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Leadership and Management – from good to outstanding
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The main aim was to improve the school's Leadership and Management grade from good to outstanding, and to raise the quality of teaching and pupils' attainment and progress.
Methods:
The participants included the whole school, governors, senior leadership team, and staff. They were involved in skills audits, training programmes, reformatting meetings and minutes, communication with parents, CPD, and performance management. Methods used included restructuring the leadership team, reforming HT report, reforming Governing Body meetings and minutes, reforming PM process, governor training, CPD for SLT, and observations and modelling of good practice.
Findings:
The leadership and management development work led to an improved quality of teaching, and raised pupils' attainment and progress.
Implications:
The findings suggest that restructuring the leadership team, reforming the HT report, and providing governor training and CPD for staff have had a positive impact on teaching and learning, leading to improved attainment and progress for pupils. It also lead to an Ofsted judgement of 'outstanding'
One-to-one iPads – embedding IT across all teaching and learning
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The aim was to embed IT across all teaching and learning to prepare children for the future, develop writing, give them real life skills, and improve home/school links.
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The participants were KS2 pupils (Y3-Y6) and their teachers, who used iPads and apps to develop IT skills, presentational skills, and creative teaching and learning. The methods used include providing all KS2 pupils with a long-term loan of a school iPad, using Apple apps and other apps, sharing teacher content via email or content sharing apps, and using the iPads for teaching and learning.
Findings:
The main findings were that the use of iPads and apps has led to increased confidence in writing and researching, higher IT skills, higher presentational skills, and improved home/school links through learning. It also led to higher attainment in reading, writing and mathematics.
Implications:
The use of iPads and apps can improve pupils' IT skills, confidence in writing and researching, and engagement in learning. Ofsted in 2015 noted that pupils were exceptionally confident and capable in using ICT
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
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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