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Too far away? Local course offerings as a prerequisite for access to continuing education
Full text linkGeht ein größeres Weiterbildungsangebot vor Ort auch tatsächlich mit einer höheren Weiterbildungsbeteiligung der Bevölkerung einher? Ist ein Zusammenhang zwischen dem Bildungsstatus potenzieller WeiterbildungsteilnehmerInnen und ihres Wohnortes und damit der erreichbaren und leistbaren Weiterbildungsangebote ausmachbar? Auf Basis einer Bevölkerungsbefragung aus dem Projekt „BildungsLandschaft Oberfranken (BiLO)“ verknüpft mit amtlichen Daten der Volkshochschulstatistik und Recherchen zu den adressgenauen Standorten der Volkshochschulen gelingt den Autorinnen im vorliegenden Beitrag eine Betrachtung raumbezogener Angebotsmerkmale aus individueller Perspektive. Mithilfe via Georeferenzierung berechneter Distanzen zu potenziellen oder zu tatsächlich besuchten Veranstaltungen unter Berücksichtigung des individuellen Bildungsstatus wird die Bedeutung der lokalen Angebotsstruktur als Zugangsbedingung zu Weiterbildung belegbar. Ein Fazit des Beitrages: Eine gute Erreichbarkeit von Weiterbildungsangeboten stellt aus Sicht der Befragten ein wichtiges Kriterium für Weiterbildungsentscheidungen dar. Für bildungsfernere Befragte ist die Erreichbarkeit besonders wichtig; zugleich weist ihr Wohnort eine schlechter verfügbare Angebotsstruktur auf – hier existiert Handlungsbedarf. Ergänzt wird der Beitrag um eine Factbox zu österreichischen Studien in diesem Themenfeld. (DIPF/Orig.)Does a larger range of continuing education courses offered locally go hand in hand with greater participation of the population in continuing education? Is it possible to discern a relationship between the educational status of potential participants in continuing education and the distance from their place of residence and thus accessible and affordable continuing education offerings? In this article, the authors consider location-related features of course offerings based on a public survey from the project “BildungsLandschaft Oberfranken (BiLO)” in combination with official data of adult education centre statistics and research on the precise locations of the adult education centres. The significance of local course offerings as a prerequisite for access to continuing education is verified by calculating the individual distances to potential courses or courses that were actually attended using georeferencing. One of the article’s conclusions: easy access to continuing education offerings is an important criterion for whether the respondent decides to participate in a continuing education programme. Geographic access is particularly important to respondents with a lower level of education; at the same time, fewer courses are offered near their place of residence—thereby necessitating action. The article includes a fact box on Austrian studies in this subject area. (DIPF/Orig.
Fördern wohnortnahe Angebote die Teilnahme an Weiterbildung? Eine Analyse am Beispiel der Volkshochschulen
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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
Teilnahme an Erwachsenenbildung : Auf dem Weg zu einem handlungstheoretischen Modell über das Zusammenspiel von Raum und sozialer Herkunft
No full textDispelling 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
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