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This study proposes to discover relations between gender and school performance, composed in particular by values of academic goals (3 non-cognitive psychosocial factors), from a sample of students aged 11 to 17 inserted in the fundamental II and high school network of Brasilia-DF, capital of Brazil. The research was enrolled in a motivational perspective, which is based on a cross-sectional descriptive and correlational design with qualitative and quantitative methodology. The Hayamizu and Weiner's (1991) Goals Questionnaire was applied. It was described and applied, empirically, to a gender of male and female students. It was possible to demonstrate that there were no correlations between the variables due to the statistical normality of the sample. However, the results of the description suggest positive impacts on learning goals and achievement goals, due to the high level of punctuation obtained in the sample description and the consistency of the data, and negative impacts on social reinforcement goals. The most striking fact was the contradiction found with the results obtained by Cominetti and Ruiz (1997), which are based on maintaining that the gender factor helps to modulate the relations with school performance. This research contributes scientifically with new elements to the literature on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, Brazil has proposed and implemented a set of public policies in the field of education that propose actions aimed at improving the process of literacy, and establish goals aimed at improving the quality of education. The results obtained through the application of large-scale assessment tools show that one of Brazil's great challenges is to improve levels of proficiency in reading, writing and mathematics, since even after three years of schooling 22% of students only developed elementary skills. The use of technology as a playful, motivating element has proven to be an efficient resource capable of promoting the cognitive development of children. Thus, we have developed Learning Objects, as a resource to support the literacy process, in order to verify their possible contributions through a systematic analysis of practices in 1st and 2nd grade classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]