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A pilot study in challenging pre-service education students’ anxieties about their practical experiences in professional education
No full textMost pre-service education students experience transient anxiety about becoming a teacher which decreases as knowledge and skills increase during training. However, some students express continuing anxiety which is distressing and inhibits their learning. This paper will discuss some of the evaluations from a workshop called "Teaching with Confidence" that was offered to eighteen pre-service education students experiencing excessive anxiety about their teaching practicum at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. The day long workshop covered teaching strategies, understanding anxiety, coping mechanisms and the supervisory relationship. The pre-service student teachers were also introduced to experiential, small group exercises and role plays. Results from the pilot study demonstrated the need and the demand for workshops that address students’ excessive anxiety about their practical experiences. It would seem that the impact of the explanation of the supervision process and the notion of personal power could be empowering for students and warrants further investigation
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
"I've got anxiety": Exploring High School Student Voice in Anxiety Counselling
No full textThis research project reports the experiences of seven secondary school students about
their counselling experiences and how effective these were for the management of their
anxiety. Anxiety is a prevalent mental health concern among adolescents, affecting their
academic performance, social interactions, and overall well-being. While counselling
services are available to support students in managing their anxiety, little is known about
how effective these services are from the students’ perspective. Exploring the student voice
about their counselling experiences can provide valuable insights into what works, what
does not work, and what could be improved to better meet their needs.
Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were used to gather data from seven students (five
males and two females) aged between 16 and 18 years old, from four different schools in
Auckland. The findings highlighted that adolescents experience anxiety in many ways, and
each has their own strategies for coping. In addition, they often have difficulty recognising
what they are experiencing. This is known as emotional illiteracy and can result in
adolescents not being aware of what they are experiencing and consequently avoid seeking
the help they need until much later. This study supports the contention that early
intervention and prevention can help reduce the impact of anxiety on adolescents. The
results also showed that everyone is unique in their counselling experiences, but they all
value the relationship and connection they have with their counsellor over which
therapeutic approach is used
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
The Cruel Pattern: Early Child Care and Protection and the Imposition of Settler-Colonial Capitalism in Aotearoa
No full textThe mechanisms of the settler-colonial capitalist project took many forms in early New Zealand in the quest to transform Māori society and economy. One such aspect was the early care and protection system with its unrelenting drive to assimilate and proletarianise tamariki and rangatahi Māori. The whakapapa of the early care and protection system runs through the first meetings of Reverend Samuel Marsden and Ngāpuhi rangatira, continues through the spread of the mission, Native, and Māori church boarding schools, and into the formation of our child welfare institutions. Archival texts, Māori and English language newspapers, school records, legislation, and secondary research were analysed through a synthesised Kaupapa Māori and historical materialist lens to explore this broad topic. In weaving together the apparently disparate threads of the early care and protection system, its function in transforming the relations of production on this whenua becomes clear. This system and its focus on Māori children as a primary site of social and economic change was critical for the implementation of settler-colonial capitalism
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