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PISA 2022: National Report for Northern Ireland
Full text linkNorthern Ireland findings from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022, an international study that produces research reports relating to education
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
To what extent are formative assessment strategies used in schools contributing to student learning? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Full text linkObjective: To determine the effects of formative assessment interventions and strategies aimed at optimising the learning outcomes in children and adolescents.
Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Data sources: After searching PsycInfo, ERIC, Education Research Complete, A+ Education and Scopus electronic university databases, there were 3689 potentially eligible studies published between January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2022.
Eligibility criteria for selecting studies: This study includes randomised controlled trials, quasi-experimental studies, and controlled trials that assessed the effect of a formative assessment-based strategy or intervention against learning outcomes in students attending either primary or secondary years of schooling (i.e., aged 5–18 years).
Results: Thirty-eight (38) studies with over 16,000 participants and 43 calculated effect sizes were included in the final analysis. The sample size adjusted mean effect across all the learning and development outcomes was of a small to medium magnitude (Hedges’ g=0.31), 95% confidence interval [CI] (0.29 to 0.39). After applying the Duval and Tweedie (2000) Trim and Fill Method to account for publication bias, the average effect size was adjusted to g=0.16. Effect sizes also varied significantly based on whether they targeted cognitive, psychomotor, or affective learning outcomes. Only a small proportion (less than 10%) of formative assessment interventions examined in this systematic review indicated a detrimental impact on student learning and development.
Conclusion: Formative assessment interventions consistently have a positive effect on student learning in both primary and secondary school settings across psychomotor, affective, and cognitive learning domains. However, the reported effect of formative assessment interventions in previous meta-analytic studies appears to have been inflated by the inclusion of studies that suffer from weaker study designs. Furthermore, the scope of studies included in this systematic review and meta-analysis showed even studies with stronger study designs were plagued with poor methodological quality and substantial publication bias. Moreover, the evidence reported is limited by consistency in intervention dosage, study design, and data collection instruments
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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