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Parental involvement, interest in schooling and school environment as predictors of academic self-efficacy among fresh secondary school students in Oyo State, Nigeria,
Get PDFAbstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of parental involvement, interest in schooling and school environment on academic self-efficacy of fresh secondary school students. Two hundred and fifty students constituted the study's sample. Both the independent and the dependent variables were measured with relevant standardized instruments. Two research questions were answered in the study. The results showed that the independent variables both jointly and relatively contributed significantly to the prediction of academic self-efficacy of fresh secondary school students. On the strength of these findings, the need to foster home-school partnership, enhance student interest and make the school environment child friendly was stressed and advocated
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
La implicación de los padres, el interés en la escolarización y en el entorno escolar como factores determinantes de la auto-eficacia académica en estudiantes de primero de Secundaria en el estado de Oyo, Nigeria
No full textEl propósito de este estudio fue investigar el impacto de la implicación de los padres, el interés en la escolarización y el interés en el entorno escolar sobre la auto-eficacia de estudiantes del primer curso de Educación Secundaria. Doscientos cincuenta estudiantes constituyeron la muestra del estudio. Se midieron tanto las variables independientes como las dependientes con instrumentos estandarizados relevantes. Se contestaron dos preguntas de investigación en este trabajo. Los resultados muestran que las variables independientes contribuyeron de forma significativa tanto en conjunto como relativamente para predecir la auto-eficacia académica de los estudiantes de primero de Secundaria. Basándose en estos hallazgos, se subrayó y se abogó por la necesidad de fomentar la asociación entre hogar y centro educativo, de favorecer el interés del estudiante, y de hacer que el entorno educativo sea acogedor para el alumno.</jats:p
El efecto amortiguador de la inteligencia emocional sobre la adaptación de estudiantes de educación secundaria en transición
No full textIntroducción: El objetivo de este trabajo fue investigar la relación entre la inteligencia emocional y la adaptación de los estudiantes que están pasando de la escuela primaria a la educación secundaria.Método: El trabajo consta de una investigación por encuesta descriptiva, en la que la inteligencia emocional representa la variable independiente, y la adaptación es la variable dependiente. Se utilizaron dos instrumentos validados para medir la inteligencia emocional y la adaptación, respectivamente, recogiendo estos datos de los participantes.Resultados: Los resultados muestran que hay relación significativa entre la inteligencia emocional y la adaptación. También se encontró que los puntos fuertes de la inteligencia, identificados en términos de alto, moderado y bajo, tienen su impacto sobre la adaptación de los estudiantes en transición.Discusión: El resultado de este trabajo ha reforzado la necesidad de elaborar un programa de intervención orientativa basado en la inteligencia emocional, para mitigar el trauma de transición de los alumnos que pasan de la educación primaria a la secundaria. Tal intervención debe centrarse en las cuestiones problemáticas de la transición, como la adaptación académica y social, asuntos de organización, percepción del alumno, fobia escolar, y otros traumas de transición.</jats:p
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
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