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Resources Allocation and Teachers' Professional Development in Kenya
Get PDFStrategic resource allocation for teachers’ professional development is a crucial initiative in enhancing the quality in Kenya. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and Ministry of Education initiative to enhance teachers’ capacity through mentorship, coaching, and TPD modules training programmes remains poorly implemented and underfunded, hindering continuous capacity building for teachers. This paper investigates the relationship between resource allocation and quality of professional development programmes and examines how resource availability affects teachers’ involvement in continuous professional development activities. A descriptive survey design was utilised. The study population was 241 teachers, 91 school administrators, and 29 Subcounty directors of education who were sampled using simple random sampling to come up with a sample of 186 teachers and 28 school administrators, and 13 Subcounty Directors of Education from both rural and urban settings. Data was obtained using questionnaires. Quantitative data were analysed using inferential statistics (Pearson correlation and chi-square test). The findings were presented in the form of tables. Findings indicate a statistically significant positive correlation (r = 0.72, p < 0.01) between resource allocation and the quality of professional development programmes. In addition, the findings revealed that inadequate funding, insufficient time allocation, and a lack of sufficient ICT resources were common challenges to effective teachers’ professional development through mentorship, coaching, and capacity building workshops. Strategic resource allocation determines both the participation levels and the quality of teachers’ professional development in Kenya. Where resources are strategically and appropriately allocated, professional development is more structured and effective. The study recommends allocation of resources based on a needs assessment to ensure equitable support to schools in rural and marginalised areas where opportunities for professional development are often limited. The Ministry of Education, through the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), should set aside budgets to support participation of teachers in professional development by covering travel expenses and materials. Additionally, teachers should actively be consulted in the planning and decision-making process regarding the allocation of resources to ensure relevance and ownership
Family Socio-Economic Background and Girls Education in Public Secondary Schools in Bungoma County, Kenya
Get PDFThe paper presents a discussion on the influence of family socioeconomic background on investment in girls’ education in public secondary schools in Bungoma County. Despite several measures to enhance gender parity in the transition of students to secondary school, disparities still persist among girls. The paper focuses on key socioeconomic aspects like parents' level of education, family size and household income and how they influence the investment in girls' education at secondary school. A descriptive survey design was adopted in the study. The target population for the study was 242 parents, 245 students, 148 teachers and 60 head teachers. 91 parents, 108 teachers, 36 headteachers, and 172 students were sampled using simple random sampling. Data was obtained using interview schedule for parents and structured questionnaires. Qualitative data was analysed thematically to identify key patterns and themes that are related to perception and challenges related to investment in girl’s education, quantitative data was coded, formatted and analysed using Social Package for Statistical Science (SPSS). The presentation of the findings was done using pie charts, tables and graphs. The findings established that parents’ level of education had a significant influence on their attitude towards girls' education. Highly educated parents prioritized the investment in girl’s education as compared to those with lower level of education. The study also established that family size and household income also impact the investment in girl’s education since parents with large families are more likely to struggle to allocate the limited resources toward their children education with girls being the most disadvantaged gender. The paper highlights the need to sensitize parents and the community on the significance of investing in girl's education, Initiating income generating programmes for low-income households should be adopted to alleviate their financial constraints. In addition, parents should also be sensitized to have few children
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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