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Challenges facing principals in managing the teaching of agricultural sciences in the FET band
Get PDFA dissertation submitted to the Faculty Of Education in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Of Master Of Education in the Department Of Foundations of Education at the University Of Zululand, 2018Principals are facing challenges in managing the teaching of Agricultural Sciences in the FET band, and this leads to some schools phasing out Agricultural Sciences. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors contributing to challenges principals experience in managing the teaching Agricultural Sciences in the FET band. The study adopted mixed methods approach and used quantitative and qualitative methods. Questionnaires were used to collect quantitative data and were completed by forty teachers. An interview schedule was employed to collect qualitative data, and ten principals were interviewed. Simple random sampling was used to select participants for quantitative data and purposive sampling was employed in the selection of participants for qualitative data. Quantitative data was analyzed through the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24 while qualitative data was analyzed thematically. The study revealed that principals lack managerial skills in the teaching of Agricultural Sciences. It was recommended that principals should be capacitated in managerial skills of teaching the subject, and this should be a continuous process because of the constant curriculum changes.National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant Number:CPT160513164973 and 105246
Managing curriculum design practices in the teaching of agricultural sciences in the get band, Vhembe District
Get PDFA thesis submitted in fulfilment of the academic requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Curriculum and Instructional Studies in the Faculty of Education, University of Zululand, 2022.This study examined managing curriculum design practices in the teaching of Agricultural Sciences in the GET band. The problem was the phasing out of Agricultural Scences in the GET band; and the introduction of Natural Sciences in the GET band curriculum resulted in the infusion of Agricultural Sciences content in the Natural Sciences curriculum which then made it difficult for teachers to understand and know much about Agricultural Sciences. However, the teaching of Natural Sciences content lead to Agricultural Sciences content not being considered as a standalone subject in the GET band like it was prior to 1994. The aim of the study was to investigate the management of curriculum design practices in the teaching of Agricultural Sciences in the GET band. Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used in this study. In quantitative approach questionnaires were used to collect data from the teachers and the interview schedules were used to collect qualitative data from the participants. Simple random sampling was used to select teachers from the GET band and purposive sampling was employed to select the curriculum advisors and principals in the qualitative approach. The sample size comprised 60 teachers and 3 curriculum advisors, 3 principals. The quantitative data was analysed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 and the qualitative data was analysed thematically. The study revealed that Agricultural sciences content, in the GET band, is not included in the curriculum as a standalone subject and only a section of it is included in Natural Sciences which is difficult for learner to separate the two subject content. Furthermore, the study recommended that teachers should be professionally developed in the teaching of Agricultural Sciences content so that they become relevant to the ever-changing educational environment. This findings helped in the formulation of recommendation pertaining to the present study which indicates that Agricultural Sciences should be reinstated as a standalone subject in the GET band
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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