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USE ASSESSMENT INFORMATION FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION
Get PDFIt has been known for a long time that educational assessment is no longer carried out only to assess the progress and achievement of the learner and nobody else. Assessment outcomes provide a basis for making decisions at various levels about the progress of education. Decisions are made concerning the learner, teacher, school management and education planners and supervisors. This paper explores three areas where assessment results are used as part of a basis for decision making. These areas are: use of assessment outcome for improving the quality of instruction and learning; use of assessment outcome for accountability decisions; and use of assessment outcome for fostering an inclusive education system. The focus was to stimulate thinking and provide a framework for research and presentations. The assessments discussed here include classroom assessment, school level assessment, national examinations, and survey studies at national, regional, and international levels. These assessments generate a lot of data which may not be adequately utilised. Teachers may not be adequately trained in assessment and therefore cannot fully use the information provided for improving instruction. Holding someone responsible for assessment outcomes requires collateral data to inform decisions. Providing an inclusive education, particularly with mainstreaming, may be challenging to educators at all levels. The effectiveness of assessment utilisation is still limited by such factor
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
The human resources capacity of Endumeni Municipality as a developmental local government institution
Get PDFThesis (MPA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The post-apartheid era in South Africa has been marked by a whole range of important
changes. At local government, these changes have been manifested by, among other
things, the change in strategy from regulatory to developmental local government.
Interms of the open systems approach to organisational change, changes in one part of an
organisation need to be complemented by matching changes in other parts of the
organisation. This is the premise that forms the basis of this study. It is argued
particularly that the success of developmental local government hinges, to a large extent,
on complementary changes being made in other departments of a municipality.
The study focuses on one of these departments, namely the human resources (HR.)
department of a municipality. It investigates Endumeni Municipality, and researches
whether it has the necessary HR capacity to cope with the new strategy of developmental
local government. This is subsequently followed by recommendations derived from the
findings.
HR capacity is defined as the combination of the following key variables:
strategic partnership between the HR function and other functions of a
municipality;
integration of HR policies, systems and competencies with the developmental
mission of a municipality;
coherence among the different components of the HR strategy;
flexibility of the HR strategy; and
Alignment of the culture of a municipality with its developmental mission. The study is descriptive in character. It makes use of a combination of qualitative and
quantitative methods of investigation. The qualitative method comprises interviews with
key informants and an analysis of official documents. The quantitative method, on the
other hand, consists of a questionnaire that is administered to the Councillors of the
municipality.
The study came to a conclusion that Endumeni Municipality lacks the HR capacity to
carry out its developmental functions. To remedy this situation, the following
recommendations have been suggested:
(i) The current role of the HR section has to be reviewed with the view to elevate it
to the level of a strategic partner.
(ii) The HR competencies, policies and practices of the municipality are still
embedded in the outdated system of regulatory local government. These must
also come up for review so that they can be re-aligned with developmental local
government.
(iii) There is generally lack of co-ordination among the various components of HR
strategy. These must be re-aligned so that they can complement each other.
(iv) The municipality is currently finding it difficult to discard the old HR strategies, a
point which suggests rigidity on the part of these strategies. Inorder to cope with
the changing environmental conditions, the municipality needs to have some
flexibility in its HR strategies.
(v) Finally, the prevailing culture still shows elements, which support the old system.
This has to be addressed in order to create a new culture that is consistent with
developmental local government.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die post-apartheid era in Suid-Afrika word gekenmerk deur 'n reeks baie belangrike
veranderinge. Op plaaslike regeringsvlak word hierdie veranderinge, onder andere
gekenmerk deur die verandering in strategie van regulerende na ontwikkelende plaaslike
regering.
Volgens die oopstelselbehadering tot organisatoriese verandering moet veranderinge in
een afdeling van 'n organisasie aangevul te word deur soortgelyke veranderinge in ander
afdelings van die organisasie. Hierdie stelling vorm die basis van hierdie studie. Daar
word geargumenteer dat die sukses van ontwikkelende plaaslike regering in "n groot mate
rus op aanvullende veranderinge wat gemaak word in ander afdelings van die
munisipaliteit.
Hierdie studie fokus op een van hierdie afdelings, naamlik Menslike Hulpbronne (MH).
"n Studie word gedoen om te bepaal of Endumeni Munisipaliteit oor die nodige MR
beskik om die nuwe strategie van ontwikkelende plaaslike regering te ondersteun. Dit
word gevolg deur aanbevelings wat spruit uit die bevindings.
MH - kapasiteit word gedefinieer as "n kombinasie van die volgende sleutelveranderlikes:
n strategiese venootskap tussen die MR-funksie en ander funksies van "n
munisipaliteit;
inskakeling van MH-beleide, stelsel en - vaardighede met die ontwikkelingsmissie
van' n munisipaliteit;
samehorigheid tussen die verskillende komponente van die MR - strategie;
aanpasbaarheid van die MR - strategie; en
gerigtheid van die kultuur van' n munisipaliteit op sy ontwikkelingsmissie. Die studie is beskrywend van aard. Dit maak gebruik: van "n kombinasie van
kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe metodes van ondersoek. Die kwalitatiewe metode behels
onderhoude met belangrike informante en ontleding van amptelike dokumente. Die
kwantitatiewe metode, aan die ander kant, behels "n vraelys wat versprei word onder
ampsdraers van die munisipaliteit.
Die studie kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat Endumeni Munisipaliteit nie oordie MHkapasiteit
beskik om sy ontwikkelingsfunksie uit te voer nie. Die volgende aanbevelings
word gedoen, om hierdie probleem op te los:
(i) Die huidige rol van die MH - seksie moet hersien word om dit uit te lig na die
vlak van "n strategiese vennoot.
(ii) Die MR - vaardighede, beleide en praktyke van die munisipaliteit verteenwoordig
steeds "n uitgediende stelsel van regulerende plaaslike bestuur. Dit moet hiersien
word en in lyn gebring word met die ontwikkelende plaaslike regering.
(iii) In die algemeen is daar min samewerking tussen die verskeie komponente van die
MR - strategie. Hulle moet in lyn gebring word sodat hulle mekaar kan
komplimenteer.
(iv) Die munisipaliteit vind dit moeilik om ontslae te raak van die ou MH - strategie,
"n punt wat die onbuigsaamheid van hierdie strategieë bewys. Om by te bly met
die veranderende omgewingstoestande, moet die munisipaliteit buigsaamheid in
sy MR - strategie hê.
(v)- Ten slote, die huidige kultuur toon steeds elemente wat die ou stelsel steun. Dit
moet aangespreek word om "n nuwe kultuur te ontwikkel wat in ooreenstemming .
is met ontwikkelende plaaslike regering.Master
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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