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Processes of decision-making with adaptive combinations of wiki and chat tools
No full textDebate in the field of event-based analysis of collaborative process data has focused on how best to account for the temporal nature of processes. We reanalyzed data from an online learning environment that included multiple tool use (chat and wiki) in synchronous and asynchronous collaborative settings. In this paper we modeled decision-making, and used time to identify four patterns of tool use to make decisions: single chat, multiple chat, chat/s and follow-up wiki, and integrated. Each pattern of tool use was associated with a unique process model, which indicated the affordances of each tool for that particular activity. The examination of the integrated use of tools, and the integrated decision-making process in a collaborative online setting has implications for designers, instructors and researchers
Letter with attachment: Kate A. Thompson to Ida M. Tarbell, April 6, 1923
No full textHandwritten letter, 8 pages, with typed transcript of Lincoln-Hanks lette
Letter: Kate A. Thompson to Mrs. Hitchcock, April 6, 1923
No full textHandwritten letter to Caroline Hitchcock, 6 page
Examining System Dynamics Models Together: Using Variation Theory to Identify
No full textThis study applies variation theory to examine the discourse of three online groups learning about the structure and behavior of simple population models. Students’ discussions were examined to reveal whether the discussions provided opportunities to become aware of possible variations corresponding to those critical dimensions. The findings indicated that only in Group 1 did the discussion open variations corresponding to critical dimensions of the model structure and growth patterns. We propose that variation theory is useful as an analytic lens for researchers interested in collaborative learning particularly in online environments, and also as an instructional design tool for teachers in designing collaborative tasks
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
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