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Flipped Classroom: Maximizing Face Time in Teaching and Learning
No full textThe focus of this quasi-experimental study was to assess the effectiveness of flipped classroom as a pedagogical strategy in teaching courses across disciplines. Specifically, the study looked into the performance of the two hundred thirty-eight (238) purposively chosen students in the conventional and flipped classes in the different courses such as Literature of the Philippines, Nursing Informatics and Field Study1. Furthermore, it also examined the students’ motivation and engagement level in different groups and the challenges in the implementation of a flipped classroom. Pre-test –Post-test design supported by qualitative data was used. Data were gathered using the validated questionnaires and interviews done with focus group discussion (FGD) and triangulation to crosscheck its trustworthiness. T-test and thematic analyses were utilized in analyzing the data. Results revealed that students performed better in their flipped classes across disciplines. They were highly motivated and engaged in their respective classes for they can study the lessons at their own pace, time and place. Scaffolding for instructional delivery through technology like videos, online modules, and activities prepared by the professors provided students the avenue to maximize learning. Internet access and slow connection made the flipped classes difficult for professors and students. Despite the limitation of the educational technology to engage learners, flipped classroom was effective in maximizing face time in teaching and learning across the three (3) courses and three (3) different programs. Thus, flipping classes for blended learning for instructional delivery was innovatively responsive in this 21st century
LEARNING IN THE WORKPLACE OF TEACHER EDUCATORS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Full text linkThis research was conceived to find out the learning constructs of teacher educators including what they learned in the workplace, the sources of learning and the factors that motivated teachers to learn. The study revealed that the workplace was a rich avenue for learning where teachers in higher education institutions learned the professional concepts and human relationship skills necessary for effective practice. The teacher educators learned best from self-reflection, printed materials and co-teachers. Other sources of learning were from in-service trainings, administrators and students. What and how teachers learned were influenced by their length of teaching experience. Extrinsic factors like salary, incentives and self-motivating factor like teacher’s commitment motivated the educators to learn
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
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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