Research efforts focused on developing "active reports" are currently underway. Active reports are designed to foster communication among teachers, students, and parents by listening to all stakeholders, using assessment information to guide teaching and learning, and to reconcile potential conflicts. Open student models can handle different views of the student. These views support different k...

The UCD community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters! (@ucd_oa) Some rights reserved. For more information, please see the item record link above. Title Instrumental variables in models with multiple outcomes : the general unordered case Author(s) Heckman, James J.; Urzua, Sergio; Vytlacil, Edward Publication date 2008-12-15 Ser...

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Drama project is a multidisciplinary research project funded by the Academy of Finland and run by HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology) and Helsinki Polytechnic degree programme in Performing arts. Projects focus is people over fifty years and at their attitudes and opinions about retirement. Members of four work communities consisting of 178 users have been studied. In this pape...

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