Standards based grading is a formal assessment mechanism that tests for student achievement of specified learning objectives, or standards. Standards-Based-Grading has been gaining in popularity in K-12 education, and also has been seeing increased use in higher education, though it has only recently been used in engineering education. This paper describes how StandardsBased Grading was impleme...

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The score of the piano work nr. 7 Klavierstu ck XI by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1957) [4] consists of 19 fragments of music. The performer is instructed to choose at random one of these fragments, and play it; then choose another, different, fragment and play that, and so on. If a fragment is chosen that has already been played twice, the performance ends. It is natural to ask how many different w...

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Many audio and multimedia applications would benefit from the ability to classify and search for audio based on its characteristics. The audio analysis, search, and classification engine described here reduces sounds to perceptual and acoustical features. This lets users search or retrieve sounds by any one feature or a combination of them, by specifying previously learned classes based on thes...