Our robust prediction system for individual breast cancer patients combines three well-known machine-learning classifiers to provide stable and accurate clinical outcome prediction (N=269). The average performance of the selected classifiers is used as the evaluation criterion in breast cancer outcome predictions. A profile (incorporating histology, lymph node status, tumor grade, tumor stage, ...

Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) has been employed successfully in intelligent learning environments to individualize curriculum sequencing and help messages. Standard BKT employs four parameters, which are estimated separately for individual knowledge components, but not for individual students. Studies have shown that individualizing the parameter estimates for students based on existing data...

Tools of the Mind is a curriculum that aims to promote cognitive and academic outcomes for kindergarten students by focusing on “executive function” as the central process to the development of students’ academic and social competencies. Tools of the Mind is based on the ideas of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Instruction is individualized through teacher scaffolding, and dramatic play is a...

Today's medical student curriculum is a lock-step experience that provides a broad survey of medicine with little opportunity to pursue fully integrated, in-depth learning. To teach students about the human dimensions of health care, many schools simply have added courses that survey general areas such as ethics, values, and patient-doctor relationships. However, a superficial, broad-brush appr...

Knowledge space theory provides a formal model for representing students' knowledge and describing the structure of a domain of knowledge. A similar formal structure can be used to described the structure of hypertexts. The combination of knowledge space theory and the formal hypertext model leads to a framework for intelligent tutoring systems which provides individualized learning paths to a ...

189 1 In order to improve the quality of early childhood education, the implementation of individualized instruction is very important. For its implementation, it is necessary to gather qualitative and quantitative diagnostic information about children’s developmental characteristics, learning strategies, problem solving strategies, developmental level, etc. However, kindergartens in Korea have...

This article presents a case study of play therapy with an emotionally disturbed abused child. The article discusses the intuitive and individualized approach to the world of the abused child (conceptualized as a "cultured of one") in which the nurse therapist's role is to develop a trusting relationship with the child. Distance between the nurse's world and that of the abused child can be brid...