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Reflective practice: Voices from the field
No full textThe aim of the book is to explain a range of options for implementing the reflective practice cycle in educational settings in various international contexts. It presents a series of empirical case studies illustrating many different ways of implementing the reflective practice cycle, and how they can be researched by practitioners and academics. Increasing attention is given by teachers and teacher educators to the construct and implementation of reflective practice as a form of bottom-up, autonomous professional development. The aim of the book is to explain a range of options for implementing the reflective practice cycle in educational settings in various international contexts. Written by international academics, these studies show how reflection can be interpreted in different cultural contexts. The book concludes with a discussion by Anne Burns of the implications of these case studies for action research. It is hoped that the book will enable practitioners, and their mentors, to consider how best to implement reflective procedures in the specific contexts in which they work. Chapters in the book include:
• Lesson planning: The fundamental platform for reflecting for action
• Reflecting on action: Lesson transcripts
• Pair discussions for reflecting on action: Stimulated recall
• Observation leading to reflection
This book will be key reading for researchers in the fields of teacher education.
https://www.routledge.com/Reflective-Practice-Voices-from-the-Field/Barnard-Ryan/p/book/978113822646
Reflecting on action: Open post-lesson discussions
No full textThis chapter describes the use of open post-lesson discussions to facilitate teachers’ implementation of a curriculum reform, which is part of a wider case study investigating teachers’ beliefs and practices about learner autonomy (Wang, 2016). The study was conducted in a Chinese secondary school which explicitly promoted the goal of whole-person development and strived for the fulfilment of this goal through a comprehensive school innovation project, focusing particularly on improving learning efficiency through student autonomy and collaboration. The discussions presented here were collective open discussions about peer-observed open lessons. The lessons were open in the sense that, while peer observation was compulsory for all English department staff members, they were also made accessible to anyone else who may have been interested; and the discussions, while primarily among English teachers, were also open to participation by the school administrators. Both the delivery of open lessons for observation and subsequent collective discussions were requirements for the school innovation project
Questionnaires
No full textThis chapter reports aspect of an in-depth study I conducted in a private university in Malaysia which sought to investigate lecturers’ beliefs about the value of feedback on their students’ written work and the extent to which the lecturers’ practices converged with their self-reported beliefs. The study adopted various procedures for data collection, but the specific focus of the chapter is the design and administration of questionnaires issued to the lecturers.
The value of teachers' feedback on students' writing has always been controversial, some researchers advocating various forms of feedback (e.g. Ferris 1995; 2009), while others (e.g. Truscott, 1996; 2007) deny its usefulness. It has long been recognized that what teachers do in practice is largely influenced by their beliefs and values (Clarke & Peterson, 1986), and one of the most vital aspects of this issue is the study of the contextual factors that shape teachers’ beliefs (Borg, 2006; Goldstein, 2005). While there have been wide-ranging surveys of aspects of teacher beliefs in some Asian educational contexts (Nunan, 2003; Littlewood, 2007), there is a lack of in-depth studies, and this is particularly true of tertiary education in Malaysia. In his comprehensive overview of studies of language teacher beliefs, Borg (2006) pointed to the need for more studies in areas such as second language writing. He also emphasized the need to examine to what extent teachers’ reported beliefs are actually put into practice and to relate these beliefs and practices with those of their learners
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
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