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Single Parents' Preferences and Expectations for Home-School Communication
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Advisor: Edward R. DucharmeThis study focuses on single parents' preferences and expectations for home-school communication in public schools. Home-school communication has received considerable attention from educators and parents in recent years.
Many see this communication as a vital link in establishing partnerships between educators and parents.Parents are the first teachers for most children and want the best for them. Parents have considerable influence on their children throughout the time they are in school. Studies show that parents want to know what is going on in school, how they can be a part of the school, and how they can assist their child at home. Parents prefer communication that is timely,understandable, and informal.Unfortunately, however, communication from the school
to home does not always meet these needs. Some parents believe that they are working in partnership with the schools. Single parents often believe they are left out of this partnership because of lack of time, economics, and
other issues which make it difficult for them to
communicate with educators. Educators cannot ignore these issues because the numbers of single parents and of students from single-parent homes have risen dramatically in the last two decades. Students from single-parent families now comprise almost one-third of all students. I conducted this study in several school districts inWestern Iowa. Interviews were used to determine single
rents' preferences and expectations for home-school communication. Many of these communications were initiated by the school. Some, however, were initiated by single parents. These contacts were also explored. Single parents had ample opportunities to share insights. The goal of the researcher was to look for themes and patterns in the lives at these parents, especially as th related to the school.
This study was done to gain a better understanding of situations facing single parents and their
expectations regarding communication with schools.
Several findings emerged from the research. One result is that educators should explore new means of communication with single-parent homes instead of assuming that present means are acceptable. Staff development is needed in order to accomplish this goal. I hope a result will be that students from single-parent homes will demonstrate higher levels of achievement
The Effect of Behavior Control Strategies Upon the Disruptive Student : A Case Study
Get PDFii, 40 leaves. Advisor: Richard Lampshire.The Problem. A fourth-grade student had disrupted
class, especially during specials, rather frequently. This case study was designed to determine if positive reinforcement and other techniques would decrease the frequency of
the problem.
Procedure. Meetings were held with staff. Data
was collected on a daily basis for more than nine months. Data including frequency and specification of reward and punishment was analyzed. Follow-up meetings were held.
Findings. Social reinforcement and extra privileges based on a reward system were found to be very effective. Activity curtailment and removal to a time-out room were also useful when the previous strategies were not successful. These programs must be very carefully structured
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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