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Graduate student and instructor engagement in course-based qualitative research: A case study
Get PDFThis case study explores the lived experiences of two graduate students and two university instructors in a course-based qualitative research project. The course design was a research methods course that focused on qualitative research and analysis and provided a vehicle for the instructors to reflect on their experiences and the students' experience of the cognitive and affective demands implicit in the assigned tasks. Findings indicate that development of student research skills is enhanced through student engagement in a real-world research project. This authentic learning experience, although stressful and overwhelming within the timelines of the course schedule, was instrumental in assisting the students to believe they could move forward with greater independence as researchers.Peer reviewedFinal article publishedGraduate studentMentoringInstructor engagementStudent engagementAuthentic learningQualitative researc
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
Women and primary physical education: a feminist critical ethnography
Get PDFThe purpose of this inquiry was to provide an opportunity for the voices of the women teaching primary physical education to be heard by calling attention to how the lived experiences of these women primary teachers, within a culture in which the ideology of sport embodies patriarchal values and power relations, may have influenced what physical education means to them, and their actions in that context.
Critical ethnography was selected as the method of inquiry and utilized data collected on-site during nonparticipant and participant fieldwork, formal and informal interviews with the participants, and relevant documents collected throughout the course of the inquiry. As part of the collaborative process the researcher taught the primary physical education classes of the women for several months. Reflective data was also collected during this period.
Analysis of the data pointed to three emergent themes. First, that the teaching of primary physical education is practised in a way that provides a degree of comfort for women in physical activity that is consistent with their values. Second, that the amount of time in the gymnasium space for physical education represents both a valuable break from classroom routine and the lower status of primary teachers and primary physical education within the school. And lastly, that time issues surrounding primary physical education reflect its low priority for the women as influenced by the value administrators' and parents' assign to other subjects but it also is a time when the women have fun with the children in their class.
In these contexts we explored how power relationships between the primary teachers and others permeate the culture and influence the women's practice of physical education. Having identified such relationships those interested can assist in resisting patriarchal values as perpetuated in sport and physical education and create change that is beneficial for the primary teachers, the children they teach and the subject of physical education.
As a result of this inquiry and because of the large number of women teaching primary physical education, it is suggested that professionals in physical education critically reflect on the experiences of both the women and children in this context when designing curricula, implementing professional workshops and assigning value to particular teaching experiences within the disciplineGraduat
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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