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Guidance and Counselling and Learners’ Discipline in Kasese District: A Case of Selected Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County.
No full textThe management of learners’ discipline in any institution is always associated with the effectiveness of the teacher in charge alongside the guidance and counselling activities carried out. The purpose of this study was to investigate the progress of guidance and counselling as a remedial intervention in managing learners’ discipline in selected Government-aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County, Kasese District. The study was guided by three theories that examine the learners’ behaviours and basically how undesirable behaviour can be eliminated:
1. Behavioural Counselling Theory: John D. Krumboltz and Carl E. Thoresen (1969) hypothesized that all behaviours, whether adaptive or maladaptive are learnt, shaped or maintained through stimulus responses.
2. Operant Conditioning Theory: Burrhus F. Skinner (1938) observed that good behaviour is reinforced through rewards while bad behaviour is weakened through punishment.
3. Social Behaviour Theory: Albert Bandura (1966) posited that people learn from one another through observation, imitation and modelling.
The study adopted mixed-methods research that incorporated elements of both Qualitative and Quantitative approaches to provide deeper and wider insights into the data evaluation. The study targeted 10 Government-aided Secondary Schools, 10 Headteachers, 10 Deputy Headteachers, 10 Senior Women teachers, 10 Career guidance and counselling heads of the department and 140 Student leaders. To get the sample population, purposive sampling and stratified proportionate random sampling techniques were preferred to select the different categories of respondents. The sample sizes were determined using the RDNEA standard table, Krejcie & Morgan (1970). Data was collected by use of Questionnaires, Interview Guide and Documentary Review. Qualitative data was arranged thematically in line with the research Objectives and Questions whereas Quantitative data was analyzed by use of descriptive statistics like Frequency, Percentages and Mean. The final results were presented using Tables, Pie Charts and Bar Graphs. The study showed that the majority of respondents had positive perceptions towards the role played by guidance and counselling in managing the learners’ discipline. However, a small proportion of respondents reported that their schools had no clear timetables for the guidance and counselling programmes. This clearly showed that guidance and counselling were not fully implemented in all schools. This could have been the reason some secondary schools continued to experience student violence. More so, the study further revealed that guidance and counselling departments in secondary schools were being managed by teachers without special skills in guidance and counselling. The study concluded by recommending that the Government should train teachers in guidance and counselling purposely to manage the learners’ discipline. Policymakers should provide uniform guidance and counselling guidelines concerning discipline management. Parents should get fully involved in the management of their children’s discipline. Student leaders should be fully empowered and always involved in discipline management, budgeting process and decision-making especially when drafting the rules and regulations. Organs that offer counselling services should always be invited to inspire and inculcate appropriate moral education into the learners. Teachers should not only teach for academic purposes but should always cater for the learners’ holistic development. Guidance and counselling programmes must be timetabled and catered for in the general schools’ budgets. The study suggests that further research be carried out in the entire district focusing more on factors like harsh and imposed school rules and regulations, unconducive school environment, poor leadership, lack of co-curricular activities, massification of secondary education, schools’ foundation bodies and other related issues that might be some of the causes of learners’ indiscipline in schools
Guidance and Counselling and Learners’ Discipline in Kasese District: A Case of Selected Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County.
No full textThe management of learners’ discipline in any institution is always associated with the effectiveness of the teacher in charge alongside the guidance and counselling activities carried out. The purpose of this study was to investigate the progress of guidance and counselling as a remedial intervention in managing learners’ discipline in selected Government-aided Secondary Schools in Bukonzo County, Kasese District. The study was guided by three theories that examine the learners’ behaviours and basically how undesirable behaviour can be eliminated:
1. Behavioural Counselling Theory: John D. Krumboltz and Carl E. Thoresen (1969) hypothesized that all behaviours, whether adaptive or maladaptive are learnt, shaped or maintained through stimulus responses.
2. Operant Conditioning Theory: Burrhus F. Skinner (1938) observed that good behaviour is reinforced through rewards while bad behaviour is weakened through punishment.
3. Social Behaviour Theory: Albert Bandura (1966) posited that people learn from one another through observation, imitation and modelling.
The study adopted mixed-methods research that incorporated elements of both Qualitative and Quantitative approaches to provide deeper and wider insights in the data evaluation. The study targeted 10 Government-aided Secondary Schools, 10 Head teachers, 10 Deputy Headteachers, 10 Senior Women teachers, 10 Career guidance and counselling heads of department and 140 Student leaders. To get the sample population, purposive sampling and stratified proportionate random sampling techniques were preferred to select the different categories of respondents. The sample sizes were determined using the RDNEA standard table, Krejcie & Morgan (1970). Data was collected by use of Questionnaires, Interview Guide and Documentary Review. Qualitative data was arranged thematically in line with the research Objectives and Questions whereas Quantitative data was analyzed by use of descriptive statistics like Frequency, Percentages and Mean. The final results were presented using Tables, Pie Charts and Bar Graphs. The study showed that the majority of respondents had positive perceptions towards the role played by guidance and counselling in managing the learners’ discipline. However, a small proportion of respondents reported that their schools had no clear timetables for the guidance and counselling programmes. This clearly showed that guidance and counselling was not fully implemented in all schools. This could have been the reason some secondary schools continued to experience student violence. More so, the study further revealed that guidance and counselling departments in secondary schools were being managed by teachers without special skills of guidance and counselling. The study concluded by recommending that the Government should train teachers in guidance and counselling purposely to manage the learners’ discipline. Policymakers should provide uniform guidance and counselling guidelines in regard to discipline management. Parents should get fully involved in the management of their children’s discipline. Student leaders should be fully empowered and always involved in discipline management, budgeting process and decision-making especially when drafting the rules and regulations. Organs that offer counselling services should always be invited to inspire and inculcate appropriate moral education into the learners. Teachers should not only teach for academic purposes but should always cater for the learners’ holistic development. Guidance and counselling programmes must be timetabled and catered for in the general schools’ budgets. The study suggests that further research be carried out in the entire district focusing more on factors like harsh and imposed school rules and regulations, unconducive school environment, poor leadership, lack of co-curricular activities, massification of secondary education, schools’ foundation bodies and other related issues that might be some of the causes of learners’ indiscipline in schools
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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