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Twelve Scents of Christmas How To Guide
No full textThis guide was written by Dr Smita Odedra (Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow), who created the Twelve Scents of Christmas chemistry outreach activity.Twelve Scents of Christmas is a festive-themed Chemistry outreach activity that I created in 2018. This guide is intended to help users recreate and run this chemistry outreach activity. It can be tailored to your own learning outcomes based on your target audience.Twelve Scents of Christmas is an interactive tabletop activity which has proved successful at engaging audiences of all ages. The University of Glasgow’s Chemistry Outreach Group has used it at a variety of events including community Christmas fayres, school visits, science museums, and undergraduate socials. The activity is fun, easy to run, and doesn’t create a mess. Once the activity materials have been created, the kit is easy to transport and set up, and lends itself well for reuse without further investment in consumables.Resource DOI: 10.25416/NTR.24204567The project was funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry (Glasgow & West of Scotland Local Section) – September 2018</h3
Creative Pedagogy: a student-created e-resource to support exploration and understanding of some core concepts
No full textA student co-created e-resource intended to help learners engage with key concepts surrounding the topic of Creative Pedagogies.This resource was created by two Chemistry undergraduate students at the University of Glasgow, Drew Gupwell and Sinead O'Hara.We (Smita Odedra & Linnea Soler) are two Senior Lecturers (Learning, Teaching & Scholarship track) in the School of Chemistry. We co-supervise final year research projects which span a wide range of topics across discipline-based Chemistry Education research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. For several years, we have been using creative assignments to help ground our students in the literature around their projects. This year we asked our two students to co-create this educational resource. We asked them to explore new topics as a team and to synthesise their findings in a novel and accessible way. Through this approach, we hoped to give them a supportive and fun introduction to the Scholarship process, building in opportunities for peer support and developing transferable skills in teamworking, communication and research skills. We value giving our students a voice and opportunities to share their work, so we are delighted to share their output with you on the National Teaching Repository. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!</p
SoTL Journeys- The Chemistry of SoTL and the SoTL of Chemistry
No full textIn this episode podcast editors Alison McCandlish and Marie McQuade interview Smita Odedra and Linnea Soler, both Senior Lecturers from the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. They speak about their own SoTL journeys, the relationship of disciplinary research to SoTL and their innovative work to help students understand how to make the most of their studies.
Linnea and Smita share insights into the interactive online Chemistry materials (including a virtual lab and note-taking resources) and how they work on SoTL co-creations with students
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
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