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Die persoonlikheidsamestelling van die beskeie leerder in die senior sekondêre skoolfase
Get PDFThe personality profile of the modest senior secondary school learner.
According to literature modesty may be an indication of an unrealistic self-evaluation, insufficient assertiveness, a virtue or even ignorance of other people's view of the self. Modesty is also associated with such personality traits as reserve, timidity, inhibition, unassertiveness, lack of arrogance, unrealistic self-evaluation and ignorance. Modesty implies an inability to promote oneself and may impede on the forming of interpersonal relations and the self-actualisation of learners. The findings from the literature study are analysed in terms of the High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ) to suggest a personality profile for the modest learner. A number of hypotheses are stated regarding the personality traits of the modest learner and they were tested empirically by administering the HSPQ to 174 learners in Grade 11. The Pearson product moment correlation coefficients of the different HSPQ factors were calculated by means of the SAS programme and t tests were used. Low and moderate correlations were indicated for the HSPQ factors. No typical personality profile could be compiled for modest learners, but several personality traits which may be associated with modesty emerged from the study.
South African Journal of Education Vol.23(3) 2003: 233-24
The examination of research for dissertations and theses
No full textEnglish: Specific knowledge and skills are required to maintain the quality of the examination
of postgraduate research. Preliminary research indicated that there was a need to
investigate the examination of postgraduate research. Individual and focus group
interviews were used in a qualitative research to determine the views of examiners of
dissertations and theses on the issue of examining postgraduate studies. An interview
schedule was compiled from the literature investigation and used as an outline for
the discussions. It was found that experienced examiners follow a definite structure
in the examination of postgraduate studies, the examination process does not always
run smoothly and remuneration was mentioned as a problem. The examination of
dissertations and theses is not a process to take lightly and examiners need proper
guidelines and training to enable them to be effective.Afrikaans: Bepaalde kennis en vaardigheid is noodsaaklik om gehalte in die evaluering van
nagraadse navorsing te behou. Voorlopige navorsing het aangedui dat ’n dringende
behoefte bestaan aan ’n ondersoek na die eksaminering van nagraadse navorsing.
Individuele
en fokusgroeponderhoude is in ’n kwalitatiewe navorsingsprojek gebruik
om die siening van eksaminatore van verhandelings en proefskrifte te bepaal. ’n
Onderhoudskedule is aan die hand van ’n literatuurstudie saamgestel en is as
raamwerk
vir die besprekings gebruik. Dit is bevind dat ervare eksaminatore ’n
definitiewe struktuur in die eksaminering van nagraadse studies gebruik, dat die
eksamineringsproses egter nie altyd vloeiend is nie en dat eksaminatorsvergoeding
aangedui is as ’n probleem. Die eksamineringsproses geskied nie lukraak nie en
eksaminatore het deeglike leiding en opleiding nodig om hulle in staat te stel om
die verwagte gehalte van eksaminering te handhaaf.Publisher's versio
The examination of research for dissertations and theses
Get PDFSpecific knowledge and skills are required to maintain the quality of the examination of postgraduate research. Preliminary research indicated that there was a need to investigate the examination of postgraduate research. Individual and focus group interviews were used in a qualitative research to determine the views of examiners of dissertations and theses on the issue of examining postgraduate studies. An interview chedule was compiled from the literature investigation and used as an outline for the discussions. It was found that experienced examiners follow a definite structure in the examination of postgraduate studies, the examination process does not always run smoothly and remuneration was mentioned as a problem. The examination of dissertations and theses is not a process to take lightly and examiners need proper guidelines and training to enable them to be effective
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
Postgraduate supervision: students’ and supervisors’ perceptions
No full textEnglish: The aim of this research was to compare the views of postgraduate students and supervisors on the supervisory process in the Faculty of Education at the University of South Africa. The research was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, survey research was employed by means of a questionnaire in order to determine the perceptions of students on diverse aspects of postgraduate research. During the second phase, supervisors’ perceptions of postgraduate supervision were ascertained by means of a qualitative inquiry using focus groups. The findings included a number of aspects which participants had found rewarding. Unmet needs of students related to the planning of the research, research methodology, contact with supervisors, feedback, response time and examination feedback. Supervisors desired the recruitment of higher potential students who would deliver better work.Afrikaans: Die doel met hierdie navorsing was om die aard van die sienings van studente en studieleiers oor studieleiding by die Fakulteit Opvoedkunde aan die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika te vergelyk. Die navorsing is in twee fases uitgevoer. In die eerste fase is die persepsies van studente rakende verskeie aspekte van hulle nagraadse studie deur middel van ’n vraelys bepaal. Gedurende die tweede fase is studieleiers se persepsies van nagraadse studieleiding bepaal deur middel van ’n kwalitatiewe ondersoek wat fokusgroepe ingesluit het. Die resultate het op ’n aantal onbevredigende aspekte vir die deelnemers gedui. Onbeantwoorde behoeftes van studente het verband gehou met die beplanning van die navorsing, navorsingsmetodologie, kontak met studieleiers, terugvoering, responstyd en terugvoering na eksaminering afgehandel is. Studieleiers het ’n behoefte gehad aan studente met meer potensiaal wat werk van ’n beter gehalte lewer.Publisher's versio
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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