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Velocità di scrittura e ortografia nella produzione del testo scritto in età scolare
No full textIl presente studio analizza le abilità di scrittura dei bambini nel secondo ciclo della scuola primaria prendendo in esame la velocità, la correttezza ortografica e la lunghezza testuale. Hanno partecipato 88 bambini distribuiti tra le classi di III, IV e V. I risultati hanno evidenziato una stretta relazione tra processi di trascrizione (velocità di scrittura e correttezza ortografica) e processi più complessi di composizione del testo (lunghezza). In particolare, la velocità di scrittura correla significativamente con la lunghezza del testo (numero di parole e proposizioni) nei tre gradi di scolarità esaminati. In ambito educativo, i risultati evidenziano l’importanza di favorire l’automatizzazione dei processi di trascrizione durante il primo ciclo della scuola primaria, per consentire un maggior impiego delle risorse cognitive nei processi più complessi della scrittura rilevabili nel secondo ciclo.The present study aims to examine the writing skills in primary school children about some aspects of the writing process such as handwriting speed, spelling and compositional fluency. Eighty-eight children participated in the study, divided among the third, fourth and fifth grade. The results obtained showed a relationship between the transcription processes of writing, such as handwriting and spelling skills, and the length of the text, linked to more complex processes of written composition. The handwriting speed is significantly correlated with the variables of text length at each school grade. These results have educational implications to promote the automatization of the transcription processes of writing, in particular the handwriting speed in the first cycle of primary school
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
La valutazione delle abilità grafo-motorie in età prescolare tramite il test Shore Handwriting Screening
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The development of pre-writing skills: A pilot study
No full textProduction of a written text involves the coordination of many skills. Handwriting represent one of main component of writing abilities (Feder & Majnemer 2007). Many studies suggest that handwriting is an important factor in composition of young children and that the poor automaticity of handwriting may interfere with the text composition (Graham et al, 1997, Medwell & Strand, 2009). For this reason it may be important to explore the development of handwriting skills as early as preschool age. The skills that contribute most to handwriting are motor skills, hand-eye coordination, attention, visual-motor integration and perceptual skills (Volman et al., 2000). There are few recent studies that have investigated the development of handwriting skills from 3 to 6 years. (Tolchinsky-Landsmann, 2003; Levine & Bus, 2003).
The aims of this pilot study were: a) to explore the development of pre-writing skills in preschool children; b) analyze the relationship between the basic skills and pre-writing abilities in the different age groups.
Thirty-nine preschool children (21 boys and 18 girls; 36 to 65 months) participated at this study. They were divided into three age groups: 3 years old (n = 15, M = 38 months), 4 years old (n =16, M = 50 months), 5 years old (n = 8, M = 61 months). To evaluate pre-writing skills was used the Shore Handwriting Screening (SHS, Shore, 2003), this non-standardized tool includes observation of the child’s postural and hand control, bilateral hand skills, in-hand manipulation and the child’s ability to letter formation. In addiction were evaluated visual-motor integration and visual-perceptual skills (VMI), receptive vocabolary (PPVT), nonverbal ability (Raven’s CPM) and attention ability (Barrage Leiter-r). The results showed that the older children performed better than the younger children in every skills investigated. There was no significant differences between 4 years and 5 years old children in visual-perceptual skills and in the SHS scores. The relationship between the SHS and VMI scores was significant at all age. The correlation between SHS scores and Barrage scores was significant only at 4 years. These interesting preliminary results seem useful to define different developmental profiles in pre-writing skills in preschool children
Caratteristiche motorie in bambini con Disturbo della Coordinazione Motoria e con Disturbo Specifico dell'Apprendimento.
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