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Professional Awareness of Italian Educators in Initial Undergraduate Training
No full textThe research presented investigates the professional awareness of undergraduate students enrolled in the degree course in Educational Sciences at the University of Catania. A specially constructed inventory allowed for an understanding of students’ awareness about their future roles as educators and about the various professions available to them, still in their initial training at university. The inventory consisted of 25 questions which sought to distinguish between the role of the educator and the role of other professionals in social fields (psychologists, social workers, teachers). The questions described the role of the professional, based on the descriptions in the Atlas of Professions (Luciano, 2013). This study describes the validation process as well as the results from an initial administering of the survey on a sample of 250 students from the University of Catania
Prospettiva temporale e processi di apprendimento nella didattica universitaria. Uno studio trasversale
No full textNell’ambito del progetto di ricerca dipartimentale Tempo e tempi dell’educazione (PIACERI 2020), il contributo presenta gli esiti di un’indagine volta ad analizzare la possibile correlazione tra prospettiva temporale e stili di apprendimento negli scenari della didattica universitaria a distanza e della didattica digitale integrata. In particolare, scopo della ricerca è indagare la possibile correlazione tra le mutate condizioni della didattica universitaria, a seguito della pandemia da Sars-CoV2, e la capacità di studentesse e studenti di progettare il loro futuro L’indagine è stata condotta presso il Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università degli Studi di Catania su un campione di 543 studentesse e studenti a cui sono stati somministrati il Questionario sui Processi di Apprendimento (QPA) e la versione italiana dello Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI). Al fine di condurre una disamina di tipo comparativo, declinata secondo una prospettiva trasversale, la somministrazione è stata condotta su due popolazioni che presentano caratteristiche simili nella primavera del 2021 e del 2022. I risultati e gli sviluppi futuri di questo studio possono avere ricadute sia in termini didattici e sia a fini scientifici in direzione di ulteriori ricerche sul tema in contesti internazionali di impianto comparativo.As part of the departmental research project Time and Times of Education (PIACERI 2020), the paper presents the outcomes of an investigation aimed at analyzing the possible correlation between temporal perspective and learning styles in the scenarios of university distance education and integrated digital education. In particular, the purpose of the research is to investigate the possible correlation between the changed conditions of university teaching, following the Sars-CoV2 pandemic, and the ability of female students to plan their future The survey was conducted at the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Catania on a sample of 543 students who were administered the Questionnaire on Learning Processes (QPA) and the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI). In order to conduct a comparative examination, declined from a cross-sectional perspective, the administration was conducted on two populations with similar characteristics in the spring of 2021 and 2022. The results and future developments of this study may have implications both in terms of teaching and for scientific purposes in the direction of further research on the topic in international comparative frameworks
DISTANCE EDUCATION AND LEARNING PROCESSES. A SURVEY AT UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
No full textThe emergency situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic required all Italian universities to implement alternative teaching strategies to traditional face-to-face lessons. At the University of Catania, this situation prompted the start of distance learning paths in a synchronous mode at the very beginning of the emergency. At the same time, the lecturers were encouraged to video-record the lessons in order to make them available to students also in asynchronous mode. On the basis of this emergency situation, an investigation was immediately launched to identify the consequences of the new teaching methods on student learning processes; the research began in the first phase of the lockdown in Italy (March 2020) and ended in January 2021. The aim of this contribution is to present the results of the research conducted on a sample of 300 students following bachelor degree courses of the Department of Education at the University of Catania. The research aims to detect the students’ points of view on the strengths and weaknesses of the synchronous and asynchronous ways of presenting lessons and their respective impact on learning processes. The results of the research could provide useful insights to rethink university teaching even when the emergency situation comes to an end
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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