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Examining the effectiveness of inclusive teaching practices for students with ADHD in post-secondary education: one size does fit all!
No full textAlthough some students succeed in their academic journey without major obstacles, a significant proportion of students with ADHD face considerable academic challenges when exposed to traditional teaching strategies. Despite attempts at reasonable accommodations, the current understanding of effective teaching approaches to alleviate these challenges remains limited. This study aims to identify effective inclusive teaching practices for post-secondary students with ADHD. An online survey including testing 49 inclusive teaching practices was completed by 850 post-secondary students who were officially registered with their academic institution with a functional disability, including 355 students with ADHD. Two-mode partitioning of the 49 inclusive teaching practices and 18 ADHD symptoms revealed a clustering of four inclusive strategy type cluster by one ADHD symptom cluster solution accounting for 88.10% of the variance. This finding suggests that, regardless of ADHD symptomatology, the likelihood of perceiving the four inclusive strategy types of 'flexible', 'emotionally supportive', 'engaging' and 'representational' practices as effective, is high (probability rates between .53 and .89). The current study provides a first insight into effective practices that universally promote academic success for all students with ADHD, despite the heterogeneity of this condition.This research was supported by the Fond de recherche du Québec – Society and Culture [FRQSC] under a Postdoctoral Fellowship [296726]
Overlapping Clusterwise Simultaneous Component Analysis
Full text linkWhen confronted with multivariate multiblock data (i.e., data in which the observations are nested within different data blocks that have the variables in common), it can be useful to synthesize the available information in terms of components and to inspect between-block similarities and differences in component structure. To this end, the clusterwise simultaneous component analysis (C-SCA) framework was developed across a series of papers: C-SCA partitions the data blocks into a limited number of mutually exclusive groups and performs separate SCA's per cluster. In this paper, we present a more general version of C-SCA. The key difference with the existing C-SCA methods is that the new method does not impose that the clusters are mutually exclusive, but allows for overlapping clusters. Therefore, the new method is called Overlapping Clusterwise Simultaneous Component Analysis (OC-SCA). Each of these clusters corresponds to a single component, such that all the data blocks that are assigned to a particular cluster have the associated component in common. Moreover, the more clusters a specific data block belongs to, the more complex the underlying component structure. A simulation study and an empirical application to emotion data are included in the paper
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
Participation problems and effective accommodations in students with dyslexia in higher education
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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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