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A comparative study of learning styles of Pakistani and Austrian adult learners in socio-academic perspective
No full textDiese Untersuchung beschreibt die unterschiedlichen Lernstile von erwachsenen Lernenden aus zwei Kulturen und die Auswirkungen kultureller Aspekte, wie den Stellenwert der Kultur, die frühen Bildungserfahrungen und den ökonomischen Hintergrund auf die Lernstile. Diese ländervergleichende Forschungsarbeit umfasst pakistanische und österreichische Universitätsstudenten, die an sozialwissenschaftlichen Master-Kursen teilnahmen (Alter:20-24). Basierend auf Kolbs ?Learning Style Inventory? (KLSI, Kolb 2005) wurde ein zweiteiliger Fragebogen ausgearbeitet. Der erste Teil enthält Fragen, um die Lernstile der pakistanischen und österreichischen Studierenden zu erfassen. Die Daten umfassten 80 pakistanische (40 männlich, 40 weiblich) und 80 österreichische Studierende (40 männlich, 40 weiblich), die durch die ?convenience cum purposive sampling technique? ausgewählt wurden. In diesem Teil wurden vier Lernstile (Convergers, Divergers, Assimilators and Accommodators) wie sie in Kolbs ?Experimental Learning Theory? festgelegt wurden, untersucht. Der zweite Teil des Fragebogens umfasst drei Teile, die die oben erwähnten kulturellen Faktoren beinhalten. Die durch den zweiten Teil des Fragebogens gewonnenen Aspekte, die noch weitere Erklärungen benötigten, wurden danach ausgewählt. In Interviews wurden diese Aspekte mit 20 pakistanischen (10 männlich, 10 weiblich) und 20 österreichischen Studierenden (10 männlich, 10 weiblich) diskutiert, um mehr Klarheit zu erhalten. Durch diese Interviews wurden qualitative Daten gewonnen. Diese Daten wurden katalogisiert und danach interpretiert, um einen Rahmen zu entwickeln. Die ?Phillip Mayring Technique? wurde für die Analyse der Daten verwendet. (Mayring, 2000) Diese Studie beschreibt die Beziehungsmuster zwischen den sozio-akademischen Bedingungen und den Lernstilpräferenzen der erwachsenen Lernenden.This research describes the differences in learning styles of adult learners of two cultures and effects of cultural aspects such as values of culture, early educational experiences, and economic background upon learning styles. This cross-cultural research work included Pakistani and Austrian university students of social sciences at master level (ages 20-24). On the basis of Kolb Learning Style Inventory (KLSI, Kolb 2005), a Questionnaire was developed consisted of two parts. First part deals with questions in order to find out the learning styles of the students of Pakistan and Austria. Data was collected, from Eighty (40 male and 40 female) Pakistani and Eighty (40 male and 40 female) Austrian students selected through convenience cum purposive sampling technique. This part designed to investigate four learning styles (Convergers, Divergers, Assimilators, and Accommodators) as described in the Kolb?s Experiential Learning Theory (ELT).Second part of the questionnaire includes three sections covering the questions about above stated three factors of culture. The aspects of factors obtained through the second part of questionnaire and required further explanation were selected. These aspects were discussed through interviews with twenty Pakistani (10 male and 10 female) and twenty Austrian (10 male and 10 female) adult students learners in order to develop more clarity. These interviews provided qualitative data. This data was categorized and then interpreted to develop a framework. Phillip Mayring Technique was used for data analysis. (Mayring, 2000) This study describes the relationship patterns of socio-academic conditions with learning or learning styles preferences of the adult learners. The cultural values, early education experiences and diverse economic background were three main aspects included to describe the socio-academic circumstances. The study investigated how these socio-academic conditions affected the Pakistani and Austrian adult learners.eingereicht von Lubna ShoukatZsfassung in dt. und engl. SpracheGraz, Univ., Diss., 2013 004
A comparative study of learning styles of Pakistani and Austrian adult learners in socio-academic perspective
