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STUDENT VOICE. Prospettive internazionali e pratiche emergenti in Italia
No full textStudent Voice è la denominazione di un movimento pedagogico internazionale, ancora poco conosciuto in Italia, ma radicato in paesi quali Regno Unito, USA, Canada e Australia dove, fin dalla sua nascita, si è rivolto alla comprensione delle migliori condizioni per legittimare la voce degli studenti come forza trasformativa della scuola.
In effetti risulta oggi condivisa l’idea secondo cui la partecipazione degli stakeholders sia un requisito fondamentale per il cambiamento efficace di qualsiasi organizzazione. Anche la ricerca educativa, già da molti anni, evidenzia come, in assenza di coinvolgimento dei docenti nei processi di riforma scolastica, tali trasformazioni non mettano radici. Tuttavia, si dimostra del tutto insufficiente l’attenzione posta alla partecipazione degli studenti ai processi di cambiamento, mentre pare ragionevole ritenere che il loro impegno e il loro coinvolgimento siano altrettanto essenziali quanto quello degli altri membri delle comunità formative.
Muovendosi all’interno di questo quadro, il libro si apre con i contributi di alcuni dei fondatori della prospettiva Student Voice, per dare poi voce a ricercatori, soprattutto italiani, che si stanno oggi avvicinando alla stessa
Ascoltare le voci degli studenti universitari Il Learning Contract: uno strumento per la personalizzazione degli apprendimenti in ambito universitario
No full textThe study elaborates how the original Learning Contract (LC) of Malcolm Knowles may be used in an Italian University setting. We introduced it in a master’s degree course at the University of Padua. The study was a real attempt to improve the tool, and to adapt it to an Italian course that, in this case, was an integrated course conducted by three professors.The LC methodology allows negotiation between the roles of teacher and student, encourages partnership between these two roles, and give students the opportunities to make their voices heard. Researchers found from a qualitative analysis that LC helps to activate processes like reflection, monitoring and organization to better plan learning. The use of LC gives them the possibility to experience personal growth, to become aware of what they have learned, and to clarify and better focus the academic contents. From a quantitative analysis the use of a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) allowed researchers to analyze the levels of students’ participation in the wiki, used to create the contracts, and in the forum discussions. The results helped us to reflect on how to improve the contract and how to better involve the students. Finally, the technology used has to be improved to become more user-friendly for use in the blended courses
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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