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Teacher Education Curriculum Reform in Cambodia: Perspectives, Practices, and Challenges
No full textOver the past four decades, the Global Education Reform Movement has emphasized the evaluation and improvement of teacher education programs. Worldwide, concerns about unqualified teachers have prompted Cambodia to initiate teacher reforms. This qualitative case study examines educators’ perspectives, practices, and challenges in teacher education curriculum reform, distinguishing between “teacher training” and “teacher education” within Cambodian teacher education colleges. The findings indicate that the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport decided to provide the teacher education system more flexibility and autonomy as a higher education institution in governance and management, curriculum structure, teacher educators’ qualifications, professional status and responsibility, and functional allowance. Additionally, in the context of institutional change, educators conceptualized a clear distinction: “education” refers to learning activities that contribute to human development, whereas “training” focuses on practical teaching skills in the classroom. The study revealed that implementing reforms brought about opportunities and challenges, as demonstrated by varying evidence of autonomous leadership and management, curriculum development, interpretation, implementation, assessment, and improvement of curricula and syllabi. However, teacher educators’ mindsets, knowledge, and skills in the pedagogy of the field and fear new practices remain challenges, and the top-down approach still has influence. This study provides insight into the observations that middle leaders are linchpins of curriculum reform and teacher educators, as curriculum implementers, require a mindset change
Improving Professional Development: A Case Study on the Influence of Faculty Evaluations in Cambodia
No full textFaculty evaluations play a key role in improving teaching quality in higher education institutions. However, the development of evaluation programs worldwide has paid little attention to the impact of faculty evaluations on teacher educators’ professional development. This qualitative case study examined the influence of faculty evaluations on individual professional development at teacher education institutions in Cambodia. The results indicated that performance evaluations developed by management teams were beneficial for identifying strengths and improving professional and instructional practices. In addition, the performance evaluation results were used for self-improvement and self-regulation in continuous professional development plans and shared with supervisors and colleagues. Moreover, although teacher educators appreciated performance evaluation and reported that they led to their professional development and cultivated a sense of responsibility in the workplace, their process remained limited. Recommendations for performance evaluations to improve professional development are provided
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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