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Rethinking Early Years Assessment Student and Teacher Perceptions in Balancing Institutional Demands and Developmental Needs in 3–4H HarmoS
Get PDFThe assessment of learning in 3-4 HarmoS is generating debates about its impact on pupils' development and its ability to adequately reflect their capabilities. Current assessment practices, often inspired by higher grade levels, have difficulty taking into account the developmental specificities of young children (Clerc-Georgy & Truffer Moreau, 2016) and are deeply inscribed in representations of what the assessment of learning should be. This poster presentation aims to validate a scale designed to explore the perceptions of pre-service HEP students and novice teachers about assessment practices in the early years of compulsory schooling. The aim is to understand how these perceptions are formed and how they may influence their future assessment practices.
The literature reveals tensions between different conceptions of assessment in the early years. The psychometric tradition, which still dominates, sees assessment as a normative tool designed to measure isolated skills in a standardised context (Resnick & Resnick, 1992). This approach, based on achievement testing, tends to overlook the social and contextual dynamics of learning and the developmental potential of pupils (Bredo, 1999). In contrast, a dynamic perspective emphasises formative assessment and focuses on identifying pupils' strengths and potential in authentic and interactive learning contexts (Fleer & Quiñones, 2013). This approach values the observation of learning processes in natural situations and interactions between pupils, peers and teachers (Bagnato, 2007)
In parallel, Yerly (2014) demonstrates that assessments, while useful for harmonizing practices and meeting institutional demands, are often perceived by teachers as an "unavoidable necessity." Teachers report experiencing significant pressure, sometimes feeling as though their own performance is being evaluated more than their pupils'. This observation resonates strongly within the 3-4 HarmoS context, where teachers must navigate between institutional expectations and practices tailored to the developmental needs of young children.
Research also shows that assessment practices in the early years are influenced by institutional agendas, curriculum standards and societal expectations that place pressures on teachers (Elwood & Murphy, 2015). These pressures encourage the use of standardised tests or administrative tools that are often not appropriate to the realities of young children's learning. However, teachers in the early years express a growing need for more holistic approaches that integrate the social, emotional and cognitive dimensions of students' development (DeLuca & Hughes, 2014).
In this context, the perceptions of pre-service and novice teachers play a key role in shaping assessment practices. These perceptions are influenced by their initial training, classroom experiences and beliefs about children's learning and development (Tardif, 1993). However, few studies have examined how these perceptions are formed and develop over time, or how they influence assessment practices.
The scale we will present aims to explore these perceptions by analysing data from pre-service students (N=50) and novice teachers (N=10). It consists of 24 items and distinguishes between more traditional approaches (e.g. assessing reading by decoding simple sentences individually) and more dynamic ones (e.g. assessing children's overall development across affective, social, motor and cognitive dimensions). These findings are complemented by additional data on pedagogical practices identified as necessary, contrasting behaviourist orientations (e.g. knowledge acquisition through repetition and memorisation) with constructivist approaches (e.g. learning through exploration and experimentation). These analyses highlight tensions between institutional requirements and professional aspirations, while identifying ways to better adapt assessment practices to the needs of pupils in 3-4 HarmoS
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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