Relationship of Source Selection Methods to Contract Outcomes: An Analysis of Air Force Source Selection

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Lamoureux ◽  
Michael Murrow ◽  
Clinton Walls
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Source Selection ◽  
Relationship Of

scholarly journals It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts: Analyzing Student Use of Sources in Composition Research Papers

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
James W Rosenzweig ◽  
Frank Lambert ◽  
Mary C. Thill
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
Composition Students ◽  
Source Selection ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Source Use ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Objective – This study is designed to discover what kinds of sources are cited by composition students in the text of their papers and to determine what types of sources are used most frequently. It also examines the relationship of bibliographies to in-text citations to determine whether students “pad” their bibliographies with traditional academic sources not used in the text of their papers. Methods – The study employs a novel method grounded in multidisciplinary research, which the authors used to tally 1,652 in-text citations from a sample of 71 student papers gathered from English Composition II courses at three universities in the United States. These data were then compared against the papers’ bibliographic references, which had previously been categorized using the WHY Method.  Results – The results indicate that students rely primarily on traditional academic and journalistic sources in their writing, but also incorporate a significant and diverse array of other kinds of source material. The findings identify a strong institutional effect on student source use, as well as the average number and type of in-text citations, which demographic characteristics do not explain. Additionally, the study demonstrates that student bibliographies are highly predictive of in-text source selection, and that students do not exhibit a pattern of “padding” bibliographies with academic sources. Conclusion – The data warrant the conclusions that an understanding of one’s own institution is vitally important for effective work with students regarding their source selection, and that close analysis of student bibliographies gives an unexpectedly reliable picture of the types and proportions of sources cited in student writing.

Cognitive Styles and the Acquisition of a Complex Aerial Maneuver

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 578-580
Author(s):  
Jefferson M. Koonce ◽  
Thomas M. McCloy
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Previous Experiment ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Regression Equations ◽  
Air Force Academy ◽  
Predictive Capability ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Approximately equal number of male (45) and female (43) Air Force Academy cadets learned a complex aerial maneuver (chandelle) on a desk-top flight simulator. These cadets had participated in a previous experiment (Koonce & Berry, 1980) where they were given a battery of tests which tapped several cognitive and perceptual-motor areas. Of special interest in the present study was the relationship of the various congitive factors to the rate of acquisition of the complex aerial maneuver. Prior to the introduction of the complex maneuver all subjects were trained to criterion level on four basic instrument flight maneuvers (Koonce & McCley, 1980). Then they learned how to fly the complex maneuver with the number of trials required to reach criterion performance as the dependent variable. Results indicated cognitive factors were very significant in predicting complex maneuver performance. Additionally, individually tailoring the regression equations by sex as opposed to utilizing a general overall regression equation greatly enhanced predictive capability.

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