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Doan Quoc Sy video oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation and donated to the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes video recordings of interviews with Vietnamese Americans native to or living in Texas. This interview forms part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation.Doan Quốc Sỹ was born in Hà Đông, Vietnam and grew up 6 km from Hanoi. He was a university professor at the colleges of literature, Buddhism religion, and education. He is also a writer, having published around 20 works; his most well-known publication is a memoir titled "Khu Rung Lau" written about the Vietnamese campaign against the French domination. Sy attended grade school in Hanoi. He remembers teasing his teacher Professor Vũ Đình Liên during recess by reciting the teacher's most famous poem "Ông Đồ Già." During his life, he also worked the military headquarters, "Bộ Tổng Thông Mưu" where he translated French literature and manuscripts. During the time of war between Vietnam and France, Sy claims that the country just needed a leader to fight the French, which at the time was Ho Chi Minh. People followed the Viet Minh campaign because the truth about the communist Viet Cong had not been apparent yet. He himself was a member of the Viet Minh organization "Thanh Nien Cuu Nuoc" (Young People For the Country). Sy in fact was an fervent follower of the Viet Minh, but he decided to leave the group just as fervently when he realized the truth about the Viet Cong and that he would never be able to live with them in power. The Viet Cong forces had killed Sy's aunt. Sy was 31 years old when Vietnam was divided. He moved to South Vietnam by air. He recalls the South Vietnamese being extremely welcoming; there was no discrimination at all, he says. While in the South, Sy partnered with a few other journalists and writers to found the "Sáng Tảo" magazine that was printed and sold before 1975. Sy was later arrested on the grounds of "Văn Nghệ Sỹ Phạn Động," which is "Artists Rebellion". He was in prison for 4 years before being released. However, when Sy sent his writing to France to be published, the Viet Cong intelligence tracked his actions and arrested him again. This time, he was in prison for 8 1/2 years. He notes that because his family sent him food regularly, his health did not suffer, and he never experienced any beatings. After he was released from prison, Sy had plans to come to America through the H.O. program, however, his children who were able to leave Vietnam and establish residency in the United States decided to sponsor him instead. Sy has 8 children, 4 songs and 4 daughters; they all now reside in California. Those that escaped from Vietnam first did so by boat. Today, Sy has 15-16 grandchildren. A piece of advice Sy has for his own children and other young generations: "Viet Cong cannot be trusted.
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Doan Quoc Sy ,follow-up #2
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What Do Classroom Observation Scores Tell Us About Student Success? Capturing the Impact of Teachers Using At-Scale Classroom Observation Scores
No full textClassroom observations are the most widely used K-12 teacher evaluation measure in the United States. However, far less is known about the properties of observation scores relative to student test score-based measures such as teacher value-added (VA). Using statewide administrative data from Tennessee between 2006-07 to 2017-18, I apply quasi-experimental methods to examine (1) the extent to which classroom observation scores capture teacher impacts on students K-12, post-secondary, and early career labor outcomes and (2) how the magnitude of observation score effects compares to analogously-estimated effects using teacher VA. I find that changes in students’ exposure to teacher quality, as measured by observation scores, are significantly linked to changes across a multitude of student outcomes, particularly test scores, absences, suspensions, post-secondary enrollment, and post-secondary completion. The effects of teacher quality, across outcomes, are strongest for students during the high school years. Results were robust across multiple identification strategies and methods for accounting for measurement error. In relation to teacher VA, observation score effects were comparably sized to analogously-estimated VA effects. Results from this dissertation provide promising evidence on the use of administrator-led classroom observations as an outcomes-linked method for evaluating teacher effectiveness
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam: Doan Quoc Sy ,follow-up #3
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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
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