In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later educational stages. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in one German state to measure the persistence of a randomly allocated disadvantage in the form of the school entry age’s impact on track attainment. Based on exogen...

The doctoral symposium at MODELS'14 took place in Valencia, Spain on Septem-ber 30, 2014. It received 16 submissions, all of which were reviewed by 3 members of the program committee. This committee was composed of the symposium chair and grad students who presented their work in the Doctoral symposium in MODELS'13. Out of the 16 submissions, 11 were accepted and presented during symposium. Aut...

Reviewing past events has been useful in many domains. Videotapes and flight data recorders provide invaluable technological help to sports coaches or aviation engineers. Similarly, providing learners with a readable recording of their actions may help them monitor their behavior, reflect on their progress, and experiment with revisions of their experiences. It may also facilitate active collab...

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Students and even teachers, particularly in elementary schools, continue to have misconceptions about free fall. When using traditional learning methods, it is difficult change these misconceptions. The purpose of this article reconstruct school students' conceptions a reflective conceptual model (RCCM) aided by visual multimedia. research design quasi-experimental. participants study were grad...

The proliferations of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and an increase in the number of external students and of the digital youth have put considerable pressure upon university staff to adopt ICT in their pedagogy. However, these challenges that include ICT technical skills and pedagogy require staff to continuously engage in Professional Development (PD), which might require re...

Revision is a core writing skill that presents challenges to both novice and expert writers. Within the context of peer review, peer feedback has the potential to provide rich guidance for revision, especially when making content-level changes. However, authors must review and evaluate each piece of feedback for meaningful critiques that can be applied to further drafts. In this work, we analyz...

In this paper I want first to ask whether one can change « who » he is. A dilemma is lurking there, a dilemma between autonomy of change and continuity of personal identity. The notion of capability is submitted to a related difficulty. Autonomy implies to be self-committed to an activity but commitment implies revisions of other activities, and this changes the situation and the evaluation of ...

Observing the queries selected by a user, among those suggested by a recommender system, one can infer constraints on the user’s utility function, and can avoid suggesting queries that retrieve products with an inferior utility, i.e., dominated queries. In this paper we propose a new efficient technique for the computation of dominated queries. It relies on the system’s assumption that the numb...