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Primary and Middle School Teachers’ Perception about their Pedagogical Competency and Associated School Factors in Bench-Sheko, and West Omo Zones: Implications for Teacher Education
Full text linkThe main purpose of this study was to examine primary and middle school teachers’ perception about their pedagogical competency and associated school factors using concurrent QUAN + qual design. Three hundred seventy-four primary school teachers selected through simple random sampling have participated in the study. The finding shows two sets of clusters with a statistically significant difference in pedagogical competency. The first cluster, consisting of n=107 (29%) teachers, perceived they had good pedagogical competency, while teachers in the second cluster n=267 (71%), reported poor pedagogical competency at p<0.01. Lack of capacity building training, working environment, teachers’ qualifications, and teachers' training program are factors associated to teachers’ pedagogical competency. Finally, the study presented the implications of the findings on teacher education programs with regard to the preparation of teachers, admission to the profession, the quality of the training, and continuous professional development practices
Integration of postmodern perspectives in curriculum & instruction in Ethiopian schools
No full textSeveral studies conducted in Ethiopia on the issues of quality education, methodology, academic performance, and school leadership. However, there is no adequate and organized evidence showing the inclusion of postmodern perspectives in the curriculum and instruction of Ethiopian schools. The aim of this study was to systematically analyze the fragmented research conducted in Ethiopia and how the postmodern perspectives are integrated into the curriculum and instruction. The review used 24 research articles and four policy documents as a data source. The result shows that Ethiopia’s educational policy considers postmodern perspectives in its philosophy of education, curriculum development, and implementation strategy. However, the actual practice of education was far behind meeting the intention of the policy. The factors for the gap are attributed to scarce resources and poor infrastructure, poor quality of teachers and school leaders, the multidimensional nature of problems and reductionist views of solutions, and lack of transparency and accountability. Furthermore, the study found that policy-level consideration of postmodern perspectives, teachers’ knowledge and understanding of the perspectives, and globalisation and technological advancement promise to integrate postmodern perspectives in the curriculum and instruction of Ethiopian schools. Finally, implications for practice and further research are discussed, and recommendations are made to bridge the gap between policy, curriculum, and classroom practices
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
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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