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An Ethnographic Investigation into the Influence of Bandura’s Four Psychological Sources of Information on Late-Career Elementary Teachers’ Self-Efficacy
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this ethnographic investigation was to examine and describe the experiences that impact late-career elementary teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs based on A. Bandura’s four psychological sources of information and serves as part of a thematic dissertation with each researcher focusing in a different teacher career stage.
Methodology: Through qualitative methodology utilizing one-on-one interviews of elementary public school teachers with 24 or more years of experience, data was analyzed using the theoretical framework of A. Bandura’s four sources of self-efficacy information.
Findings: Analysis of data from interviews of 15 late-career elementary teachers from five school districts in Riverside County, California resulted in the identification of 10 major findings: 1) Teachers feel valued given positive input; 2) The positive relationships teachers establish refuels their energy to persist in the field; 3) Teachers develop confidence when observing a trusted colleague; 4) Persevering through challenging situations increases a teachers’ commitment to the profession; 5) Teachers feel motivated to improve when observing other teachers’ successes or failures; 6) Teachers develop a deep understanding of how students learn; 7) Teachers feel a sense of joy when the light bulb goes on for the kids; 8) Teachers feel disconnected from negative input; 9) Teachers feel proud when they contribute to others’ personal growth; 10) Teachers experience burnout when they cannot meet individual student needs.
Conclusions: These findings have significant implications for school districts and administrators to support and grow teacher self-efficacy beliefs based upon data from late-career, elementary, public school teachers. The results are intended to inform district and school site leaders how self-efficacy beliefs are impacted by A. Bandura’s four sources of psychological information, and how to utilize this knowledge at the leadership level to provide better supports for teachers so they can develop resiliency and well-being over the course of their careers.
Recommendations: It is recommended that further qualitative research be conducted to continue to expand the understanding of teacher self-efficacy and the impact it has on teachers
An Ethnographic Investigation into the Influence of Bandura’s Four Psychological Sources of Information on Late-Career Elementary Teachers’ Self-Efficacy
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this ethnographic investigation was to examine and describe the experiences that impact late-career elementary teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs based on A. Bandura’s four psychological sources of information and serves as part of a thematic dissertation with each researcher focusing in a different teacher career stage.
Methodology: Through qualitative methodology utilizing one-on-one interviews of elementary public school teachers with 24 or more years of experience, data was analyzed using the theoretical framework of A. Bandura’s four sources of self-efficacy information.
Findings: Analysis of data from interviews of 15 late-career elementary teachers from five school districts in Riverside County, California resulted in the identification of 10 major findings: 1) Teachers feel valued given positive input; 2) The positive relationships teachers establish refuels their energy to persist in the field; 3) Teachers develop confidence when observing a trusted colleague; 4) Persevering through challenging situations increases a teachers’ commitment to the profession; 5) Teachers feel motivated to improve when observing other teachers’ successes or failures; 6) Teachers develop a deep understanding of how students learn; 7) Teachers feel a sense of joy when the light bulb goes on for the kids; 8) Teachers feel disconnected from negative input; 9) Teachers feel proud when they contribute to others’ personal growth; 10) Teachers experience burnout when they cannot meet individual student needs.
Conclusions: These findings have significant implications for school districts and administrators to support and grow teacher self-efficacy beliefs based upon data from late-career, elementary, public school teachers. The results are intended to inform district and school site leaders how self-efficacy beliefs are impacted by A. Bandura’s four sources of psychological information, and how to utilize this knowledge at the leadership level to provide better supports for teachers so they can develop resiliency and well-being over the course of their careers.
Recommendations: It is recommended that further qualitative research be conducted to continue to expand the understanding of teacher self-efficacy and the impact it has on teachers
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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