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Michael K. Ponton – International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, 2023
Citation metrics have become a popular method of characterizing the citation performance of academic journals. Because the "International Journal of Self-Directed Learning" is not indexed in a data system that provides such metrics, the purpose of this research was to determine two popular citation metrics--h-index and i10-index--via…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Independent Study, Citation Analysis, Indexes
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Melba Libia Cárdenas – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This article presents the life story of "Profile." The story is based on an ethnographic case study that aimed to understand the viewpoints of Profile's new writers and reviewers regarding the role of scientific journals in fostering communities in the knowledge society. To gather information, I relied on personal reflections from my…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Journal Articles, Publications, Scientific Research
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Phillips, Margaret – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2021
Technical standards are important documents that academic libraries collect to support education and research, particularly for engineering and technology programs. However, standards documents present many unique discovery and access challenges that are confusing and cumbersome for users. To help alleviate these issues, Elsevier started indexing…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Publications, Standards, Documentation
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Raykov, Tenko; Marcoulides, George A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
This article outlines a procedure for examining the degree to which a common factor may be dominating additional factors in a multicomponent measuring instrument consisting of binary items. The procedure rests on an application of the latent variable modeling methodology and accounts for the discrete nature of the manifest indicators. The method…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Factor Analysis, Item Response Theory, Likert Scales
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Linkov, Václav; O'Doherty, Kieran; Choi, Eunsoo; Han, Gyuseog – SAGE Open, 2021
Current scientometric indexes do not encourage the linguistic diversity of sources cited in academic texts and researchers are not motivated to cite texts written in smaller languages. This diminishes the cultural diversity of the sources cited and limits the representation of small and indigenous cultures. This text proposes a scientometric…
Descriptors: Indexes, Language Minorities, Citations (References), Second Languages
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Minch, Michael – Childhood Education, 2019
Education for Global Peace (EGB) is a new organization that shares many of the interests and values of Childhood Education International. It is an organization, a community, and an approach that works to bend the arc toward justice and peace. This article provides a brief summary of the vision, mission, and objectives of EGP.
Descriptors: Peace, Educational Objectives, Teaching Methods, Global Approach
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Liu, Jinming; Huang, Ping – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
Student academic burden exists to varying degrees throughout the world. To reach a comprehensive and unbiased understanding of the roles of academic burden, this paper explores academic burden from different viewpoints and summarizes existing assessment indexes for it. Factors correlated with student academic burden are examined and detailed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Development, Role, Correlation
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Alasmary, Abdullah A. – English Language Teaching, 2019
Strong claims are made regarding the significant role that multiword sequences play in the comprehension and production of speech and writing. Although the literature is replete with research-informed, evidence-based guidelines on how to maximize the learning of such sequences, such guidelines need to be synthesized, analyzed and evaluated for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phrase Structure
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Buntrock, Robert E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Citation searching and bibliometrics are terms foreign to many chemists and educators, yet well-known and used by librarians and information specialists. This article aims to help chemistry students, educators, and other readers of this "Journal" to better appreciate and use these powerful and profound methods. Although these subjects…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Bibliometrics, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Knipe, Sally – Educational Research Quarterly, 2019
The technological capacity that now exists to gather and store large amounts of data has improved access to information regarding young people in schools. Improvements in data management techniques and statistical data software packages have made retrieving and analysing systems data a more accessible and manageable process. On a smaller scale,…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Indexes
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Lee, Jang Ho; Lee, Hansol; Sert, Cetin – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
The present article deals with the issue of how to create and operate a customizable on-line concordancer from viewpoints of language teachers and with their own laptops. It aims to introduce how to use and manage this application without relying on computer engineers for various pedagogical purposes, focusing on the four beneficial dimensions of…
Descriptors: Indexes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
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Bilbao-Ubillos, Javier – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper seeks mainly to contribute to the debate on how the relative degree of development of a country should be measured by proposing an indicator to build on the valuable starting point provided by the Human Development Index (HDI). The indicator proposed is called the "Composite, Dynamic Human Development Index". It incorporates in a simple…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Sustainability, Indexes, Measurement
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Jajo, Nethal K.; Harrison, Jen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
University rankings are key drivers in national and institutional strategic planning. The increase in the number of university ranking systems and the diversity of methods and indicators used by these systems necessitate the development of an index that can measure a university's performance in all these systems at once. This article presents…
Descriptors: Reputation, Strategic Planning, Universities, Institutional Evaluation
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Sánchez Ramos, María Del Mar; Vigier Moreno, Francisco J. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
As stated by Valero-Garcés (2006, p. 38), the new scenario including public service providers and users who are not fluent in the language used by the former has opened up new ways of linguistic and cultural mediation in current multicultural and multilingual societies. As a consequence, there is an ever increasing need for translators and…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Public Service, Second Language Learning, Court Litigation
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Waters, Stewart; Russell, William B., III – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2010
The following article is a brief history of "The Journal of Social Studies Research." As well, this article provides readers with an index of all articles published in "JSSR" from 1977-2009. The index is arranged by year. Within each year, the articles are listed alphabetically by the first author's last name. The index includes all bibliographic…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Social Studies, Periodicals, Indexes
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