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2. The Need for a Diverse Environmental Justice Workforce: Using Applied Research to Understand the Impacts of Harmful Environmental Exposures in Vulnerable and Underserved Communities. Occasional Paper. RTI Press Publication OP-0078-2209
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RTI International, Harrington, James M., Hawkins, Stephanie, Lang, Michelle, Bodnar, Wanda M., Alberico, Claudia, Rios-Colon, Leslimar, Levine, Keith E., Fernando, Reshan A., Niture, Suryakant, Terry, Tamara, and Kumar, Deepak
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Protecting all people from the harmful effects of environmental exposures relies on the coordinated efforts of scientific researchers, regulatory agencies, legislators, and the public. Environmental justice addresses the disproportionate impact that harmful environmental exposures have on individuals and communities who are minoritized and marginalized. It has long been known that environmental problems disproportionately impact these groups; however, addressing these problems has been impeded by structural racism and other biases. Developing effective interventions to eliminate these disparities requires a more diverse and inclusive modern workforce produced by a bottom-up approach beginning with education and professional development of the next generation of researchers. The most effective approaches to addressing inequities rely on active input from impacted populations to ensure cultural and social acceptance and adoption of interventions. Credibly pursuing these efforts in a sustainable, inclusive manner will require a concerted shift in workforce demography. One potential strategy to address these workforce disparities features academic-industry partnerships with targeted professional development programs aimed at minoritized and underserved populations. [This paper was supported by strategic funds from the University Collaboration Office at RTI International and North Carolina Central University.]
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- 2022
3. Highly-Cited Papers on Fracture Non-union – A Bibliometric Analysis of the Global Literature (1990–2023)
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Vaishya, Raju, Gupta, Brij Mohan, Mamdapur, Ghouse Modin N., Vaish, Abhishek, Bhadani, Janki Sharan, and Mukhopadhaya, John
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- 2024
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4. Proceedings of International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (iHSES) (Denver, Colorado, April 13-16, 2023). Volume 1
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International Society for Technology, Education and Science (ISTES) Organization, Mack Shelley, Mevlut Unal, and Sabri Turgut
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The aim of the International Society for Technology, Education, and Science (iHSES) conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, discuss theoretical and practical issues, and connect with the leaders in the fields of "humanities," "education" and "social sciences." It is organized for: (1) faculty members in all disciplines of humanities, education and social sciences; (2) graduate students; (3) K-12 administrators; (4) teachers; (5) principals; and (6) all interested in education and social sciences. [Individual papers are indexed in ERIC.]
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- 2023
5. Supporting Young Children of Immigrants in PreK-3. Occasional Paper Series 39
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Bank Street College of Education, Silin, Jonathan, Silin, Jonathan, and Bank Street College of Education
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In this issue of the Occasional Paper Series describes practices and policies that impact the early schooling of children of immigrants in the United States. The authors consider the intersectionality of young children's lives and what needs to change in order to ensure that race, class, immigration status, gender, and dis/ability can effectively contribute to children's experiences at school and in other instructional contexts, rather than prevent them from getting the learning experiences they need and deserve. The essays all grapple with the need to approach programs, research, and school practices with respectful, strength-based views of communities. They frame inequities, disparities, and "gaps" as institutional challenges rather than child, family or community deficits. Together the authors articulate an agenda of advocacy for young children of immigrants. Work that engages children and families in strength-based, asset-oriented ways should: (1) Recognize strengths and capabilities of children, families, and communities; (2) Avoid programs, policies, discourses and practices that begin with deficit views of immigrant families and communities; (3) See the children of immigrants as intersectional and complex; and (4) Create programs that begin from the expertise and experience of immigrant families. Contents include: (1) A Vision for Transforming Early Childhood Research and Practice for Young Children of Immigrants and Their Families (Fabienne Doucet and Jennifer Keys Adair); (2) Intersectionality and Possibility in the Lives of Latina/o/x Children of Immigrants: Imagining Pedagogies Beyond the Politics of Hate (Ramón Antonio Martínez); (3) No Room for Silence: The Impact of the 2016 Presidential Election on a Second-Grade Dual-Language (Spanish-English) Classroom (Sandra L. Osorio); (4) Building Safe Community Spaces for Immigrant Families, One Library at a Time (Max Vázquez Domínguez, Denise Dávila, and Silvia Noguerón-Liu); (5) Administrators' Roles in Offering Dynamic Early Learning Experiences to Children of Latinx Immigrants (Alejandra Barraza and Pedro Martinez); (6) Rethinking "Parent Involvement": Perspectives of Immigrant and Refugee Parents (Zeynep Isik-Ercan); (7) Experiential Knowledge and Project-Based Learning in Bilingual Classrooms (Adriana Alvarez); (8) Over the Hills and Far Away: Inviting and Holding Traumatic Stories in School (Lesley Koplow, Noelle Dean, and Margaret Blachly); (9) Building Bridges Between Home and School for Latinx Families of Preschool Children (Gigliana Melzi, Adina R. Schick, and Lauren Scarola); and (10) Building Bridges, Not Walls, Between Latinx Immigrant Parents and Schools (Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove). [Individual articles contain references.]
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- 2018
6. Changing Missions among Public Universities in California and New York: Application of a Concentration Equality Index. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.14.2017
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University of California, Berkeley. Center for Studies in Higher Education, Watanabe, Satoshi P., and Abe, Yasumi
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Capitalizing on the findings in our preceding study of a purely theoretical model, this paper aims to empirically examine whether and to what extent public universities' institutional missions have transformed in recent years in the States of California and New York by quantifying a degree of functional diversification of universities. We focus on research funding and productivity, and public service activities, and have developed a Concentration Equality Index (CEI) to help in this analysis. We then apply the CEI over time to a selected group of public university-system campuses within the State University of New York (SUNY) system, the City University of New York (CUNY), and the California State University (CSU) and the University of California (UC) systems. Among our findings: a select group of CSU campuses which all have roles at teaching-intensive schools, have gained increasingly versatile roles with rapidly expanded spending capacity in research and public service. These focal shifts resulted in some CSU campuses transforming into "UC-like universities", that is, a trend toward an institution with multi-functional operations of equally weighted instruction, research, and public service. In contrast, several campuses of both SUNY and CUNY systems have come to place varied weights on chosen missions rather than evening out their roles in instruction, research, and public service.
