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The European TEMI Project Involves Italian Teachers : First Outcomes
No full textThe aim of the European project TEMI (Teaching Enquiry with Mysteries Incorporated) is
to help transform science and mathematics teaching practice in Europe, by giving teachers
new skills to engage their students and exciting new resources together with the extended
support needed to effectively introduce inquiry based learning into their classrooms.
In the present work, we will illustrate the pilot training session, performed by the
University of Milan and addressed to a cohort of 14 secondary school teachers. During the
session, teachers directly experienced a guided inquiry IBSE and became familiar with the
method that they would subsequently implement with their students.
Here we will discuss strengths and weaknesses of the pilot cohort in order to refine the
method implemented in the first cohort and to improve the results of the subsequent
sessions planned by the project. Besides, we propose some results of the final test given to
teachers to get an evaluation of the first training cohort
"Good Vibrations" : A workshop on oscillations and normal modes
Get PDFWe describe some theatrical strategies adopted in a two hour workshop in order to show some meaningful experiments and the underlying useful ideas to describe a secondary school path on oscillations, that develops from harmonic motion to normal modes of oscillations, and makes extensive use of video analysis, data logging, slow motions and applet simulations. Theatre is an extremely useful tool to stimulate motivation starting from positive emotions. That is the reason why the theatrical approach to the presentation of physical themes has been explored by the group "Lo spettacolo della Fisica" (http://spettacolo.fisica.unimi.it) of the Physics Department of University of Milano for the last ten years (Carpineti et al., JCOM, 10 (2011) 1; Nuovo Cimento B, 121 (2006) 901) and has been inserted also in the European FP7 Project TEMI (Teaching Enquiry with Mysteries Incorporated, see http://teachingmysteries.eu/en) which involves 13 different partners coming from 11 European countries, among which the Italian (Milan) group. According to the TEMI guidelines, this workshop has a written script based on emotionally engaging activities of presenting mysteries to be solved while participants have been involved in nice experiments following the developed path
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
Good Vibrations : A Workshop on Oscillations and Normal Modes
No full textWe describe some theatrical strategies adopted in a two hour workshop in order to show
some meaningful experiments and the underlying useful ideas to describe a secondary
school path on oscillations, that develops from harmonic motion to normal modes of
oscillations, and makes extensive use of video analysis, data logging, slow motions and
applet simulations. Theatre is an extremely useful tool to stimulate motivation starting from
positive emotions. That is the reason why the theatrical approach to the presentation of
physical themes has been explored by the group “Lo spettacolo della Fisica”
[Spettacolodellafisica 2014] of the Physics Department of University of Milano for the last
ten years [Carpineti et al. 2011; Carpineti et al. 2006] and has been inserted also in the
European FP7 Project TEMI (Teaching Enquiry with Mysteries Incorporated) [Temi 2014]
which involves 13 different partners coming from 11 European countries, among which the
Italian (Milan) group. According to the TEMI guidelines, this workshop has a written script
based on emotionally engaging activities of presenting mysteries to be solved while
participants have been involved in nice experiments following the developed path
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
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