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The Attitudes of Iranian Female EFL Learners towards Peer Feedback
Get PDFThis study investigated the Iranian female EFL learners` and teachers` preferences toward peer feedback. The participants of this study were 60 females intermediate EFL learners and 15 female TEFL teachers studying/teaching in different language institutes in Tehran. Learners' attitudes toward peer feedback Questionnaire were administered to determine the learners' attitudes towards peer feedback. In addition, a semi-structured interview was given to the teachers to explore their attitudes towards peer feedback. Furthermore, two independent t-tests were run to see whether there was a statistically significant difference between the efficacy of feedback given by teachers and peers. The study results showed that most participating teachers think peer feedback is fruitful. It also revealed that most students believe that peer feedback is more effective than teacher feedback. In addition, the data analysis result showed a statistically significant difference between the feedback given by teachers and the ones provided by students
Iranian teachers` perceptions on teacher expertise
Get PDFThis study investigated Iranian teachers` perception on teacher expertise. The participants of this research were 60 Iranian high school teachers with at least 5 years of teaching experience, 30 males and 30 females. As the schools in Iran are separated based on the gender of the students and learners, this study compared the perception of male and female Iranian teachers on teacher expertise in order to recognize the effect of gender on the perception of teacher expertise. Thus, mixed methods consisting of qualitative and quantitative were selected for this research. A Likert scale questionnaire comprised of 60 questions distributed among the respondents. The questionnaire was designed based on the various themes of teacher expertise, such as teacher experience, student knowledge, curriculum knowledge, teacher beliefs and teacher-parent interaction.
In order to increase the validity of questionnaire, all of the questions related to a theme were disarranged randomly and then shifted to the first position in the data analysis part. Additionally, in order to enhance understanding of teachers` perceptions on teacher expertise, a semi-structured interview was used for high school teachers; 5 males and 5 females. Besides, two independent t-tests were run to investigate whether there was a statistically significant difference between the responses of females and males about teacher expertise. The results indicated that although female teachers had higher scores in some themes of teacher expertise such as student knowledge or pedagogical knowledge, this difference was not significant. Thus, the gender has a little effect on teacher expertise of Iranian high school teachers
Living With Autism in Rural Iran: Families’ Perspectives on Support for Their Children and Their Family
No full textThis thesis explores how families with a child with a disability who live and work in rural Iran
and the professionals who work with those families respond to and interpret disability.
This study sought the views of 16 parents and 16 professionals who live/work with children
with autism in rural Iran. The study privileged the voices and experiences of these families and
asked: What is it like to live with autism in rural Iran? The sub questions asked how the lives
of families of children with autism can be improved.
Semi-structured interviews were used to identify and describe the experiences and perspectives
of parents on autism. Interactions with professionals and those professionals’ also views shaped
families’ experiences. In semi-structured interviews professionals were asked about their
experiences with and perspectives on autism as well as their experiences with and perspectives
on the needs and strengths of families that included a child with autism. Thematic analysis was
used for data analysis.
This research demonstrated that, despite the difficulties that families of children with autism
face, including financial ones, they are not the victims of their child’s condition. They are aware
of social and environmental problems that have restricted their children, and their perception
of disability is mostly dependent on societal construction. So, they engage in activities like
advocacy to make life simpler for the Iranian autism community. Professionals presented
opposing and complementary viewpoints. For instance, some stated that they primarily thought
about the family regarding autism. On the other hand, some others (e.g., autism advocates)
showed that they were aware of societal constraints and were even attempting to make little
changes. This study identified the current and future assistance needs of Iranian families raising
children with autism. The most crucial thing might be, first, to be aware of the distinctive
experiences each family with a child with autism has, and then to consider the idea of disability
as socially created, identify the problems, and come up with solutions. All these actions support
an inclusive society
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
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