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Parental Factors as Predictor of Pupils Academic Achievement in Mathematics among Public Primary Schools in Ogun State
Get PDFThe goal of provided educational opportunities to learners was to ensure thatthey have opportunity to succeed both as as students and member of thelarger community they belonged. Mathematics performance of a student atschool does not depend on attributes like mental and physical capabilityalone, but other factors such as family factor must also be put intoconsideration, because of the tendency of influencing the performance ofpupils in school subject including Mathematics worldwide. The studyinvestigated on how family factors could predict Mathematics performanceof pupils in primary schools in Ogun State. The study adopted a descriptivesurvey research design. While sample was selected, using purposive samplingtechnique to select the sixty six (66) participants. Three research questionswere posted for the study. Data were collected through a structuredquestionnaire and analysed using Regression analysis at a 0.05 level ofsignificance, the findings revealed that parents factors (level of literacy, parental occupation and parental income) can predict (F3,96=1.457;p<0.05) pupils academic achievement in Mathematics in the study area.Based on the findings, it is therefore recommended that parents should bemade aware of the heavy influence of how they treat their children in termsof the parenting style adopted. Parents should also be encouraged to strivehard in making available the necessary materials needed for their children\u27seducation especially in Mathematics
85THE CURRENT GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS: IMPLICATION FOR BEST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE TEACHER CAPACITY BUILDING IN NIGERIA
No full textThis article highlighted the core mission of university graduate capacity development for the integration of knowledge, values, skills and innovation needed for sustainable way of life in the new global economic challenges. It thus highlighted the role and importance of university education as central within the overall process of producing efficient adjustment in whatever level through these objectives: as an intellectual gold mine with vast human resources, universities have years of experience in training the leaders of tomorrow; have expertise in all fields of search, science and technology, in natural, human and social science oriented subjects for addressing the multidimensional issues that affect the nation
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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