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- 2017
7. Use of Nuclear Techniques in Human Nutrition Research: A Call for Papers.
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Hoffman DJ, Loechl CU, and Davis TA
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- Humans, Publishing, Research
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- 2022
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8. The Quality of Physical Environments in Education and Care Services: An Analysis of Quality Area 3 of the National Quality Standard. Occasional Paper 4
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Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA)
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This occasional paper is the fourth in a series on the National Quality Framework (NQF). This paper offers detailed insights into education and care service quality ratings for Quality Area 3 (physical environment) of the National Quality Standard (NQS). The focus is on ensuring the physical environment of a service is safe, suitable and provides a rich and diverse range of experiences that promote children's learning and development. This paper begins with an overview of the physical environment standards and what these aim to achieve, highlighting contemporary research and theory behind sustainable environments promoting children's learning. It then outlines the operational requirements of the National Law and National Regulations for the physical environment, with a particular focus on the requirements specific to different service types. The paper also describes how service approval requirements in the National Law apply to the physical environment, and how providers may seek waivers for certain legislated requirements. The paper is intended to be of interest to people who deliver education and care services, families, people who provide training and professional development services to the sector, and to officers in the state and territory regulatory authorities that regulate education and care services.
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- 2017
9. Reproducibility: expect less of the scientific paper.
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Amaral OB and Neves K
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- Animals, Brazil, Cooperative Behavior, Humans, Mice, Multicenter Studies as Topic, Reproducibility of Results, Research organization & administration, Research standards, Research Design, Research Report standards
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- 2021
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10. Hundreds of gibberish papers still lurk in the scientific literature.
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Van Noorden R
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- Peer Review, Research, Plagiarism, Retraction of Publication as Topic, Publishing standards, Publishing statistics & numerical data, Research standards, Research statistics & numerical data, Research Report standards, Software
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- 2021
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11. Designing and Scaling Highly Effective Interventions That Produce BIG Improvement: 'Counter-Intuitive Lessons from the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Project.' Conference Paper
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National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools (NCSU) and Pogrow, Stanley
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There is little discussion in the Design-Based Research (DBR) literature on how to design an intervention that has the potential to be highly effective. The act of designing is usually viewed as engineering something from theory or research on best practices. This paper challenges that universal belief and presents successful design as an intuitive creative process that has little to do with existing academic theory or research--yet is still within the domain of science. Evidence for this perspective is based on (a) the author's experience in designing and disseminating the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) project which has been one of the most successful large-scale improvement networks, (b) research on the design of the Carnegie Foundation's Statway project, and (c) alternative modes of discovery in science. Implications for the design of more effective interventions and related scholarship are discussed.
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- 2015
12. The scientific term paper at the Charité: a project report on concept, implementation, and students' evaluation and learning.
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Drees S, Schmitzberger F, Grohmann G, and Peters H
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- Curriculum trends, Education, Medical, Undergraduate trends, Educational Measurement methods, Educational Measurement standards, Humans, Research standards, Surveys and Questionnaires, Education, Medical, Undergraduate standards, Research education, Writing standards
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Aim: Better training in scientific skills, such as the ability to conduct research independently, has been one of the main drivers of reform in medical education. The aim of this article is to report on the scientific term paper module in the modular curriculum of medicine (MCM) at the Charité. This module is an established example of undergraduate medical students conducting their own scientific investigations. Project outline: A faculty-wide, outcome-oriented process resulted in a four-week module for writing a scientific term paper in the 6
th semester of the MCM as part of a longitudinal science curriculum. Acquired competencies were assessed through a written term paper and an oral presentation. Two student cohorts (winter terms 2013 and 2014) were surveyed on how they rated the module concept, organizational aspects and the quality of support. We further analysed the chosen topics of the papers as well as student assessment results. Results: The student evaluation (return rates of 193 and 197, 71% and 77%) showed high overall satisfaction with the module. This result was evident in the high rating of the module concept and organizational aspects, a positive attitude towards scientific research, and strong motivation to pursue further scientific research. There was a wide spectrum of term paper topics with a focus on literature reviews. Most of the student work was assessed as good or very good. Conclusion: The scientific term paper module has proven itself as a curricular concept for students to perform own scientific research in the MCM, with strong acceptance and good performance by students. This project report can serve as basis and guidance for development and further improvements to promote scientific competencies in undergraduate medical education in other faculties., Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests., (Copyright © 2019 Drees et al.)- Published
- 2019
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13. Annual Proceedings of Selected Research and Development Papers Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (37th, Jacksonville, Florida, 2014). Volume 1
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Association for Educational Communications and Technology and Simonson, Michael
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For the thirty-seventh year, the Research and Theory Division and the Division of Instructional Design of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) sponsored the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. This year's Proceedings is presented in two volumes--Volume 1 includes twenty-seven research and development papers. Volume 2 includes thirty-one papers on the practice of educational communications and technology. The 27 papers with respective authors included in Volume 1 are: (1) Information Visualization in Students Eye: An Eye Tracking Study of Rising Sea Levels (Dalia Alyahya, Suzan Alyahya); (2) Interactive eBooks as a Tool of Mobile Learning for Digital-Natives in Higher Education: Interactivity, Preferences and Ownership (Aadil Askar); (3) Recognition of Prior Learning Occurring in Online Informal and Non-Formal Learning Environments: The Case of Higher Education in Turkey (Mesut Aydemir); (4) Open Dialogue: A Content Analysis of the #OpenEducation Twitter Hashtag (Fredrick W. Baker); (5) Enhancing Online Courses with Digital Storytelling (Sally Baldwin, Yu-Hui Ching); (6) Visualizing Learning for the Next Generation: Visual and Media Literacy Research, 2000-2014 (Danilo M. Baylen, Kendal Lucas); (7) Examining the Role of Emotion in Public Health Education Using Multimedia (Sungwon Chung, Kwangwoo