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On the impact of addressing student diversity by using computer-assisted differentiation practices
No full textAbstract: Student diversity is omnipresent in education. Seated side by side in the classroom are students from diverse nationalities and socioeconomic backgrounds; students whose first language is not the language of instruction; special educational needs students; and students who vary in interests, personality, motivation, learning profile, and more. In view of these differences, policymakers have urged teachers to divert their focus from teaching \u201cthe average student\u201d to addressing the individual needs of students. Differentiation is increasingly recognized as a powerful means to restructure today\u2019s classroom, mainly because of its solid theoretical base and broad array of practices. However, while the benefits of differentiation seem substantial enough for policymakers to invest in its implementation, a solid empirical base is missing. The gap between the theoretical and conceptual foundation and the limited access to empirical findings resulted in the main objective of this doctoral dissertation, i.e., providing causal evidence of the combined and isolated effects of specific differentiation practices. Using large-scale field experiments, this doctoral dissertation exploited the introduction of a novel compulsory curriculum on financial and entrepreneurship competences in Flemish secondary education to assign schools randomly to control and (multiple) experimental conditions. The study fields of financial and entrepreneurship education were attractive as little is known about what determines effective education in both study fields. To increase the internal validity and the scalability of the experiments, the differentiation practices were tested in computer-based learning environments. Therefore, this doctoral dissertation contributes to several strands of the literature by providing insights into (1) the effects of specific differentiation practices in secondary education, (2) the impacts of different teaching delivery methods in financial education and entrepreneurship education, and (3) the promise of educational technology
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
De rol van persoonlijkheidskenmerken in de ervaringen van leerlingen tijdens de COVID-19 crisis
No full textWe analyseren de invloed van persoonlijkheidskenmerken op de ervaringen en verwachtingen van leerlingen tijdens de COVID-19 crisis en langdurige schoolsluiting. De Big Five persoonlijkheidskenmerken werden ruim twee maanden voor de COVID-19 crisis gemeten bij 347 leerlingen in 35 Vlaamse middelbare scholen. Meer dan drie maand na het sluiten van de scholen werden de ervaringen tijdens de crisis en de verwachtingen van de schoolse prestaties bij dezelfde leerlingen gemeten. De resultaten tonen aan dat nauwgezette en vindingrijke leerlingen een betere perceptie op het familiale, school- en sociaal leven hadden tijdens de crisis en de schoolsluiting. Maar extraverte leerlingen en leerlingen met een lage emotionele stabiliteit, hebben de crisis en de schoolsluiting ongunstig ervaren.status: Publishe
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
The role of students\u2019 interests during computer-assisted learning : a field experiment
No full textAbstract: The present paper examined the effect of adjusting learning material to the out-of-school interests of students. In particular, using a field experiment involving 1449 secondary school students in 31 Flemish schools, we evaluated the effectiveness of the instructional method \u201cexample choice\u201d in a computer-assisted financial education program. Example choice allowed students to choose between contexts potentially more aligned with their out-of-school interest, which in turn determined the backdrop examples for exercises in the computer-assisted program. Schools were randomly assigned to a control or treatment condition. While students in both the control and treatment schools received the computer-assisted program, example choice was added only to the program for students in treatment schools. Results show that example choice did not increase students' financial knowledge. Despite the well-established psychological belief that students\u2019 interest in an academic topic can be instilled by the educator or the learning environment, example choice did not affect the interest of the average student in the financial topic. Moreover, example choice even led to significant motivational deficits for students with low perceived competence
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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