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Performance of selected Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Management Boards in Luanshya district of Zambia's Copperbelt province
No full textThis study looked at the performance of Technical Education Vocational and Entrepveneurship Training Management Boards. The study was confined to institutions based in Luanshya District of Zambia. The sample included three institutions namely, Technical and Vocational Teachers' College, Luanshya Technical and Business College, and In-service Training Education Centre.
The primary purpose of the study was to look at the performance of the Technical Education Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Management Boards in order to ascertain their effectiveness in the provision of Technical Education Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training. The conventional performance indicators included the ability of Management Boards to attract and retain qualified human resources, the capacity to provide adequate training equipment and other materials, the ability to offer demand-driven training that met labour market needs and opportunities, quality of institutional management and financial self-sustenance. Data on which the evaluation was done, was obtained by means of questionnaires administered to relevant stakeholders, comprising management staff, both academic and support staff, and students in the training institutions under study. The stratified random sampling method was used to arrive at the sample.
The results from the survey indicated that Management Boards were riddled with poor staff retention, were offering poor quality training because they were unable to provide the required training facilities and their training continued to be supply-driven. The Management Boards were also hit by a lack of finances and appeared to be far from becoming fully and financially self-sustaining. Based on these findings, the study therefore, concluded that Management Boards had not performed well. The study made a number of recommendations. Among them were the introduction of a training levy to help improve the financial situation, improvements in employment conditions and training standards by linking them to foreign institutions of Technical and Vocational Training that seemed to be doing well
Developing efficient and sustainable systems within TEVET managed institutions in Zambia: a case study of selected TEVET institutions.
No full textQuality Assurance in Modules at the Institute of Distance Education, the University of Zambia
No full textAlbeit distance education currently focuses attention on the use of Internet and elearning facilities, these cannot overtake the importance of using the printed modules. It therefore follows that the quality of these printed modules which are by and large used as instructional materials must be of high quality. To the contrary the printed modules that are used at the Institute of Distance Education at the University of Zambia have for a long time never been reviewed to ascertain their quality. In fact these modules are more of batches than they are modules. This study aimed to close this overt gap by assessing the quality of the modules used in all programmes of study having in mind the inevitable need to improve them. Data was collected in 2009/2010 from 1,107 students drawn from all of degree programme courses by way of using a questionnaire designed by the researcher. The data were analysed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) from which frequency distributions and averages were obtained. It was found out that students were not satisfied with the quality of the modules. They indicated that the modules were less interactive, the language used was not appropriate to the learners, the font sizes and types were not in line with the learning materials being used. The conclusions made were that it is inevitable to improve the modules by ensuring that these were made interactive. Some of the measures that needed to be taken were that of pre-testing of the modules, training of course writers and editors. It would also be useful to encourage teamwork when producing the module
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
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
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