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Evaluating Individual Characteristics’ Work Engagement of Primary School Teachers Moderated by Organisational Factors in Acholi-Sub Region, Uganda
Full text linkThis paper presents the influence of individual characteristics on primary school teachers’ work engagement as moderated by organizational management factors in northern Uganda. The main objective was to examine the influence of individual characteristics on the work engagement of primary school teachers in the Acholi sub-region. By applying a cross-section survey design, the study employed both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The primary data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire form with a total sample of 326 participants from the selected schools. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that the rate of teacher absorption as well as their self-efficacy was higher than their professional dedication and commitment to their academic service delivery. In conclusion, individual teacher characteristics were vital for the work engagement outputs of the school teachers to promote school work engagement in the Acholi northern Uganda’s sub-region. The study recommended that the headteachers, education officers, boards, committees, and the government should approve individual factors that promote the work engagement ethics of the primary school teachers for better performanc
Professionalizing Academic Research Supervisory Competencies of Lecturers at Kyambogo University for Students' Performance Quality Outputs in Uganda
Full text linkThis paper presents the imperative of professionalizing academic research supervision skills at Kyambogo University in Uganda, with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of student research outcomes. It emphasizes the vital importance of lecturers' supervisory abilities in guiding students to produce high-standard research, a challenge prevalent across many higher education institutions in Uganda. We analyzed the national, regional, and global viewpoints, the study emphasizes the necessity of strengthening supervisory competencies to bridge existing gaps in research supervision and its influence on student performance. The following specific objectives guide the study: (1) evaluating the existing research supervisory skills of lecturers at Kyambogo University, (2) analyzing how insufficient supervision affects the quality and performance of students' research outputs, (3) suggesting strategies to professionalize research supervision by incorporating ethical practices, innovation, and inclusivity, (4) examining the role of gender equality in academic research supervision and its impact on students' research experiences, and (5) exploring how environmental considerations can be integrated into research supervision to promote sustainable academic practices. Using a mixed-methods research approach, the study combines systematic literature reviews, case studies, and empirical evidence to analyze the role of faculty in fostering research excellence. It also examines institutional digital readiness, student engagement, and community outreach programs as factors influencing research supervision. The findings reveal a significant correlation between enhanced supervisory competencies and improved student research outputs, particularly when supported by 21st-century curricula and digital tools. The study identifies gaps in supervisory competencies and their implications for research quality, offering evidence-based recommendations for capacity-building initiatives, improved training for academic staff, and the alignment of institutional policies with global research standards. The findings emphasize that effective academic research supervision is pivotal to enhancing the quality of students’ research outputs and overall academic performance
Assessing Organisational Factors’ Influence on Work Engagement of Primary School Teachers in the Acholi Sub-Region of Northern Uganda
Full text linkThis paper presents the influence of organisational factors on the work engagement of primary school teachers in selected primary schools in four districts of northern Uganda. In the cross-sectional survey research design, the study employed qualitative and quantitative data collection methods, focusing on quantitative approaches. Data were systematically collected from a sample of 326 participants using a self-administered questionnaire. The findings revealed that teacher absorption was as high as the personal self-efficacy of teachers, but teacher dedication and teacher vigour were moderate. In addition, organisational factors, leadership support and social support were fair. However, moderation analysis revealed that organisational factors had no clear moderating role in the influence of individual characteristics of the work engagement of teachers. It was concluded that organisational factors in the form of leadership and social support were essential for the engagement of teachers. Therefore, it was highly recommended that headteachers, education officers, and other stakeholders involved in the management of schools should consider providing leadership support and promoting social support in schools. It was also recommended that organisational factors should be emphasised in all the primary schools to promote effective work engagement of teacher
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
Promoting Democratic Decision-Making for Academics’ Work Performance in Ugandan Public Universities
Full text linkThe use of democratic decision-making approaches (DMA) by university academic unit managers is vital for improved scholarly productivity and regular work performance of academic staff’s in Ugandan public universities. The study examined the democratic decision-making approaches of the academic unit managers in tandem with the work performance of the academics’ in the Ugandan public universities. The research objectives were to examine the effects of democratic decision-making approaches as used by the various academic unit managers in the Ugandan public universities on the work performance of the various categories of university academics, examine the benefits of democratic decision making and explain its implications of academic productivity on education for sustainable development. The cross-sectional survey study employed mixed quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments that involved all categories of academics from assistant lecturers to professors in three selected public universities in Uganda. 325 respondents participated in the survey that was backed by in-depth interviews. The data were analyzed by the use of appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics as well as the thematic content analysis method. Preliminary findings indicated that among others, the high work performance of the academics was directly related to the democratic decision-making style which the decision-makers at various university academic units practiced. The use of democratic decision-making approach had a more significant positive effect on the work performance (WP) of the academic staff. The results showed that a unit increase in the use of DMA yields 19.1% increases in the WP of academic staff. We concluded that democratic decision-making approach promotes academic freedom, openness, incentives or motivations, and high academics’ productivity in regular work. Therefore, it is recommended that academic unit managers who aim to achieve better staff work performance for university competitiveness should adopt the democratic decision-making model for enhanced academics’ work performance output. The unit managers should also be trained and made skillful in the use of DMA because it is consultative, collective, and participative in nature
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