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Children's achievement goals, attitudes, and disruptive behaviors in an after-school physical activity program
Get PDFTo promote active and healthy lifestyles in schoolage
children, many afterschool
physical activity programs offer students opportunities to participate in a variety
of physical activities. The effects of such programs on students�������� levels of physical
activity, however, depend largely on whether the students are motivated to participate
and to demonstrate high levels of engagement behaviors in the programs. Therefore, it is
critical for researchers and teachers to gain an understanding in this area. This study
utilized a trichotomous achievement goal model to explore and describe what actually
happened in terms of students�������� achievement goals, attitudes, and disruptive behaviors in
an afterschool
physical activity program. More specifically, the purposes of the study
were fivefold: (1) to examine the reliability and validity of the scores generated by the
trichotomous model, (2) to identify achievement goals endorsed by students, (3) to
determine students�������� attitudes toward the program, (4) to identify students�������� disruptive
behaviors, and (5) to investigate the relationships among students�������� achievement goals,
attitudes, attendance, and disruptive behaviors. Results of this study indicate the trichotomous model observed in academic
settings also existed among atrisk
elementary school students in an afterschool
physical
activity program and the scores generated by this model were valid and reliable.
Furthermore, students were found to score significantly higher on the mastery goal than
they did on the performanceapproach
and performanceavoidance
goals, demonstrate
positive attitudes, and display disruptive behaviors identified with the literature. Finally,
the mastery goal was found to be positively related to students�������� positive attitudes and
negatively related to students�������� selfreported
low engagement, whereas the performanceapproach
and performanceavoidance
goals were found to be positively related to
students�������� selfreported
disruptive behaviors.
Overall, the findings of the present study provide empirical support for the
utilization of the trichotomous model in the context of afterschool
physical activity
programs. They also suggest the positive motivational effects of mastery goals observed
in the classroom and physical education can be translated in the context of an afterschool
physical activity program with atrisk
elementary school students. Therefore,
promoting mastery goals among students should become a high priority in afterschool
physical activity programs
BEING A PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER IN TURKEY: PRIVILEGES AND CHALLENGES
Get PDFPhysical education teachers are an essential part of the education system as they help develop students’ psychomotor skills, instill a sports culture, encourage them to become individuals who engage in lifelong physical activity, and foster responsible individuals with good mental and social well-being. Physical education teachers also play a critical role in students’ physical, social, mental, and emotional development, and the active, enjoyable, and natural climate of their classes allows them to build stronger connections with students compared to teachers of other classes. However, in education settings, each country and culture has its own educational goals, learning opportunities, achievements and shortcomings. Similarly, within the Turkish National Education System, being a physical education teacher involves not only convenience and enjoyable aspects but also various challenges and difficulties. Especially, sports activities and school team practices enhance teachers’ communication with students, while positive relationships with the local community, especially in rural areas, strengthen the teachers’ respect and standing in society. Nevertheless, issues such as insufficient weekly class hours, lack of sports facilities and equipment, educational policies, inadequate administrative support, professional role conflicts (e.g., the dual role of coach and teacher), seeing as a disciplinary authority and declining student interest due to high school and university entrance exams represent the negative aspects of the profession. Also, physical education classes are still not given sufficient value, and there is even partial resistance to recognizing their significance. Although physical education teaching in Turkey offers significant advantages both individually and socially, addressing structural, political, and social problems is essential to improving the effectiveness of this profession. In conclusion, in a country like Turkey, which represents a blend of Eastern and Western cultures, this article examining the advantages and challenges of being a physical education teacher will serve as a valuable resource for future comparative cultural studies. Article visualizations
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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