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Statistical adjustment of matric marks: The right of access to information
Get PDFHierdie artikel neem die historiese rol van Umalusi, ’n liggaam wat wetlik daargestel is om as kwaliteitversekeraar en kurator van die Nasionale Senior-Sertifikaat (Graad 12) te funksioneer, onder die loep. Die doel is om vas te stel in welke mate die Bevordering van Toegang tot Inligting Wet 2 van 2000 gebruik kan word om toegang tot sensitiewe inligting aangaande die statistiese verstelling of “standaardisering” van matriekpunte te verkry.
Die artikel verskaf in-diepte agtergrond aangaande twee aspekte, naamlik: die legitieme mandaat van Umalusi om punteverstellings te mag doen en hulle aanvanklike weiering in 2011 om die uitkomste van sulke verstellings aan die media en breë publiek bekend te stel, gegewe die historiese konteks; tweedens ontleed die artikel die doel en bepalings van die Wet ten einde uitvoering te gee aan artikel 32(2) van die Grondwet van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika, 1996.
Die uitgang van hierdie studie is die betoog van die media en publiek in 2011 dat hulle die grondwetlike reg het om ingelig te word aangaande die proses en uitkoms van die statistiese verstelling van matriekpunte (Graad 12). Volgens regsvertolking is Umalusi deur parlementêre wetgewing daargestel as ’n staatsliggaam wat in die openbare belang binne ’n bepaalde politieke en juridiese raamwerk funksioneer en sy aksies moet as sodanig gemoniteer kan word
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
Die senior huisvader as professionele onderwysbestuursleier
No full textM.Ed. (Education Management)The aim of this research was to assess the management role of the senior housemaster/mistress in the school hostels of the Transvaal Education Department. In this regard, it was initially determined that to be able to manage, a person must also be able to lead, because management is the process of working through other people to attain departmental or organizational goals. As ''head'' of the school hostel, the senior housemaster will see that the policy, as laid down by the principal, is implemented. This too, calls for clear formulation as a basis of effective management. The principal must take cognisance of the particular circumstances pertaining to his school and hostel when formulating his policy, to ensure that its implemention is feasible. The domestic policy will be an indication to the senior housemaster as to how the principal wishes the hostel to be managed. This then becomes a handy managerial instrument in the hands of the senior housemaster. The following elements of management should be emphasized in the policy: planning, organising, training and control. When the domestic policy is clearly formulated, the senior housemaster will be able to frame the organisation of the hostel and determine the appropriate executive responsibilities and relationships. Interpreting policy into terms of operating instructions is the first stage of management. The senior housemaster must manage his hostel in such a way, that the educational, economic and administrative matters can be fully realised. To enable him to manage successfully, the senior housemaster will apply certain basic principles of management, such as planning, organising, training and control. When planning, the senior housemaster will seek ways and means to reach his operational goals and prepare appropriate methods for effective actions. This will include the planning of the educational programme, economic and financial procedures and administrative planning. The structure of organisation will form the framework for the senior housemaster to carry out the responsibilities of management, for the delegation of such responsibilities and for the co-ordination of. activities and operations, in the hostel. It is also essential that everybody concerned with the operation of the hostel, that is: the educational, administrative and domestic staff, including the servants, should be acquainted with his or her specific duties and responsibilities. It is therefore the task of the senior housemaster to see that duties and responsibilities are comprehensively and briefly set out. It is furthermore essential that every person should be suitably trained for his or her duty in the hostel. Unfortunately no teacher receives specific training to equip him/her for the important function of substitute parent, nor for that matter for the administrative, management, accounting and other duties with which the senior housemaster and other members of staff are required to be fully conversant. Therefore an in-service-training programme is essential and unavoidable. The implementation of such a programme will be one of the major tasks of the senior housemaster, if he wants to achieve healthy educational aims, without neglecting sound economic management. Sound planning requires the determination and setting down, of appropriate standards of performance in respect of the various activities. These standards must continuously be controlled by comparing the achievements against the predetermined standards. If there are any deviations, it must be immediately rectified. The senior housemaster will control events in his hostel by being on the spot or by way of consultation and reports. As a result of the research, a number of conclusions were reached and certain recommendations were made concerning the efficient management of hostels, within the scope of the school practice. It is finally recommended that the senior housemaster must officially be recognised as an educational manager, by putting him on par with the heads of department, in the general school hierachy
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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