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[[alternative]]A Study of Elementary School Teachers' Involvement in Curriculum Development in Taiwan
No full text[[abstract]]With the trends of education reform after the revocation of Martial Law in Taiwan, theachers' professional autonomy in curriculum development is getting imporant. The stualy focuses on the perceptions and feelings of the elementary school teachers as curriculum developers, not in their own classrooms, but in the curriculum committees at national, local and school levels.
The purposes of this study are to explore teachers' motivations for joining the curriculum committees, their attitudes towards involvement in curriculum development and the satisfactions or dissatisfactions derived from involvement. Besides,it explores the roles and positions of teachers in curriculum committees.
In order to accomplish the purposes mentioned above, the study applies the methods of document analysis and interview, Interview is conducted with those who has been recently involved in curriculum committees, including 32 full time elementary school teachers, 4 professors, and 4 elementary school principals.
Several conclusions result from the findings and discussions of this study, They are as follows:
Firist, in addition to the amount of the teachers in a curriculum committee, the roles and positions of teachers are also related to the levels of curriculum development. However, there is evidence that teachers are able to be researchers and curriculum developers.
Second, teschers should be involved in curriculum development, but it does not mean that every teacher should be involved in everything. Teachers must be divived into different groups according to their interest and expertise, Then, many kinds of professionals cooperate in curriculum committees.
Third, a lot of decisions are made in the process of curriculum development. It is impossible to make decisions only by one person because every decision must be made through committee members' discussions and negotiations.
Fourth, in order to promote teachers' position and speak for other teachers in curriculum committees, it is very important to choose suitable representatives among elementary school teachers.
Fifth, according to a complete model of curriculum development, the curriculum development committees in this study are not perfect becaust R & D, experimental teaching, diffusion, teachers' in-service training and evaluation are often neglected.
Sixth, although teachers have to face somr difficulties in curriculum development, most of them try thier best to overcome these difficulties in stead of trying to change the regulations or institutions. Nevertheless, if these problems can not be efficiently solved as soon as possible, it is believed that less teachers will be involved in curriculum development voluntarily.
Seventh, involvement in curriculum development offers the teachers, in this study, many psychic rewards such as professional growth and self-confidencd. However, it is a pity that teachers involving in curriculum development beyond classrooms seldom share new ideas or information with the others who are not invoved.
Eighth, the model of curriculum development of primary education in Taiwan is still belonged to an administrative model which is from top to domw, Therefore, most teachers are passive in curriculum development.
Ninth, the example of school-based curriculum development in this study stands for teachers' auronomy in curriculum.
Finally, the study recommends some suggestions for the improvement of teacher involvement in curriculum development as well as further research.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Self-Regulation Mechanisms in the Practice of Information Privacy
No full textToday, many privacy abuses can be traced to the lack of organization policies governing the conduct of the personnel who are in charge of managing the information systems. IT professionals, who are the most important gatekeepers to the information privacy practices, have the oversight responsibility for information privacy since they have the most extensive knowledge of their organization\ue2s systems and data. In this research, we have studied the impact of managerial policies concerning ethical codes and rewards/penalty perception on IS professionals\ue2 self-regulation capacity against privacy abuses.
Specificially, based upon the Moment-of-Truth model and paradigm of self-regulation, we investigated how IS professionals\ue2 ethical judgment, subjective norm, privacy self-efficacy and intention may reciprocally interact with their business environment that was characterized by its use of ethical codes and the rewards/penalty system. We first proposed an ethical dicision model based on the paradigm of self-regulation and validated the appropriateness of this model for studying information privacy. We then demonstrated how the perception of the rewards/penalty may impact the ethical judgment, subjective norm, privacy self-efficay, and ethical intention. We discovered that the rewards/penalty perception had a moderating effect on the relationship between ethical judgment and intention, and that the ethical codes had the moderating effect on the relationship between privacy self-efficacy and intention
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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