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Assessment of Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: An evaluation of current practices and proposals for increasing authenticity
Full text link Focusing on the assessment of entrepreneurship, this paper adopts a qualitative research approach. Using data collected from twelve face-to-face interviews with enterprise educators, the paper demonstrates how these educators attempt to shift from the use of traditional to more innovative methods of assessment. The paper argues that adopting more innovative and authentic methods is less easy to administer, is time-consuming and more difficult to align with university regulations. Finally, the paper concludes with a set of proposals aligned to academics, students and external practitioners for making entrepreneurship assessment more authentic.
Sticking together: how glue guys work in education
Full text linkIn North American sports they are known as ‘glue guys’. They are not the ultimate stars of the team so their names are less familiar than those of LeBron James, Sidney Crosby and Aaron Rogers, and their pay is dwarfed by the $700 million Shohei Ohtani will be paid in his current baseball contract, but every successful team needs them
The teaching hours transfer window
No full textFor readers who have followed our previous blogs, you will know that we often lean on sport analogies to explore and understand the everyday complexities of academic life. This time round we want to focus on something that appears each year like clockwork, usually accompanied with a dose of collective dread amongst academics, our topic this time around is workload allocation.
Workload allocation covers a whole gamut of topics from who teaches which module, through to which programme needs additional support? It stops off at; who has capacity, and who is already stretched too thinly? It is an ongoing puzzle that brings to mind both a super-sized game of Sudoku and also a 2000-piece-sized jigsaw.
But what if we borrowed an idea from the world of sport to rethink the whole process
Skill UP: leadership and enterprise. Providing business education to support the regional skills base
No full textLiverpool Business School aims to support the business community by providing business education, alongside expertise and support through clinical business practice, that aligns to the LJMU strategic goal of place and partnership.
As the Liverpool City Region is focused on long-term and sustainable growth. Liverpool Business School [LBS] aims to support this by developing leadership, management and enterprise skills in the local workforce through our projects and programmes. The enhanced knowledge and skills delivered by the School aims to have a real impact on business in the region, as managers become better at building capacity, enhancing productivity and scaling up/growing their business and employees become more enterprise and knowledgeable about the business and themselves.
This presentation will share two European Social Funds projects that LBS are currently involved in. Firstly, LCR Enhance has an emphasis on improving leadership and management. It offers a demand-led training package for small enterprises and their employees in the LCR [LJMU lead] to participants currently fulfilling or with the future potential to uptake higher level management roles. Secondly, Enterprise Hub Skills aims to simplify access to entrepreneurial training, learning and development for Liverpool City Region residents who are thinking about starting their own business, who are self-employed, working or volunteering within or running small businesses [LJMU delivery partner for The Woman Organisation]. The presentation will demonstrate how a group of academics from the Business School are delivering on the said projects and share valuable insights into the successes and challenges. In addition, views from participants and business owners as to the value of such courses will be disseminated. Finally, the legacy of the activity will be explored beyond the European Social Funding
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
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