BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To determine which skills are most important to clinicians and how they correlate with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies. PATIENTS AND METHODS A descriptive analysis to test four hypotheses: specific skill sets are likely to be important/mandatory for residents to obtain during training; comprehensive and subspecialist ophthalmo...

In this research paper we propose a new educational framework based on guided exploration in scale-free small-world networks relying on hyperlink network of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia in which hyperlinks between articles define conceptual relationships. Educational material is presented to student with cumulative conceptual networks based on hyperlink network of the Wikipedia connecting ...

The most effective higher education quality indicators are openness and transparency of all the University activities results, including the results of educational and scientific work of every teacher and student. That is why modern electronic university learning environment should provide open decentralizing component that would contain a webpage with every educational process participants’ qu...

Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. We build on recent developments in the literature that has operationalized concepts in the inequality of opportunity theory (including Roemer’s) and construct t...

In the past few years, there has been much work on incorporating fairness requirements into algorithmic rankers, with contributions coming from data management, algorithms, information retrieval, and recommender systems communities. this survey, we give a systematic overview of work, offering broad perspective that connects formalizations approaches across sub-fields. An important contribution ...

We describe an experiment that measures the pedagogical usefulness of the results returned by the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and Google. Eleven public school teachers from the state of Virginia (USA) were used to evaluate a set of 38 search terms and search results based on the Standards of Learning (SOL) for Virginia Public Schools. Evaluations of search results were obtained from...

We address the challenge of automatically generating questions from reading materials for educational practice and assessment. Our approach is to overgenerate questions, then rank them. We use manually written rules to perform a sequence of general purpose syntactic transformations (e.g., subject-auxiliary inversion) to turn declarative sentences into questions. These questions are then ranked ...

In this paperwe comparepronoun resolution algorithmsand introduce a centering algorithm(LeftRightCentering) that adheres to the constraints and rules of centering theory and is an alternative to Brennan, Friedman, and Pollard’s (1987) algorithm. We then use the Left-Right Centering algorithm to see if two psycholinguistic claims on Cf-list ranking will actually improve pronoun resolution accura...

This paper describes the approaches and results of our system for the NTCIR-10 INTENT task. We present some methods for Subtopic Mining subtask and Document Ranking subtask. In the Subtopic Mining subtask, we employ a voting method to rank candidate subtopics and semantic resource HowNet was used to merge those candidate subtopics which may impact diversity. In the Document Ranking Subtask, we ...