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Determinants of instructors' attitudes toward competency-based curriculum in Tanzanian technical education and training: a correlational study
No full textInstructors play a crucial role in implementing a competency-based curriculum (CBC), and their attitudes are a significant factor for successful execution. However, their attitudes toward CBC in Tanzanian technical education and training (TET) institutions are unknown. Specifically, this study investigated the predictive power of institutional factors (physical resources, management ethos, professional development), CBC attributes (relative advantage, complexity, observability, and compatibility), and instructors' profiles on attitudes toward CBC in Tanzania TET institutions. A quantitative correlational research design was employed to generate data. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select the study areas, TET institutions, and instructors. A total of 337 instructors from 50 TET institutions across three regions - Mwanza, Dodoma, and Arusha - participated in the study. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire and analysed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and hierarchical regression. Findings revealed that institutional factors, CBC attributes, and instructors' profiles, especially age, teaching experience and CBC training, significantly predict instructors' attitudes toward the CBC. However, gender, education level, and promotion rank were not statistically significant predictors. The study recommends capacity building for instructors, establishing a collaborative network for curriculum planning between TET institutions and regulatory bodies, and effective resource allocation and infrastructure improvements. These provide the foundation for enhancing instructors' attitudes while improving CBC implementation by focusing on key principles, addressing systemic challenges, and improving educational outcomes in Tanzania's TET sector
Promoting girls' participation in science education: a Tanzanian secondary schools' perspective
Full text linkThis qualitative study explored teachers' roles in promoting girls' participation in science education in Tanzanian secondary schools. A phenomenography research design was adopted to capture the experiences of 40 participants involved in the teaching and learning processes. Data analysis followed Brawn and Clarke's six stages of thematic analysis. Findings from observations, interviews, focus group discussions and documentary review indicated that teachers' roles for promoting girls' motivation to learn include: providing girls opportunities to learn, commitment in teaching, providing career advice, preparing well before teaching, evaluating learning and providing feedback, promoting girls' self-efficacy and upgrading knowledge. However, teachers faced challenges as they played their roles in making girls learn. The study recommends that the teaching and learning environment be improved. Adequate teaching facilities should be provided to teachers to ease their efforts in making girls learn Science. Studies with larger samples must be conducted across different educational levels in the country
Navigating Competency-Based Curriculum Implementation: An Analysis of Instructors’ Attitudes in Tanzanian Technical Education
No full textCompetency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is increasingly recognized as a significant paradigm shift in teaching and learning across various educational institutions. Instructors’ attitudes are crucial for the successful implementation of CBC, yet they are less investigated in Tanzanian Technical Education Training (TET) institutions. Guided by the Cognitive-Affective-Conative (CAC) model, this study examined instructors’ attitudes toward CBC TET institutions. A quantitative approach, particularly correlational research design was utilized to collect data. 337 out of 350 sampled instructors from 50 TET institutions across three regions—Mwanza, Dodoma, and Arusha—completed the questionnaire. The sampling techniques included stratified and simple random sampling to ensure a representative selection of study areas and instructors. Data were gathered through a structured questionnaire and subsequently analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Notably, the findings revealed that instructors generally held a high positive attitude toward CBC. One-way ANOVA indicated a statistically significant difference in instructors’ attitudes toward CBC; age, educational level, and CBC training significantly influenced variations in instructors’ attitudes, while gender, teaching experience, and promotional rank did not show significant effects. For policy and practical implications, this study recommends training and policy initiatives aimed at enhancing domains of instructors’ attitudes toward CBC in TET institutions
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
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
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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