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Students' academic performance and employability: A study on Italian undergraduates
No full textNowadays, a very high level of unemployment constitutes the normal structure of individuals’ work life in Italy. Organizational changes (i.e. m&a, layoffs or downsizing) lead individuals to job insecurity (Sverke & Hellgren, 2002) and thus to a natural decline in job performance and self-perceived employability. This paper analysed the differences in academic performance in comparison to ambition, self-perceived employability and university commitment (Rothwell et al. 2008) and the psychometric properties of the above mentioned scales. We assumed that students will be more motivated to perform well in education if they believe that their efforts will lead to the “right job” – rather than the “secure one” (Ortiz, 2008). An initial Italian validation of Rothwell’s et al. (2008) scales has been done and differences in ambition, self-perceived employability and high performance among students was verified in a sample of 115 senior-year students. Results and practical implications are then described
Effetti psicologici dell’esposizione a fattori di stress ambientali nella costruzione di tunnel
No full textDecent Work e insicurezza lavorativa: professionalità e genitorialità nelle donne dell'Abruzzo di oggi
No full textStudent Cynicism: An Initial Italian Validation of C.A.T.C.S. (Cynical Attitudes Toward College Scale)
No full textAbstractStudent cynicism is an attitude characterized by a sense of frustration and negative beliefs mainly due to disillusion of expectations about students’ own course of studies. It could be directed towards academic experience in general, or towards specific aspects of the academic environment. It consists of emotional, cognitive and behavioral dimensions and could be used as an indicator of distress, insecurity and disinvestment towards the academic environment. Brockway et al. (2002) produced an 18- item self-report questionnaire to measure student cynicism, named Cynical Attitudes Toward College Scale (CATCS)
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
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