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Le carriere universitarie tra successo formativo, abbandono, cambio di corso e ritardo. Un'analisi per coorte attraverso gli archivi dell'Ateneo di Padova [Technical Report Series, 1/2011]
Full text linkIn questo lavoro si intendono specificare e quantificare i fenomeni di drop-out (abbandono e cambio di
Corso) e di ritardo nelle Laureee triennali di ordinamento ex D.M. 509/1999, a partire da dati amministrativi, adottando
il punto di vista del Corso di laurea. L'obiettivo è classificare i vari Corsi di laurea sulla base delle performance dei loro
iscritti, al fine di identificare delle strategie mirate di intervento di contrasto alla dispersione. Lo studio coinvolge le
coorti di studenti immatricolati negli anni accademici 2001-2005 in ottantaquattro Corsi di laurea triennale dell’Ateneo
di Padova. Le misure della dispersione sono ricavate attraverso Multiple-decrement life tables; a partire da esse si
costruiscono graduatorie di performance dei Corsi
Strategic, motivational and emotional aspects of university study. A latent class approach
No full textUniversity outcomes are strictly related to students’ atti
tudes, motivations and emotions
towards university study. These factors, as well as persona
l and households character-
istics of the students, deeply influence study path. In this w
ork we use a latent class
approach (McMoutcheon, 1987) to find the underlying latent f
actors that summarize a
series of items investigating students’ position as regard
s four domains: strategic skills,
emotions, motivations, and resilience. Data come from a CAW
I survey conducted in
2012 on a cohort of students enrolled in academic year 2006/0
7 at Padova University
(Clerici et al., 2012). Results show that the underlying lat
ent factors are in line with psy-
chological literature and they can be used in regression mod
els as explicative variables,
along with personal and households’ characteristics of the
students, to explain more in
depth students’ university outcomes
The Course organizational structure as a determinant of academic success. Some evidences from Padova University
Full text linkUniversity drop-out is one of the major problems in Italian University. According to data of MIUR/CNVSU (2011), in 2008/09 only 60% of students had a regular career in tertiary first degree level of education and 18% of students withdraw from university after the first year. The percentage of drop-out was quite high before the University reform of 2001. Drop-out had a temporary small decrease after 2001 but, at present, the proportion of students who enter tertiary education without obtaining a first degree is still below OECD and EU19 average (OECD, 2010).
In the literature some authors present studies that aim to detect the subjective factors of academic failure / success (see for example MIUR/CNVSU, 2010; Cingano and Cipollone, 2007). Furthermore, some studies analyse the data at most at the Faculty level or separately for 1st and 2nd cycle degree.
In this contribution we present an analysis by cohort of students and by courses using data from the administrative archives of Padova University in a longitudinal perspective. The goal is to examine the influence of different organizational characteristics of the didactic paths on educational failure / success.
We examine the trends of three specific phenomena: withdraw, change of course and delay, referring to five cohorts of students (2001/02-2005/06) enrolled in 84 undergraduates courses (ex D.M. 509/1999). We carry out the analysis in two steps.
First of all we use Multiple-decrement life tables (Garcia, 1994) to describe, by means of survival rates and cumulative decrement rates, levels of withdraw, change of course and delay, to obtain a segmentation of the courses in homogenous groups.
Then we analyse, by means of hierarchical regression models, the effects of context variables that, with personal characteristics, influence the different phenomena we are studying. In this way we can integrate in an interpretative frame the dimensions that affect withdraw, change and delay. According to the emerging typology we can propose specific intervention strategies to contrast academic failure
Aspetti strategici e motivazionali e successo accademico: differenti profili degli studenti universitari
No full textAttitudes, motivations and emotions towards university study. A latent class approach
Full text linkIn the study of university paths both personal and households’ characteristics of the students deeply influence their university outcomes. Students’ attitudes, motivations and emotions towards university study are also very important factors that contribute to explain university achievement. In this work we use a latent class approach to find the underlying latent factors that summarize a series of items investigating different domains of students’ orientations towards university study. Data come from a CAWI survey conducted in 2012 on a cohort of students from Padova University
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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