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Grafia e produzione del testo nei bambini della scuola primaria
No full textLo scopo di questo studio è analizzare la relazione che intercorre tra diverse componenti implicate nel processo di scrittura in bambini del secondo ciclo della scuola primaria. Hanno partecipato alla ricerca 62 bambini distribuiti tra le classi di III, IV e V. La produzione scritta è stata esaminata negli aspetti grafo-motori, attraverso l’analisi delle caratteristiche disgrafiche (Zoia et al, 2004), negli aspetti di composizione del testo, in base alla struttura narrativa (Stein e Glenn, 1979; Longobardi e Devescovi, 1997) e negli aspetti ortografici (Tressoldi e Cornoldi, 2000). I risultati ottenuti hanno evidenziato una significativa correlazione tra componenti grafo-motorie e ortografiche, riconducibili a processi di tipo “low level”, e variabili di composizione del testo, legate a processi “high level” (Berninger e Swanson, 1994). I bambini che producono un maggior numero di errori ortografici e grafo-motori, producono testi meno completi e organizzati a livello di struttura narrativa
Abilità di scrittura e composizione del testo in bambini di scuola primaria
No full textThe present study aims to investigate the writing skills in primary school children and to analyze the relationship between the different components involved in the writing process. Written production was evaluated by considering the handwriting, spelling and narrative structure through the analysis of stories written by children. Sixty two children participated in the study distributed amomg III, IV and V class. The results showed a close relationship between processes "low level", such as handwriting and spelling skills, and the "high level " processes, like narrative writing composition. Children who produce most frequently spelling and handwriting errors, produce texts less complete in terms of narrative structure
Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability and predictive validity of the Italian version of Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ)
No full textBackground: Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a motor disorder of unclear etiology that severely interferes with a child's ability to perform daily motor tasks. As a useful alternative to a time-consuming motor test and specialist evaluation, parents or teachers can complete motor questionnaires. A tool used worldwide to screen motor performance in 4- to 14-year-old children is the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (DCDQ'07). Aims: To describe how we translated the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (DCDQ'07) and adapted it to the Italian population and to test its preliminary psychometric properties in Italian children. Methods: Parents of a clinical group of 26 children (5-11 years old) with a diagnosis of DCD and 52 matched controls completed the DCDQ translated into Italian and adapted for cross-cultural purposes according to current guidelines. Twenty-four parents of typically developing children randomly selected completed the questionnaire twice to examine test -retest reliability. Results: The internal consistency value (Cronbach alpha) for the Italian DCDQ was 0.94. The Italian DCDQ achieved moderate-to-high test -retest reliability(ICC) for 14/15 items and a good diagnostic performance for identifying children with DCD (sensitivity 88% and specificity 96%). Conclusions: The Italian DCDQ is a valid screening tool for assessing motor performance in 5- to 11-year-old children that merits research in a larger sample. (C) 2013 European Paediatric Neurology Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Profilo cognitivo e disturbi del neurosviluppo: un confronto tra bambini con DSA, DCD e DSL
No full textLo studio ha come obiettivo quello di esaminare i profili cognitivi in tre popolazioni di bambini con disturbo specifico dell’apprendimento: (1) DSA senza comorbidità; (2) DSA e disturbo della coordinazione motoria (DCD); (3) DSA e disturbo di linguaggio (DSL). Hanno partecipato allo studio 38 bambini: 17 DSA, 12 DCD e 9 DSL. È stata utilizzata la Scala d'Intelligenza WISC-IV. I risultati indicano una differenza significativa (p<.01) tra i gruppi nel QI totale e in alcuni subtest. I bambini con DCD hanno punteggi significativamente più bassi rispetto al gruppo DSA nel subtest “Disegno con cubi” e nell’indice di Ragionamento Percettivo. I bambini con DSL ottengono punteggi significativamente più bassi rispetto al gruppo DSA nel subtest “Somiglianze”, nell’indice di Comprensione Verbale e di Abilità Generale (IAG). I risultati mostrano che il profilo cognitivo può essere caratterizzato diversamente in base alla presenza di una specifica tipologia di Disturbo del neurosviluppo
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
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