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The Effects of Collaborative Research-Based Professional Coaching on the Professional Competence of Teachers and Educational Personnel: A Pilot Study in the Thai Context
Full text linkEducational professional competence must be developed through continuous practical work without separationfrom regular work in order to achieve the goal of sustainable development. This research aimed to create a collaborativeprofessional coaching process based on research to develop the professional competence of teachers, schooladministrators, and educational supervisors that affects the employability of basic education students in Loei Province.The study investigated the efficiency, effectiveness of the coaching process and the results of coaching. A quasi-experimental research methodology with a single group pre-test and post-test design was used to study 13 schools underLoei PESAO 1-2 and SESAO Loei - Nong Bua Lamphu, in the academic year 2025. The data were collected by 39teachers, 13 school administrators, 3 experts, and 3 educational supervisors. A total of 400 students in grades 4-12 wereselected using cluster random sampling. The research instruments consisted of assessment forms, checklists, andquestionnaires. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, efficiency index, relative gain score, and OneSample t-test. The research results revealed that the collaborative research-based professional coaching process focusedon developing teachers' professional competence through the support of administrators and educational supervisors in areal-world research context, which was considered the first intervention: developing a spatial education program toenhance students' employability. This process was conducted as the second continuous professional developmentcoaching cycle, which consisted of three steps: 1) identify, 2) learn, 3) improve, and the final results were: 1) teachers,school administrators, and educational supervisors had professional competencies, and 2) students had essentialemployment competencies. The results of the coaching process examination found that all components were appropriate,exceeding the standard efficiency and effectiveness. This resulted in increased professional competencies in all threeprofessions, and the assessment results of students' employability were .01 significantly higher than the standard, withhigh satisfaction in all group
Life and career skills of primary school students: A tentative model and an online scale
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Life and career skills are essential attributes for living in the 21st century because they are important to both learning and working in local and international workplaces. This study tried to create a measurement model of life and career skills and develop an online scale for investigating the psychometric property of the scale. The participants consisted of 646 primary students in Northern, Central, Southern and North eastern regions of Thailand. Then, the classical test theory, the multidimensional item response theory and the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used for data analysis. The analysis of data appeared as item of difficulty index, discrimination power index and reliability of the scale. In addition, the multidimensional analysis and the CFA of data showed item fit and construct validity of the scale. This may lead to the development of clear and correct measure of students’ life and career skills structure. Policy implications are discussed.
Keywords: Life and career skills, tentative model, online scale, construct validity.


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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
Validity evidence of the sufficient life skill model
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The sufficiency economy philosophy in King Bhumibol’s initiative is a principle for the development of people especially their ideas and the relationship of adequate living, that is providing guidance on appropriate conduct covering numerous aspects of life. This construct is a new model in educational measurement in Thailand. This study tried to examine the construct validity of the measurement model by using the sufficient life skill (SLS) scale. The scale was used to measure the SLS of 599 Thai students studying in basic education level and the lie scale was applied to detect faking of test takers. The confirmatory factor analysis was utilised for comparing the two different models, holistic and specific models. The result showed consequence of construct validity of the better model. In addition, findings also supported the importance of applying lie scale for detecting faking responses. Theoretical implications are discussed.
Keywords: Construct validity, confirmatory factor analysis, sufficient life skill, sufficiency economy philosophy.


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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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