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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"completion rate"”.
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Understanding Baccalaureate Completion Rate Increases of Underrepresented Minority Students in Science and Engineering: Three Case Studies
… did contribute to improving minority student completion rates at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. However, federal resources did little to encourage or improve minority student completion rates at the University of Houston.
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The Outcomes of Offering a Working Lunch Session in Improving Adolescent Students’ Assignment Completion Rate and Academic Achievement in Mathematics
… to boost student motivation in prompt assignment completion; however, there is a lack of research to support this. The current study was designed to analyze the impact that a working lunch session, where students have the opportunity to make up missing assignments, verses a zero in the grade book, …
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A Comparison Of Preparatory Academies And Traditional High Schools In A Large Urban District Of Completion Rate And Student Perceptions Of School Climate Characteristics
… and social support; and increasing graduation rate. This study utilized the tripod student perception survey for secondary students to determine if there was a statistically significant difference between students' perceptions of teacher effectiveness, safety, social support, academic support, …
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Identifying Best Practices for Student Success in Developmental Education in Georgia
… developmental education. The national successful completion rate of required developmental education coursework is less than 60%. This study identifies institutions within the University System of Georgia with more than 60% of total student enrollment in developmental education and with an overall …
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Factors Affecting Completion Rates at the Open University of Tanzania
This study explored factors affecting completion rates in open and distance learning institutions, using the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) as a case study. The study was done in Dar es Salaam, Kagera, Mwanza, Shinyanga, Singida, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro and Tanga regions. The study employed a mixed …
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Effects of Control Device and Task Complexity on Performance and Task Shedding During a Robotic Arm Task
… controller and an Xbox controller, to teleoperate a robotic arm in a high or low complexity peg placement task. Simultaneously, participants were tasked with scanning images for tanks. During the experiment, participants had the option to task shed the peg task to imperfect automation. …
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Outcomes of clinical pathway in laparoscopic and open surgical treatments for gastric cancer patients : Patients selection for fast-track program through retrospective analysis
… the clinical factors affecting on the complete rate from the clinical pathway in minimally invasive and open surgery for gastric cancer, and to establish a subgroup of patients who can be applied by the early recovery after surgery program through this retrospective analysis. Methods. In this …
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Patient-Reported Outcomes Screening for Improved Patient Wellness: A Cancer Center Initiative
… of <em>relevant answers, </em>with a target completion rate of 60%. The highest completion rate was 25.3%. Six weeks of <em>relevant answers</em> were collated from August 18, 2015 through September 30, 2015 with a range of 3.6% to 5.3% of patients having <em>relevant answers</em>. …
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SSVEP-based BCI performance in children
… used an SSVEP-based BCI with a mean accuracy rate of 85.6% and a task completion rate of 97.5%. In contrast, a prior study of children (mean 9.8 years old) using an SSVEP-based BCI reported mean accuracy rates of between 50%-76% (depending on stimulation frequency) and a task completion rate …
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Quality improvement, inventory management, lead time reduction and production scheduling in high-mix manufacturing environments
… a Shop Capacity Buffer of 90%, a 90% on-time completion rate should be observed. This new method would achieve improved results from the 75% on-time completion rate at present. The final recommendation is a policy change that aims to characterize sources of delay and accurately compensate for …
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Program For Afloat College Education In The Navy: Measuring Instructional Effectiveness In An Era Of Declining Resources
… positive correlation with grade and satisfactory completion rate were age, mental ability, paygrade, years of service, and semester hours of college level courses passed in the previous four years. Formal education at the level of an associate's degree or higher was also positively associated with …
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Learning Large-scale Multi-agent Control with Safety Certificates
… have notable performance in terms of safety rate, task completion rate, computational efficiency and large-scale scalability.
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Student Outcomes and Design Elements in Blended Learning Courses
… there is a difference in students' successful completion rate and students' withdrawal rates among classes with different types of course delivery, i.e. online, blended, or in-person. Second, this study investigated if there is a difference in the students' successful completion rate depending …
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The application of Machine Learning for Early Detection of At -Risk Learners in Massive Open Online Courses
… participation in online courses, the low completion rate has raised major concerns in the literature. Identifying those students who are at-risk of dropping out could be a promising solution in solving the low completion rate in the online setting. Flagging at-risk students could assist …
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An Investigation of the Test/Retest Stability of the Stanford Achievement Test
… test/retest scores for each test. Student completion rate was found to have a major effect on the correlation index of the Reading Comprehension subtest.
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Do Homework Trackers Affect Students’ Academic Performance?
… graduation, teachers are focusing on different strategies to assist students to achieve those goals. Many teachers state that students who complete homework perform better academically. The current study analyzed whether homework planners (trackers) had any positive effect on the academic …
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Social determinants of health screening and referral program in an academic primary care clinic : a quality improvement project
… collection. Results: The average SDOH screening completion rate improved to 73% and referrals were able to be captured. Conclusions: Education and training on the standardized workflow for SDOH screening and referrals resulted in an increase in patient screening and tracking referrals to …
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Course delivery methods and instructional approach for academic success in high school distance education courses
… as measured by final course grades and course completion rates. Students in semester-based courses had higher course grades overall. Likewise, students in semester-based courses had a higher completion rate of 86.2% of students completing their online coursework, while only 62.4% of their …
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Incremental speech understanding in a multimodal web-based spoken dialogue system
… find out whether his or her speech has been accurately understood. The verbal and nonverbal indicators of understanding typical in human-to-human interaction are generally nonexistent in automated systems, resulting in an interaction that feels unnatural to the human user. However, as automatic …
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The determinants of foreign direct investment in U.S. real estate : an empirical analysis
… GDP growth, national investment level, exchange rate, and interest rate in determining levels of FDIRE in the U.S. from major developed countries. Results of the study suggest that economic growth of a country unexpectedly encourages domestic investment rather than foreign investment, and …
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