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Action research as a potent methodology for improving teaching and learning in mathematics
No full textInternational audienceThis paper represents an effort of the author to better understand teachers’ perceptions of their experiences during their engagement in the action research process. In completing their action research projects, teachers not only learned how to conduct research themselves but, also, they shared some of their experiences. The course structure has had the effect of encouraging teachers to try new methods in their teaching, to use new resources and to improve the communication outside class in order to improve their teaching and their students’ performance in mathematics. Further, it was discussed about the possibility of involving teachers, both, pre-service and in-service, in the action research studies and the possibility of support for them from the university and the government as an initiative for the successful implementation of education reforms
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
Critical thinking and the Kosovan educators' views and beliefs about education, teaching and professional development
Full text linkThe purpose of the study has been to analyse the changes in the
attitudes and beliefs of Kosovan educators about the aims of schooling, teaching,
teachers’ roles and their professional development as a result of their
participation in the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking (RWCT)
programme. The participants in the study were 56 educators (out of a total of 188
who attended the sixth training round of RWTC) from various educational centres
in Kosovo. The data was collected by means of an identical questionnaire that was
administered to the teachers at the beginning (to reveal their pre-training attitudes
and beliefs) and at the end of their training (to reveal their post-training attitudes
and beliefs). An analysis of the data shows that prior to training teachers mostly
viewed teaching as imparting knowledge, the aim of schooling as educating and
teaching the younger generations, the role of the teacher as an idea-generator and
a dominant figure, and professional development as completing further education
and keeping abreast with professional literature (all of which show attitudes
expressed in very general terms). On the other hand, in the second group of
responses, the participants’ attitudes are now more specific and complete,
revealing a view of teaching as a very complex activity. For instance, according
to the teachers’ post-training views, the aim of the school is to educate and teach
the new generations by using contemporary methods, to shape individuals who
can think for themselves, who can reason, produce and create in a very productive
way. Again, professional development is seen as an on-going movement toward
professional perfection by following the contemporary achievements in the field
of education, attending various seminars, etc.peer-reviewe
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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