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52. Sanctity of Digital Privacy and Personal Data during COVID-19: Are Youths Enough Digitally Literate to Deal with It?
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Ghosh, Swagata, Chauhan, Gajendra Singh, and Kotwal, Renu
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The COVID-19 pandemic has fast-tracked the development of digital applications and inspired everyone to adapt to the technologies to curb the spread of outbreak. As this crisis intensifies, the rapid usage of digital devices and apps has echoed the serious concerns about civil liberties, privacy, and data protection. Considering the situation, this research aimed to explore the internet using habits of the youths of West Bengal, a state in eastern India, during COVID-19. Besides, the paper explored their experiences of using various digital applications, the fundamental digital literacy and how safely they protect data from breaches. Thus, the paper presents the results by conducting an online survey among the youths in West Bengal. The result, from 215 participants, highlighted that the increased use of these digital applications has not matched the demand for digital privacy literacy among the young generation of the state. While this pandemic has raised their concerns over digital privacy and data protection, yet they do not undertake any strong protection mechanisms to safeguard them digitally. Besides, this paper suggests suitable plans to raise awareness among this generation and form a healthy digital citizenship with a proper regulatory framework as it is the need of the hour.
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- 2023
53. How Big Is a Leaf? Using Cognitive Tuning to Explore a Teacher's Communication Processes to Elicit Children's Emerging Ideas about Data
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Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), Fry, Kym, English, Lyn, and Makar, Katie
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The intangible concept of data, as part of statistical literacy, can be complex for young children to grasp. Inquiry as a pedagogy has potential for supporting student development of statistical literacy as the investigation process is driven by the inquiry question. The aim of this paper is to gain insight into how a teacher's communication processes with her students supported their emerging understandings about the abstract concept of data. In this exploratory case study, we present data from a Year 4 classroom (age 9) in a guided mathematical inquiry within the STEM context of agricultural science. The inquiry question the students addressed was, "How big is a leaf?" The inquiry focused on linking data to the real-life context the data represented.
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- 2022
54. Psychological Testing at Entrance Exam at 'Dunarea de Jos' University of Galati, Romania
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Andrei, Mihaela and Pricopie-Filip, Alina
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The university admission test comes after the high school graduation exam - the baccalaureate. The baccalaureate results of each candidate must be known by the university admissions committee. They provide information on the degree of intelligence, the skills acquired up to this date, but also the presence of inclinations and skills indispensable to the fulfillment of professional aspirations. The university entrance exam should not be focused only on quantity and quality of knowledge. Besides that, one of the objectives of this exam must be to test the interest in completing the studies through the university level for which he opts, but also the candidate's skills that "offer" him the productive and satisfying course of the entire cycle of higher education, even the perspective of future achievements. To realize that three psychological investigation tools of candidates (tests) can be used, necessary to highlight: (1) personality profile of the candidate; (2) interest profile, motivational; and (3) aptitude profile. The paper proposes a new admission methodology: the data collected through the proposed tests and correlated with the high school graduation data can accept the candidates, as admitted to the profile they opted for, or can redirect them to choose the right path. [For the full proceedings, see ED630948.]
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- 2022
55. Towards Real Interpretability of Student Success Prediction Combining Methods of XAI and Social Science
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Cohausz, Lea
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Despite calls to increase the focus on explainability and interpretability in EDM and, in particular, student success prediction, so that it becomes useful for personalized intervention systems, only few efforts have been undertaken in that direction so far. In this paper, we argue that this is mainly due to the limitations of current Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches regarding interpretability. We further argue that the issue, thus, calls for a a combination of AI and social science methods utilizing the strengths of both. For this, we introduce a step-wise model of interpretability where the first step constitutes of knowing important features, the second step of understanding counterfactuals regarding a particular person's prediction, and the third step of uncovering causal relations relevant for a set of similar students. We show that LIME, a current XAI method, reaches the first but not subsequent steps. To reach step two, we propose an extension to LIME, Minimal Counterfactual-LIME, finding the smallest number of changes necessary to change a prediction. Reaching step three, however, is more involved and additionally requires theoretical and causal reasoning - to this end, we construct an easily applicable framework. Using artificial data, we showcase that our methods can recover connections among features; additionally, we demonstrate its applicability on real-life data. Limitations of our methods are discussed and collaborations with social scientists encouraged. [For the full proceedings, see ED623995.]
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- 2022
56. Can Population-Based Engagement Improve Personalisation? A Novel Dataset and Experiments
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Bulathwela, Sahan, Verma, Meghana, Pérez-Ortiz, María, Yilmaz, Emine, and Shawe-Taylor, John
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This work explores how population-based engagement prediction can address cold-start at scale in large learning resource collections. The paper introduces: (1) VLE, a novel dataset that consists of content and video based features extracted from publicly available scientific video lectures coupled with implicit and explicit signals related to learner engagement; (2) two standard tasks related to predicting and ranking context-agnostic engagement in video lectures with preliminary baselines; and (3) a set of experiments that validate the usefulness of the proposed dataset. Our experimental results indicate that the newly proposed VLE dataset leads to building context-agnostic engagement prediction models that are significantly performant than ones based on previous datasets, mainly attributing to the increase of training examples. VLE dataset's suitability in building models towards Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence education focused on e-learning/MOOC use-cases is also evidenced. Further experiments in combining the built model with a personalising algorithm show promising improvements in addressing the cold-start problem encountered in educational recommenders. This is the largest and most diverse publicly available dataset to our knowledge that deals with learner engagement prediction tasks. The dataset, helper tools, descriptive statistics and example code snippets are available publicly. [For the full proceedings, see ED623995.]
