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Closing the gap : arts education on the Top End
No full textIn this second article of a three-part series on the work of The Song Room, the author explains how creative arts education programs are helping disadvantaged student populations in the top end
Hard to believe : arts education and disadvantaged students
No full textIn the first of three articles, the author profiles the work of The Song Room, an innovative not-for-profit organisation that is bringing free, tailored music and creative arts education programs to schools with disadvantaged student populations throughout Australia. Examples of how the program has impacted on specific schools are included, for example at Sacred Heart School in Melbourne\u27s Fitzroy which has a number of large public housing estates, and at Heatherhill Primary School in Melbourne\u27s south-east where 74 per cent of the students are from non-English speaking backgrounds. The Song Room is also involved in programs at Western English Language Service, a Victorian government school providing English as a second language programs across seven campuses in Melbourne\u27s west. Half the WELS students are refugee children and the rest are children of migrants. Aims of The Song Room are to target disadvantage with participation in arts education, which research has shown has a positive impact on social outcomes such as classroom engagement, confidence, school retention rates, and educational outcomes such as numeracy, literacy and cross-disciplinary skills. Importantly, the research also shows that creative arts education can improve engagement and outcomes for the most disadvantaged, with both intrinsic and extrinsic benefits. [Author abstract, ed
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
Stupid gamers and terrible teenagers : uncovering authentic learning
No full textDo you think game-thumbing young people are stupid, antisocial zombies, while skaters are just, well, stupid, antisocial teenagers on skateboards? It might be time to think again, says Ralph Saubern, since they’re actually engaged in authentic learning
For what will it profit a man? How not-for-profits are helping your profession
No full textOrganisations in the not-for-profit sector are helping educators find new ways of doing things better
Useful assessment is timely assessment
No full texttesting and teaching are not opposed: testing is an integral part of good teaching
Medical Selection Program launches in UAE
No full textA new Medical Selection Program (MSP) developed to meet the needs of medical and health sciences colleges in the Middle East and North Africa has launched in Dubai. ACER Deputy CEO Ralph Saubern reports
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
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