No full textDiese Untersuchung beschreibt die unterschiedlichen Lernstile von erwachsenen Lernenden aus zwei Kulturen und die Auswirkungen kultureller Aspekte, wie den Stellenwert der Kultur, die frühen Bildungserfahrungen und den ökonomischen Hintergrund auf die Lernstile. Diese ländervergleichende Forschungsarbeit umfasst pakistanische und österreichische Universitätsstudenten, die an sozialwissenschaftlichen Master-Kursen teilnahmen (Alter:20-24). Basierend auf Kolbs ?Learning Style Inventory? (KLSI, Kolb 2005) wurde ein zweiteiliger Fragebogen ausgearbeitet. Der erste Teil enthält Fragen, um die Lernstile der pakistanischen und österreichischen Studierenden zu erfassen. Die Daten umfassten 80 pakistanische (40 männlich, 40 weiblich) und 80 österreichische Studierende (40 männlich, 40 weiblich), die durch die ?convenience cum purposive sampling technique? ausgewählt wurden. In diesem Teil wurden vier Lernstile (Convergers, Divergers, Assimilators and Accommodators) wie sie in Kolbs ?Experimental Learning Theory? festgelegt wurden, untersucht. Der zweite Teil des Fragebogens umfasst drei Teile, die die oben erwähnten kulturellen Faktoren beinhalten. Die durch den zweiten Teil des Fragebogens gewonnenen Aspekte, die noch weitere Erklärungen benötigten, wurden danach ausgewählt. In Interviews wurden diese Aspekte mit 20 pakistanischen (10 männlich, 10 weiblich) und 20 österreichischen Studierenden (10 männlich, 10 weiblich) diskutiert, um mehr Klarheit zu erhalten. Durch diese Interviews wurden qualitative Daten gewonnen. Diese Daten wurden katalogisiert und danach interpretiert, um einen Rahmen zu entwickeln. Die ?Phillip Mayring Technique? wurde für die Analyse der Daten verwendet. (Mayring, 2000) Diese Studie beschreibt die Beziehungsmuster zwischen den sozio-akademischen Bedingungen und den Lernstilpräferenzen der erwachsenen Lernenden.This research describes the differences in learning styles of adult learners of two cultures and effects of cultural aspects such as values of culture, early educational experiences, and economic background upon learning styles. This cross-cultural research work included Pakistani and Austrian university students of social sciences at master level (ages 20-24). On the basis of Kolb Learning Style Inventory (KLSI, Kolb 2005), a Questionnaire was developed consisted of two parts. First part deals with questions in order to find out the learning styles of the students of Pakistan and Austria. Data was collected, from Eighty (40 male and 40 female) Pakistani and Eighty (40 male and 40 female) Austrian students selected through convenience cum purposive sampling technique. This part designed to investigate four learning styles (Convergers, Divergers, Assimilators, and Accommodators) as described in the Kolb?s Experiential Learning Theory (ELT).Second part of the questionnaire includes three sections covering the questions about above stated three factors of culture. The aspects of factors obtained through the second part of questionnaire and required further explanation were selected. These aspects were discussed through interviews with twenty Pakistani (10 male and 10 female) and twenty Austrian (10 male and 10 female) adult students learners in order to develop more clarity. These interviews provided qualitative data. This data was categorized and then interpreted to develop a framework. Phillip Mayring Technique was used for data analysis. (Mayring, 2000) This study describes the relationship patterns of socio-academic conditions with learning or learning styles preferences of the adult learners. The cultural values, early education experiences and diverse economic background were three main aspects included to describe the socio-academic circumstances. The study investigated how these socio-academic conditions affected the Pakistani and Austrian adult learners.eingereicht von Lubna ShoukatZsfassung in dt. und engl. SpracheGraz, Univ., Diss., 2013 004
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
Ethics and Educational Leadership: A State of Affairs at the City School Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Get PDFThis research describes the impact of ethics on educational leadership. A questionnaire was prepared based on various ethical and unethical attributes collected through the interviews and relevant literature. These attributes are people orientation, fairness, power sharing, and concern for sustainability, ethical guidance, role classification, integrity, courageous, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. The unethical behaviours included are \u27commands respect,\u27 external locus of control, personalized power, Machiavellianism, vindictive and cynicism
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