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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
Differensiert undervisning for høytpresterende elever med stort læringspotensial
No full textTilpasset opplæring er et sentralt prinsipp i norsk skole og innebærer at alle elever har krav på differensiert undervisning. Samtidig er differensiering utfordrende å ivareta både for erfarne og mindre erfarne lærere. I denne artikkelen argumenterer vi for at det er viktig at lærerutdannere gir studentene både undervisning og veiledet trening om differensiering. I studien har vi bedt lærerstudenter ta utgangspunkt i elever de har hatt i sin 12-ukers praksis i ungdomsskolen eller videregående skole, og som de har opplevd som høytpresterende med stort læringspotensial. De reflekterer over spørsmål knyttet til kjennetegn ved disse elevene, samt deres mestring og behov. Studien bruker intervjudata fra 322 lærerstudenter ved Universitetet i Oslo i perioden 2013-2015. Vi diskuterer hvordan kunnskap om lærerstudenters refleksjoner om differensiering for disse elevene kan bidra til å styrke fremtidens lærerutdanning.Nøkkelord: differensiering, lærerutdanning, lærerstudenter, tilpasset opplæring, læreres profesjonsfaglig kompetanse Abstract Adapted teaching is a key principle in Norwegian school. This indicates that all students have the right to differentiation, which creates a complexity that is challenging for experienced and novice teachers alike. In this article we argue the importance of including differentiation as a topic as well as guided training in practising differentiation at campus. In this study we asked student teachers to reflect on the students in the classes they had taught for 12 weeks at the practice schools, and to characterise high potential students. The student teachers were asked to reflect on these students’ characteristics, mastery, and needs. The study includes data from interviews among 322 student teachers at the University of Oslo in 2013-2015. We discuss how knowledge about student teachers’ reflections about differentiation for high potential students, might enhance future teacher education.Key words: differentiation, teacher education, student teachers, adapted teaching, teacher professional development
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
Research Ethics: An investigation into why school leaders agree or refuse to participate in educational research
No full textThe present qualitative study investigates the reasons given by 236 Norwegian upper secondary school leaders when they either accepted or refused to take part in a research project. The analysis shows that those who agreed to participate gave two main reasons, while the range of reasons among those who refused was more diverse. Moreover, when making their decisions the school leaders considered the consequences for their schools and their teachers, and to some extent, their students. These findings are discussed in relation to consequence ethics and value judgments, in the hope of contributing to a renewed perspective on research ethics. There is a tendency to consider research ethics a matter of how researchers should treat their participants to safeguard the participants’ interests. However, the findings of the present study suggest that it is equally important to understand the participants’ perspectives, which will in turn help researchers provide the information needed to better inform, and hopefully recruit participants for research projects.
Problems of Education in the 21st Century. 2013, 52, 7-20.
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Making implicit practice explicit: How do upper secondary teachers describe their reading comprehension strategies instruction?
No full textThis study examined the activation of teachers’ tacit knowledge of reading comprehension strategy instruction as part of a teacher professional development course. Although studies have examined professional development courses that inform teachers about research-based knowledge, there has not been much research on courses activating teachers’ tacit knowledge, as is the case with the present study. This qualitative study analyzed 21 upper secondary teachers’ instructional design; which strategies they promoted, how these differed across subjects, how their instruction was made explicit through professional development, and how the course contributed to the activation of tacit knowledge. This study demonstrated teacher learning over time, where implicit practices were made explicit through written narratives and increased metacognitive awareness
Explicit reading strategy instruction or daily use of strategies? Studying the teaching of reading comprehension through naturalistic classroom observation in English L2.
No full textResearch suggests that developing deep understanding of text requires sustained emphasis on reading comprehension instruction and scaffolded strategy practices. However, although research has shown explicit teaching of reading comprehension strategies to be effective, we know little about whether strategy instruction and use are part of “daily life” in classrooms (Pearson, & Cervetti, 2017). The present study analyses 60 video recorded English as a second language (L2) lessons in seven lower secondary schools in Norway, across two school years (9th and 10th grade) based on The Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observation. The article investigates the types of text-based reading comprehension instruction and strategy use that goes on in these classrooms. Key findings show that teachers engage their students in reading comprehension instruction of narrative and expository texts more than half the time, offering guided strategy practice based on student needs, and encouraging daily use of known reading comprehension strategies, instead of explicitly teaching new ones. These are powerful examples of successful reading comprehension instruction, and show that when English teachers prioritise reading comprehension instruction, they use authentic L2 texts to develop and scaffold critical literacy and metadiscursive awareness
The Emergent Multiphase Design: Demonstrating a Fully Integrated Approach in the Context of Language Research in Education
No full textThis chapter proposes that the emergent multiphase design can be conceptualized as an integrated mixed methods approach for conducting language research. There has been interest in students’ first language (L1) and second language (L2) use and development in and outside of school. The emergent multiphase design is a way of conducting robust longitudinal inquiry within this topic. This is, in part, because, although a mixed methods research design can be planned in advance, changes can arise during the course of a study, thereby allowing for an emergent design. The multiphase aspect of the design allows researchers to attend to integrated analyses in a stepwise fashion, wherein each phase influences the next and wherein some decisions can be made during the research process. The emergent design is particularly relevant for the exploration of unexpected outcomes, and this chapter focuses on such outcomes in the form of empirical data concerning secondary school students’ use of English outside school, their English proficiency, and the status of English in the youth culture with which they identify
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
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