One of the long term goals of any college or university is increasing the student retention. The negative impact of student dropout are clear to students, parents, universities and society. The positive effect of decreasing studentattrition is also self-evident including higher chance of having a better career and higher standard of life for college graduate. In view of these reasons, directors...

 This article reports on a 4-year longitudinal study of the effects of Literacy Collaborative (LC), a schoolwide reform model that relies primarily on the oneon-one coaching of teachers as a lever for improving student literacy learning. Kindergarten through secondgrade students in 17 schools were assessed twice annually with DIBELS and Terra Nova. Scores from the study’s first year, be...

One of the most popular methods for modeling students’ knowledge is Corbett and Anderson’s[1] Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (KT) model. The original Knowledge Tracing model does not allow for individualization. Recently, Pardos and Heffernan [4] showed that more information about students’ prior knowledge can help build a better fitting model and provide a more accurate prediction of student data....

The present study tested the prediction that male teachers are judged more harshly than female teachers for engaging in heterosexual intercourse with a student. One-hundred and eighty-seven adults (116 women, 71 men) evaluated a hypothetical newspaper article describing an alleged student-teacher relationship as part of a 2 (Gender Dyad: Male Teacher/Female Student or Female Teacher/Male Studen...

Learning curves for Gaussian process regression are well understood when the 'student' model happens to match the 'teacher' (true data generation process). I derive approximations to the learning curves for the more generic case of mismatched models, and find very rich behaviour: For large input space dimensionality, where the results become exact, there are universal (student-independent) plat...

the aim of this study was to show the interaction between the society, applicants and medical schools in terms of medical student selection. in this study, the trends to implement social factors in the selection process were highlighted. these social factors were explored through functionalism and conflict theories, each focusing on different categories of social factors. while functionalist th...

I n this paper, we specify that the GARCH(1,1) model has strong forecasting volatility and its usage under the truncated standard normal distribution (TSND) is more suitable than when it is under the normal and student-t distributions. On the contrary, no comparison was tried between the forecasting performance of volatility of the daily return series using the multi-step ahead forec...

Student learning is usually modeled by one of two main approaches: using binary skill, with Bayesian Knowledge Tracing being the standard model, or using continuous skill, with models based on logistic function (e.g., Performance Factor Analysis). We use simulated data to analyze relations between these two approaches in the basic setting of student learning of a single skill. The analysis show...

The acquisition of procedural skills requires learning by doing. Ideally, a student would receive real-time assessment and feedback as he attempts practice problems designed to exercise the targeted skills. This paper describes an automated assessment and feedback capability that has been applied to training for a complex software system in widespread use throughout the U.S. Army. The automated...

Many intelligent educational systems require a component that represents and assesses the knowledge state and the skills of the student. We review how student models can be induced from data and how the skills assessment can be conducted. We show that by relying on graph models with observable nodes, learned student models can be built from small data sets with standard Bayesian Network techniq...