Academic Skills: Publications

TechMiner: Extracting Technologies from Academic Publications

In recent years we have seen the emergence of a variety of scholarly datasets. Typically these capture ‘standard’ scholarly entities and their connections, such as authors, affiliations, venues, publications, citations, and others. However, as the repositories grow and the technology improves, researchers are adding new entities to these repositories to develop a richer model of the scholarly d...

References to e-texts in academic publications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore roles of electronic texts (e-texts) in research enquiry in literary and historical studies, and to deepen the understanding of the nature of scholars’ engagement with e-texts as primary materials. The study includes an investigation of references to e-texts and discussions about researchers’ citation practices in interviews. Design/methodology/a...

A Rubric for Scoring Postsecondary Academic Skills

Today’s assessment of postsecondary academic skills must take into account their comprehensive nature and their multiple facets (Biggs, 1995; Sadler, 1989). In this regard, the use of rubric is more likely to provide qualitative, meaningful, and stable appraisals than are traditional scoring methods. The stability of assessment results, however, rests on the scale’s ability to lead to a common ...

Using the skills of academic elders.

Self-Regulatory Skills to Enhance Academic Success

Students with disabilities in Pre-Kindergarten exhibit disruptive behaviors during whole group lessons and potentially lose opportunities to learn academic content and social interactions due to a lack in self-regulatory skills. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of teaching self-regulatory skills on disruptive behavior and academic learning. Statement of the Problem All ...