She has been based there since 1986, and lectures in the fields of Differential and Educational Psychology. She was the director of a Masters Programme on Themes of Psychology, and she was the leader of a Research & Development Project (supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the Portuguese Ministry of Education, and European Union) on pupils’ personal conceptions of competence and achievement, and schools’ collective efficacy. She is the author of numerous books, chapters, reports and articles, in national and international journals, on Motivation, Intelligence and Psychological Evaluation.