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Defining Performance Indicators Towards a Final Participative Evaluation in Higher Education. The Case of an University Training Course.
No full textTeacher Training for School Self-Evaluation
No full textAbstractCulture of evaluation among schools and self-evaluation within schools are gradually developing with the scholastic autonomy system.Considering the evaluative experiences at the level of school context (meso and/or micro levels), teachers usually become enrolled as voluntary evaluators. For that reason having motivation and being able to use appropriately evaluative both tools and language are aspects more frequently perceived relevant and required by teachers. So attending training course is felt as need by teachers for improving their evaluative capabilities.The case study regards a teacher training organized in some primary and middle schools of Genoa to improve teacher expertise to systematically evaluate student learning performances
Integrazione o esclusione? Società europee e migranti
No full textLe società europee sono davanti a un bivio: o includono gli immigrati, anche attraverso la rivisitazione dei loro modelli d'integrazione culturale, o rischiano di produrre al loro interno conflitti e fenomeni di reazione che possono condurre a radicali contrapposizioni identitarie
Una proposta di valutazione della IeFP alla luce delle policy europee e del Sistema Nazionale di Valutazione
No full textIl capitolo prende in esame lo sviluppo di un sistema nazionale di valutazione delle istituzioni formative che fanno capo all’Istruzione e Formazione Professionale (IeFP). Si tratta di un dispositivo contemplato dal nuovo Sistema Nazionale di Valutazione (SNV), in ragione del fatto che la formazione professionale iniziale è riconosciuta parte integrante dell’offerta formativa pubblica del nostro paese. Basato sull’accertamento degli esiti di apprendimento e sulla valutazione interna ed esterna dei CFP, il dispositivo, al momento in fase di prima impostazione, intende assolvere alla funzione che nel mondo della scuola è svolta dal Rapporto di autovalutazione (RAV). Il contributo si propone di mettere in luce una serie di orientamenti generali che si ritiene dovrebbero essere posti alla base del nuovo sistema valutativo per la IeFP. L’analisi viene condotta anche attraverso il richiamo ad alcune delle principali modellistiche diffuse in Europa e in area OCSE. In particolare si insiste sulla stretta relazione che andrebbe stabilita tra criteri di accountability e di improvement per valutare le agenzie formative. Nella parte conclusiva si prendono in esame una serie di fattori che potrebbero rendere complesso l’iter di messa a punto del dispositivo, anche in virtù dell’ordinamento costituzionale attualmente vigente
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
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