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- 2022
57. DerSql, Generating SQL from an Entity-Relation Diagram
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Andrea Domínguez-Lara and Wulfrano Arturo Luna-Ramírez
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The automatic code generation is the process of generating source code snippets from a program, i.e., code for generating code. Its importance lies in facilitating software development, particularly important is helping in the implementation of software designs such as engineering diagrams, in such a case, automatic code generation copes with the problem of how to obtain code from a graphic representation, for instance an UML diagram or a Relational Diagram. Some advantages of automatic code generation are: a) to obtain the source code more quickly and to do it with lower margins of error; b) it is promising to be applied in teaching contexts, whilst provide instructors with a tool to teach, the expected results of assignments can be assessed by comparing the results of students and the automatic generated code. Furthermore, one of the most frequently tasks in classrooms when teaching relational databases is the design of Entity-Relationship Diagrams which eventually become SQL code. The manual transition from an Entity-Relationship Diagram to SQL code is a time-consuming process and requires of a skilled eye to be successfully performed. In this paper, we present "DerSql," an extension of the DIA Diagrammer, a well-known free software engineering tool, to automatically generate SQL code from an Entity-Relationship Diagrams. The results are tested for the case of 1 -- 1 and 1 -- n arities relationships. We consider that "DerSql" represents a remarkable tool for teaching while it is a promising advance in developing DIA as a 4th Generation software engineering application. [For the full proceedings, see ED638044.]
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- 2022
58. Skill up Tennessee: Job Training That Works
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Sneed, Christopher T., Upendram, Sreedhar, Cummings, Clint, and Fox, Janet E.
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Employment and training services offered through Extension are part of and continue a long tradition of policy-focused employment and job training. This paper chronicles the successes of UT Extension's work as a third-party partner in the delivery of workforce development programming geared toward individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The paper begins with an overview of the federal program and a discussion of how Tennessee forged a state-level partnership for the delivery of workforce services. Data showing program success including number of participants served, supportive services offered, and economic impact are highlighted. Finally, lessons learned are outlined.
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- 2023
59. Privacy Harm and Non-Compliance from a Legal Perspective
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Suvineetha Herath, Haywood Gelman, and Lisa Mckee
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In today's data-sharing paradigm, personal data has become a valuable resource that intensifies the risk of unauthorized access and data breach. Increased data mining techniques used to analyze big data have posed significant risks to data security and privacy. Consequently, data breaches are a significant threat to individual privacy. Privacy is a multifaceted concept covering many areas, including the right to access, erasure, and rectify personal data. This paper explores the legal aspects of privacy harm and how they transform into legal action. Privacy harm is the negative impact to an individual as a result of the unauthorized release, gathering, distillation, or expropriation of personal information. Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) emerged as a solution to address data privacy issues and minimize the risk of privacy harm. It is essential to implement privacy enhancement mechanisms to protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from unlawful use or access. FIPPs (Fair Information Practice Principles), based on the 1973 Code of Fair Information Practice (CFIP), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), are a collection of widely accepted, influential US codes that agencies use when evaluating information systems, processes, programs, and activities affecting individual privacy. Regulatory compliance places a responsibility on organizations to follow best practices to ensure the protection of individual data privacy rights. This paper will focus on FIPPs, relevance to US state privacy laws, their influence on OECD, and reference to the EU General Data Processing Regulation. (GDPR).
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- 2023
60. Classroom Equity Data Inquiry for Racial Equity
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Rebekah Sidman-Taveau
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Longstanding inequities exist in community colleges across the United States. To address these inequities, California Community Colleges educators have engaged in a variety of practices including the writing of equity plans and participation in equity data inquiry. However, there is an urgent need for greater focus on racial equity and for more faculty involvement in equity work at the classroom level. This paper presents a teacher case study exploring Classroom Equity Data Inquiry (CEDI), a tool for faculty professional learning focused on equitable student outcomes. In CEDI, professors examine their disaggregated classroom data, reflect on their class equity gaps, and pursue relevant professional development. They implement targeted interventions and then assess those interventions. This paper describes the author's sustained CEDI utilizing six years of equity data in her English as a Second Language classes at a small northern California community college. First, it provides a definition and rationale for CEDI. Second, it details the author's CEDI process and challenges. Third, it shares the author's changes in thinking and practice including high impact interventions the author implemented to reduce equity gaps for men of color in her classes. Fourth, the article describes positive qualitative student data and increased success and retention rates for Hispanic and multi-race males following the interventions. The article concludes that CEDI requires training, support, and time, but that the approach merits further research. More research is needed on CEDI methods and their possible impact on racial equity in the classroom.
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- 2024
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61. Toward Redefining Library Research Support Services in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: An Evidence-Based Practice Approach
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Alisa Howlett, Eleanor Colla, and Rebecca Joyce
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An increasingly complex and demanding research landscape has seen university libraries rapidly evolve their services. While research data management, bibliometrics, and research impact services have predominantly featured in the literature to date, the full scope of support libraries are currently providing to their institutions is unknown. This paper aims to present an up-to-date view of the scope and extent of research support services by university libraries across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. A coding process analyzed content data from university library websites. Eleven research support areas were identified. Service delivery is split between synchronous and asynchronous modes. This paper describes a lived experience of an evidence-based library and information practice approach to improving research support services at two Australian university libraries, and while it highlights continued maturation of research support services, more research is needed to better understand influences on service development.
