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Factors influencing a decline of learners enrolment in commercial subject : a case of Driekop Circuit in Limpopo Province
Get PDFThesis (M. Ed.) -- University of Limpopo, 2021This study reports on factors influencing a decline of learner’s enrolment in commercial
subjects: a case of Driekop circuit in Limpopo province. The study followed a qualitative
research methodology underpinned by a case study design. The uncertainty reduction
theory by Berger and Calabre (1983) guided the study. The aim of the study was to
investigate the factors influencing learner enrolment in commercial subjects in Driekop
Circuit and the sample of participants was comprised of eight teachers and twenty
leaners from four secondary schools. Data were collected through interviews and
document analysis.
The finding of the study revealed a number of factors influencing learners enrolment in
commercial subjects which includes; i). leaners’ ability in the subject, ii) peer pressure,
iii) the influence of teachers and school managers, and iv) learners’ misconceptions
about commercial subjects. The study makes a number of recommendations: Firstly,
leaners should be advised, guided and supported in their decision making. Secondly,
aptitude and interest tests should be taken, and thirdly appropriate interventions from
professionals should be sought by schools
Integration of project-based learning in secondary school commercial curriculum
Get PDFJournal article published in African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning Journal
Issue 2, Volume 9, 2025This paper proposes the integration of project-based learning in secondary school commercial curriculum delivery following the assertion that learners of commercial subjects lack the practical skills that are imperative in the current economic difficulties that South Africa is facing. The study adopted the qualitative research methodology and was guided by the learner-centred theory pioneered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Ten commercial departmental heads from ten secondary schools in Capricorn South District were purposively sampled to provide their perspectives on the barriers hindering effective commercial curriculum delivery in secondary schools. The results show that there is a gap between theory and practice in the delivery of commercial subjects. Data were collected through interviews and document analysis, and was analysed using thematic content analysis. The study revealed lack of support for commercial educators, a gap between theory and practice, subject combination issues, language barriers, content gaps and insufficient resources. The project-based learning model is therefore proffered as an alternative model to close the gap between theory and practice in commercial subjects. The results were important in highlighting the downward trend of commercial subjects in schools and the need to revitalise the commercial stream by integrating project-based learning as an option for economic revival in the countr
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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