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Salvare l'università italiana. Oltre i miti e i tabù.
No full textIl dibattito sull’università italiana sta finalmente uscendo dai confini angusti degli addetti ai lavori e dalle polemiche annose, grazie anche a recenti e corpose indagini empiriche. Spesso però le interpretazioni che ne derivano si limitano a riproporre antichi stereotipi, contrapponendo le colpe dei governi a quelle delle università o delle corporazioni accademiche. Nell’affrontare la crisi dell’università italiana e del suo ruolo culturale, economico e civile, gli autori contestano miti e tabù e, attraverso una discussione chiara delle molteplici cause, prospettano alcuni scenari alternativi, indicando possibili linee di intervento per arrestare il declino
Public Administration and Higher Education in Italy
No full textIn the realm of higher education (HE), universities assume a pivotal role in promoting the economic and social development by disseminating knowledge and enhancing human capital. This chapter discusses how the public role of Italian universities has evolved over time, starting from the years following World War II up to the present day. The chapter also highlights how the progressive evolution of universities’ role has been characterized by a simultaneous—though often delayed—evolution of their systemic and corporate governance, leading to a layering of administrative logics and widespread resistances to change. In this regard, the renewed intervention of the state into the university system—through the policy measures adopted within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)—represents an element of acceleration towards a more impactful role of universities for both social and economic development, which ultimately requires more collaborative and network-based governance approaches. Finally, the chapter discusses four main current and future challenges that impact the evolution of the Italian university system: (i) an increasing fair access and inclusiveness, (ii) an increasing awareness of territorial imbalances, (iii) the challenges raised by online teaching and telematic universities, and the full internationalization of the system
Same Governance Template but Different Agencies
No full textIn both higher education and other policy sectors, agencies have become a popular instrument adopted by governments to regulate the behavior of universities from a
distance. This paper addresses this apparently common trend by proposing a typology of these agencies that assumes that evaluation agencies’ autonomy is dependent upon not
only legal powers but also the government’s capacity to behave as a principal and to design, over time, coherent systemic governance modes. This typology is assessed
through a comparative analysis of the roles and functions of evaluative agencies within the field of higher education in the UK, France, and Italy
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
L’organizzazione della didattica. Uno studio esplorativo comparato
No full textI dati OECD mostrano che l’Italia presenta ritardi importanti in termini di popolazione in possesso diploma di istruzione terziaria, accesso e tasso di completamento degli studi.
Il paper riporta i principali risultati emersi in una ricerca condotta per ANVUR nella quale sono stati intervistati i responsabili di 40 corsi di studio in tre nazioni (Italia, Svizzera e Inghilterra) appartenenti a tre ambiti disciplinari (filosofia, management e chimica).
Gli aspetti oggetto di indagine sono stati: l’organizzazione del corso di laurea, i metodi didattici e i sistemi di Assicurazione Qualità in essere a livello di ciascun corso di studio.
La ricerca ha fatto emergere tre ambiti trasversali ai temi di indagine e alle discipline - le quali si confermano comunque essere rilevanti nelle soluzioni di organizzazione, erogazione e valutazione della didattica - risultati critici in Italia rispetto alle esperienze nazionali esaminate. Tali ambiti possono essere così riassunti: il presidio delle carriere degli studenti; le modalità di valutazione degli apprendimenti; la formazione e lo sviluppo professionale dei docenti universitari
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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