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- 2024
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62. Law Case Teaching Combining Big Data Environment with SPSS Statistics
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Zhao Wang
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This paper proposes an online learning platform learner DM method based on the improved fuzzy C clustering (FCM) algorithm, constructs a learner feature database, and combines clustering analysis and SPSS statistical methods to statistically summarize the big data of law, thus improving the deficiencies of static and absolute classification of students in the student model. In the experiment paper, the improved algorithm is implemented and the experimental data is analyzed. The results show that the learner behavior feature extraction model in this paper has fewer errors and higher recall rate. Compared with the traditional CF algorithm, the error rate is reduced by 19.64% and the recall rate is increased by 22.85%. This study provides better targeted teaching programs and case resources for legal case teaching and promotes the innovation of legal case teaching mode.
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- 2024
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63. The Data Awareness Framework as Part of Data Literacies in K-12 Education
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Lukas Höper and Carsten Schulte
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Purpose: In today's digital world, data-driven digital artefacts pose challenges for education, as many students lack an understanding of data and feel powerless when interacting with them. This paper aims to address these challenges and introduces the data awareness framework. It focuses on understanding data-driven technologies and reflecting on the role of data in everyday life. The paper also presents an empirical study on young school students' data awareness. Design/methodology/approach: The study involves a teaching unit on data awareness framed by a pre- and post-test design using a questionnaire on students' awareness and understanding of and reflection on data practices of data-driven digital artefacts. Findings: The study's findings indicate that the data awareness framework supports students in understanding data practices of data-driven digital artefacts. The findings also suggest that the framework encourages students to reflect on these data practices and think about their daily behaviour. Originality/value: Students learn a model about interactions with data-driven digital artefacts and use it to analyse data-driven applications. This approach appears to enable students to understand these artefacts from everyday life and reflect on these interactions. The work contributes to research on data and artificial intelligence literacies and suggests a way to support students in developing self-determination and agency during interactions with data-driven digital artefacts.
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- 2024
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64. Semi-Supervised Learning Method for Adjusting Biased Item Difficulty Estimates Caused by Nonignorable Missingness under 2PL-IRT Model
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Xue, Kang, Huggins-Manley, Anne Corinne, and Leite, Walter
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In data collected from virtual learning environments (VLEs), item response theory (IRT) models can be used to guide the ongoing measurement of student ability. However, such applications of IRT rely on unbiased item parameter estimates associated with test items in the VLE. Without formal piloting of the items, one can expect a large amount of nonignorable missing data in the VLE log le data, and this is expected to negatively impact IRT item parameter estimation accuracy, which then negatively impacts any future ability estimates utilized in the VLE. In the psychometric literature, methods for handling missing data are mostly centered around conditions in which the data and the amount of missing data are not as large as those that come from VLEs. In this paper, we introduce a semi-supervised learning method to deal with a large proportion of missingness contained in VLE data from which one needs to obtain unbiased item parameter estimates. The proposed framework showed its potential for obtaining unbiased item parameter estimates that can then be fixed in the VLE in order to obtain ongoing ability estimates for operational purposes. [This paper was published in: V. Cavalli-Sforza, A. N. Rafferty, C. Romero, & J. Whitehill (Eds.), "Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020)," (pp. 715-719).]
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- 2020
65. Choosing American Colleges from Afar: Chinese Students' Perspectives
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Yefei Xue, Siguo Li, and Liang Ding
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Chinese students studying abroad have been increasing rapidly in the past decades and become a significant financial contribution to receiving countries. Accordingly, understanding their enrollment choice is essential to facilitate college marketing and admission strategies. Though the decision process is believed to be different from domestic students, empirical analysis of Chinese students' enrollment choices is still lacking. This paper fills the void by examining the influential factors of Chinese students' enrollment choice with novel student-level data. We find that in addition to factors domestic students typically consider, such as financial aid and academic quality, Chinese students particularly emphasize college ranking, reputation, and location in their decision process. Furthermore, unlike domestic students who usually prefer colleges with proximity to home, Chinese students' location preference is linked to job prosperity. We also find that the impact of the factors varies for students from different regions of China, which can be attributable to uneven economic development within the country.
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- 2024
66. Moving Success from the Shadows: Data Systems that Link Education and Workforce Outcomes. Policy Brief 2010-01PBL
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American Association of Community Colleges, Mullin, Christopher M., and Lebesch, Anna
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The need for better data on the performance of higher education has become a major focus of education policymakers, and this has been reflected in federal legislation. Community colleges are appropriately held accountable for the workforce outcomes of their students, but the data that are gathered to evaluate those outcomes must reflect the post-college occupational experiences of their students: child-care providers, engineers, nurses, general contractors, and members of the armed forces. To better understand the current state of linkages between education and workforce outcomes, the authors examined the following: (1) The assumptions federal legislation makes about linkages between education and workforce outcomes and the data needed to document those outcomes; and (2) How well current data collection systems capture the workforce outcomes of educational pursuits. Initially the authors conducted this inquiry by analyzing source documents, including federal legislation, program descriptions, technical manuals, and other publications developed by or related to the programs under review. Then they verified the accuracy of interpretations of these texts through conversations with program administrators and others familiar with the nuances of the relevant federal policies. (Contains 1 table, 1 figure and 34 notes.)
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- 2010
67. Data Papers as a New Form of Knowledge Organization in the Field of Research Data.
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Schöpfel, Joachim, Farace, Dominic, Prost, Hélène, and Zane, Antonella
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KNOWLEDGE management ,BUSINESS models ,METADATA ,SCHOLARLY publishing ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Data papers have been defined as scholarly journal publications whose primary purpose is to describe research data. Our survey provides more insights about the environment of data papers, i.e., disciplines, publishers and business models, and about their structure, length, formats, metadata, and licensing. Data papers are a product of the emerging ecosystem of data-driven open science. They contribute to the FAIR principles for research data management. However, the boundaries with other categories of academic publishing are partly blurred. Data papers are (can be) generated automatically and are potentially machine-readable. Data papers are essentially information, i.e., description of data, but also partly contribute to the generation of knowledge and data on its own. Part of the new ecosystem of open and data-driven science, data papers and data journals are an interesting and relevant object for the assessment and understanding of the transition of the former system of academic publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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68. Getting beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City. NBER Working Paper No. 17632
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National Bureau of Economic Research, Dobbie, Will, and Fryer, Roland G.
