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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Off-topic"”.
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The effect of choice on the behavior of off task high school students in an alternative school setting
… was done to examine the effect of choice on off task behaviors in high school students attending an alternative school. The participants were from various backgrounds, ability levels, and presence of disabilities. The students were observed performing three target behaviors; specifically …
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A Comparison of Online and Face-To-Face Discussions in an Elementary Mathematics Methods Course
… thinking. There was also evidence of fewer off-topic discussions during online interactions. The researcher concluded that additional research is needed to determine the impact of minimum participation expectations on teacher candidates' interactions during discussions. In addition, more …
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Using Web Archives to Enrich the Live Web Experience Through Storytelling
… we intend to summarize. We then filter off-topic pages from the collections the using different methods to detect when an archived page in a collection has gone off-topic. We created a gold standard dataset from three Archive-It collections to evaluate the proposed methods at different …
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TOPIC SENSITIVE BELIEF REVISION
… to the new information. One kind of relevance, topicality, is interesting for two reasons: First, topicality tends to be strongly encapsulating, e.g., we shouldn't make any off-topic changes. Second, topicality tends to be weaker than strict relevance. Consider a panel of three papers on the …
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Journey of Rediscovery: Less Control for More Learning
… discussion must not be allowed to drift totally off topic. Thus, the instructor must have the restraint to allow students to express and defend their ideas, and must not rein in apparent misdirections too quickly. To do so would risk stifling student involvement and precluding significant new …
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Semantic Snippets via Query-Biased Ranking of Linked Data Entities
… still a lot of noise in the form of erroneous or off-topic annotations. Therefore, we propose a query-biased algorithm (LDRANK) for the ranking of these entities. LDRANK adopts a strategy based on the linear consensual combination of several sources of prior knowledge (any form of con- textual …
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Automated Multiple-Choice Question Generation and Analysis for Language Learning Assessment
… first area of study examines the detection of off-topic responses in spoken language assessments. This is treated as a form of unanswerability detection: just as multiple-choice question generation must guard against producing items with no valid answer, spoken tasks can generate responses that …