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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Generative learning"”.
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Understanding decimal numbers: an investigation of student meaning constructions in intermediate and high school
… interviews investigated the students’ views of learning mathematics and mathematics teaching, including their affective responses to decimal numbers and mathematics. The research was influenced by the constructivist view of learning in which the emphasis is on the individual actively …
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Perturbation Modeling for Molecular Design of Protein Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors using Unsupervised Machine Learning
… tools for novel molecule discovery. In specific, generative deep learning models have excelled as tools to aid in navigating the large space of known molecules and in the creation of new molecules. These models are fed various representations of molecules as inputs and learn to perform a variety …
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Using Vignettes to Develop Higher-Order Thinking and Academic Achievement in Adult Learners in an Online Environment
… the use of vignettes as a teaching strategy and learning activity of the Generative Learning Model in a hybrid online course. The Generative Learning Model, which consists of five main components: attention, motivation, knowledge, generation, and metacognition (Wittrock, 2000) was incorporated …
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Classroom perceptions of physics and the introduction of technological applications
… applications into the classroom based on the generative learning model is investigated. Students’ views of school physics were examined by interviews with 60 7th form (17-18 years) students and surveys with 426 6th form (16-17 years) and 168 7th form physics students. The interviews and …
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The Effects of Two Generative Activities on Learner Comprehension of Part-Whole Meaning of Rational Numbers Using Virtual Manipulatives
The study investigated the effects of two generative learning activities on students’ academic achievement of the part-whole representation of rational numbers while using virtual manipulatives. Third-grade students were divided randomly in two groups to evaluate the effects of two generative …
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Beyond “Here’s the question, let’s solve it”: Teachers planning generative questions for mathematical problem solving
… thinking are at the heart of mathematical learning. This study explored teachers’ intentional planning for use of effective questioning strategies and discourse that support generative learning through a problem solving process. It purposefully examined fifth grade students’ problem solving …
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The description and modification of children's views of plant nutrition
… production)and which was based on the generative learning model was developed. The new strategy resulted in a teaching package entitled "Where Does The Wood Come From?" which was trialled by an experienced and sympathetic teacher with a middle ability class of 26 fourth formers …
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It’s All Connected: How Teachers and Students Co-Construct Spaces and Figured Worlds through Literacy and Language Events and Practices
… spaces/places become engaging and/or community generative learning environments? The study examines a half-day humanities program for high school juniors and seniors, which is known as Connect. Applying trialectical spatial theories (Lefebvre, 1974/1992) and Holland et al’s (1998) theory of …
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Variational Autoencoders for Discovering Influential Latent Factors
Generative modeling is increasingly being used to simulate or generate new unseen data instances by means of modeling the statistical distribution of data. Generative modeling falls under the broad area of representation learning, which aims to discover representations required for detecting …
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Capturing the context of digital literacy: a case study of Illinois public libraries in underserved communities
… beyond consumption to involve a dimension of generative learning. When considered in conversation with existing scholarship, these findings have important implications: they show new avenues for research into diversity and social inclusion, critical discourse analysis and dynamic models for …
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Planting Missional Mennonite Churches in Complex Social Contexts as the Denomination Undergoes a Paradigm Shift in Ecclesiology: a Multiple Case Study
… organizational culture development that involves generative learning and reflexive dialogue. This approach is consistent with the desired ecclesial paradigm and historic theological commitments.</p> <p>Common theological commitments among the cases of church planting in this study included the …
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Contemporary subject knowledge acquisition in Economics
… and the Coronavirus-2019 pandemic impact on learning and teaching in 2020 and 2021. It explores students' and teachers' struggles with economic subject knowledge because originally very little resources were produced for the newly reformed curriculum. The research looks at how this phenomenon …
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Paradoxum Ex Machina: Exploring the Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence Technologies on the Strategies and Actions of Entrepreneurial Ventures
… artificial intelligence (AI)—and more recently, generative AI (GenAI)—are fundamentally reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape, altering how entrepreneurs acquire critical resources, tackle uncertain environments, develop opportunity, and address entrepreneurial action processes. Despite these …
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Generative models meet similarity search: efficient, heuristic-free and robust retrieval
… (ANN) search methods, especially the Learning-to-hash or Hashing methods, provide principled approaches that balance the trade-offs between the quality of the guesses and the computational cost for web-scale databases. In this era of data explosion, it is crucial for the hashing …
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Drawing for learning in VR: Examining science knowledge representation with immersive sketching
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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How drawing and/or explaining help undergraduate students learn chemistry
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Learning for Visual Synthesis and Transformation
… semantic annotations and images. Recently, deep generative learning has greatly promoted the development of visual synthesis. However, the existing generative methods still suffer from several issues, including model interpretation, controllability, stability, efficiency and performance. In this …
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Aspects of generative and discriminative classifiers
In recent years, under the new terminology of generative and discriminative classifiers, research interest in classical statistical approaches to discriminant analysis has re-emerged in the machine learning community. In discriminant analysis, observations with features $\mathbf{x}$ measured are …