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The Impact of Maternal Status Attributes on Gender Role Orientation and Success Striving of Female College Students
No full textThe aim of this study is to examine the ' impact of maternalstatus attributes on gender role attitude and success striving of female collegestudents. The subjects were 202 college girls randomly selected from fiveinstitutions of higher learning in Ethiopia. Data about the subjects werecollected through a questionnaire, a Gender Role Attitude (SRA) Scale and aFear of Success(FOS)Inventory. ANOVA procedure was employed to uncoverthe association among the variables considered. The results reveal that theeducation of the mother is significantly(p <.05) related to success striving,more egalitarian and less traditional attitude of college girls. The implicationsin terms of promoting gender issues and related policies are 'also discussed inthis paper
Breakneck Expansion and Quality Assurance in Ethiopian Higher Education: Ideological Rationales and Economic Impediments
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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
Beginning Teacher Education Students' Attitude towards their Future Profession: The Case of Dilla College of Teacher Education and Health Sciences
No full textThe present study was conducted on 138 freshman degree students in the Faculty of Teacher Education, Dilla College of Teacher Education and Health Sciences (DCTEHS). The aim was to find out whether or not trainee teachers were initially committed to teaching (or actually preferred teaching to other professions) and their attitudes towards the teaching profession. The data were collected using an attitude scale developed by the investigators and a survey questionnaire. The major statistical techniques employed were the non-parametric analogue of Friedman's 2-way ANOVA by ranks and the logistic regression analysis.
The results revealed that 74.6% of the respondents do not have initial commitment to teaching. The outstanding reasons for these were, perceived low social status accorded to teachers, absence of economic incentives, low chance for career advancement, and low base salary.
Further, high achievers in ESLCE seem to show low inclination to the teaching profession, and the likelihood of initial commitment to teaching was found to be relatively higher among those with comparatively low ESLCE GPA. Implications of the findings to redress the problem of teacher education in Ethiopia were also discussed in this paper
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