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Charter schools were developed, in part, to serve as an R&D engine for traditional public schools, resulting in a wide variety of school strategies and outcomes. In this paper, we collect unparalleled data on the inner-workings of 35 charter schools and correlate these data with credible estimates of each school's effectiveness. We find that traditionally collected input measures--class size, per pupil expenditure, the fraction of teachers with no certification, and the fraction of teachers with an advanced degree--are not correlated with school effectiveness. In stark contrast, we show that an index of five policies suggested by over forty years of qualitative research--frequent teacher feedback, the use of data to guide instruction, high-dosage tutoring, increased instructional time, and high expectations--explains approximately 50 percent of the variation in school effectiveness. Our results are robust to controls for three alternative theories of schooling: a model emphasizing the provision of wrap-around services, a model focused on teacher selection and retention, and the "No Excuses'' model of education. We conclude by showing that our index provides similar results in a separate sample of charter schools.
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- 2011
69. Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses. NBER Working Paper No. 16886
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National Bureau of Economic Research, Pop-Eleches, Cristian, and Urquiola, Miguel
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This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression discontinuity quasi-experiments observed in the context of Romania's high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and principals that we implemented in 59 Romanian towns. The first finding is that students do benefit from access to higher achieving schools and tracks within schools. A second set of results suggests that the stratification of schools by quality in general, and the opportunity to attend a better school in particular, result in significant behavioral responses on the part of teachers, parents, and students. Although we do not expect the magnitude or even the direction of these responses to hold everywhere, their existence has a number of implications for evaluation, particularly since some of them change over time, and some would seem to be relevant only once interventions reach a certain scale.
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- 2011
70. Effect of hydrocarbon type on reactivity of exhaust gases. Paper 650524
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Fleming, R
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- 2020
71. Identifying Effective Classroom Practices Using Student Achievement Data. NBER Working Paper No. 15803
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National Bureau of Economic Research, Kane, Thomas J., Taylor, Eric S., and Tyler, John H.
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Recent research has confirmed both the importance of teachers in producing student achievement growth and in the variability across teachers in the ability to do that. Such findings raise the stakes on our ability to identify effective teachers and teaching practices. This paper combines information from classroom-based observations and measures of teachers' ability to improve student achievement as a step toward addressing these challenges. We find that classroom based measures of teaching effectiveness are related in substantial ways to student achievement growth. Our results point to the promise of teacher evaluation systems that would use information from both classroom observations and student test scores to identify effective teachers. Our results also offer information on the types of practices that are most effective at raising achievement.
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- 2010
72. Understanding Privacy and Data Protection Issues in Learning Analytics Using a Systematic Review
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Liu, Qinyi and Khalil, Mohammad
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The field of learning analytics has advanced from infancy stages into a more practical domain, where tangible solutions are being implemented. Nevertheless, the field has encountered numerous privacy and data protection issues that have garnered significant and growing attention. In this systematic review, four databases were searched concerning privacy and data protection issues of learning analytics. A final corpus of 47 papers published in top educational technology journals was selected after running an eligibility check. An analysis of the final corpus was carried out to answer the following three research questions: (1) What are the privacy and data protection issues in learning analytics? (2) What are the similarities and differences between the views of stakeholders from different backgrounds on privacy and data protection issues in learning analytics? (3) How have previous approaches attempted to address privacy and data protection issues? The results of the systematic review show that there are eight distinct, intertwined privacy and data protection issues that cut across the learning analytics cycle. There are both cross-regional similarities and three sets of differences in stakeholder perceptions towards privacy and data protection in learning analytics. With regard to previous attempts to approach privacy and data protection issues in learning analytics, there is a notable dearth of applied evidence, which impedes the assessment of their effectiveness. The findings of our paper suggest that privacy and data protection issues should not be relaxed at any point in the implementation of learning analytics, as these issues persist throughout the learning analytics development cycle. One key implication of this review suggests that solutions to privacy and data protection issues in learning analytics should be more evidence-based, thereby increasing the trustworthiness of learning analytics and its usefulness.
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- 2023
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73. Fasting during Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance. NBER Working Paper No. 17713
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National Bureau of Economic Research, Almond, Douglas, Mazumder, Bhashkar, and van Ewijk, Reyn
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We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are 0.05 to 0.08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in early pregnancy. These estimates are downward biased to the extent that Ramadan is not universally observed. We conclude that the effects of prenatal investments on test scores are comparable to many conventional educational interventions but are likely to be more cost effective and less subject to "fade out".
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- 2011
74. Implement Adaptation in a Case Based ITS
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Graf von Malotky, Nikolaj Troels and Martens, Alke
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ITSs have the requirement to be adaptive to the student with AI. The classical ITS architecture defines three components to split the data and to keep it flexible and thus adaptive. However, there is a lack of abstract descriptions how to put adaptive behavior into practice. This paper defines how you can structure your data for case based systems in a way that adaptivity is easier to achieve while maintaining the classical splitting of the system and reducing the data footprint. Building a case based system from a collection of exchangeable steps is also possible with this approach. Two variants of adaptivity based on the data structure are explored and both can be used in conjunction. [For the full proceedings, see ED621108.]
