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Enseigner la lecture-écriture par la méthode syllabique : Une expérimentation formative
Full text linka présente étude sur l’enseignement/apprentissage de la lectureécriture du français comme langue étrangère en classe d’initiation, a été réalisée suite au constat d’échec de la méthode syllabique dans le système éducatif camerounais. L’étude menée à la lumière des théories d’apprentissage de Nuttin (1971) et de Piaget (1965) vise à vérifier l’efficacité des nouveaux outils pédagogiques mis au point, pour une amélioration des pratiques d’enseignement/apprentissage. Une expérimentation formative fondée sur le modèle d’observation avant-après a ainsi été conduite pendant 9 mois, sur deux groupes expérimentaux et témoins placés en zone semi-urbaine dans la Région de l’Est Cameroun, avec un corpus empirique constitué de 170 sujets âgés de 6 ans. La mise en tension des résultats de l’évaluation sommative des compétences littéraires de base à laquelle ont été soumis les groupes expérimentaux et témoins en fin d’année scolaire 2019/2020 nous a permis d’enregistrer les taux de réussite de 87,66% et 17, 09% respectivement ; ceci nous a permis de confirmer la haute efficacité des nouveaux outils pédagogiques mis au point par rapport aux anciens.
This study on the teaching/learning of reading and writing of French as second language in elementary classes was carried out because of the failure of the syllabic method in Cameroon’s education system. The study, enlightened by the learning theories of Nuttin (1971) and Piaget (1965, aims at verifying the effectiveness of the newly designed pedagogic tools with the view to ameliorate the teaching and learning practices. A formative experiment based on the before-after observation model was thus conducted for 9 months, on an experimental and a control group located in semi-urban areas in the Eastern Region of Cameroon, on an empirical corpus of 170 students aged 6. The results scored by the experimental and control groups from the summative evaluation of basic literacy skills at the end of the 2019/2020 school year, allowed us to record success rates of 87.66% and 17.09% respectively. This result allowed us to confirm the high effectiveness of the new teaching/learning tools, compared to the old ones
Education Management Information Systems in the Digital Age: Negotiating a Paradigm-shift for Cameroon State Universities
No full textThe performance of an institution to achieve its goals and objectives depends upon how well its information system is managed. This explains why UNESCO has for the past years been clamoring for the digitalization of Education Management Information Systems (EMIS). Digitalized EMIS are known for being a panacea to problems faced by educational institutions around the world nowadays; yet little or no attention is paid to it in Cameroon State Universities. The main objective of this study is therefore to explore impediments to digital EMIS in the said universities. It is a mixed study; involving questionnaire administration to 47 and interviews with 08 administrative agents randomly selected from four Cameroon State universities. While quantitative data were analyzed with the help of SPSS in a descriptive manner, qualitative data were analyzed via content analyses. The latter was done in the light of Von Bertalanffy’s Systems Theory and Kurt Lewin’s Theory of Change. Results reveal that inadequacies in the availability of digital devices, administrators’ skills as well as their perception on digital EMIS greatly affect its digitalization process in Cameroon State universities. To this effect, recommendations have been made and if implemented, they will go a long way to create a veritable paradigm-shift in the said universities
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
Aspirations professionnelles de jeunes bacheliers au Cameroun : l’influence de la pratique de l’orientation scolaire revisitée
No full textThis study questions the causes of unemployment of youth in Cameroon and focused on poor assistance to students in the consolidation of their professional aspirations, guarantee of socio-professional insertion. Data collected from 181 students in Upper Sixth classes of Government Bilingual High School Bafoussam through a random sampling method and analysed by regression ordinal logistic stands out that consulting with a guidance counselor does not influence in a significant way the types of professional aspirations entertained by students. Same goes for fields of study and their openings. Initiation to self-awareness contributes in developing in students more realistic professional aspirations rather than oblique, or utopian than undefined. Information on the realities of the job market and the world of employment contributes to developing in students more realistic professional aspirations rather than oblique, or utopian than undefined. The personal qualities of a guidance counselor also contributes to developing in students more realistic professional aspirations rather than oblique, or utopian
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