In supervised learning, learning from queries rather than from random examples can improve generalization performance significantly. We study the performance of query learning for problems where the student cannot learn the teacher perfectly, which occur frequently in practice. As a prototypical scenario of this kind, we consider a linear perceptron student learning a binary perceptron teacher....

Teacher-Student Interaction in Primary Schools Succeeding and Failing in PIRLS 2006 and TIMSS 2007 S. Aghdasi A.R. Kiamanesh, Ph.D. M. MahdaviHezaaveh M. Safarkhaani To evaluate the student-teacher interactions in the classroom along the psychological and moral dimensions, and deduce any relationship between such interactions and the students' performance on PIRLS, a sa...

Abstract: With annual standardized student testing, it now may be feasible to measure the contributions to student achievement made by individual teachers. But will these “teacher valueadded” measures help to improve student achievement and learning? I address this question through a “policy validity” framework” that includes three factors: (a) statistical validity, i.e., how well teacher value...

We study the effects of various types of education and training on the ability of teachers to promote student achievement. Previous studies on the subject have been hampered by inadequate measures of teacher training and difficulties addressing the non-random selection of teachers to students and of teachers to training. We address these issues by estimating models that include detailed measure...

This article discusses the concept of student ownership of knowledge and seeks to determine how to move students from knowledge acquisition to knowledge application and ultimately to knowledge generation in a virtual setting. Instructional strategies for fostering student engagement in a virtual environment are critical to the learner’s strategic ownership of the knowledge. A number of relevant...

This study offers a holistic examination of 8 grade student performance in mathematics in schools in Botswana based on the country’s sample data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) of 2003. The analyzed sample is comprised of 4,805 students in 136 schools. Missing data was treated at the student level using multiple imputation and at the school level usi...

The performance of automatic speech recognition can often be significantly improved by combining multiple systems together. Though beneficial, ensemble methods can be computationally expensive, often requiring multiple decoding runs. An alternative approach, appropriate for deep learning schemes, is to adopt student-teacher training. Here, a student model is trained to reproduce the outputs of ...

Classroom environmental conditions establish the social climate or atmosphere of a setting. Stern in 1970 stated that student's perceptions of classroom climate or learning environment are useful in predicting achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was an effect between teaching style and student learning style on classroom environment. The population of this study con...