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First-Year Seminar/Learning Community Discoveries and Dreams: an Appreciative Inquiry
Get PDFCombined first-year seminar and learning community programs may have a high impact on college student engagement if they contain certain elements or practices. The purpose of the study was to discover student perspectives of participation in a combined first-year seminar and learning community program at a south Texas university to identify engaging elements from the learner perspective. Through an appreciative inquiry, participants were asked to recall impactful experiences from their participation and to make predictions about what would improve the experience for future students. The research questions that guided the study are: (1) What perspectives do participants express regarding their learning community participation? (2) What understanding or meaning emerges about participation in learning communities? (3) How do participants envision an engaging learning community experience? From focus groups, participants recalled past experiences in first-year seminar and learning communities to generate three major themes: Masterminded Blueprints, Islander Accountability Group, and Impostor to Islander. In their completion of written reflections, participants suggested elements to enhance future first-year seminar and learning community experiences and are represented by the theme Dreamwork. The understanding that emerged from participant perspectives of first-year seminar and learning community participation gave insight into how students describe their experiences as impactful. When compared to first-year seminar, learning community, and high-impact practice research, participant recollections accounted for nearly all the suggested components of effective first-year seminar and learning communities included in the literature. While participants reported a variety of student-centered practices, a common intellectual experience
among all participants was not discovered suggesting the need for a more thorough understanding of the purpose and value of first-year seminar in learning communities at the south Texas university.Educational Leadership, Curriculum & InstructionCollege of Education and Human Developmen
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Which Article When Lesson Plan
No full textTopic: Using appropriate articles for various situations
Learning Objectives:
•Critically examine an article’s authority
•Articulate why an article is or is not an appropriate source for a given situation
•Evaluate the information need provided to determine what source of information will be most effectiv
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
Using the Touchstones Discussion Method for Common Reader Discussions
No full textThe Touchstones Method empowers students to find their voice within an inclusive and collaborative discussion. Instructors can use this method to facilitate discussions of the UNLV Common Reader Program. This program provides incoming undergraduate students with a common intellectual experience discussing a select text. Principles from the Touchstones Methods can used to facilitate conversation of any text that is used in this Common Reader program.https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1198/thumbnail.jp
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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