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DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM: ANALYSIS OF CASE STUDIES
No full textThe paper highlights the importance of developing educational leadership in the school system by analyzing the dynamics of decision-making processes in unforeseen situations, characterized by complexity and uncertainty. The study considers what happened in the emergency and post-emergency situation in order to reflect on the ways in which the various actors in the school system are involved in dealing with possible critical issues. A special focus is given to cooperative work, which allows to maintain an inclusive perspective with the aim to achieve a widespread well-being of the group. In this sense, it is necessary to analyze a context by using a multi-actor and multi-level perspective (Stufflebeam, 1971; Creemers & Kyriakides, 2008; Scheerens, 2018; Moretti, 2022).
The paper presents the results of a research conducted in Italy, within the framework of the Second Level University Master's Program in Leadership and Management in Education, held at the Department of Education Sciences, Roma Tre University. The survey examined 8 case studies, which report the ways in which a problematic situation was addressed in specific school contexts. The cases refer to schools of different school levels and grades, located in different regions on the national territory. Each case was reported by the school headmaster and described and analyzed by a Master's student. The 8 cases were selected since they were emblematic of certain aspects which were considered strategic to analyze the educational leadership in the reference context.
The analysis of the content of the case studies considers the following elements: the knowledge and description of the context; the type of problematic situations addressed; the reconstruction of the decision-making processes; the participation of the different organizational, social and territorial actors; the outcomes achieved at the micro and meso-system level. The research outcomes are intended to highlight the value of the case study and the multi-actor perspective as resources to develop awareness in the exercise of educational leadership in the school system
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
The tutorial role of university faculty and the provision of academic tutoring services to enhance the students’ educational experience
No full textThis contribution explores one specific aspect of faculty development, namely the tutorial role
of university professors. In the Italian context, this role is highlighted in various legislative
documents (Ministerial Decree 45/2013; Law No. 240/2010; Presidential Decree 382/1980)
and is often complemented and supported by the work of tutors – PhD students or senior
students – within specific tutoring services (Ticknor, 2014; Moretti et al., 2015; Burgalassi et
al., 2019; Da Re et al., 2023). The main forms of tutoring in Italian universities include:
orientation tutoring, which supports students during transitional phases; academic tutoring,
aimed at providing study assistance and enhancing students' skills to successfully manage their
university studies; specialized tutoring, designed for students with special educational needs
(CRUI, 1995; CNUDD, 2014). The research was conducted within the framework of the
‘S.Tu.Di.’ academic tutoring service at the Department of Education of Roma Tre University.
It involved coordinating faculty members, tutors, and students who took part in the tutoring
activities during the academic years from 2022 to 2025. The results of assessments of students’
basic and transversal skills – administered before and after the tutoring activities – were
analyzed. The research methodology adopted a mixed-methods approach (Creswell & Plano
Clark, 2006; Trinchero & Robasto, 2019), employing tools such as questionnaires and
interviews. The main findings of the study highlight the strategic role of academic tutoring
services in enhancing the quality of students' educational experience and in reducing both
dropout rates and delays in academic progress
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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