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Single-sex and coeducation colleges in American higher education
No full textThis study investigates the perceptions of students in single-sex and coeducational institutions within American higher education, analyzing the associated benefits and challenges linked with each institutional type. Historically, single-sex universities were pivotal in the early U.S. higher education system, especially during times when women encountered restricted access to educational opportunities. Coeducation gradually emerged as the prevailing approach, mirroring societal movements advocating for gender inclusion and equality. The study employed a quantitative research approach, surveying 653 undergraduate students from both single-sex and coeducational institutions in the United States. The data collection concentrated on students’ perceptions of academic, social, and interpersonal results within different environments. The results indicated that students in coeducational institutions recognize substantial advantages, such as enhanced readiness for diverse workplaces and superior social development. Nonetheless, they also identified obstacles, including peer pressure and heightened competition. In contrast, students attending single-sex colleges indicated reduced distractions and enhanced prospects for gender-specific leadership positions. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, and a one-way ANOVA were employed to examine the data, indicating prominent differences in perceptions based on gender and institutional type, with male students exhibiting more favorable attitudes toward coeducation. This research provides essential data for educators, researchers, and policymakers to better understand how single-sex and coeducational settings might address the varied demands of students in higher education, contributing to informed decisions on future educational policies and practices
Applying distributed and transformational leadership theories to increase opportunities for women in senior educational leadership in Saudi Arabia
Get PDFIn Saudi Arabia, the lack of representation of women in senior educational leadership is a problem that continues to plague the quality of K–12 educations in girls’ schools in the nation. In this paper, I will address the likely causes and outcomes of this issue and will suggest strategies for change that focus on the implementation of distributed and transformational theories of leadership to encourage renovation in Saudi girls’ school curricula. This paper also analyzes and compares some aspects of the Saudi boys’ and girls’ K–12 curriculum and conducts a survey that will present current opinions of the roles women play in the Saudi Arabian educational environment. The most surprising and important finding of my survey was that the percentage of men who would accept women as leaders was higher than the percentage of men who would not accept women as leaders. This is contrary to what seen on a society and community level in Saudi Arabi
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
Impact of Teachers’ Choice of Teaching Profession on Their Followership Styles
No full textThe teaching profession seems like a fun if served with interest to interact with learners and to inculcate morals and values in them. A motivated teacher has the capacity to contribute massively towards the development of learners and improved learning. However, many public school teachers in Pakistan want to shift their profession indicating lack of exemplary followership that is a desired quality particularly among the teachers. Therefore, causal comparative survey was arranged using self-developed followership scale to evaluate the situation critically. Conveniently accessible 346 school teachers have provided the data. Findings revealed that 53% teachers joined teaching as first choice while 47% as lateral choices. Moreover, the number of teachers having first choice of teaching profession were increased with the betterment of followership style of the teachers. Hence, preference should be given to candidates having high level of choice to serve in teaching profession. Moreover, professional development programs may be organized for existing teachers having poor followership
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
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