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Assessment for learning: practices among Agricultural ILS teachers in Malaysia
No full textThis study employed a cross-sectional survey research design to determine the assessment for learning practices among teachers who teach Agricultural Integrated Living Skills (ILS) subject in Malaysia. The instrument used is a set of questionnaire which engaging Agricultural ILS teachers in secondary schools throughout Malaysia as samples. The purposes of this study specifically focused on the level of assessment for learning practices and explore the selected demographic factors toward practices of assessment for learning among Agricultural ILS teachers in Malaysia. The finding shows that the level of assessment for learning practices among Agricultural ILS teachers were mostly at the moderate level. Furthermore, findings also shows assessment for learning practices significant related to the highest educational qualification among Agricultural ILS teachers. Several recommendations are made based on the findings especially for the alignment of assessment for learning practices among teachers in schools
The effect of interaction between demographic factors of Malaysian agriculture teachers on the practice of involvement in decision making at the school level
No full textPemerkasaan peranan guru pertanian dalam membuat keputusan peringkat sekolah berpotensi untuk meningkatkan semangat berpasukan dan membentuk keputusan yang berkualiti ke arah pembaikan sekolah. Kajian tinjauan secara cross-sectional ini telah dijalankan untuk meneroka kesan interaksi faktor demografi terhadap amalan penglibatan guru pertanian Malaysia dalam membuat keputusan peringkat sekolah. Antara faktor demografi yang terpilih ialah jantina dan peringkat kelulusan pendidikan tertinggi dalam kalangan guru pertanian di Malaysia. Tahap amalan penglibatan dalam membuat keputusan di sekolah juga dikenal pasti berdasarkan persepsi guru pertanian Malaysia. Seramai 352 orang guru pertanian yang berkhidmat di sekolah menengah kebangsaan telah dipilih secara rawak dari seluruh Malaysia sebagai responden. Setiap responden menerima edaran borang soal selidik melalui khidmat pos untuk tujuan pengumpulan data. Dapatan menekankan bahawa majoriti guru pertanian Malaysia mengalami tahap penglibatan dalam membuat keputusan yang rendah di sekolah. Kajian turut mendapati amalan penglibatan dalam membuat keputusan yang belum mencapai tahap maksimum cederung berinteraksi dengan faktor jantina dan peringkat kelulusan pendidikan tertinggi dalam kalangan guru pertanian Malaysia. Justeru, faktor demografi berkenaan wajar menjadi tumpuan usaha penambahbaikan bagi meningkatkan penglibatan guru pertanian Malaysia dalam membuat keputusan di sekolah. Kajian ini mengesyorkan agar pemimpin sekolah mengenal pasti keperluan guru pertanian mengikut faktor demografi terpilih dahulu supaya memudahkan penjajaran amalan penglibatan dalam membuat keputusan di sekolah menengah kebangsaan seluruh Malaysia
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
Exploring the Influence of teacher student interaction strength, interaction time, interaction distance and interaction content on international student satisfaction with online courses
No full textSince the outbreak of COVID-19 in January 2020, international online courses in universities in China have begun to develop on a large scale. This study explores the related influencing factors of teacher-student interaction on international student satisfaction with online courses in Chinese universities. It reveals which aspects of teacher-student interaction in online classes positively correlate with international students' satisfaction. This study is of a quantitative nature with four (independent variables (IVs) and one dependent variable (DV). The four IVs are the four dimensions of teacher-student interaction, namely interaction strength (IS), interaction time (IT), interaction content (IC), and interaction distance (ID). The DV is international student satisfaction (ISS) with online courses. This study was conducted in a university in Zhejiang Province, China. To answer the questionnaire, one hundred international students who were unable to enter China during COVID-19 were selected by stratified random sampling. The study used SPSS 21 to conduct descriptive and multiple linear regression analysis on the collected quantitative data. A total of 93 valid questionnaire data was collected. The analysis results showed that both IVs (IC & ID) have a positive correlation with the DV (ISS). Therefore, under the condition of limited equal resources, online teachers may give priority to the teacher-student interaction factors that have the greatest impact on the satisfaction of international students, carefully design teacher-student interaction activities, and maximise the satisfaction of international students
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
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