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Test Anxiety among Students of Pure Science and Social Science
Full text linkThe purpose of study was to find out the difference in the level of test anxiety among students of pure science and social science. Purposive sampling strategy was used to collect data. Sample size was 200 (100 from social science and 100 from pure science subjects) and data was collected from student of 8th semester, Government College University Lahore. Age range was 21 – 24. The result of this study supported the idea that students of pure science encounters significantly higher level of test anxiety than students of social science. Females face more test anxiety than males. The study will help to explore the degree of test anxiety experienced by students of different subjects and it will help clinical psychologists to develop better treatment to treat test anxiety. Further results have been discussed in the light of Pakistani context. Keywords: Test Anxiety, Pure science, Social science, sleep duration, CGP
Blended Learning, Learning Motivation, and Academic Performance in Undergraduate Science Students
Full text linkAmid the Covid-19 pandemic blended learning (BL) has seen an exponential rise across the globe. Data on the effectiveness of BL have mostly come from developed Western countries which are essentially different from developing countries like Pakistan. This study aims to indigenously explore the relationship between students’ views regarding blended learning (BL) and its effect on their academic achievement, possibly mediated by their learning motivation, in undergraduate science students of Pakistan. The participants included 239 (46.4%) male and 276 (53.4%) female students, aged 19 through 24 (Mage = 20, SD = 3.42), taken from GC University, Lahore, and Punjab University, Lahore. All the participants reported having a rich experience of BL during the Covid-19 pandemic. Learners’ Views on Blended Learning (BL), and Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MLSQ) were used to take data from the participants, and their GPAs were taken as their academic achievement. The results indicated that positive views of students’ regarding BL are likely to enhance their learning motivation, whereas BL and learning motivation are likely to enhance their academic achievement. Further, learning motivation is also likely to mediate the relationship between BL and academic achievement. The results are consistent with most studies conducted in the West and support the generalizability and implementation of the Western BL models in the socio-cultural context of Pakistan. However, there is a need for further in-depth Indigenous studies on other aspects of BL before policy making and implementation.
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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