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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"assessment systems"”.
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Grief Among Dementia Caregivers: A Comparison Of Two Assessment Systems
Research suggests that family caregivers of people with dementia may experience grief prior to the death of their care recipients, in part because of the series of losses they experience and the chronic nature of caregiving. Methods for assessing predeath grief, however, are just beginning to be …
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Assessment Coordinators’ Perceptions of the Impact of Using Electronic Assessment Systems in Accreditation
… need to drive continuous improvement. Electronic assessment systems have become increasingly valuable for colleges of education since it provided a non-biased evaluation of competency, more reliable scoring, and scientific judgment to drive improvement. However, teacher preparation programs are …
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Cognitive tutoring and assessment systems and mathematics achievement: a quantitative study of the Summit Learning Platform
The purpose of this study was to determine if the Summit Learning Platform, a type of Intelligent Tutoring System, has a positive association with mathematics achievement of high school students in grades nine through eleven. The study was conducted in a Midwest suburban school district among three …
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Peer evaluation with graph neural networks
Peer assessment systems are rising in various social contexts, such as peer grading in large (online) classrooms, peer review in conferences, peer art evaluation, etc. However, peer assessments might not be as accurate as expert assessments, thus rendering these systems unreliable. Peer assessment …
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Quantified assessment to enhance student learning in the sciences at UWC
… the British prototype questionnaire called the Assessment Experience Questionnaire (AEQ) could be standardized as a quantifier of assessment and be used at a multicultural institute such as the University of the Western Cape (UWC). This questionnaire was created in the United Kingdom to assist …
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The Automatic Assessment of Multiple Artefacts: An Investigation into Design Diagrams and Their Implementations
… the growth in electronic support for learning. E-assessment has been a part of this growth as increasingly assessment and its feedback is seen as an integral part of the students’ learning process. Mature e-assessment systems exist, particularly where answers to questions are restricted to a …
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Applying latent semantic analysis to computer assisted assessment in the Computer Science domain: a framework, a tool, and an evaluation
This dissertation argues that automated assessment systems can be useful for both students and educators provided that the results correspond well with human markers. Thus, evaluating such a system is crucial. I present an evaluation framework and show how and why it can be useful for both …
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Bullying and Self-Esteem in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
… (M = 10.07 years, 82.4% female). The Behaviour Assessment Systems for Children – Third Edition (BASC-3) was used to measure global self-esteem, while the Reynolds Bullying Victimization Scale (BVS) was used to assess victimization and bullying perpetration. No significant differences were found …
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Advancing Automated Exam Generation: Toward Scalable and Adaptive Solutions [before doctoral defense]
… and practical application of automated assessment generation systems, with a particular focus on the Exercise Generation Algorithm+ (EGAL+). Manual exam construction is a complex and time-consuming task requiring educators to balance curriculum coverage, difficulty, cognitive complexity, …
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Automatic Depression Assessment using Deep Learning Techniques
… care providers with the early recognition and assessment of depression, research to develop a standardized, accessible, and non-invasive technique has garnered considerable attention. This work investigates the use of deep learning techniques for the task of automatic depression assessment. We …
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Automated benchmarking of surgical skills using machine learning
… have a packed schedule. The process of manual assessment makes the whole training cycle extremely cumbersome and inefficient. Having automated assessment systems for surgical training can be of great value to medical schools and teaching hospitals. The aim of this PhD research is to develop …
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Predictive Modelling of Bone Ageing
Bone age assessment (BAA) is a task performed daily by paediatricians in hospitalsworldwide. The main reasons for BAA to be performed are: fi�rstly, diagnosis of growth disorders through monitoring skeletal development; secondly, prediction of final adult height; and fi�nally, verifi�cation of age …
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Using modular architectures within distributed learning environments : a means for improving the efficiency of instructional design & development processes
… may evolve in the context of complex learning systems. Modular architectures are presented as a technique for ameliorating the complexity of design in this domain. The second part of the thesis examines and critiques a recently-proposed standardized data model for distributed assessment …
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REACT: the Riskmap Evaluation and Coordination Terminal
… availability of disaster risk information and assessment systems. Disaster information systems use state of the art techniques such as remote sensing in order to mitigate damages from natural and man made hazards. It is common in developed countries utilize networks of advanced sensors and …
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Quality of service assessment and analysis of wireless multimedia networks.
… mechanisms for intrusive and non-intrusive assessments of the performance of wireless ad hoc networks as well as the measurement of the available QoS for audio and videoconferencing applications over the IEEE 802.11 standard. To evaluate the network performance and the overall QoS of …
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AMD, analysis of mood dysregulation : a machine learning approach
… disease and cancer. Therefore, mobile ambulatory assessment systems are actively being developed for various psychological studies. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are very few being used for the detection of mood dysregulation with a continuous measurement collected in the natural …
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An Examination of the Factors Affecting State and District Participation in the Voluntary National Test in 4th-Grade Reading
… (VNTR) and existing state and district reading assessments for similarly aged children was examined. Also studied were the factors that affected states' and districts' decisions about whether to participate in the VNTR. Findings obtained from surveys of and interviews with assessment directors …
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Text readability and summarisation for non-native reading comprehension
… reading comprehension: text readability assessment, which estimates the reading difficulty of a given text for L2 learners, and learner summarisation assessment, which evaluates the quality of learner summaries to assess their reading comprehension. We approach both tasks as supervised …
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Implementing State Educational Policy in Iowa: Voices from the Field
… use of data, 4) districts developed more formal assessment systems, 5) barriers included lack of time, unclear policy expectations, and the external nature of the mandate, 6) supports included their AEA and a culture of professional development and distributed leadership, 7) unintended …
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