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Innovation and external evaluation of non-higher education schools in Portugal: a study based on external evaluation reports
Get PDFThis paper is supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal), under the project
FCT PTDC/CEDEDG/30410/2017answer the complex demands placed by current social dynamics. Responding to this fast-paced changing society, however, has to be a priority of educational systems.
Evaluation and accountability processes have been recognized as essential mechanisms in order to
validate innovation – both internally – centered on self-regulation and self-evaluation, - and externally –
towards the context and society the educational institution answers to. However, external evaluation
also carries a number of risks [3], which may lead schools away from innovation, and toward ‘safer’
choices in terms of a culture of performativity or an audit culture [4] [5] [6].
The current model of External School Evaluation of non-higher education schools in Portugal, which
was piloted in 2018, stresses innovative practices, as they are a requirement for schools to achieve the
maximum evaluation mention, and less directly since indicators related to innovative practices are
included in its referential.
Our communication is based on the documental analysis of the external evaluation reports produced in
the current cycle of evaluation and the previous reports on the schools evaluated in this cycle, focusing
on innovative practices and intending to answer the following questions: What kinds of practices are
deemed as innovative in external evaluation reports? Were there mentions to innovation in those
schools' previous reports? How are innovation practices promoted or hindered by the perspectives
present in these reports? Fifteen such reports were analyzed by the authors (higher education teachers
involved in a project concerned with external school evaluation funded by the Portuguese Foundation
for Science and Technology: FCT PTDC/CEDEDG/30410/2017). Results show that there are both
positive and negative remarks made about innovative practices in schools. Not all reports refer to
innovative practices. Aspects considered innovative are mostly related to the domain «provision of
educational service», and to a smaller extent, «leadership and management». Preliminary results show
that some «innovative» practices may be reinforced by the external school evaluation reports,
regardless of the overall assessment of the schools involved.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Relación de la aplicación del programa de segregación en la fuente y el nivel de valorización de los residuos sólidos en los estudiantes de la I.E. N° 30410 del Centro Poblado de Yanamarca y la I.E. N° 30406 del distrito de Acolla
Get PDFLa presente investigación se planteó el siguiente problema general: ¿De qué manera se relaciona la aplicación del programa de segregación en la fuente y el nivel de valorización de los residuos sólidos de la I. E. N° 30410 del centro poblado de Yanamarca y la I.E. N° 30406 del distrito de Acolla del año 2019? Tuvo como objetivo general: Establecer de qué manera se relaciona la aplicación del programa de segregación en la fuente y el nivel de valorización de los residuos sólidos en el I.E. N°30410 del Centro Poblado de Yanamarca y la I.E. N° 30406 del distrito de Acolla, 2019. La hipótesis general fue la siguiente: La aplicación del programa de segregación en la fuente se relaciona significativamente con el nivel de valorización de los residuos sólidos en el I.E. N° 30410 del Centro Poblado de Yanamarca y la I.E. N° 30406 del distrito de Acolla, 2019. Se seleccionó en forma aleatoria una población de 118 estudiantes de la I.E. N° 30406 del distrito de Acolla y la Institución Educativa N° 30410 del Centro Poblado de Yanamarca. El método de investigación correspondió al método científico, de nivel correlacional, y el diseño de investigación fue no experimental de corte transversal. La investigación concluyó que la aplicación del programa de segregación en la fuente se relaciona significativamente con el nivel de valorización de los residuos sólidos en la I.E. N° 30410 del Centro Poblado de Yanamarca y la I.E. N° 30406 del distrito de Acolla, 2019
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Avaliação externa de escolas (3º ciclo): perspectivas de avaliação
No full textEste trabalho é financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia,I.P.,no âmbito do projeto PTDC/CED-EDG/30410/2017 e dos projetos UID/CED/1661/2013 e UID/CED/1661/2016 CIEd-Centro de Investigação em Educação, Instituto de Educação, Universidade do MinhoN/
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