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Advanced Topics in Introductory Statistics
… multivariate datasets with complex structure. Introductory-level statistical tools familiar to practitioners may be applied to these types of data, but inference will either be sub-optimal or invalid if properties of the data violate the assumptions made by these statistical procedures. In this …
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AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN MUSIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP
… to be useful to any teacher developing an introductory curriculum in Music Entrepreneurship. The content could also be valuable to students at schools where there are no offerings in Music Entrepreneurship. The dissertation also includes a report on Music Entrepreneurship programs at five …
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Improving Introductory Computer Science Education with DRaCO
<p>Today, many introductory computer science courses rely heavily on a specific programming language to convey fundamental programming concepts. For beginning students, the cognitive capacity required to operate with the syntactic forms of this language may overwhelm their ability to formulate a …
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Supporting Introductory Test-Driven Labs with WebIDE
<p>WebIDE is a new web-based development environment for entry-level programmers with two primary goals: minimize tool barriers to writing computer programs and introduce software engineering best practices early in a student's educational career. Currently, WebIDE focuses on Test-Driven Learning …
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Auto grading tool for introductory programming courses
… automated testing on student assignments in an introductory programming course. We implemented a framework to collect student codes and apply industrial automated testing to their codes. Then we interpret the results obtained from testing in a way that students can understand easily. …
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Explicit Reflection in an Introductory Physics Course
… was embedded in the discussion component of an introductory, university physics course, and spanned a 14-week period. Evaluation of the intervention was based on the relative performance between a control and treatment group. Instruments used in this study to assess performance included the …
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Graduate school introductory computational simulation course pedagogy
Numerical methods and algorithms have developed and matured vastly over the past three decades now that computational analysis can be performed on almost any personal computer. There is a need to be able to teach and present this material in a manner that is easy for the reader to understand and be …
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Motivating Introductory Computing Students with Pedagogical Datasets
Computing courses struggle to retain introductory students, especially as learner demographics have expanded to include more diverse majors, backgrounds, and career interests. Motivational contexts for these courses must extend beyond short-term interest to empower students and connect to learners' …
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Faculty pedagogical methods utilized for introductory statistics courses
… members’ teaching methods utilized in their introductory statistics courses. Statistics education changed in the late 1970s with John Tukey’s Exploratory Data Analysis. Indirectly this led to the 2005 and 2006 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education reports focusing …
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Curriculum for a course in introductory digital darkroom
… was to develop a curriculum for a course in Introductory Digital Darkroom. This curriculum will be used to replace existing curriculum in the Camera, Stripping and Platemaking course taught in The Graphics Technology Department of Riverside Community College (RCC), Riverside, California. In …
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Attitude Change in an Introductory International Relations Class
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7715024.pdf: 6362836 bytes, checksum: cedec40fa344b1c84e1e59566d5bee05 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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A foundational approach to high school introductory chemistry
… text. This proposed text is part of a whole introductory chemistry curriculum intended to contextualize the study of chemistry against its larger historical, social, cultural, and scientific background, using strategic integration of subject matter from other academic disciplines. The text is …
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CodeSimilarity: an approach for clustering introductory programming assignments
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-07-24 at 16:51.
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Cultivating adaptive expertise in the introductory physics laboratory
Introductory physics labs are promising spaces for students to develop their abilities to creatively and independently solve research problems. However, many introductory labs focus their efforts on using experiments to demonstrate concepts from lecture, sacrificing student agency to ensure that …
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Problem solving in introductory physics : demons and difficulties.
Thesis (Sc.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1979.
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An active engagement pedagogy for introductory solid mechanics
Introductory Solid Mechanics has historically been taught using the traditional methods of blackboard instruction. In the Mechanical Engineering Department, we have undertaken an initiative to comprehensively transform the pedagogy of 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I), an undergraduate course in …
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Laboratory assignments for teaching introductory signal processing concepts
This thesis proposes labs for a new, applications-based signal processing class. These labs span topics in audio, image, and video processing and will combine signal processing techniques with computational tools. The goal of these labs is to improve student understanding of signal processing …
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Automated Environment Diagram Assessment for Introductory CS Education
… represent the state of a program to help introductory students develop a notional model of execution and drawings are often used in CS1 courses. This thesis describes a tool that enables students to construct diagrams with a drag-and-drop and submit for automatic assessment. Students …
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Introductory educational laboratory experience for computer engineering undergraduates
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2001.
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