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Evaluating Topic-Word Review Analysis for Understanding Student Peer Review Performance

by Wenting Xiong, Diane Litman
"... Topic modeling is widely used for content analysis of textual documents. While the mined topic terms are considered as a semantic abstraction of the original text, few people eval-uate the accuracy of humans ’ interpretation of them in the context of an application based on the topic terms. Previ-ou ..."
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compares two groups of reviews at the topic-word level. We employ a user study to evaluate our topic extraction method, as well as the topic-word analysis ap-proach in the context of educational peer-review analysis. Our results show that the proposed method is better than a baseline in terms of capturing

Learning from imbalanced data

by Haibo He, Edwardo A. Garcia - IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering , 2009
"... Abstract—With the continuous expansion of data availability in many large-scale, complex, and networked systems, such as surveillance, security, Internet, and finance, it becomes critical to advance the fundamental understanding of knowledge discovery and analysis from raw data to support decision-m ..."
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Abstract—With the continuous expansion of data availability in many large-scale, complex, and networked systems, such as surveillance, security, Internet, and finance, it becomes critical to advance the fundamental understanding of knowledge discovery and analysis from raw data to support decision

Obesity and student performance at school

by Howard Taras, William Potts-datema - Journal of School Health , 2005
"... ABSTRACT: To review the state of research on the association between obesity among school-aged children and academic outcomes, the authors reviewed published studies investigating obesity, school performance, and rates of student absenteeism. A table with brief descriptions of each study’s research ..."
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of research in these areas. The project involves a literature search of peer-reviewed, published research reporting on the relationship between students ’ health and their performance in school. Compilations of research articles that explore the associa-tion between academic performance and health include

In-Flow Peer Review

by Dave Clarke , Tony Clear , Kathi Fisler Wpi , Matthias Hauswirth , Matthias Hauswirth@usi Ch , Shriram Krishnamurthi , Joe Gibbs Politz , Ville Tirronen , Tobias Wrigstad
"... Abstract Peer-review is a valuable tool that helps both the reviewee, who receives feedback about his work, and the reviewer, who sees different potential solutions and improves her ability to critique work. In-flow peer-review (IFPR) is peer-review done while an assignment is in progress. Peer-rev ..."
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://dx.doi.org/10.1145/ Students are expected to: • Evaluate a proposed solution to a problem; • Locate and correct errors; • Explain how an artifact functions; and • Justify appropriateness and correctness. Peer review clearly has a role to play in developing each of these skills. Students must read and evaluate

Evaluating Message Understanding Systems: An Analysis of . . .

by Nancy Chinchor, Lynette Hirschman , David D. Lewis - COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS , 1993
"... This paper describes and analyzes the results of the Third Message Understanding Conference (MUC-3). It reviews the purpose, history, and methodology of the conference, summarizes the participating systems, discusses issues of measuring system effectiveness, describes the linguistic phenomena tests, ..."
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This paper describes and analyzes the results of the Third Message Understanding Conference (MUC-3). It reviews the purpose, history, and methodology of the conference, summarizes the participating systems, discusses issues of measuring system effectiveness, describes the linguistic phenomena tests

Self-determination and persistence in a real-life setting: Toward a motivational model of high school dropout.

by Robert J Vallerand , Michelle S Fbrtier , Frederic Guay - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, , 1997
"... The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive the so ..."
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motivation) analysis of variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures on the motivation variable was performed on the data. 3 This approach involved taking the scores on the seven motivation subscales and incorporating them into the Type of Student X Gender design as a repeated measure (BMDP; Dixon, Results

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"... regimens (simulating a clinical trial) for our patients. In a study evaluating metered dose inhaler compliance in COPD, use of an electronic medication monitor with feedback on the accuracy of medication use improved compliance.11 This type of methodology could be used to improve adherence in COPD o ..."
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regimens (simulating a clinical trial) for our patients. In a study evaluating metered dose inhaler compliance in COPD, use of an electronic medication monitor with feedback on the accuracy of medication use improved compliance.11 This type of methodology could be used to improve adherence in COPD

MANUSCRIPT PEER REVIEW: A HELPFUL CHECKLIST FOR STUDENTS AND NOVICE REFEREES

by Douglas R. Seals, Hirofumi Tanaka
"... he ability to contribute consistent, fundamentally sound critiques is an essential element of the scientific peer review process and an important professional skill for investigators. Despite its importance, many students and junior scientists do not have an adequate working knowledge of how to effe ..."
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present these guidelines in the hope that they will serve as a helpful resource for students and other novice reviewers when critiquing scientific manuscripts. ADV PHYSIOL EDUC 22: 52–58, 2000. Key words: analysis; critical thinking; journal

Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in

by Esther Duflo , Pascaline Dupas , Michael Kremer - Kenya.” American Economic Review , 2011
"... To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to better tailor their instruction level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from tracking when ..."
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To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to better tailor their instruction level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from tracking when

Assessing Reviewers ’ Performance Based on Mining Problem Localization in Peer-Review Data

by Wenting Xiong, Diane Litman, Christian Schunn
"... Abstract. Current peer-review software lacks intelligence for responding to students ’ reviewing performance. As an example of an additional intelligent assessment component to such software, we propose an evaluation system that generates assessment on reviewers ’ reviewing skills regarding the issu ..."
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Abstract. Current peer-review software lacks intelligence for responding to students ’ reviewing performance. As an example of an additional intelligent assessment component to such software, we propose an evaluation system that generates assessment on reviewers ’ reviewing skills regarding
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