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Responding to the Challenge: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning and K-12 STEM Identity Development
No full textThe increasing demand to occupy STEM careers in the global market highlights America\u27s inability to create a stable STEM workforce. Thus, America has increased its federal spending on STEM initiatives, teacher professional development, and school resources. Despite increase federal spending for STEM education, there seems to be a disconnect between policymakers and the education system. Minority students are still falling through STEM occupancy cracks, while math and science assessments remain low or barely above proficient levels. To address retention and recruitment problems, we must examine the individual and their accumulation of science experiences, specifically their STEM Identity. For this study, we are using conceptual frameworks such as the Multidimensional Model of Racism and the Social Emotional Learning model to accurately study how racial and gender stereotypes can influence STEM identity formation
Responding to the Call: Establishing Intentional and Mutually Beneficial STEM Partnerships
No full textTitle I schools continue to underperform compared to other schools with students from a higher socioeconomic status, as such, the need for learners in Title I schools to receive quality STEM instruction is critical to the STEM pipeline. Although America has increased its federal spending on STEM initiatives, teacher professional development, and school resources, the STEM achievement gap of underrepresented populations persists and the demand for a diverse STEM educator workforce remains. The purpose of this study was to examine needs assessment data of local K-12 S.T.E.A.M. schools and community stakeholders in an intentional effort to operationalize the fundamental principles of clinical practice. In addition, the results from the needs assessment will inform a Southeastern Historically Black College and University’s (HBCU) development of mutually beneficial and sustainable K-12 STEM partnerships that will rebuild and reimagine STEM educator preparation and K-12 STEM education for all students
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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