Issues of inquiry as research and evaluation: An Australian case study     

Doune Macdonald  Lisa Hunter  Terry Carlson  Dawn Penney 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2000,27(1):93-114

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When "where" is more important than "when": birthplace and birthdate effects on the achievement of sporting expertise   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1  

Côté J  Macdonald DJ  Baker J  Abernethy B 《Journal of sports sciences》2006,24(10):1065-1073

In this study, we assessed whether contextual factors related to where or when an athlete is born influence their likelihood of playing professional sport. The birthplace and birth month of all American players in the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and Professional Golfer's Association, and all Canadian players in the National Hockey League were collected from official websites. Monte Carlo simulations were used to verify if the birthplace of these professional athletes deviated in any systematic way from the official census population distribution, and chi-square analyses were conducted to determine whether the players' birth months were evenly distributed throughout the year. Results showed a birthplace bias towards smaller cities, with professional athletes being over-represented in cities of less than 500,000 and under-represented in cities of 500,000 and over. A birth month/relative age effect (in the form of a distinct bias towards elite athletes being relatively older than their peers) was found for hockey and baseball but not for basketball and golf. Comparative analyses suggested that contextual factors associated with place of birth contribute more influentially to the achievement of an elite level of sport performance than does relative age and that these factors are essentially independent in their influences on expertise development.  相似文献   

Identifying top news using crowdsourcing     

Richard McCreadie  Craig Macdonald  Iadh Ounis 《Information Retrieval》2013,16(2):179-209

The influential Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) retrieval conference has always relied upon specialist assessors or occasionally participating groups to create relevance judgements for the tracks that it runs. Recently however, crowdsourcing has been championed as a cheap, fast and effective alternative to traditional TREC-like assessments. In 2010, TREC tracks experimented with crowdsourcing for the very first time. In this paper, we report our successful experience in creating relevance assessments for the TREC Blog track 2010 top news stories task using crowdsourcing. In particular, we crowdsourced both real-time newsworthiness assessments for news stories as well as traditional relevance assessments for blog posts. We conclude that crowdsourcing not only appears to be a feasible, but also cheap and fast means to generate relevance assessments. Furthermore, we detail our experiences running the crowdsourced evaluation of the TREC Blog track, discuss the lessons learned, and provide best practices.  相似文献   

Introduction to the special issue on search intents and diversification     

Tetsuya Sakai  Noriko Kando  Craig Macdonald  Ian Soboroff 《Information Retrieval》2013,16(4):427-428

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From Idola Conceptiones to Discourse Analysis: A Response to Bart Crum     

Doune Macdonald 《Quest (Human Kinetics)》2013,65(2):197-201

Crum's notion of idola as a conceptual fallacy is interesting, somewhat helpful, yet potentially limiting in a critique of research in PE if one is to accept a postmodern or poststructuralist position. In line with a poststructuralist position, a strength in Crum's application of idola is the recognition that research in PE is constituted by the researcher and their social world which, in turn, constitutes the researcher. Limitations to Crum's idola thesis arise when the notion is used to suggest that as a resull of the researcher's lack of conceptual clarity, the quest for knowledge or truth about PE pedagogy is undermined as this assumes that meanings can be unequivocal and precede a linear research process. In cantrast, this response argues that a priority in research should be to examine how, and under what conditions, panicular discourses come to shape PE practices in schools and universities. In a postmodern world, conceptual clarity should not he the goal but rather a coming lo understand how PE knowledge and practice is being constructed across sites and contexts.  相似文献   

Developing a Professional Identity through Problem-Based Learning     

Doune Macdonald  Geoff Isaacs 《Teaching Education》2013,24(3):315-333

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Inviting discomfort: foregrounding emotional labour in teaching anthropology in post-apartheid South Africa     

Helen Mary Macdonald 《Teaching in Higher Education》2013,18(6):670-682

This article examines the potential and limitations of Megan Boler's ‘pedagogy of discomfort’ in a post-apartheid yet heavily racialised South Africa. Taking an ‘ethnographic sensibility’ to anthropological teaching, this paper sketches the social and historical context of discomfort produced by everyday classroom practices at a historically privileged university. This paper argues that new patterns of thought, if achieved at all in the course of learning through ‘discomfort’, are deeply embedded within uneasy social relationships.  相似文献   

Don Lamberton’s dissenting statement of 1984     

Stuart Macdonald 《普罗米修斯》2015,33(4):343-346

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Some moral problems in classroom evaluation/testing     

James B. Macdonald 《The Urban Review》1975,8(1):18-27

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Men for the Royal College     

Stuart Macdonald 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》1984,3(2):135-140

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