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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR LEARNER DISCIPLINE AND LEARNER DISCIPLINE LEGAL FRAMEWORK: A SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
No full textLearner discipline is undoubtedly a serious problem in South Africa. Up until now, the Department through legislation and research has offered various ways managing learner discipline but discovering the most effective means still pose a serious problem. This study examined the relationship between management strategies for learner discipline and learner discipline legal framework that is applicable to South African schools. A sample of 36 public secondary schools out of a total of 87 schools in a region of the North-West province, with their educators (96 male and 181 female) as subjects was drawn for the study using stratified simple random sampling to select the schools and the convenience sampling techniques to select educators. Questionnaires was used to collect data. The 2-way ANOVA was used to analyse data and the null hypotheses generated were tested at .05 alpha level of significance. The findings revealed significant and insignificant relationships from hypotheses: employment years, post description and decision-making mechanism; legal knowledge, in-service training for educators and support structures on intervention; adoption factors for the code of conduct, stakeholders and code of conduct for learners; and the professional conduct of an educator, relationship building and positive discipline in school. The study recommends that the Department of Education enforce on a curriculum basis, Continual Professional Teacher Development, as an in-service training for educators to focus amongst others, on legal instruments that concern learner discipline and classroom management techniques. The SMT and SGB must ensure that all requirements are fulfilled as enriched in policy documents during the drafting stage or revision of the learners' code of conduct. Lastly, school managers must promote collaboration and cooperation between learners and educators in schools
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
Management strategies for learner discipline in secondary schools in Ngaka Modiri-Molema District
Full text linkMEd, North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2015Learner discipline and its management continue to be a common problem for educators, parents, and learners themselves in South African schools. The purpose of this study was to examine the management strategies as currently applied for learner discipline in secondary schools of Ngaka Modiri-Molema district of the North-West province. The key theories that underpinned this dissertation were theories of management and leadership, the choice theory of behavior and the geborgenheit theory. All these theories formed a theoretical framework for the study by offering different aspects of relevance. The study was conducted using the mixed methods approach which was supported by the pragmatic philosophical assumption by using the explanatory sequential
research design, it employed the use of questionnaires and interviews (focus groups and one-on-one) for collecting data. The population of this study was all educators in the Ngaka Modiri-Molema district, N=6180. Samples were drawn differently for the quantitative and qualitative phases using different sampling techniques. The sample size used for educators in the quantitative phase was, n=361 educators, while the qualitative phase used, n=20 educators. However, samples for the qualitative phase (n=20) was drawn from the n=361 of the quantitative phase. Both statistical techniques and content analysis were used to arrive at the findings of this study. The main findings of this study revealed that: a vast number of discipline and management strategies
available to school managers are not implemented and policies according to South African legislation address more of learner’s rights than their basic responsibility towards education. The study concludes that a review of the current policies is done, a proper implementation strategy is adopted for discipline and management strategies and a dialogue for a review of a new disciplinary method other than the use of corporal punishment be done by relevant stakeholders. The study recommends that a similar study is done in other provinces for further comparative studies in order to examine the effectiveness of the discipline and management strategies available for school managers in all South African secondary schools.Master
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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