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“Candidate strength” and “motivation strength” as a multi-indicator, Comprehensive tool fordescribing the potential of candidates for higher education. Socio-methodological view
Full text linkThe text presents a proprietary tool for multi-indicator measurement of two basic categories created for the needs of the research project “Candidates for Toruń archeological studies”: candidate strength and motivation strength. The basis for the analysis are data collected in the process of student recruitment for studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in the Online Candidates Registration system (IRK). As part of registering for studies, candidates provide a range of personal information regarding their previous education and also reveal their preferences regarding fields of study. A number of indicators were used to create candidate strength and motivation strength. The operationalization of such forces will allow a better understanding of the recruitment process, as well as its general specifics. The candidate’s strength is a value that describes, based on the data available to us, the intellectual and cultural potential of the candidate. By measuring this value, we get the answer to the question of whether a given candidate has a chance to be a scientifically strong student. The second category – the strength of motivation, answers the question to what extent the candidate was determined to undertake a given field of study. Measuring this value dispels doubts about random choice of field of study and provides answers to questions about possible alternatives. The initial study concerned archeology, but the developed mechanism and method of analysis can be used to build the characteristics of all other fields of academic education.W tekście prezentowane jest autorskie narzędzie do wielowskaźnikowego pomiaru dwóch podstawowych kategorii, stworzonych na potrzeby projektu badawczego „Kandydaci na toruńskie studia archeologiczne”: siły kandydata i siły motywacji. Podstawę do analiz stanowią dane zebrane w procesie rekrutacji studentów na studia na Uniwersytecie Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu w systemie Internetowej Rejestracji Kandydatów. W ramach rejestracji na studia kandydaci podają szereg informacji osobowych, dotyczących dotychczasowego wykształcenia, a także ujawniają swoje preferencje w zakresie kierunków studiów. Tworząc siłę kandydata i siłę motywacji, wykorzystano szereg wskaźników. Operacjonalizacja takich sił pozwoli na lepsze rozumienie procesu rekrutacji na studia, a także jego ogólnej specyfiki. Utworzenie opisywanych kategorii umożliwia lepsze interpretowanie zachowań i preferencji kandydatów. Dzięki nim jesteśmy w stanie sprawdzić, czy wiek studentów, ich płeć, pochodzenie, odległość od UMK oraz rodzaj ukończonej szkoły korelują z ich siłą determinacji do studiowania kierunku czy ich potencjałem intelektualnym. Dzięki temu możliwe jest efektywniejsze konstruowanie wymogów rekrutacyjnych oraz strategii marketingowych dla poszczególnych kierunków bądź uczelni. Wskazane możliwe implementacje praktyczne są jedynie przykładami, bo trudno wykluczyć, że w wypadku innych jednostek czy okoliczności ich użyteczność może się ujawnić na innych polach. Siła kandydata to wartość opisująca, na podstawie dostępnych nam danych, potencjał intelektualny i kulturowy kandydata. Dzięki pomiarowi tej wartości uzyskujemy odpowiedź na pytanie o to, czy dany kandydat ma szansę być silnym naukowo studentem. Druga z kategorii – siła motywacji – odpowiada na pytanie, na ile kandydat był zdeterminowany do podjęcia danego kierunku studiów. Pomiar tej wartości rozwiewa wątpliwości dotyczące przypadkowych wyborów kierunku studiów oraz daje odpowiedź na pytania o możliwe alternatywy. Pierwotne badanie dotyczyło archeologii, ale wypracowany mechanizm i sposób analizy może zostać wykorzystany do budowania charakterystyk wszystkich pozostałych kierunków kształcenia akademickiego
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
Potencjał badań edukacyjnych bazy danych Internetowej Rejestracji Kandydatów – metoda analityczna desk research
Full text linkThe text presents and describes the desk research analytical method. As an example of the practical application of the described method and a little-known data source, a short analysis of the database of Online Registration of andidates is presented. The components of the base are presented step by step, along with its information potential. A separate part is the presentation of the possible potential of IRK for educational research – in this case 11 years of candidates for archaeological studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Analysis of the candidates’ origin, study potential, determination to take a specific major, etc.The text presents and describes the desk research analytical method. As an example of the practical application of the described method and a little-known data source, a short analysis of the database of Online Registration of andidates is presented. The components of the base are presented step by step, along with its information potential. A separate part is the presentation of the possible potential of IRK for educational research – in this case 11 years of candidates for archaeological studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Analysis of the candidates’ origin, study potential, determination to take a specific major, etc
Discovery and preliminary results of research on a logboat from Lake Kromszewickie, Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship
No full textThe paper discusses the discovery of a logboat in Lake Kromszewickie. The description of circumstances of the discovery is preceded by a brief biological and geographical characterisation of the basin and a reference to the findings of archaeological fieldwalking. Further in the article, a detailed description of the site and the discovered object is presented. The dugout, resting at a depth of approx. 7 m, is 4.25 m long and 0.42 m wide. At a short distance from it, a bovine horn and deer antlers were found. Based on the typology by W. Ossowski, it can be carefully assumed that the described logboat matches the characteristics of similar objects from the 14th century
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