Lee, Jongpil Cheon); (8) Students' Online Learning Experiences in Collectivist Cultures (Ana-Paula Correia); (9) Emphasis on Standards: What Do the Interns Report? (Lana Kaye B. Dotson); (10) A Comparison of Learner Self-Regulation in Online and Face-to-Face Problem-Based Learning Courses (Christopher Andrew Glenn); (11) Exploring the Influence of Academic Technology Professionals in Higher Education (Stephanie Glick); (12) Educational Technologies Working in Today's Classrooms: Tech Tools And Apps for Teaching in the Real World (V. Paige Hale); (13) Modeling the Processes of Diagramming Arguments that Support and Inhibit Students' Understanding of Complex Arguments (Allan Jeong, Haeyoung Kim); (14) A Review of Research on Collaboration via Blogs in Online Learning (Habibah Khan, Trey Martindale); (15) Competency of Teachers in Using Technology Based on ISTE NETS.T In Tatweer Schools-Saudi Arabia (Abdulrahman A Kamal); (16) Middle School Teachers' Perspective: The Benefits, Challenges, and Suggestion When Using the iPad (Jeungah Kim); (17) Concept Centrality: A Useful and Usable Analysis Method to Reveal Mental Representation of Bilingual Readers (Kyung Kim, Roy B. Clariana); (18) Adolescents' Internet Use and Usage in a Family Context: Implications for Family Learning (Wilfred W. F. Lau, Allan H. K. Yuen); (19) Leveraging Technology: Facilitating Preservice Teachers TPACK Through Video Self Analysis (James E. Jang, Jing Lei); (20) Use of the Flipped Instructional Model in Higher Education: Instructors' Perspectives (Taotao Long, John Cummins, Michael Waugh); (21) Evaluation of the "Let's Talk: Finding Reliable Mental Health Information and Resources" Pilot Program for Grades 7 and 8 Students in Three Ontarian School Boards and One Independent School in Quebec (Cameron Montgomery, Natalie Montgomery, Christine Potra); (22) Touching Our Way to Better Conversations: How Tablets Impact Cognitive Load and Collaborative Learning Discourses (Christopher Ostrowski); (23) The Effect of Self-Assessment on Achievement in an Online Course (Yasin Özarslan, Ozlem Ozan); (24) Perceptions of the Role and Value of Interactive Videoconferencing and Chat Rooms in Supporting Goals of Cross-Cultural Understanding among Three Educational Nonprofit Organizations (Shilpa Sahay, Pavlo Antonenko); (25) Pre-Service English Teachers' Achievement Goal Orientations: A Study of a Distance English Language Teacher Education Program (Hasan Uçar, Müjgan Bozkaya); (26) Perceptions of Online Program Graduates: A 3-Year Follow-up Study (Michael L. Waugh, Jian Su Searle); and (27) Course Structure Design Decision to Solve Academic Procrastination in Online Course (Yufei Wu, Tiffany A. Koszalka, Lina Souid, Jacob A. Hall). (Individual papers contain references.) [For Volume 2, see ED562048.]
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- 2014
14. Ten simple rules for reading a scientific paper.
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Carey MA, Steiner KL, and Petri WA Jr
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- Periodicals as Topic, Publications, Publishing standards, Reading, Research standards
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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- 2020
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15. China bans cash rewards for publishing papers.
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Mallapaty S
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- China, Research Personnel economics, Publishing statistics & numerical data, Research standards, Research statistics & numerical data, Research Personnel standards, Research Report standards, Reward
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- 2020
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16. Bibliographic Analysis of Oral Precancer and Cancer Research Papers from Saudi Arabia.
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Patil S, Sarode SC, Baeshen HA, Bhandi S, Raj AT, Sarode GS, Sait SM, Gadbail AR, and Gondivkar S
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- Bibliometrics, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell pathology, Humans, Public Health statistics & numerical data, Research Personnel statistics & numerical data, Saudi Arabia, Mouth Neoplasms pathology, Precancerous Conditions pathology, Publications statistics & numerical data, Research statistics & numerical data
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Objective: Oral cancer and precancers are a major public health challenge in developing countries. Researchers in Saudi Arabia have constantly been directing their efforts on oral cancer research and have their results published. Systematic analysis of such papers is the need of the hour as it will not only acknowledge the current status but will also help in framing future policies on oral cancer research in Saudi Arabia., Method: The search string "oral cancer" OR "Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma" OR "oral premalignant lesion" OR "oral precancer" OR "Oral Potentially malignant disorder" AND AFFIL (Saudi AND Arabia ) was used for retrieval of articles from Scopus database. Various tools available in Scopus database were used for analyzing the bibliometric related parameters., Results: The search revealed a total of 663 publications based on the above query. Maximum affiliations were from King Saud University (163) followed by Jazan University (109) and then King Abdulaziz University (106). A large number of international collaborations were observed, the maximum with India (176) and the USA (127). The maximum number of articles were published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (34) followed by the Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice (33) and Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine (19)., Conclusion: Saudi researchers are directing their efforts towards the public health menace of oral cancer. However, it was also observed that some institutions have emerged as front runners in research, whereas others are contributing significantly less. The health department should encourage and take necessary steps to increase the involvement of other institutions.
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- 2020
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17. Invited Paper: Growth, Adaptability, and Relationships within the Changing Landscape of IS Education
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Jessup, Leonard M. and Valacich, Joseph S.
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In this article commemorating 30 years of the "Journal of Information Systems Education," we reflect on our extraordinarily lucky careers together in the academic discipline of information systems. Both our careers and our field have seen continual growth, unrelenting change, and required adaptability. We credit our enduring and strong professional relationship and friendship with each other, the fun we've had with our collaborators (and especially our doctoral students), as well as our ability to adapt, as the keys to whatever positive outcomes we have enjoyed along the way. Given the rate of change in our field over the past 30 years, we are excited to think about what might transpire for us all over the next 30 years.
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- 2019
18. ChatGPT – A Systematic Review of Published Research Papers
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Alin ZAMFIROIU, Denisa VASILE, and Daniel SAVU
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chatgpt ,openai ,papers ,research ,review ,Computer engineering. Computer hardware ,TK7885-7895 ,Bibliography. Library science. Information resources - Abstract
ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022 by OpenAI. After its launch, it started to be used by many users for different fields of interest. Several scientific articles have even been published in which ChatGPT appears as an author because text generated by him was used. The impact it had on technology is enormous and that is why many materials have been published on how to use it in different fields as well as in different usage scenarios.In this material, we carry out an analysis of the materials that were published in three months after the appearance of ChatGPT (December 2022, January 2023 and February 2023). For this synthesis, the materials indexed by Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science were analyzed. Within the analyzed materials, scenarios of using ChatGPT and how to interact with it are identified. We also present the way of involvement or use of ChatGPT in education, science and research and in the final part of the material we present some suggestions for future research that can be carried out with the help of ChatGPT.
