Each semester, students go through the process of selecting appropriate courses. It is difficult to find information about each course and ultimately make decisions. The objective of this paper is to design a course recommender model which takes student characteristics into account to recommend appropriate courses. The model uses clustering to identify students with similar interests and skills...

University researchers and teacher facilitators implemented a state-funded professional development project during the 2005-06 academic year to help county middle school teachers improve student achievement in mathematics. In this paper, we discuss lessons and results from this innovative model, whose iterative cycle includes teacher content knowledge, item analysis from a high-stakes test, ped...

Communications [2] Educational Technology Services [3] Finance and Administration [4] First Generation Support Services [5] Graduate and Professional Student Association [6] International Students and Scholars Office [7] Learning Resource Services [8] Office of Career and Professional Development [9] Office of Institutional Research [10] Office of the Registrar [11] Registered Campus Organizati...

Communications [2] Educational Technology Services [3] Finance and Administration [4] First Generation Support Services [5] Graduate and Professional Student Association [6] International Students and Scholars Office [7] Learning Resource Services [8] Office of Career and Professional Development [9] Office of Institutional Research [10] Office of the Registrar [11] Registered Campus Organizati...

Communications [2] Educational Technology Services [3] Finance and Administration [4] First Generation Support Services [5] Graduate and Professional Student Association [6] International Students and Scholars Office [7] Learning Resource Services [8] Office of Career and Professional Development [9] Office of Institutional Research [10] Office of the Registrar [11] Registered Campus Organizati...

Communications [2] Educational Technology Services [3] Finance and Administration [4] First Generation Support Services [5] Graduate and Professional Student Association [6] International Students and Scholars Office [7] Learning Resource Services [8] Office of Career and Professional Development [9] Office of Institutional Research [10] Office of the Registrar [11] Registered Campus Organizati...

Communications [2] Educational Technology Services [3] Finance and Administration [4] First Generation Support Services [5] Graduate and Professional Student Association [6] International Students and Scholars Office [7] Learning Resource Services [8] Office of Career and Professional Development [9] Office of Institutional Research [10] Office of the Registrar [11] Registered Campus Organizati...

Communications [2] Educational Technology Services [3] Finance and Administration [4] First Generation Support Services [5] Graduate and Professional Student Association [6] International Students and Scholars Office [7] Learning Resource Services [8] Office of Career and Professional Development [9] Office of Institutional Research [10] Office of the Registrar [11] Registered Campus Organizati...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the contribution of school contextual factors to individual student body mass index (BMI). We set out to determine if school characteristics/resources: (1) are associated with student BMI; (2) explain racial/ethnic disparities in student BMI; and (3) explain school-level differences in student BMI. METHODS Using gender-stratified multi-level modeling strategie...

Communications [2] Educational Technology Services [3] Finance and Administration [4] First Generation Support Services [5] Graduate and Professional Student Association [6] International Students and Scholars Office [7] Learning Resource Services [8] Office of Career and Professional Development [9] Office of Institutional Research [10] Office of the Registrar [11] Registered Campus Organizati...