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Who are Serbia’s high achievers? A-level students in ICCS 2022
No full textAnalyzing high-performing students in civic literacy offers insights into
the factors influencing their civic engagement and understanding. In the
present study, the sample included 2,638 eighth-grade students who
participated in ICCS 2022, with 14.0 percent (57.6% girls) achieving
Level A, the highest referent level. A-level students effectively connect
social and political processes with legal and institutional mechanisms,
accurately predicting the benefits and outcomes of policies and civic
activism. They demonstrate an understanding of economic relations
and the importance of active participation in a democratic society. Our
results revealed certain personal and family characteristics in which
A-level students differ from their peers. In our sample, these students had
more educated parents, higher expected educational attainment, better
socio-economic backgrounds, and greater home literacy resources. They
also spent less time using tablets and computers at home. They showed
more positive attitudes and higher expectations regarding participation
in environmental protection, electoral participation, and concerns about
threats to the global environment, along with more favorable attitudes
toward immigrants. These students were more willing to participate in
civic and other activities at school and discuss political or social issues outside of school. However, they were less likely to believe they could
influence decision-making at school, reported lower satisfaction with the
political system, showed less trust in civic institutions, and interestingly,
were less likely to be active political participants. These results suggest
that while A-level students exhibit more positive attitudes and intentions
toward civic engagement and social issues, they simultaneously express
dissatisfaction with the political system and feel less empowered
in decision-making. This emphasizes the importance of creating a
supportive environment where students are inspired to participate in
civic issues. Future research should explore differences among A-level
students across countries, as understanding these variations can provide
insights into effective educational practices and policies that promote
civic engagement globally.Book of abstracts: The 31st International Scientific Conference “Educational Research and School Practice“, December 6, 202
Inner democracy: the dynamics of the agonistic self as the basis of a pluralistic and open sense of self
No full textThe Model of Agonistic Self (MAS) views the self as pluralistic, fragmented,
tense, and socially saturated. The MAS introduces the functions of voices,
relationship types, and constellations as the main categories for describing
the dynamics of the self. Voices, including Ideologues, Opponents,
and Evaluators, engage in different types of relations such as conflict,
productive tension, and cooperation, depending on the compatibility of
their ideologies. Constellations constitute broad patterns of relationships
among voices and include one type (King’s constellation) that reflects the
dynamics of a relatively stable power order and five others that reflect
deviations from it. As the agonistic self reflects interpersonal and broader
institutional relations, it can be organized democratically or autocratically.
Our research on youth identity aimed to test the assumption that in a
democratic organization of the self, power relations are redistributed
to empower marginalized voices, with dominance balanced by the
pluralism of voices. A total of 13 high school and university students
participated in the Interview for the Agonistic Self. The obtained data were analyzed deductively, using the mentioned categories from the
MAS. In some participants, the main voice in the King’s constellation
showed openness to the influence of other Ideologues, while voices
creating a monologic atmosphere (e.g., powerful subversive Evaluators)
were absent. Furthermore, these participants were also more likely to find
ways to accept some silenced voices in their sense of self. These findings
confirm our initial assumption and suggest that it is possible to contribute
to democratizing the relationship between different actors at school by
encouraging the described dynamics of the agonistic self in individual
and group work with young people.Book of abstracts: The 31st International Scientific Conference “Educational Research and School Practice“, December 6, 202
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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