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- 2021
75. Persona Journey Mapping to Drive Equity during an LMS Transition
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Kam Moi Lee, Megan Mcfarland, and Kari Goin Kono
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One way to achieve equitable design is to directly include users who will be impacted the most in the planning and facilitation of a project. Common financial, logistical, and/or temporal constraints reveal that direct inclusion of the people most impacted is not always possible. If this barrier arises, one promising alternative is the creation and use of personas. Using a vignette and case study qualitative methodological approach, three researchers at a large urban university in the Pacific Northwest detail personas and journey mapping as an equitable design practice during a LMS migration on a rapid development timeline. This paper details how personas were created using empirical data, how journey mapping impacted various teams, and how centering equity better prepared staff to support instructors throughout the migration while addressing the student learning impact.
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- 2023
76. A Review Paper on Big Data and Data Mining Concepts and Techniques
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Prasdika Prasdika and Bambang Sugiantoro
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data ,big data ,data mining ,Electronic computers. Computer science ,QA75.5-76.95 ,Economic growth, development, planning ,HD72-88 - Abstract
In the digital era like today the growth of data in the database is very rapid, all things related to technology have a large contribution to data growth as well as social media, financial technology and scientific data. Therefore, topics such as big data and data mining are topics that are often discussed. Data mining is a method of extracting information through from big data to produce an information pattern or data anomaly
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- 2018
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77. 2022 BenchCouncil International Symposium on benchmarking, measuring and optimizing (Bench 2022) call for papers.
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Chunjie Luo and Wanling Gao
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BENCHMARKING (Management) ,DATA management ,HARDWARE ,COMPUTER software ,DATA - Published
- 2022
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78. Data Sources on the Economic, Demographic and Educational Characteristics of Adults and Implications for Lifelong Learning. Working Papers in Education Finance, No. 37.
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Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. Education Finance Center. and Hyde, William
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Intended to help state planners, this paper focuses on the availability of information regarding the economic and demographic characteristics of adults and their participation and interest in instructor-directed lifelong learning. The first secion identifies sources of data on the economic and demographic conditions of adults that may be of use to planners in determining lifelong learning program needs, especially the Adult Education Participation Survey and Current Population Survey reports. Usefulness and limitations of these data are noted. The second section speculates on the implications that some of these data have for planning state level policies for lifelong learning. In section 3 are discussed shortfalls that might be encountered in designing surveys or interpreting survey results, including omission of appropriate information/questions, omission of tuition and fee or student cost information from surveys, failure of sampling designs to include a sufficient number of subjects, and inconsistencies within surveys. Section 4 makes these general observations about the future of lifelong learning as it relates to statewide planning: growth in the number of adults shows potential for more participation, financial support for lifelong learning activities will influence enrollments, disposition of state politicians toward lifelong learning is important to funding, and progress in planning and funding will be uneven. (YLB)
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- 1981
79. Considerations in Needs Assessment Design. Working Paper No. 1.
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Kamehameha Schools/Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, Honolulu, HI. and Heath, Robert W.
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A view of needs assessment consistent with ecological frameworks is presented in this paper. Discussion focuses on intensive and extensive data types, horizontal approaches, and basic assumptions and requirements of convergent analysis. Also discussed are four linking mechanisms used to connect information among data levels used in convergent analysis: conceptual, statistical methodology, common subjects, and location. Limitations of a concurrent strategy and benefits of longitudinal research designs are also covered. The concluding discussion defines and illustrates three ways of operationally defining "need" in needs assessment studies. It is argued that discrepancy, demand, and dialogue models encompass nearly all theoretical categories of need occurring in the literature. Together these models provide a useful taxonomy for comparing models of assessment. Positive attributes and problems associated with each of the three models are pointed out. It is concluded that it would be a mistake to view the elements of needs assessment as mutually exclusive. Rather, the task of needs assessment design is to find the most useful balance among the elements that conform to the constraints and objectives of a given study. (RH)
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- 1985
80. Worldwide nuclear plant performance. Occasional paper series
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Thomas, S
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- 2020
81. Using Markup Languages for Accessible Scientific, Technical, and Scholarly Document Creation
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White, Jason J. G.
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In using software to write a scientific, technical, or other scholarly document, authors have essentially two options. They can either write it in a 'what you see is what you get' (WYSIWYG) editor such as a word processor, or write it in a text editor using a markup language such as HTML, LATEX, Markdown, or AsciiDoc. This paper gives an overview of the latter approach, focusing on both the non-visual accessibility of the writing process, and that of the documents produced. Currently popular markup languages and established tools associated with them are introduced. Support for mathematical notation is considered. In addition, domain-specific programming languages for constructing various types of diagrams can be well integrated into the document production process. These languages offer interesting potential to facilitate the non-visual creation of graphical content, while raising insufficiently explored research questions. The flexibility with which documents written in current markup languages can be converted to different output formats is emphasized. These formats include HTML, EPUB, and PDF, as well as file formats used by contemporary word processors. Such conversion facilities can serve as means of enhancing the accessibility of a document both for the author (during the editing and proofreading process) and for those among the document's recipients who use assistive technologies, such as screen readers and screen magnifiers. Current developments associated with markup languages and the accessibility of scientific or technical documents are described. The paper concludes with general commentary, together with a summary of opportunities for further research and software development.
