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Evaluation of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program
No full textAn evaluation of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program has been undertaken by a joint research team from the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing & Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University and The McCaughey Centre: Vichealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne.
The evaluation findings are extremely positive. One of the clearest findings is that the Kitchen Garden Program is encouraging positive health-behaviour change in participating children. The evaluation also highlights the transfer of Program benefits to the home and the broader community.
The research team:
Dr Lisa Gibbs (Principal Investigator); The McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne (formerly of Deakin University)
Professor Petra Staiger (Investigator); School of Psychology, Deakin University
Professor Mardie Townsend (Invetsigator); School of Health & Social Development, Deakin University
Macfarlane (Investigator); School of Psychology, Deakin University
Block (Research Fellow); The McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne
Gold (Health Economics Advisor); Deakin Health Economics, Deakin University
Johnson (Research Fellow); The McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne
Long (Research Fellow); School of Psychology, Deakin University
Kulas (Research Assistant); The McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne
Chukwunyere (Statistical Advisor); Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit (CERBU), The Royal Children\u27s Hospital
Elizabeth Walters (advisory Support); The McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne
The methodology used to evaluate the Kitchen Garden Program consisted of a longitudinal design utilising a mixed methods approach. A combination of qualitative and quantitative data was collected from six participating schools and six comparison schools over a two-and-a-half-year period, to assess change over time. This measured process, impact and outcome indicators to assess the feasibility of the Program, how the Program is experienced by participants, whether changes have occurred and thus whether the aims have been achieved.
Image: Nunawading Primary School Students eat the food they grow and coo
Dinnertime 2000. by Stephanie Alexander
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tag=13 data=CABOur fruit and vegetables will contain fewer chemicals. Our fish will be fresher and better-textured. Gene technology will deliver us the reddest tomatoes we desire. But no amount of purifying technology will make Australians eat better food if their instincts don't lead them to it
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
The pedagogisation of health knowledge and outsourcing of curriculum development : the case of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden initiative
Full text linkIt is apparent that the dimensions of health within and under the auspices of schooling are open to contributions by other providers that exist outside of school systems. We acknowledge schools often resort to outside providers for a number of reasons; for example, to broaden the curriculum experiences for children, or to compensate for the absence of expertise within a school. The central focus for this paper is to try to understand these phenomena with particular reference to the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden initiative. through the theoretical work of Basil Bernstein. Specifically, we were interested in the source of particular kinds of health knowledge for the purposes of acquisition by children, what journey does such knowledge travel to arrive in school classrooms and in the process, how and in what ways is it pedagogised under the conditions of outsourcing
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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