Homework has become of great interest to educators and seems lead tension between parents students (Novak & Lynott, 2015). This study investigates students' perceptions involvement in homework. The main research question is "what are the towards homework mathematics? Moreover, way follow their children's difficulties they face how overcome these difficulties. Another objective focuses on id...

Can Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled personalization remedy the educational production in resource-strapped schooling systems? We conduct a randomized field experiment on a group of residential schools in Hyderabad India to examine this question. In a school setting, students first learn concepts through class room instructions and then reinforce their learning by doing ho...

An increasing number of laboratories that focus on model systems are considering drug screening. Executing a drug screen is complicated enough. But the path for moving initial hits towards the clinic requires a different knowledge base and even a different mindset. In this Editorial I discuss the importance of doing some homework before you start screening. 'Lead hits', 'patentable chemical spa...

This booklet includes lecture notes from parallel and distributed computing course I taught in Fall 07, Spring 08, and Fall 08 at the Kent State University, USA. I wrote a good part of these notes in Fall 2007; I revise them every time I teach the course. The problems in the notes have been used in class lectures, homework assignments, or exams. You can nd a collection of homework assignments a...

We demonstrate that the performance of students in an introductory Physics course, a major stumbling block for Engineers, may be improved by a homework regime involving complex, multiple step problems. In introductory courses the work done out of class, or “homework” represents the principal method of training students in the manipulation of class material. In a standard Introductory Physics co...

Despite growing evidence that child welfare youth are at increased risk for juvenile delinquency, little is known about gender-specific processes and effective treatment programs for girls. Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC), an empirically validated intervention for child welfare and juvenile justice populations, has demonstrated efficacy in reducing arrest rates in delinquent boys ...

Homework compliance has been identified as a robust predictor of treatment outcome for depression and, to a lesser extent, anxiety disorders, including social phobia. The current study tested the following hypotheses: (1) homework compliance is positively related to ratings of global improvement, (2) homework compliance is negatively related to symptom reduction, (3) the relation between homewo...

Due: Friday, March 13 2009 at 11:59PM. Late submissions will not be graded. Instructions: The exam has 4 parts testing different skills/knowledge you have (hopefully) acquired during the quarter. There are two homework-style questions, one paper summary and one research/design question. Since this is an exam, you should not discuss these problems with anyone else. You can refer to your textbook...

The goal of this thesis project is to describe and document the recent programming that was done for the MIT Information Acceleration Project. Our objective was to create extremely user-friendly programs to collect marketing data for research studies. In order to meet the desired program specifications, new features such as videoconferencing and data storage were added to an existing multimedia...

OFFICE HOURS: 1-2 MWF. TEXT: None. I will try to point out the sections of some relevant books, which will address the corresponding material we cover. Some of these books are listed below in bibliography. PREREQUISITE: Math 310 (first course in Linear Algebra), and Stat 401 (Introduction to Probability) or equivalent courses. Basic knowledge of graphs is welcome, (some parts of MCS 261), but n...