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Characterizing sources of academic help in the age of expanding educational technology: a new conceptual framework
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A bridge over troubled waters: Promoting self -regulated learning in first-year college students.
No full textTwo studies examined the effectiveness of a first-year program intended to promote Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) among first-year college students. Students entering college at a large Midwestern university participated in a summer program, called the Bridge Program, designed to offer intensive academic preparation by emphasizing the importance of self-regulation. Study 1 used qualitative approaches (i.e., classroom observations and structured interviews) in order to examine processes involved in program components and obtain descriptive information about the processes that took place during the program. These descriptions provided a basis for understanding how specific processes involved in the Bridge Program influence aspects of college student learning. Results indicate variability in terms of classroom context and differential perceptions of student-advisor relationships. Specifically, course sections were very different in terms of classroom management and levels of interpersonal support exhibited by instructors. Findings from advisor and student ratings of their academic advising relationships indicated that advisor goals often do not correspond with student perceptions. Advisors generally rated themselves as more prescriptive in their approach to students, although students often interpreted such advising as more collaborative. Students reported moderate levels of sense of campus belonging, and tended to develop social networks within the program to a higher degree than outside of the program. Study 2 utilized quantitative survey methodology to examine the development of learning strategy use and motivation, as well as relations between these constructs and students' actual academic achievement. Results indicate significant change in cognitive strategy use and motivation over the course of the program. Test anxiety increased over the course of the program, as did expedient help-seeking, and help-seeking threat. Informal help seeking declined as students entered the fall semester, as did rehearsal and organization strategies. Rehearsal and informal help-seeking were found to be positive predictors of Fall GPA. Organization and help seeking negatively predicted Fall GPA. Further, several constructs predicted students' fall semester GPA. Findings from study 1 are used to supplement the quantitative examination of motivation and learning strategy use, and are discussed in terms of implications for this intervention program as well as the study of first year experience programs in general.PhDEducationHigher educationSchool counselingUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/125753/2/3208549.pd
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
The development of the five mini-theories of self-determination theory: an historical overview, emerging trends, and future directions
Get PDFSelf-determination theory is a macro-theory of human motivation, emotion, and personality that has been under development for 40 years following the seminal work of Edward Deci and Richard Ryan. Self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985b, 2000; Niemiec, Ryan, & Deci, in press; Ryan & Deci, 2000; Vansteenkiste, Ryan, & Deci, 2008) has been advanced in a cumulative, research-driven manner, as new ideas have been naturally and steadily integrated into the theory following sufficient empirical support, which has helped SDT maintain its internal consistency. To use a metaphor, the development of SDT is similar to the construction of a puzzle. Over the years, new pieces have been added to the theory once their fit was determined. At present, dozens of scholars throughout the world continue to add their piece to the ‘‘SDT puzzle,’’ and hundreds of practitioners working with all age groups, and in various domains and cultures, have used SDT to inform their practice. Herein, we provide an historical overview of the development of the five mini-theories (viz., cognitive evaluation theory, organismic integration theory, causality orientations theory, basic needs theory, and goal content theory) that constitute SDT, discuss emerging trends within those mini-theories, elucidate similarities with and differences from other theoretical frameworks, and suggest directions for future researc
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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