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- 2023
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19. Seeking a Roadmap to Becoming World Class: Strategic Planning at Peking University. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.11.13
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University of California, Berkeley. Center for Studies in Higher Education and Guangkuan, Xie
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Strategic planning plays an important but sometimes controversial role in higher education. This paper examines how strategic planning works in Chinese universities, using Peking University as a case study. This essay discusses the rationale for why Peking University (PKU) decided to pursue status as a world-class university along with objectives and value of its various strategic plans beginning in the 1990s. These plans have had four main roles at Peking University: as a means to periodically alter the development path or "roadmap" of the university; as a method to gain or "accelerate resources" largely from government; as a way to communicate with the business community, alumni and other stakeholders regarding the aspirations and needs of the university; and as a tool to engage central government leaders in the future of the university.
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- 2013
20. On the issue of the research development in student sports area: A review of papers for the period from 2000 to 2022
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Eremina, Ekaterina A., Filipeva, Diana Dmitrievna, Olkhovskiy, Roman M., and Ermakova, Marina A.
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student sport ,research ,research studies ,physical education departments of universities ,Education (General) ,L7-991 ,Special aspects of education ,LC8-6691 ,Theory and practice of education ,LB5-3640 - Abstract
In accordance with the Concept of Student Sport Development in the Russian Federation until 2025, one of the priority directions is the improvement of scientific and methodological support of the subjects of the student sports system. In the context of scientific and methodological support of student sport it is significant not only to intensify research in this area, but also to match the direction of the research with the key tasks of student sport development. In order to form approaches for the development of the research studies taking into account priority directions of student sports development, the authors have carried out and systematized 8083 papers on student sport and physical education of students. The papers were published in scientific journals and materials of research conferences for the period from 2000 to 2022 and placed in scientific electronic library. Based on the results of the study, the authors identified key trends in the development of scientific research activities in the field of student sports. The authors formed a model of interaction between the department of physical education and other structural units and organizations to expand the directions of scientific research.
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- 2023
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21. Opportunities for Efficiency and Innovation: A Primer on How to Cut College Costs. Working Paper 2011-02
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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and Fried, Vance H.
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In this paper the author explores how colleges whose primary mission is undergraduate education can strategically allocate resources in a way that reduces costs and prioritizes teaching and learning. He starts from a provocative thought-experiment--what would it cost to educate undergraduates at a hypothetical college built from scratch?--and uses the exercise to identify areas that are ripe for cost savings. Rather than focusing only on the conspicuous, big-ticket items that tend to dominate debates about college costs, the author argues that the real levers for increasing efficiency include rethinking student-faculty ratios, eliminating under-enrolled programs, and trimming unnecessary administrative positions. This paper also outlines how policymakers can create incentives for undergraduate colleges to pursue reforms that will make them more cost-effective. (Contains 6 tables and 19 endnotes.)
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- 2011
22. Is it time to put a humidifier in the dry domain of writing scientific papers? Given the inaccessibility of many research papers, young scientists should receive more formal training to write clear, understandable, and even enjoyable papers.
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Smith DR
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- Humans, Publishing standards, Research standards, Writing standards
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- 2018
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23. When Is the Story in the Subgroups? Strategies for Interpreting and Reporting Intervention Effects on Subgroups. MDRC Working Papers on Research Methodology
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MDRC, Bloom, Howard S., and Michalopoulos, Charles
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This paper examines strategies for interpreting and reporting estimates of intervention effects for subgroups of a study sample. Specifically, the paper considers: why and how subgroup findings are important for applied research, the importance of pre-specifying sub- groups before analyses are conducted, the importance of using existing theory and prior research to distinguish between subgroups for whom study findings are confirmatory (hypothesis testing), as opposed to exploratory (hypothesis generating), and the conditions under which study findings should be considered confirmatory based on their pre-specification and pattern of statistical significance for the full sample, its subgroups, and their differences. These issues are illustrated by empirical examples from past work by the authors. (Contains 5 footnotes and 5 tables.) [This paper was also supported by funding from Judith Hispanic Fund for Methodological Innovation in Social Policy Research at MDRC.]
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- 2010
24. Fast-Tracking of Publication Times of Otolaryngology Papers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Duek, Irit, Muhanna, Nidal, Horowitz, Gilad, Warshavsky, Anton, Oron, Yahav, Shraga, Yohai, and Ungar, Omer J.
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- 2022
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25. Making guidelines, research and scientific papers as simple as possible.
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Llor C
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- Humans, Work Simplification, Practice Guidelines as Topic standards, Research standards, Writing standards
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- 2019
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26. The plan to mine the world's research papers.
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Pulla P
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- Big Data economics, Data Mining trends, Datasets as Topic economics, Datasets as Topic legislation & jurisprudence, India, Open Access Publishing economics, Research Report, Unsupervised Machine Learning legislation & jurisprudence, Unsupervised Machine Learning trends, Big Data supply & distribution, Data Mining methods, Datasets as Topic supply & distribution, Information Dissemination legislation & jurisprudence, Information Dissemination methods, Open Access Publishing legislation & jurisprudence, Research
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- 2019
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27. Where do we aspire to publish? A position paper on scientific communication in biochemistry and molecular biology.
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Baptista MS, Alves MJM, Arantes GM, Armelin HA, Augusto O, Baldini RL, Basseres DS, Bechara EJH, Bruni-Cardoso A, Chaimovich H, Colepicolo Neto P, Colli W, Cuccovia IM, Da-Silva AM, Di Mascio P, Farah SC, Ferreira C, Forti FL, Giordano RJ, Gomes SL, Gueiros Filho FJ, Hoch NC, Hotta CT, Labriola L, Lameu C, Machini MT, Malnic B, Marana SR, Medeiros MHG, Meotti FC, Miyamoto S, Oliveira CC, Souza-Pinto NC, Reis EM, Ronsein GE, Salinas RK, Schechtman D, Schreier S, Setubal JC, Sogayar MC, Souza GM, Terra WR, Truzzi DR, Ulrich H, Verjovski-Almeida S, Winck FV, Zingales B, and Kowaltowski AJ
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- Brazil, Humans, Periodicals as Topic standards, Periodicals as Topic trends, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Periodicals as Topic statistics & numerical data, Publishing trends, Research
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The scientific publication landscape is changing quickly, with an enormous increase in options and models. Articles can be published in a complex variety of journals that differ in their presentation format (online-only or in-print), editorial organizations that maintain them (commercial and/or society-based), editorial handling (academic or professional editors), editorial board composition (academic or professional), payment options to cover editorial costs (open access or pay-to-read), indexation, visibility, branding, and other aspects. Additionally, online submissions of non-revised versions of manuscripts prior to seeking publication in a peer-reviewed journal (a practice known as pre-printing) are a growing trend in biological sciences. In this changing landscape, researchers in biochemistry and molecular biology must re-think their priorities in terms of scientific output dissemination. The evaluation processes and institutional funding for scientific publications should also be revised accordingly. This article presents the results of discussions within the Department of Biochemistry, University of São Paulo, on this subject.
