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Lesson Study as a teacher professional development method to foster differentiation in an inclusive setting in the Netherlands
No full textThis chapter explores how Dutch Language teachers design innovative lessons for differentiated instruction in an inclusive setting in the Netherlands using the teacher professional development method of Lesson Study as their collaborative vehicle. Today, the instructional and educational (support) needs of our students are different, both because of our changing society and as a result of the call for inclusive education. This urges teachers to increasingly adapt their instruction to the needs of all students. However, teachers in secondary education in the Netherlands as of yet do not typically incorporate differentiated instruction in their lessons. A case study is provided—based on discourse analysis of the recorded meetings—which describes the development of a Lesson Study team of Dutch Language teachers participating in a modified Lesson Study approach. This was implemented in a preparatory vocational secondary school in the northwestern part of the Netherlands. The contribution of Lesson Study to the process of collaboratively designing differentiated instruction is described and ideas for further research are suggested
Lesson Study for inclusive teaching in various settings
No full textProviding for the diverse educational needs of students is one of the most challenging educational goals in today’s schools. It is reflected in various terms, such as differentiated, adaptive, and responsive instruction, and in contemporary terms, such as inclusive education and teaching. One way of approaching this issue is to frame it within the perspective of what the teacher or team of teachers is doing in terms of inclusive teaching. The first steps towards these developments are represented by the chapters in this book written by authors who have been involved in using Lesson Study within the Netherlands, the UK, Singapore, and Sweden. The use of Lesson Study in different settings, including those that might be seen as separate and segregated, calls to question what is meant by inclusive teaching. In addition to discussing this important question, this book also examines the concepts of inclusion, inclusive education and teaching, and the nature and practice of Lesson Study within these various settings
A germ for young European scientists: Drawing-based modelling.
Full text linkAn important movement in European science education is that learning should be inquiry-based and represents realistic scientific practice. The inquiry-based nature of science education is essential to interest more young people for a career in science and technology. Creating models is broadly seen as an essential part of those scientific practices. Dynamic models play a central role in science as a main vehicle to express and evaluate our understanding of complex systems. Therefore, the ability to reason with and about models and to create models of dynamic systems is an important higher order thinking skill and as a means to foster the development of scientific attitudes. In teaching children how to model, the choice for model representation is important. Representations can vary from mathematical formula, programming languages and diagrammatic representations. This chapter will present modelling based on drawings, and the SimSketch software with which children can create dynamic, multi-agent models. By representing systems in drawings, assigning behaviour to elements of the drawing and simulate the resulting model, children can express and test their ideas about natural and artificial systems. The chapter discusses conceptual and technical issues related to SimSketch as well as studies in which children have used SimSketch to represent systems such as the solar system, traffic and the spreading of diseases. The role of this approach will be discussed in the context of developments in European educational research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved
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
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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