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- 2022
82. Communities of Practice: Aligning K-12 and Postsecondary Education
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State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), Colorado, Jessica, Klein, Carrie, and Whitfield, Christina
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The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association's (SHEEO) "Communities of Practice" project builds upon SHEEO's ongoing efforts to measure the capacity and effective use of state postsecondary data systems and provides states with opportunities to develop solutions to common issues with those systems. The sixth Community of Practice convening, "Aligning K-12 and Postsecondary Education," was held December 7-8, 2021, in Denver, Colorado. The two-day meeting included representatives from 13 states: Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, and Washington. Teams included representatives from SHEEO agencies, state K-12 agencies, P-20 partnership organizations, state longitudinal data systems, and others. The Community of Practice also addressed the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on student transitions and how state data systems can be used to promote equitable outcomes for low-income students and students of color. During the convening, teams explored practical uses of state P-20 data for improving college access, equity, and success and how state postsecondary data can better inform the K-12 to postsecondary pipeline. This white paper highlights key themes and findings of the convening, including challenges and lessons learned from the participating state teams and suggestions of topics for further consideration. Case studies describing ongoing efforts in Georgia and Pennsylvania are included in the appendices. Presentations from the December 2021 convening are available on SHEEO's state postsecondary data website.
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83. Using Community-Based Problems to Increase Motivation in a Data Science Virtual Internship
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Johnson, Jillian C. and Olney, Andrew M.
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Typical data science instruction uses generic datasets like survival rates on the Titanic, which may not be motivating for students. Will introducing real-life data science problems fill this motivational deficit? To analyze this question, we contrasted learning with generic datasets and artificial problems (Phase 1) with a community-sourced dataset and authentic problems (Phase 2) in the context of an 8-week virtual internship. Retrospective survey questions indicated interns experienced increased motivation in Phase 2. Additionally, analysis of intern discourse using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) indicated a significant difference in linguistic measures between the two phases. Phase 1 had significantly greater measures of pronouns with a small-medium effect size, 2nd person words with a medium-large effect size, positive emotion with a medium effect size, inter-rogations with a medium-large effect size, question marks with a medium-large effect size, risk with a medium-large effect size, and causal words with a medium effect size. These results in conjunction with a retrospective survey suggest that phase 1 had more questions asked, more causal relationships defined, and included linguistic features of success and failure. Results from Phase 2 indicated that community-sourced data and problems may increase motivation for learning data science. [For the full proceedings, see ED623995.]
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84. The Impact of the Pandemic on IRT Model/Data Fit
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Plackner, Christie and Kim, Dong-In
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The application of item response theory (IRT) is almost universal in the development, implementation, and maintenance of large-scale assessments. Therefore, establishing the fit of IRT models to data is essential as the viability of calibration and equating implementations depend on it. In a typical test administration situation, measurement disturbances that influence model data fit are expected. Unfortunately, test administrations nationwide experienced new measurement disturbances because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the substantial disruption in education, did the response patterns of test takers change enough that model data fit is threatened and the degree of confidence in applying IRT analyses diminished? Using data from a large-scale state assessment system's 2019 and 2021 administration of the same test forms, model and data fit statistics for items and test takers were evaluated. The summary item fit index Q[subscript 1] (Yen, 1993) and the person fit statistic l[subscript z] (Choi, 2010; Drasgow et. al., 1985) were used for the analyses. Results from the study provide evidence that there wasn't a greater risk to the use of IRT models in 2021 than in previous years, despite the measurement disturbances introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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85. Nursing Minimum Data Set for School Nursing Practice. Position Statement. Revised
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National Association of School Nurses and Denehy, Janice
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It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) to support the collection of essential nursing data as listed in the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS). The NMDS provides a basic structure to identify the data needed to delineate nursing care delivered to clients as well as relevant characteristics of those clients. Structure and standardization of data is essential for the efficient utilization of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) so that health information is meaningful and can be shared electronically or exchanged across settings and with different health care providers. With the current emphasis on meaningful use of health data contained in EHRs, registered professional school nurses (hereinafter referred to as school nurse) need to be aware of the importance of including school health data in EHRs to participate in the electronic exchange of useful health information with other health care providers to insure continuity and quality of care (Johnson & Bergren, 2011). To accomplish this, EHRs require standardized, meaningful data integrating data sets such as the NMDS. Ongoing evaluation will be needed to determine the usefulness of the NMDS and its ability to capture the data needed to validate the contributions of school nursing services to the health care system or if additional data elements are needed to establish a data set unique to school nursing. [For the complete report, "Position Statements, Issue Briefs, Resolutions and Consensus Statements. Revised," see ED539227.]
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- 2012
86. Summary of Papers on Predicting Aggregated-Scale Coastal Evolution
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- 2003
87. Synergistic competencies of business graduates for the digital age: directions for higher education
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Butcher, Luke, Sung, Billy, and Cheah, Isaac
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- 2024
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88. Data Integrity: Why Aren't the Data Accurate? AIR 1989 Annual Forum Paper.
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Gose, Frank J.
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The accuracy and reliability aspects of data integrity are discussed, with an emphasis on the need for consistency in responsibility and authority. A variety of ways in which data integrity can be compromised are discussed. The following sources of data corruption are described, and the ease or difficulty of identification and suggested actions for prevention are discussed: (1) changes in institutional policies; (2) new meaning associated with a datum; (3) user experimentation with the system; (4) purging/consolidation of corrupted data; (5) referential integrity; (6) inadequate analysis and testing of software; (7) running obsolete versions of a program; (8) restructuring set relationships on a database; and (9) the trade-off between editing and performance. Contains 4 references. (KM)