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- 2019
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28. Linkages: Connecting Literacy and English as a Second Language. Discussion Paper: What Do We Know about the Connections between Literacy and English as a Second Language in Canada?
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Movement for Canadian Literacy and Folinsbee, Sue
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This discussion paper is part of a larger Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL) project entitled "Linkages: Connecting Literacy and English as a Second Language" (ESL). The goal of the overall project is for MCL to work with national organizations that support the ESL/Settlement and literacy fields to identify common issues and concerns and to document areas for mutual cooperation in the future. The purpose of the discussion paper is to highlight and summarize current Canadian research over the last five to seven years in terms of key themes, issues, gaps and needed strategies on connections between literacy and ESL. The paper will also reflect the perspectives of a small number of key informants from the literacy, ESL, and settlement fields on key themes. Appendices include: (1) Key Informants; and (2) Interview Questions. (Contains 2 tables and 41 footnotes.)
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- 2007
29. Investigating the AAU Citations Admission Criterion and the History of Papers, Citations and Impact at USF
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Micceri, Theodore
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This research sought to determine which factors relate to higher and lower production of papers, citations and impacts (citations divided by papers), because this is one of the AAU Phase I Indicators and to serve as guiding principles as The University of South Florida (USF) works toward becoming an AAU institution. The time period under consideration regarding citations was from 1981 through 2005. In order to assess the relationship between various possible causal factors and citation productivity, comparisons among AAU and non-AAU institutions were conducted. All institutions investigated were classified as Research Extensive under the 2000 Carnegie system, which produced a sample of 150 schools. The following points emerge from these analyses: (1) It appears to require between 11 and 16 years for the average article to mature regarding citations impact. (2) The best simple predictors of citation productivity are post doctorates, federal research expenditures, national academy members, total research expenditures and core revenues. (3) The strongest influence on citations is the percent of research conducted in biological and health sciences disciplines. The broad discipline areas of biological and health sciences, and other physical sciences and mathematics generate 80.5% of all U.S. papers, and 89.7% of all U.S. citations. (4) Over time, USF exhibits generally upward trends relative to all other institutions on citation productivity, however, the gap between USF and AAU institutions has not lessened during the time under consideration, except with regards to paper impact, where USF reached AAU levels by 1993. However, USF produces far fewer papers than the average AAU institution. (5) Carnegie rankings exhibit a one-to-one relationship with funding, which associates with larger faculty numbers and greater research productivity in the form of published papers and citations. (6) AAU institutions average between two times and five times as many National Academy Members and Faculty Award winners as non-AAU Very High research institutions. (7) AAU institutions exhibit a 54% advantage over non-AAU Very High public research institutions for research expenditures per faculty member. (8) Both AAU and non-AAU Very High research institutions have about 30% of their expenditures coming from undependable grant-based funding. However, for USF this percentage was 42%. (9) Compared to Big East, SUS and Strategic Plan Peers, USF and other SUS institutions have lower tuition than other peer groups. To summarize, during the past 25 years, USF has generally been moving in the direction of AAU institutions, however, as Birnbaum (2007) notes: "...'world-class' has increasingly come to be synonymous with 'Western.' That means science, research, and lots of money..." The basic factor influencing citation productivity appears to be funding, with AAU institutions having a substantial advantage over non-AAU Very High and High Research institutions. The following are appended: (1) AAU Membership Indicators and Definitions; and (2) Tables 5 and 6. (Contains 9 figures, 6 tables, and 6 footnotes.) [This report represents an Internal Technical Report, Office of Planning and Analysis, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida]
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- 2007
30. RCGP Research Paper of the Year 2017: of relevance to the General Practice Forward View?
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Chew-Graham C
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- Awards and Prizes, Humans, Research Personnel, Societies, Medical, General Practice, Research
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- 2018
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31. Co-production from proposal to paper.
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Hickey G, Richards T, and Sheehy J
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- Child, Clinical Trials as Topic economics, Feedback, Financing, Organized, HIV Infections drug therapy, Humans, Peer Review, Research methods, Regenerative Medicine economics, Patient Advocacy, Patient Participation, Research, Stakeholder Participation, Workforce
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- 2018
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32. European Responses to Global Competitiveness in Higher Education. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.7.09
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University of California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education and van der Wende, Marijk
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The growing global competition in which knowledge is a prime factor for economic growth is increasingly shaping policies and setting the agenda for the future of European higher education. With its aim to become the world's leading knowledge economy, the European Union is concerned about its performance in the knowledge sector, in particular in the nexus of research, higher education institutions, and innovation. A major concern is to solve the "European paradox": whereby Europe has the necessary knowledge and research, but fails to transfer this into innovation and enhanced productivity and economic growth. Further complicating the matter, policy responses are formulated and implemented at different levels within the EU: at the European-wide level, the national, regional, and institutional levels. Moreover, the formulation of policies are often underpinned by different perceptions of the meaning of globalization, the nature of global competition for the higher education sector, and by differences in the current ability of institutions to effectively promote innovation in the private sector. This paper offers an overview of relevant European higher education policies and responses to global competition, and considers how global competitiveness can best be stimulated and achieved; what role competition and cooperation-based strategies at the national and European level play in this respect, and what is the best mix. (Contains 3 tables.)
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- 2009
33. Respect for Diversity: An International Overview. Working Papers in Early Childhood Development, No. 40
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Bernard Van Leer Foundation (Netherlands) and Mac Naughton, Glenda M.
