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Advancing higher education on sustainable land use: designing socioscientific inquiry-based learning units on oil palm cultivation
No full textLand-use change driven by the global oil palm boom has widespread environmental
and socioeconomic consequences. Recent scientific research offers strategies to
mitigate negative effects of oil palm cultivation. This Curriculum, Instruction, and
Pedagogy article presents a design-based research (DBR) approach to increase
students’ knowledge and interest in interdisciplinary scientific research for sustainable
oil palm cultivation. The land-use research addressed in this DBR is based on the
international Collaborative Research Centre 990 “Ecological and Socioeconomic
Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems” (EFForTS). It
focused on sustainable land-use change in Indonesia. Through a collaborative
design process, researchers and educators from Indonesian and German universities
designed two educational units on oil palm cultivation as a socioscientific issue for
Indonesian higher education, specifically for science teacher education and forestry
study programs. We systematically analyzed curricular needs, objects of recent
scientific research, teaching and learning frameworks, and evaluation approaches
to determine design principles. A pre-post-follow-up evaluation (N = 943) showed
that the units, when integrated into curricular courses, increased and sustained
students’ self-reported knowledge and interest, with improvements from pilot
to implementation cycles. The formative and summative evaluations indicated
positive ratings for instructional design quality, while also identifying areas for
future improvement. Our DBR focused on Indonesian higher education, but the
evaluation and reflection findings suggest that our approach can be adapted to
a wide range of educational contexts and environmental socioscientific issues,
also beyond Indonesia. Our DBR serves as a transferable approach for making
scientific research topics, methods, and findings accessible and interesting to
students, thereby contributing to the preparation of future change agents for
sustainable land use at both local and global scales.Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 202
Preservice Teachers’ Use of Social Media for the Development of Their Research Skills
No full textThis chapter explores the facilitation of preservice teachers’ (PSTs’) research thinking through the use of social media for designing their future lessons. In this study of 64 undergraduate PSTs in a second-year biology unit, the PSTs identified, reported and researched plants using Instagram. In the unit, the Research Skill Development (RSD) framework was integrated with social media-based learning in order to guide PSTs into research skills-rich activities, to frame assessment and feedback and to evaluate the impact of social media-based learning on the PSTs. This research aimed to develop PSTs’ research skills through the use of Instagram and determine the effectiveness of the approach. This chapter promotes digital learning strategies for interactive learning through widely used online platforms. Outcomes of the study suggest potential for PSTs, as future curriculum designers, to innovate with social media-based interactive instructional design models that enable improvements in their teaching-oriented research skills
Preservice Teachers’ Use of Social Media for the Development of Their Research Skills
No full textThis chapter explores the facilitation of preservice teachers’ (PSTs’) research thinking through the use of social media for designing their future lessons. In this study of 64 undergraduate PSTs in a second-year biology unit, the PSTs identified, reported and researched plants using Instagram. In the unit, the Research Skill Development (RSD) framework was integrated with social media-based learning in order to guide PSTs into research skills-rich activities, to frame assessment and feedback and to evaluate the impact of social media-based learning on the PSTs. This research aimed to develop PSTs’ research skills through the use of Instagram and determine the effectiveness of the approach. This chapter promotes digital learning strategies for interactive learning through widely used online platforms. Outcomes of the study suggest potential for PSTs, as future curriculum designers, to innovate with social media-based interactive instructional design models that enable improvements in their teaching-oriented research skills
Pengembangan Instrumen Pembelajaran Berbasis HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) pada Mata Kuliah Pembelajaran Mikro
Full text linkMata kuliah Pembelajaran Mikro mempersiapkan kompetensi pedagogic mahasiswa dalam membuat rencana pembelajaran dan juga praktik mengajar. Meskipun mata kuliah Pembelajaran Mikro telah dihadirkan di perkuliahan, namun kendala yang dihadapi mahasiswa di mata kuliah ini masih saja sama, yakni kesulitan dalam mendesain pembelajaran. Fenomena ini menyuarakan perlunya terobosan baru pada Mata Kuliah Pembelajaran Mikro yang dapat memacu kemampuan mahasiswa dalam mendesain pembelajaran mereka. Penelitian dilaksanakan di Program Studi Pendidikan Kimia FKIP Universitas Jambi. Research and Development (R&D) digunakan pada penelitian ini. Pada penelitian ini, dihasilkan tiga instrument penelitian: Rencana Pembelajaran Semester (RPS), Rubrik Penilaian, dan Peta Konsep. RPS yang dirancang berdasarkan hasil FGD dan revisi merupakan RPS yang terkandung aspek-aspek yang mampu memacu proses berpikir tingkat tinggi siswa (HOTs/Higher Order Thinking Skills)
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
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
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