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The Development of Monitoring Tools for ISPCC Services
No full textThe ISPCC Citizen Child Strategy (ISPCC, 2005) includes a proposal to evaluate
the effect of its work. In order to undertake such an evaluation, a system of
performance and outcome measurement that was valid and reliable for the
service users of the ISPCC was required. The aim of this project was to develop
a comprehensive framework to measure the processes and outcomes of the work
of the ISPCC
The Development of Monitoring Tools for ISPCC Services
No full textThe ISPCC Citizen Child Strategy (ISPCC, 2005) includes a proposal to evaluate the effect of its work. In order to undertake such an evaluation, a system of performance and outcome measurement that was valid and reliable for the service users of the ISPCC was required. The aim of this project was to develop a comprehensive framework to measure the processes and outcomes of the work of the ISPCC.peer-reviewe
The effectiveness of ISPCC services on stress, self-esteem and test performance anxiety
No full textThe aim of the ISPCC is to provide support for children and be there 24/7 to assist a child. There has been a lack of previous research looking at social support, particularly family, closer friends and to a lesser extent, support agencies. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the ISPCC services in practice and its impact on stress, test performance anxiety and self-esteem. The study is a survey design and the sample consists of children (age range 13-18 years old) who have used (SU) and who haven’t used the services (NSUS). There were a total number of 99 girls and 89 boys. They were given a battery of measures including the perceived stress scale, test performance anxiety scale and Rosenberg’s self-esteem questionnaires. The hypotheses were that SU will indicate lower levels of stress, test performance anxiety and higher level of self-esteem than NSUS. The results were significant for stress (F (2, 166) = 11.68, p = 0.005, 1-tailed) and self-esteem (F (2, 171) = 6.52, p = 0.01, 1-tailed); however test performance anxiety result was insignificant (F (2. 171) – 2.53, p = 0.41). Author keywords: ISPCC, social support, stress, self-esteem, test performance, anxiet
Beyond Borders: Protecting Children on the Island of Ireland
No full textReportOn September 19, 2002 Barnardo's Northern Ireland, Barnardos Ireland, Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) hosted a conference in Dundalk entitled 'Beyond Borders - Protecting Children on the Island of Ireland'. For the organisers of this conference this was a very significant event, marking as it did the first time that the four organisations had come together to work on an issue that affected children across the island of Ireland. All four organisations share a concern that children on the island of Ireland should be afforded the highest standards of protection from harm .All of the organisations had been previously involved in lobbying to effect change and promote effective systems to safeguard children
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
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