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This paper provides an overview on ways of thinking about young children's respect for diversity. It maps sources of knowledge about four different sorts of diversity in young children's lives: cultural and racial diversity, developmental diversity (including "special needs'), gender diversity and socio-economic diversity. It sketches this knowledge base in terms of the extensively researched terrain (what we know with relative certainty), the inadequately explored terrain (promising directions), the theoretical terrain (conceptualising and informing practice), the methodological terrain (developing and validating the knowledge), researchers and research centres in the terrain, and regional nuances in the terrain. The literature review conducted for this paper has identified five broad schools of thought on issues of respect for diversity in the education of young children: the laissez-faire school, the special provisions school, the cultural understandings school, the equal opportunities school and the anti-discrimination school. The paper maps each school of thought in terms of its characteristic perspectives on the best methods for understanding and engaging with diversity in young children's lives. Appended are: (1) Emerging lines of inquiry; and (2) Centres of expertise: a beginning guide. (Contains 18 tables and 102 notes.)
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- 2006
34. Federal, State, and Local Governments: University Patrons, Partners, or Protagonists? Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.3.06
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California Univ., Berkeley. Center for Studies in Higher Education. and Vest, Charles M.
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Charles Vest gave the first of three Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society on April 19, 2005 on the Berkeley campus. This essay argues that research-intensive public and private universities increasingly have far more similarities than differences in missions, structures, and even financial support. For both, the federal government, despite numerous tensions, remains our indispensable partner. At the same time, the role of state governments toward their public universities has evolved from that of patron to that of partner-sometimes a minor partner financially. Yet at every level-federal, state, and local- governments and universities each consider themselves to be the protagonist having the central role, moral authority, and last word in setting the objective and the course. Despite its complexities and tensions, out of this stew (with philanthropists and the private sector thrown in for good measure), we have forged the greatest system of higher education in the world and we must work hard and effectively to sustain and continuously improve it. We must strive for innovation and excellence, but also nurture broad access to this system and stay true to our fundamental mission of creating opportunity. (Contains 7 notes.)
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- 2006
35. The National Rural Alcohol and Drug Abuse Network Awards for Excellence 2004: Submitted and Award-Winning Papers. Technical Assistance Publication Series (TAP) 28
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS/PHS),Rockville, MD. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS/PHS),Rockville, MD. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
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This TAP presents seven papers submitted to the 2004 National Rural Alcohol and Drug Abuse Network (NRADAN) Awards for Excellence. Each paper describes effective and innovative models of treatment and prevention services in rural populations. This publication seeks to promote and showcase research addressing the unique and special challenges of providing treatment services to individual in rural areas and their families. The first place paper, "Creating and Sustaining an Adult Drug Court: Avoiding Burial in Grant's Tomb," (Glade F. Roper and Dee S. Owens) describes the effectiveness of a self-funded drug court in Tulare County, California; lessons learned; and disadvantages and advantages of the self-funded approach. The second place paper, "Empower for Recovery: An Innovative Approach to Assist Sustained Recovery in Rural Iowa," (Deborah K. Rohlfs) describes the effectiveness of a strength-and homebased substance abuse treatment and recovery support program in rural Iowa, as well as the challenges, problems, and solutions related to program implementation. The third place paper, "Delivering a Maternal Substance Abuse Intervention Program along the Rural Route," (Trudee Ettlinger) describes the development and effectiveness of an indicated-level substance abuse prevention program for lower income mothers living in rural Vermont, as well as the lessons learned and recommendations for improving implementation. "Socio-Demographic Profiles and Treatment Outcomes of Methamphetamine Abusers in Rural and Urban Areas" (Kazi A. Ahmed, and Careema Yusuf), is the fourth paper, and compares methamphetamine abusers in rural and urban areas, specifically their socio-demographic characteristics, actual use behavior, and drug use and nondrug treatment outcomes. " An Environmental Scan of Faith-Based and Community Reentry Services in Johnson County, Iowa" (Janet C. Hartman, Stephan Arndt, Kristina Barber, and Thomas Wassink) is fifth in the series, and focuses on community corrections, substance abuse treatment providers and faith-based organizations supporting reentry clients. Sixth in this group of papers, " Substance Abuse among Rural and Very Rural Drug Users at Treatment Entry" (Marlies L. Schoeneberger, Carl G. Leukefeld, Matthew L. Hiller, and Michael Townsend) examines the demographic distinction between rural and very rural drug users. Implications are discussed and recommendations are presented for substance abuse treatment providers and policymakers. The seventh and final paper, "Making the Addiction Severity Index User Friendly: An Electronic Display of Client Outcomes Using Shareware" (James E. Sorensen, James Elzey, and Faith Stuart), attacked a root problem in the use of outcome instruments: the inability to conveniently summarize and display client outcomes. Each paper provides references. "Resources on Rural Substance Abuse Issues" provides descriptions of programs, and contact information. (Contains 14 tables and 1 figure.)
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- 2006
36. With Passion and Hope: The Delicate Bond between Research and Researcher. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
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McClafferty, Karen A.
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This paper describes a study of the factors that motivate researchers toward particular topics as well as the obstacles that may keep them from pursuing these topics with passion and empathy. Interviews were conducted with 47 faulty members at 2 California research universities, 1 public and 1 private. In keeping with the grounded theory approach, an iterative process was used for data analysis. Although this was not intended to be a study of emotions in academic work, the open-ended protocol ensured that issues salient to the respondents would emerge. The passions and personal connections that motivated these educational researchers were unmistakable. Strong drives for social or educational change were tempered, however, by circumstance and process, especially the pressures of working in an organization in which individuals are expected to work toward promotion and tenure. The tenure process emerged as the strongest indicator of whether these researchers experienced constraints as they set their research agendas. Assistant and associate professors were more likely to think of their work with passion and resolve. The data reveal the complex way in which motivations and constraints interact as new faculty find their place in the academy. (Contains 54 references.) (SLD)
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- 2000
37. Internationalization of Higher Education: An Institutional Perspective. Papers on Higher Education.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bucharest (Romania). European Centre for Higher Education., Barrows, Leland C., Barrows, Leland C., and United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bucharest (Romania). European Centre for Higher Education.
