The purpose of this study was to compare scores students received on the eighth grade EXPLORE test in math and English to scores received in English 9 and Algebra I on both the End-of-Course (EOC) test and the final average in those courses. These scores were taken from a rural East Tennessee High School and the middle schools that feed into the high school. Data were collected over a 2-year pe...

Main objective of the present study was to explore the relationship of Creative Thinking of high school students to their Emotional Intelligence. A sample of 200 students of ninth class was drawn from the seven randomly selected schools of Shimla city (district Shimla) of Himachal Pradesh. The technique of product moment correlation was used for the analysis of data and significance of coeffici...

Neural conversation systems, typically using sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models, are showing promising progress recently. However, traditional seq2seq suffer from a severe weakness: during beam search decoding, they tend to rank universal replies at the top of the candidate list, resulting in the lack of diversity among candidate replies. Maximum Marginal Relevance (MMR) is a ranking algorit...