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Teacher effectiveness in relation to type of ınstitution, emotional ıntelligence and teaching experience
Get PDFPresent study aims at studying the influence of the emotional intelligence, age and
qualification on the teacher effectiveness of the teachers. The study population included
secondary schools teachers working in Jalandhar and Ludhiana districts of Punjab, India.
Using a multi-stage random sampling method, a sample volume of 739 teachers was
determined. Two main instruments were used to measure the study variables: a 80-item
questionnaire by C R Darolia on emotional intelligence (five scales: Self-awareness,
Motivating Oneself, Managing Emotions, Empathy and Handling Relations, and a 60-
item Teacher Effectiveness Scale by Kumar and Mutha, 1985. The frequency, mean and
standard deviation values were calculated and a 3 way ANOVA analysis was performed
to evaluate the statistical significance of the findings. The study results revealed that:
(a) Differences in teacher effectiveness of groups of teachers’ based on school type i.e.
government and private secondary schools, are not significant. (b) Teachers with low
emotional intelligence are less effective in teaching than teachers with high emotional
intelligence. c) More experienced teachers are found to be more effective than less
experienced teachers. Thus, it can be concluded that emotional intelligence and teaching
experience matters in making of a teacher to be effective
Development and Validation of Semantic Differential Scale to Assess Teachers Belief Towards Socially Disadvantaged Students
Get PDFThis paper intended to record the process of developing and validating a Semantic Differential Scale to assess the teacher’s belief on socially disadvantaged students in the Indian context. Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Stereotype Content Model (SCM) has been adopted. Following the new method of developing SDS proposed by Ding et al. (2008), the process resulted in a 15-item scale with a three-factorial structure. The reliability and validity of the scale according to the new method were tested with SPSS 26 and Amos 26, with Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficients greater than 0.962. With good indices on reliability and validity, the instrument is likely to be useful to both academicians and practitioners interested in assessing the addressed context
Validation of Teacher Self-Efficacy for Moral Education Scale in the Indian Context
Get PDFThe researcher validated Teacher Self Efficacy for Moral Education (TSEME) scale developed initially by Narvaez et al. (2008), in Australia, in the Indian context. Four hundred teachers teaching moral education to middle school students from 17 elite schools in Punjab and Haryana, states of India, were the sample subjects of the study. The two dimensions of Teacher efficacy for Character education, namely personal and general efficacy, with their Cronbach’s alpha being 0.87 in the Indian context, were extracted. The model was tested for the goodness of fit using the IBM SPSS AMOS Version 23. The estimates like TLI, CFI, CMIN/DF, and RMSEA were seen to satisfy the benchmark values. The result indicated that the tool could be administered in the intended population in the Indian context
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
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
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