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- 1989
89. Efficiency assessment of Indian paper mills through fuzzy DEA.
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Singh, Natthan and Pant, Millie
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PAPER mills ,BIOCHEMICAL oxygen demand ,DATA envelopment analysis ,CHEMICAL oxygen demand ,WATER consumption ,RAW materials - Abstract
The present study proposes a Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (FDEA) approach for analyzing the performance of 8 selected paper mills of India. The proposed approach named FDEA considers the use of fuzzy weights in the objective function and makes use of alpha cut to decide the fuzzy interval. The efficiency of paper mills is evaluated based on 3 input parameters (raw material, energy consumption, and water consumption) and 4 output parameters (paper production, Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions). Further, this paper also analyzes the effect of negative outputs, like BOD, COD, and GHG on the efficiency of paper mills. The study indicates that FDEA can be used efficiently for evaluating the performance of a particular sector under similar conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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90. Paper-Based Computing
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Hannon, Charles
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Faculty have a great deal of control over their lectures, lecture notes, and slides. This article discusses a coming wave of recording devices and other classroom technologies--this time wielded by the students--which will test this control and force serious conversations about how to best help students learn, what it means to own an idea, and what is meant when talking about developing a community of learners on campus. The harbinger of this wave is the Livescribe Pulse smart pen, created by an MIT engineer and initially aimed directly at the college student market. The smart pen points a tiny camera at specially marked paper, captures what is written, and converts the writing to PDF files and plain text in what is being called paper-based computing. The pen comes with microphones that capture audio and software that synchronizes it with the written notes. A student can replay an entire lecture at a later time, either by interacting with the written notes or through a computer. The pen's software also makes it easy to share recorded class sessions with other students at the Livescribe website or through Facebook. (Contains 4 endnotes.)
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- 2008
91. Enhancing Teaching and Learning for Pupils with Dyslexia: A Comprehensive Review of Technological and Non-Technological Interventions
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Salman Jav, Manoranjitham Muniandy, Chen Kang Lee, and Husniza Husni
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Dyslexia is the most prevalent disorder in the world that causes difficulties with reading, writing, and spelling. Pupils with dyslexia show trouble with their cognitive skills. Various interventions were already introduced for their treatment but dyslexia is still a trending disorder. The available interventions utilized for these pupils' learning open the research area for the current state-of-art of learning interventions for pupils with dyslexia. The results of this Systematic Literature Review show the trending interventions, sensory approaches utilized, and difficulties for pupils with dyslexia learning. Papers published over a period of 5 years were reviewed and their data was collected using a rigid systematic process. Based on the gathered data, several analyses were conducted. The search shows that nowadays, technological-based interventions are trending specifically apps and games, in parallel haptics technology is in its very initial stage. The most predominant sensory approaches were visual and auditory, followed by kinesthetic and tactile, mainly intervening with non-technological and technological interventions. There are still many open issues and research opportunities in the field of learning interventions for pupils with dyslexia, as most researchers utilized the visual and auditory approaches for the feedback and guidance of these pupils, while they lack to utilize the kinesthetic and tactile.
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92. Discussion paper: implications for the further development of the successfully in emergency medicine implemented AUD2IT-algorithm.
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Przestrzelski, Christopher, Jakob, Antonina, Jakob, Clemens, and Hoffmann, Felix R.
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DOCUMENTATION ,CURRICULUM ,HUMAN services programs ,EMERGENCY medicine ,EXPERIENCE ,MEDICAL records ,ELECTRONIC publications ,ALGORITHMS ,PATIENTS' attitudes - Abstract
The AUD2IT-algorithm is a tool to structure the data, which is collected during an emergency treatment. The goal is on the one hand to structure the documentation of the data and on the other hand to give a standardised data structure for the report during handover of an emergency patient. AUD2IT-algorithm was developed to provide residents a documentation aid, which helps to structure the medical reports without getting lost in unimportant details or forgetting important information. The sequence of anamnesis, clinical examination, considering a differential diagnosis, technical diagnostics, interpretation and therapy is rather an academic classification than a description of the real workflow. In a real setting, most of these steps take place simultaneously. Therefore, the application of the AUD2IT-algorithm should also be carried out according to the real processes. A big advantage of the AUD2IT-algorithm is that it can be used as a structure for the entire treatment process and also is entirely usable as a handover protocol within this process to make sure, that the existing state of knowledge is ensured at each point of a team-timeout. PR-E-(AUD2IT)-algorithm makes it possible to document a treatment process that, in principle, does not have to be limited to the field of emergency medicine. Also, in the outpatient treatment the PR-E-(AUD2IT)-algorithm could be used and further developed. One example could be the preparation and allocation of needed resources at the general practitioner. The algorithm is a standardised tool that can be used by healthcare professionals of any level of training. It gives the user a sense of security in their daily work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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93. An Earth challenged by Habitability. University and the stakes of the knowledge of the Earth: Position paper
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Blanc, Nathalie, Boudia, Soraya, Bouteau, François, Chiche, Jean, Depoux, Anneliese, Devès, Maud, Gaillardet, Jerome, Charlotte, Halpern, Paule, Clément, Tocilovac, Marko, Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces (LADYSS), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), CERMES3 - Centre de recherche Médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société (CERMES3 - UMR 8211 / U988 / UM 7), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Energies de Demain (LIED (UMR_8236)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEVIPOF), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEE), and ANR-18-IDEX-0001,Université de Paris,Université de Paris(2018)
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Data ,Public action ,Habitability ,Anthropocene ,Earth ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science ,Representation - Abstract
Translation from the French version: https://cloud.parisdescartes.fr/index.php/s/mTAbrXWN4sReA3Q#pdfviewer; The Earth Politics Center (EPC) aims to produce interdisciplinary research of excellence, visible and attractive in France and internationally, in collaboration with stakeholders acting at both local and global levels.With the aim of responding to the scientific and political issues raised by various diagnoses on the state of the planet (growing effects of industrial and agricultural activities on the major balances of the biosphere, disruption of the major water, carbon or nitrogen cycles, etc.), the Center has set itself the mission of developing new ways of knowing and governing these socio-environmental phenomena, while at the same time forming part of a transformed relationship between science and society.Founded in 2019, the EPC has enabled the emergence of an interdisciplinary research community based on the joint exploration of nature and societies by the experimental sciences (physical and biological) and the humanities and social sciences. An Earth challenged by habitability. University and the Challenges of Earth Knowledge, a strategic positioning text, defines its research agenda for the years to come and gives concrete expression to these three years of interdisciplinary dialogue.
