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Evaluating the World Bank project to develop the television universities and new polytechnics of the People's Republic of China
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Assessing student performance.
No full textHigh student performance is the proof of quality in teaching and learning. For that reason, business schools are delighted when they can announce excellent pass rates and outstanding individual achievements. Equally, they are concerned when their students do not appear to reach expected standards. The blame may be put on the students for not learning or on the teachers for not teaching, but neither may be at fault as much as the methods used for assessing student performance. Are these valid
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Learning from success
No full textWorldwide, 40 years ago, universities and colleges in general were not very innovative in how they taught. Innovations, such as they were, tended to ride on the back of technology. For example, from 1969 onwards there were annual conferences, fostered by the US National Science Foundation, of academics interested in using computers in teaching the undergraduate curriculum. Since then the US federal government has promoted innovation through the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. In the early 1970s, the Nuffield Foundation conducted a survey of innovations in learning and teaching, across the disciplines, in the UK universities and colleges. The Open University was an innovation on a large scale at the time: its methods and materials have been assimilated to some extent by other institutions. In the 1990s the UK government funded the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) and the Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI). The latter's more broadly based successor is the Learning and Teaching Support Network, with BEST as one of its 25 nodes. All these and other similar initiatives have helped to promote and raise awareness of successful innovations in universities and colleges, but what are the keys to success? On the basis of the BEST stories, we suggest seven
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
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Gordon Pask at the Open University
No full textGordon Pask worked with the author at the Open University and became his friend as well as colleague. Here are some recollections
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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