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The papers in this collection focus on ways higher education institutions might better promote strategies for the internationalization of teaching, learning, research, and other services. The papers explore the rationale of internationalization, the main barriers to internationalization, the distinction between globalization and internationalization, and the growth of transnational education. The papers are: (1) "Changing Rationales for the Internationalization of Higher Education" (Hans de Wit); (2) "Missing in Action: Leadership for International and Global Education for the Twenty-First Century" (Josef A. Mestenhauser); (3) "'The Show Is Not the Show/But They That Go': The Janus-Face of the Internationalized University at the Turn of the Century" (Dorothea Steiner); and (4)"Transnational Education and Recognition of Qualifications" (Lesley A. Wilson and Lazar Vlasceanu). The first two papers contain references. (SLD)
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- 2000
38. Scholarly Communications at Two Academic Atmospheres: Technology-Based Society and Paper-Based Society
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Refaat, Hossam Eldin Moham
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Scholarly communication is a multi-relationship topic that is interconnected to various fields and disciplines. Efforts of faculty members, librarians, publishers, information specialists, information technologists and archivists have to be combined together in order to establish and create scholarly communication in any society. In addition of being a multi-relation topic, scholarly communication can be considered an important criterion in assessing and evaluating higher education systems in different countries. Excellent higher education systems have excellent scholarly communications systems, and fair or moderate higher education systems have moderate or fair scholarly communication systems and so on. Therefore, one can assume that there is a positive and a strong relationship between the level of scholarly communication in a certain country and the type of that country, where advanced countries have advanced scholarly communication systems, and poor or developing countries have poor or weak scholarly communication systems. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast higher education systems in technology-based societies and paper-based societies. (Contains 2 footnotes.)
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- 2005
39. Master Planning in Brazilian Higher Education: Expanding the 3-Year Public College System in the State of Sao Paulo. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.10.10
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University of California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education and Pedrosa, Renato H. L.
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Until recently, Higher education (HE) in Brazil had been, identified with colleges and universities running traditional academic undergraduate programs, with expected graduation time of 4 years or more. The universities in the state of Sao Paulo are at the top of international rankings among Brazilian HEIs, accounting for about half of all indexed research done in Brazil and responsible for 40% of all PhD degrees granted in the country. They have a total enrolment of almost 200,000 students, about 1/3 of those in graduate programs. However, by 2000, with pressure for expansion of the HE system in Brazil and in Sao Paulo increasing, it became clear that the singular model of the research-oriented HE institution was no longer a viable one to meet enrollment demand and labor needs. In 2001, Sao Paulo's state government initiated its first attempt at a "Master Plan" focused on how to expand its network of Higher Education institutions. The main target was to achieve a net enrollment rate of 30% for the whole system (private sector included) by 2020, twice the 2005 figure of 15%. At first, plans were made to create a new 2-year college system similar to that of the United States. But that proved infeasible. By 2005 a new plan emerged to expand the existing system of public State Technological Colleges (FATECs) composed of local or regional, colleges which offer 3-year programs, usually related to the economic and development needs of a particular area. Thus far, this program of expansion been a success, while preserving the function of the universities as more selective and research oriented enterprises. A relatively quiet revolution is under way in Brazilian HE, reflecting a global trend in many emerging economy countries where institutional diversification, including the development of a strong system of HEIs offering vocational programs, has played a key role in expanding HE access. (Contains 3 figures and 4 footnotes.)
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- 2010
40. Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action. A White Paper on the Digital and Media Literacy Recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy
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Aspen Institute, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and Hobbs, Renee
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This report proposes a detailed plan that positions digital and media literacy as an essential life skill and outlines steps that policymakers, educators, and community advocates can take to help Americans thrive in the digital age. It offers a plan of action for how to bring digital and media literacy education into formal and informal settings through a community education movement. The plan of action includes 10 recommendations for local, regional, state and national initiatives aligned with the themes of community action, teacher education, research and assessment, parent outreach, national visibility and stakeholder engagement. These action steps do more than bring digital and media literacy into the public eye. Each step provides specific concrete programs and services to meet the diverse needs of our nation's citizens, young and old, and build the capacity for digital and media literacy to thrive as a community education movement. Appended are: (1) Portraits of Success; (2) About the Author; and (3) About the Communications and Society Program. (Contains 4 figures, references and a bibliography.)
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- 2010
41. The Effect of Participation in Undergraduate Research on Critical Thinking and Reflective Judgment. AIR 2001 Annual Forum Paper.
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Bauer, Karen W.
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This study examined differences in personality type for college freshmen and the effects of participation in undergraduate research on critical thinking and reflective judgment scores. Participants were 266 undergraduate students. While correlations between personality and the thinking measures were low and of little practical significance, a repeated measures analysis revealed a two-way interaction between research participation and major for change in critical thinking score. A second repeated measures analysis with simple contrasts revealed a two-way interaction between research participation and gender for change in reflective judgment score. Findings thus indicate that participation in undergraduate research affects critical thinking and reflective judgment for some students. The paper also discuses implications and limitations of the study. (Contains 5 figures, 4 tables, and 39 references.) (SLD)
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- 2001
42. Can Public Research Universities Compete? Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.17.06
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University of California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education and Brint, Steven
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Many leaders of public research universities worry about falling behind private research universities at a time when private university finances have improved dramatically and state support for higher education has declined. In this paper, I provide grounds for a more optimistic view of the competitive position of public research universities. I develop two "business models" for higher education: the public research university model is based on high volume of enrollments and low cost per student, while the private university model is based on low volume and high cost. I show that the private model, at its best, generates a high proportion of future leaders, stronger educational reputations, and leads to the accumulation of more institutional wealth. However, the public model remains viable and successful, principally because it typically generates larger faculties. The total societal contribution of public research universities, as measured by human capital development and research publication, is greater than that of private universities. (Contains 7 tables and 26 notes.)
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- 2006
43. An Introductory Global Overview: The Private Fit to Salient Higher Education Tendencies. PROPHE Working Paper Series. WP No. 7
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Program for Research on Private Higher Education and Levy, Daniel C.
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Private higher education has surged in recent decades and now forms a major part of the world's total higher education. A fourth of total enrollment might be a reasonable guess, albeit a very rough one. Only Western Europe remains mostly marginal to the global trend. Whether new or continuing, contemporary private growth is notable, especially in developing regions. This working paper provides only an introductory, quite partial sketch of how private higher education tends to fit broader higher education patterns, particularly patterns of recent change. Since higher education, and even just private higher education, is very diverse and involves multiple tendencies, it would be far too simple to say merely that private higher education fits broad higher education tendencies. Yet we see reason to highlight private sector characteristics such as huge expansion, responses to rising student demand and changing economies, average smallness in institutional size, tuition dependence, commercial orientations, hierarchical governance, political order, and a certain global self-identification. On the other hand, comparatively limited on the private side are academic research, graduate education, full-time staff, government finance, and government control. (Contains 13 notes.)
