma melhor compreensão desta problemática desenvolvemos um estudo longitudinal com o objetivo de estudar as emoções de alunos do 2o e do 3o ciclos, face às aulas e testes de matemática, com a sua progressão na escolaridade. Em paralelo analisámos se o género e o desempenho a matemática introduzia…

  • Emoções em contexto académico

    Open AccessLourdes Mata, Francisco Peixoto et al.ARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2015

    As salas de aula são espaços onde os alunos interagem com o professor e com os colegas, enfrentandodesafios, dificuldades e objetivos a atingir, que conduzem a situações de maior ou menor sucesso,desencadeando emoções várias que poderão afetar a aprendizagem. Assim, na presente investigaçãoprocurámos compreender as caraterísticas das emoções na aula de matemática e perceber o papel devariáveis contextuais, como o clima de sala de aula, ou pessoai…

  • Intrinsic Motivation Inventory

    Open AccessVera Cristina Monteiro, Vera Monteiro et al.ARTICLEPsicologia Reflexão e Crítica2015Cited by: 1

    Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) is a multidimensional measurement grounded on the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) used in assessing the subjective experiences of participants when developing an activity. The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics of IMI among Portuguese students, testing four organizational models (unidimensional, multidimensional, hierarchical and bi-factor). A total of 3685 students from the 5th to the 12th gr…

  • Conceptualizações sobre linguagem escrita – Percursos de investigação

    Open AccessMargarida Alves Martins, Lourdes Mata et al.ARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2014

    Neste artigo é feita uma revisão de um conjunto de estudos sobre a escrita infantil antes do ensino formal e sobre a literacia familiar. O ponto de vista estrutural de Ferreiro (1988) de que as crianças pré-escolares evoluem linearmente de uma 1a fase em que as escritas não têm em conta aspectos linguísticos até uma última fase de escritas alfabéticas, é contrariado por estudos que demonstram a heterogeneidade dos percursos infantis até à compree…

  • Literacia Familiar – Crenças de pais de crianças em idade pré-escolar e características das práticas de literacia na família

    Open AccessPatrícia Pacheco, Lourdes MataARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2013

    Na realização deste trabalho tivemos presentes dois grandes objectivos: compreender e caracterizar as crenças dos pais sobre o processo de aprendizagem da linguagem escrita e sobre o seu papel nesse processo; analisar as relações entre os vários tipos de crenças dos pais e também entre estas e as práticas e ambientes de literacia familiar. Para isso trabalhámos com 198 pais de crianças a frequentar o último ano do pré-escolar. Para a recolha de d…

  • Motivação para a leitura ao longo da escolaridade

    Open AccessLourdes Mata, Vera Cristina Monteiro et al.ARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2012

    Este trabalho teve como principal objectivo a caracterização da motivação para a leitura em alunos dos diferentes ciclos da escolaridade obrigatória. Participaram no estudo 1405 alunos do 3o ao 9o ano de escolaridade, que responderam a uma escala de motivação para a leitura, na qual eram contemplados cinco domínios motivacionais distintos: Prazer, Importância e Curiosidade, Razões Sociais, Reconhecimento Social e Autopercepção de Competência. Os …

  • Era uma vez

    Open AccessLourdes MataARTICLEAnálise Psicológica2012

    Uma das actividades de literacia familiar, a que se tem dado especial ênfase nos últimos anos, é a leitura de histórias. Tem-se verificado que esta prática pode, de uma forma lúdica, positiva e informal, proporcionar oportunidades várias para a transmissão de conceitos, conhecimentos, regras e competências de literacia, que influenciam de uma forma positiva a motivação e o processo de aprendizagem da linguagem. Neste sentido, procurámos caracteri…