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Challenges in the Management of Double Final Year Examination Students of 2012 in the Senior High Schools in South Dayi District, Volta Region, Ghana
Full text linkThe duration of Senior High School (SHS) education was made 4 years when the 2007 Education Reform was initiated. However, in December, 2008, a change of government reverted the duration to 3 years which resulted in two final year examination classes in all senior high schools in Ghana in the 2012 / 2013 academic year. This sparked off much debates in the media and general public outcry over the consequences of the reversion. The study engaged 143 respondents comprising teachers and heads using census sampling from three second cycle schools, Peki Senior High School, Peki Senior High Technical School and Kpeve Senior High Technical in South Dayi District of the Volta Region Questionnaire was used in quantitative design. Key findings included inadequacy of dormitories, dining halls, classrooms, computer laboratories and general resources and difficulty in maintaining discipline among the students. Some strategies adopted to contain the challenges were pairing two juniors in a bed, keeping trunks and chop-boxes on dormitory corridors in order to accommodate more students in the dormitories, and combining classes for students. Recommendations included government speeding up work on on-going infrastructural projects; sourcing additional funds from donors; Parent Teacher Association supporting government’s effort and building capacity of teachers on preparation of ‘NO’ / and ‘LOW’ Cost teaching to improve teaching and learning outcomes, and adequate supply of technical systems preceding implementation of future new reforms. Key words: Challenges, Reform, Double-Final-Year- Students, Headteacher, Teachers, Strategies DOI: 10.7176/PPAR/14-2-01 Publication date: May 30th 202
Status Change Process in Tutor Professionalism in Selected Colleges of Education in the Volta Region, Ghana
Full text linkThis study conducted in 2018 had the purpose to explore College of Education tutors’ experience of status change in tutor professionalism in two selected Colleges of Education in the then Volta Region following the upgrading of the colleges into tertiary institutions. The study adopted qualitative design and purposively sampled a total of 24 tutors comprising 17 who had mismatch of bachelor’s and master’s degrees and 7 who had only bachelor’s degrees. Data transcription, manual coding and interpretation were carried out under thematic analysis. The study revealed that a good number of the affected tutors readily responded to the call for further studies, others did hesitantly whilst others did not because they were soon going on compulsory retirement. Out of the enrolled, majority completed and changed their status whilst others were still pursuing their programmes. The impromptu ultimatum given to the affected tutors with no study leave was a great challenge to some of them and with no continuous professional development policy to cushion them. The study concluded that though NCTE’s call for postgraduate degree upgrading was impromptu, it helped many tutors to enroll on further studies, graduated and changed their status including the fact that such tutors work output at college and on their studies were affected negatively due to combination of the two roles. Recommendation include Governing Councils of all colleges instituting continuous professional development policy; affected tutors to be given extra grace period to upgrade among others. Key words: Status Change, Continuous Professional Development, Mismatch Qualifications, Tutor, Colleges of Education, Research Masters DOI: 10.7176/PPAR/15-3-06 Publication date: October 30th 202
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
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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