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- 2006
44. Higher Education and Management: Discourse and Discord. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
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Thorne, Marie L. and Cuthbert, Rob
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This paper examines the relationship between the study of management and the study of higher education (HE) management in the United Kingdom, focusing on the nature of the discourse between academics in the two fields. The paper has three parts. The first part defines the nature of discourse and a context for the discussion, looking at recent changes in HE and its management in the United Kingdom. This is followed by an analogous overview of British research into HE management and a review of the complex issues facing business and management research and the discord that exists in defining its rigor and relevance. The second part of the paper considers the nature of academic discourses; how disciplines, fields, faculties, and cultures are developed; and how they interact or not interact with each other. The third part explores the relationship between theory and practice in HE management and the extent to which management academics engage with the study of management in their own work context. A model is developed to express the inter-relationship between management research, HE management research, and HE management practice. The paper concludes by questioning how far the divisions articulated between the two fields are simply part of an inevitable language game between the disciplines. (Contains 104 references.) (MDM)
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- 1998
45. Battery Research and Innovation—A Study of Patents and Papers.
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Pohl, Hans and Marklund, Måns
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PATENT applications ,PATENTS ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,AUTOMOBILE industry ,STORAGE batteries - Abstract
This study of patent applications and scientific publications related to batteries is unique as it includes the volume of as well as qualitative indicators for both types of publications. Using carefully elaborated strategies to identify publications relating to batteries, this study provides data to discuss the critical balance to strike between investments in research and the more innovation-related aspects. The results show that China's dominance in publication volumes increases and that research with Chinese involvement is highly cited, whereas patent applications are slightly less valued than the world average. Quality-related indicators for Canada and the United States are very high for both scientific publications and patent applications. National differences in the proportions of patent applications and scientific publications are large, with Japan at one end with three patent applications per scientific paper and Canada at the other with almost seven scientific papers per patent application. On an actor level, data for Sweden indicate how the automotive industry started to file many patent applications in the decade starting in 2010. Finally, it is noted that this new approach to study a technological field appears promising as it gives new perspectives of relevance for policy actors and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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46. Ethics and Leadership: Reflections from A Public Research University. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.3.08
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King, C. Judson
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Issues of ethics and leadership are important, growing and intense in universities. Five examples are discussed, drawn from the personal experience of the author. These involve the selection of research, the collection and use of ethically sensitive materials, major relationships with industry and donors, access and admissions, and the content of education itself. Analyses of these cases are couched in terms of some of the major trends affecting public research universities, with one conclusion being that the most challenging situations are those where multiple ethical standards are pertinent, and conflict with one another. (Contains 1 table and 9 notes.)
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- 2008
47. Policy Paper: The Ethics of Using Formers to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism
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Katerina Papatheodorou
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former extremists ,pcve ,ethics ,research ,practitioners ,Political science ,Political science (General) ,JA1-92 - Abstract
After 9/11, the academic study of terrorism flourished as more government resources were focused on counterterrorism efforts. As the focus slowly shifted towards P/CVE or Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, more and more articles lauded the potential benefits of including Formers. The idea behind that was that experience equals expertise. Formers have been valuable data sources as research participants. However, the current trend has seen Formers leave that role and take on far more complicated and sophisticated roles, such as deradicalization experts, claiming to help people leave extremism. This policy paper focuses on the evidence, specifically the lack of evidence, to support the prevailing assumptions regarding the effectiveness of Formers and dissects the ethical issues arising from their involvement in P/CVE. The paper ends with policy recommendations to shift P/CVE activities and research toward a more empirically-grounded model. Since P/CVE initiatives involve a variety of actors, from academic researchers to the media to practitioners, this paper is not aimed at one field or profession. Rather, it is intended for everyone involved in P/CVE-related activities, including research.
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- 2023
48. The Measure of Professorial Productivity: Using Student Learning Outcomes Criteria. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
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Bock, Marianne T.
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This paper considers the viability and applicability of student learning outcomes used as a measure of professorial productivity. While student learning outcomes need to be assessed in order to evaluate faculty productivity, examination of student learning as a concept reveals the difficulty of finding consensus on how to define it. The issue is further complicated by the challenge of how to best educate a diverse student body, as well as by factors that affect the campus environment, such as alcohol abuse, violence, racism, and sexism. Another variable affecting learning outcomes is students' willingness to take responsibility for their own learning. And while faculty involvement in research and writing stimulates classroom intellectual climate, students learn as a result of all types of faculty activity--advising, new teaching technologies, or faculty involvement in campus concerns, and it is difficult to evaluate faculty on the basis of all these components. The paper concludes that appropriate assessment methods are needed, and that student learning outcomes should not be the only basis upon which colleges base faculty rank, tenure, or promotion. Student learning outcomes need to be institution-specific, and internal assessment mechanisms must be established to measure them. (Contains 27 references.) (SW)
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- 1997
49. Virtualization of Research Universities: Raising the Right Questions to Address Key Functions of the Institution. Research & Occasional Paper Series. CSHE.6.03
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University of California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education and Pfeffer, Thomas
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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the variety of information and communication technology (ICT) applications at traditional universities and to integrate them into a holistic picture of the institution. Using the distinction of three key elements of scholarly activity (research, publication, education), it suggests a functional perspective of the organization as a way to raise questions for the assessment of ICT applications in universities. This may lead to a better understanding of the different rationales in research, publication, and education. Acknowledging these differences might enable finding ways for using ICTs to foster academic productivity in each of the different aspects separately and also for contributing to their integration in the organization of the university. (Contains 2 figures.)
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- 2003
50. Fellowship Effects in Graduate Education: Evaluating the Impact of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper.
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WestEd, Los Alamitos, CA., Goldsmith, Sharon S., and Presley, Jennifer B.
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This report results from an evaluation of the National Research Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship program. The study sought to determine: (1) whether NSF fellows show evidence of more timely degree completion and early career success; (2) whether graduate fellows and minority graduate fellows experience similar education and career success; and (3) whether the individual award aspect of the program enhanced the educational experience and career options of fellows. A 52-item survey questionnaire measured attendance patterns, completion rates, and time to degree of 9,035 NSF fellows who received first-year awards between 1979 and 1993. The study found positive effects on all three dimensions for female fellows and for recipients of minority graduate fellowships, suggesting a "signaling" effect both for individuals and their departments. The importance of the individual award aspect of the fellowships varied by discipline and by other sources of graduate funding support available in individual departments. Appended are seven data tables and illustrative graphics. (Contains 17 references.) (CH)
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- 1999
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