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Former UND dean and innovator in teaching and learning, Vito Perrone, dies
No full textThe University of North Dakota has learned about the passing of one of the University’s former deans, Vito Perrone.
Perrone died on Wednesday, Aug. 24, in Cambridge, Mass. He was 78.
Vito Perrone, a native of Bath, Mich., served as dean of the UND Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) from 1972 to 1986. He first held the position of dean for the New School of Behavioral Studies at UND, and then after four years, began his stint as head of the CTL. He was nationally recognized for his work on educational equity, progressivism in education, and alternative assessment, according to Dan Rice, current dean of the UND College of Education and Human Development (EHD).
EHD will hold a remembrance time for former Dean Vito Perrone at noon Wednesday, Aug. 31, in Room 12 in the Education Building on campus. Room 12 is located on the lower level of the building and access may be gained through the main door to the new addition on the west or through the door on the south east corner of the building. Elevators are located near either entrance. University and community members are welcome.
Perrone founded the North Dakota Study Group, which continues to function as a national organization devoted to the educational values he espoused and held dear. Perrone wrote for both scholarly literature and popular media on educational issues and was one of the most influential educational voices in the country during this era, Rice said.
“He was certainly one of UND’s most remarkable and nationally recognized Deans, not just from education, Rice said. “For example, we had a young scholar from Japan here last year doing research about him and his work with alternative assessment.”
Perrone came to UND from Northern Michigan University, where he taught history and education and served as dean of the Graduate School. He studied history, sociology, science and education at Michigan State, where received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D.
Perrone left UND in 1986 to become Vice President at the national Carnegie Foundation for Advancement in Teaching. Two years later, he joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and served as director of Teacher Education and chair of the Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning Environments Program.
Prior to leaving UND, a scholarship for UND students was established in Perrone’s honor. Those wishing to honor the memory of Perrone may wish to contribute to that endowment by contacting Jena Pierce, alumni and development officer at the College of Education and Human Development, at 701-777-0844.
The University and Dean Rice, on behalf of the College of Education and Human Development, join Perrone’s family and many friends and colleagues in mourning his loss
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
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
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