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Percorsi formativi e valutazione d'impatto
No full textIl rapporto si articola in tre parti. Nella prima parte richiamiamo gli aspetti essenziali della valutazione dell’impatto di un intervento. Nella seconda parte presentiamo e discutiamo per sommi capi il quadro delle indagini e degli studi di valutazione dell’Isfol sulla formazione, condotte distintamente dalla Struttura di valutazione e dall’unità Sistemi formativi. Nella terza parte avanziamo i nostri suggerimenti. Essi poggiano sulla netta distinzione tra attività di rendicontazione e attività di valutazione di impatto attività che hanno finalità, tempi e fabbisogni informativi profondamente diversi , e consistono innanzitutto in indicazioni generali per il miglioramento dell’integrazione, della completezza e dell’omogeneità dell’apparato informativo
La Statistica nell'Università di Padova: un percorso emblematico dalla Restaurazione all'età repubblicana
No full textThe paper reconstructs the teaching and research activities of scholars in statistics and related subjects at the University of Padua from the Restoration to the Second World War. The history of statistics in Padua is an interesting case study, as it allows to shed light on the evolution of the discipline at the national level as well as on its relationships with the international development of statistical methods. Some fascinating antecedents go back to the 16th Century, with contributions by Gerolamo Cardano, student at the School of Medicine from 1524 to 1526, and later by Galileo Galilei, professor of mathematics at the University of Padua from 1592 to 1610. The 150 years from the Restoration to the 1960s are marked by a sequence of phases of renewal and conservatism. At the beginning, the old Statistik took the place of political arithmetic. Statistics experienced telling improvements only with Angelo Messedaglia, who drew from Quetelet and outlined a new role for the discipline within the rethinking of the “science of administration”. After a grey period when statistics was considered as a social science supporting State intervention – without any peculiar methodological apparatus, a new phase of dramatic innovation followed, led by Corrado Gini, professor of Statistics in Padua from 1913 to 1925. His pupils and successors exacerbated the neo-descriptive approach of the «Italian school of Statistcs», the confrontation with modern statistical inference, and the support to the corporatist programme of the Fascism. This motivated a decline immediately after the Second World War. A new revival had to wait up to the mid 1950s, with the appointment of Albino Uggé at the chair of Statistics, the crucial cooperation of Bernardo Colombo – who moved from the University of Venice to Padua in 1967, around whom a group of young scholars assembled. The establishment of a Faculty of Statistics, in 1968, was the prominent result of that process.
Statistics at the University of Padua: An Emblematic Journey from the Restoration to the Republican Age
Giovanni Favero and Ugo Trivellato
The paper reconstructs the teaching and research activities of scholars in statistics and related subjects at the University of Padua from the Restoration to the Second World War. The history of statistics in Padua is an interesting case study, as it allows to shed light on the evolution of the discipline at the national level as well as on its relationships with the international development of statistical methods. Some fascinating antecedents go back to the 16th Century, with contributions by Gerolamo Cardano and by Galileo Galilei. The 150 years from the Restoration to the 1960s are marked by a sequence of phases of renewal and conservatism. At the beginning, the old Statistik took the place of political arithmetic. Statistics experienced telling improvements only with Angelo Messedaglia, who drew from Quetelet and outlined a new political role for the discipline. This led his pupils to view statistics as a social science supporting State intervention, without any methodological peculiarity. A new phase of dramatic innovation was led by Corrado Gini from 1913 to 1925. Again, his pupils and successors exacerbated the neo-descriptive approach of the «Italian school of Statistcs», the confrontation with modern statistical inference, and the support to the corporatist programme of the Fascism, motivating the post-war decline of the discipline. A new revival had to wait the mid 1950s, when Albino Uggé and then Bernardo Colombo started assembling a group of young scholars and planning the establishment of a Faculty of Statistics, finally realized in 1968
La statistica nell’Università di Padova prima della nascita della Facoltà
No full textIl saggio ricostruisce l'evoluzione dell'insegnamento della statistica nell'Università di Padova a partire dai prodromi rinascimentali fino all'emergere della disciplina propriamente definita nel passaggio tra età napoleonica e restaurazione, e di qui attraverso i cambiamenti nello statuto scientifico e nella funzione accademica della disciplina da "arte" a "scienza" a "metodo", attraverso l'unificazione italiana, il fascismo e il dopoguerra, fino alla fondazione della facoltà nel 1969
I giovani di oggi stanno peggio di quelli di ieri? Interrogativi, metodi e quadro di sintesi
No full textDISPARITA' INTERGENERAZIONALI DI ISTRUZIONE E RIFORME SCOLASTICHE: I CASI DELLA SCUOLA MEDIA UNICA E DELL’UNIVERSITA'
No full textIl capitolo esamina l’impatto sulle disparità intergenerazionali di due importanti riforme degli ordinamenti scolastici varate in Italia, la riforma della scuola media unica del 1963 e quella degli ordinamenti universitari approvata nel 1999. In particolare, il nostro lavoro mira a quantificare gli effetti di questi due provvedimenti sulle variazioni tra coorti nei livelli complessivi di partecipazione scolastica, documentando l’eventuale eterogeneità di tali effetti in base al genere, la zona geografica di residenza e le origini sociali
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
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