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94. Big Data and Knowledge Management: A Possible Course to Combine Them Together
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Hijazi, Sam
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Big data (BD) is the buzz phrase these days. Everyone is talking about its potential, its volume, its variety, and its velocity. Knowledge management (KM) has been around since the mid-1990s. The goals of KM have been to collect, store, categorize, mine, and process data into knowledge. The methods of knowledge acquisition varied from organizational culture to the next. Typical processes converted data into information through traditional databases and then applied business intelligence and data mining methodologies to extract knowledge. With the recent arrival of big data as a disruptive technology and the center of big data, this paper attempts to combine KM and BD fields together. Both areas could help each other tremendously. KM historically, when applied correctly, has helped managers to make decisions faster and better, prevented reinventing the wheel, preserved some talented processes through keeping track of best practices, and prompted innovation due to knowledge sharing and dissemination. BD deals with massive amount of data and does not require a traditional database to be effective. BD has its tools and requirement that can be enhanced through KM. The final aim of this paper is to recreate a model where both big data and knowledge management coexist. The author hopes with a better understanding of both fields to develop a new course where the focus is a productive intersection of knowledge management and big data. To keep up with changing times, this paper will bring the needed awareness of these fields for information systems and business students. [For the full proceedings, see ED575713.]
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95. Organizing visions for data-centric management: how Norwegian policy documents construe the use of data in health organizations
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Solberg, Mads, Kirchhoff, Ralf, Oksavik, Jannike Dyb, and Wessel, Lauri
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- 2024
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96. Creating the baseline: data relations and frictions of UK City of Culture evaluation
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Ashton, Daniel, Gowland-Pryde, Ronda, Roth, Silke, and Sturt, Fraser
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- 2024
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97. Digital Teacher Evaluations: Principal Expectations of Usefulness & Their Impact on Teaching
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Schild, Jonathan Brandon
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Principals are charged with the responsibility of conducting teacher evaluations that lead to improved instructional practices, as well as using information gathered during the process to make informed data-driven decisions about teacher performance. This study analyzes the impact digital teacher evaluations have played on this process. Four research questions guided this study: (1) How are digital teacher evaluations meeting Principal expectations for reporting of information to make data-driven decisions about teaching? (2) How are digital teacher evaluations meeting the need for Principals to provide feedback to teachers to improve performance? (3) Do digital teacher evaluations meet Principal utility costs in terms of affordability, ease of use and time? (4) How do principal satisfaction levels of digital teacher evaluations compare to traditional paper and pencil evaluation practices? A mixed method approach was utilized. Thirty high school Principals of a large, urban Catholic diocese participated in the quantitative phase, and four in the qualitative phase. Findings from the study show that Principals see value in the centralized information available through the use of digital teacher evaluations. The findings further show that digital teacher evaluations save Principals time; are effective alternatives for tracking data; and deliver teachers the immediate feedback necessary to improve instruction. Future research is necessary because of the relative newness of digital teacher evaluations. A case study on a specific instrument or school site will add to the literature on the topic. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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98. Technology enablement of the skills ecosystem
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Boyer, Naomi Rose and Griffith, Margo Leanne
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- 2023
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99. Metalurgija Journal 1962-2022 y – List of Published Papers
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Mamuzić, Ilija
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metalurgija ,časopis ,članci ,lista ,podaci ,metallurgy ,journal ,articles ,list ,data - Abstract
U periodu 1962.–2012., tijekom 60 godina neprekidnog izlaženja, u časopisu Metalurgija su objavljivali autori iz preko 40 država, od Mexica do Kine (sa svih 5 kontinenata). Cilj članka je dati Listu objavljenih radova u 199 svezaka ili 238 brojeva, sa 2721 znanstvenih i stručnih, te 287 priloga (ukupno 3008 radova), autora, koji su svoje rezultate i ideje provjeravali ili ih našli na stranicama ovog časopisa. Svima hvala., For the interval 1962-2022 y, during the continuos publication last 60 years, in Metalurgija Journal Authors from 40 countries from Mexico to China (all 5 continent ) have publish. The goal of the Article is give List of Papers published in this interval, 199 issues or 238 numbers, 2721 scientific and technical, and 287 contributions (total 3008 papers ) of Authors whose investigation results and ideas have been examined and found on the pages of this Journal. Thanks for all.
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100. Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era : 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Virtual Event, September 20–23, 2021, Revised Selected Papers
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Kurbanoğlu, Serap, Špiranec, Sonja, Ünal, Yurdagül, Boustany, Joumana, and Kos, Denis
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artificial intelligence ,computer security ,computer systems ,computer vision ,data ,bases ,digital libraries ,e-learning ,educational technology ,Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) ,information retrieval ,information systems ,network protocols ,personal information ,privacy ,recommender systems ,user information ,user interfaces ,ComputerApplications_MISCELLANEOUS ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION - Abstract
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, held in online mode in September 2021. The 61 revised papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 192 submissions. The papers are organized in the topical sections on information literacy in a post-truth era and news literacy ; health literacy ; data literacy ; digital literacy and digital empowerment ; other literacies ; information literacy in different contexts ; information literacy education in different sectors ; information literacy instruction ; assessment and evaluation of information literacy ; academic integrity, plagiarism and digital piracy ; information behaviour ; information literacy, libraries and librarians ; information literacy in different cultures and countries ; information literacy and democracy, citizenship, active participation.
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- 2022
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