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How can approaches to personal tutoring in higher education be enhanced by action research? : developing and disseminating a framework of professional development
Get PDFThis thesis discusses my body of work that provides an evidence-based professional development framework for effective personal tutoring which positively impacts individuals, institutions and the higher education sector. Seven publications are presented in this Critical Appraisal. Comprising two books, an edited book (and a chapter within), a book chapter and three journal articles, they appeared between 2015 and 2023 as part of ten years of research over 20 years of practice in education as a teacher, personal tutor and leader within further and higher education. They represent a journey of practice and research, with increasing theorisation over time, offering an identification of personal tutoring’s importance, an analysis of how it can be enhanced and a professional development resource to benefit students, staff and institutions. The professional development framework provided by the earlier publications is refined using the outcomes of the empirical research of the subsequent publications which further explore the questions raised by the earlier work both theoretically and for practice, institutions and policy. Together, they form a coherent body of work; thematically by addressing concerns which encapsulate the central facets of personal tutoring practice and organisation; methodologically through the use of action research cycles asking questions about personal tutoring, the answering of which contributes to its enhancement. The programme of research responds to key issues the work itself revealed: standardisation, professionalisation, recognition (both ‘institutional’ and ‘professional’ through accreditation), status and value. The publications have made a significant contribution to research, practice, leadership and policy and, along with this Critical Appraisal which interprets and evaluates them, play a central role in offering strategies for overcoming the challenges personal tutoring faces and resolving contradictory discourses surrounding the role
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Higher Education Personal Tutor’s and Advisor’s Companion: Translating Theory into Practice to Improve Student Success
No full textProfessional learning and devlopment for higher education personal tutors and academic advisors
With contributions from 50 practitioners from across the sector, this test examines the key themes, theories and concepts relevant to personal tutors and academic advisors and translates these into real-world practice. Case study narratives from a range of settings demonstrate how student learning and outcomes can be improved, and related critical thinking activities encourage reflection on how these learning can be applied in specific contexts. The book provides invaluable insights and support for all personal tutors and academic advisors, enabling practitioners to learn from each other, develop innovative ideas, and feel part of a community of learning.
Please also see Effective Personal Tutoring in Higher Education for the themes on which the case studies in this collection are based. </b
Churn.
No full textPatent for a churn that can be easily disassembled and cleaned easily. The churn is a circular chamber with a tube in its center. The tube has a fan around it at the top of the chamber, and the air goes through the fan, is sucked into the tube, and is released at the bottom of the chamber in order to agitate the cream
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
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