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How can online observation support the assessment and feedback, on classroom performance, to trainee teachers at a distance and in real time?
No full textThis article reports the key findings of a project commissioned in 2005 by the UK Department for Education and Skills to consider the use of synchronous digital video for observation, feedback and assessment of teaching practice in post-compulsory education and training. A protocol for the remote observation of teaching is presented that was developed after consultation with teachers and observers. Twenty-five lessons were observed, in real time, and judgements of in-class and online observers compared. The study demonstrated that, in the conditions tested, synchronous digital observation was a viable alternative to face-to-face observation for assessment and feedback on teaching performance
Digital observation of teaching practice
No full textThe research reported here was commissioned in 2005 by the UK Department for Education and Skills Standards Unit to consider the use of synchronous digital video for observation, feedback and assessment of teaching practice in tertiary education. A protocol for the remote observation of teaching was developed after consultation with teachers and observers and the analysis of questionnaire responses that explored attitudes and preferences toward the process. To date twenty one lessons have been observed using the protocol and the observations and judgments of observers compared. The paper reports this work in progress and offers preliminary findings from the consultation with teachers and observations of teaching practice. The research to date suggests that the model of synchronous digital video observation is viable in the conditions currently tested. The remote observer’s description and grades were compared to those in the classroom and correlated
The use of live video mediated communication to deliver workplace teaching learning and assessment at a distance and in real time. Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, New York, 27th March 2008
No full textThe project was aimed at enabling learners, through Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), to be ‘tele-present’ with tutors in other places, in such a way as to mirror real-life experience and as a substitute for what is currently on offer through text-based communications. The project aimed to produce the impression and sensation of ‘being there’, and to investigate the efficacy of an interactive video tutor as a means of providing learning at a distance. The concept of the interactive video tutor (iVT) is an important development on more traditional forms of one-way broadcast media such as television and video
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
Implementing the 2000 Act with respect to new council constitutions and the ethical framework: first report
No full textThe project's first year report is now available both in its full form and as an executive summary. The summary has been sent to all Chief Executives. The report maps the enormously varied ways in which councils have implemented the Local Government Act 2000. Once again many many thanks to all those who assisted us in gathering the information for this report. Any feedback or comments welcomed either in the discussion section of the site or in direct emails to the researchers via [email protected]
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