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Using Natural Language Processing to Facilitate Common Student Misconception Analysis
… sentiment analysis to facilitate common student misconception analysis. This project aims to develop an algorithm via natural language processing that extracts specific topics and common errors that students struggle with in class from online feedback semi-automatically to allow instructors to …
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Statistical classification of item-response patterns into misconception groups in rule space
In an effort to further explore a specific aspect of rule-space theory, identification of students with respect to their error rules, three major questions were raised: (a) How do the discriminant-function approach (DA) and the k-nearest-neighbor approach (KNN) perform for the classification of …
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Misconception Driven Student Analysis Model: Applications of a Cognitive Model in Teaching Computing
Feedback contextualized to curriculum content and misconceptions is a crucial piece in any learning experience. However, looking through student code and giving feedback requires more time and resources than an instructor typically has available, delaying feedback delivery. Intelligent Tutors for …
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"By one man's firm obedience fully tried" : Christ the man and messianic misconception in Paradise Regained.
My study of Paradise Regained began with a detailed consideration of the puzzling banquet scene Milton places between the first and second biblical temptations. I soon determined, however, that the banquet is not a temptation concerned with food as an end but as a means. I believe that Milton …
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Awareness or complicity? : documentaries' depiction of communities marginalized by Christian Nationalism.
… than ever before. With this comes the common misconception that the genre is based on truth instead of an interpretation thereof. Due to this broad misconception, it's important to analyze how the public comes to understand the depicted demographics, particularly those that are not commonly …
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The development and evaluation of a computer-assisted strategy designed to change student misconceptions about chemical equilibrium
… are twofold. First, to identify and describe misconceptions about chemical equilibrium held by Year-12 chemistry students in the Maldives. Second, to investigate the effects of using a computer-assisted instructional strategy in changing those misconceptions. A misconception idenfication test …
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Integration of Abductive and Deductive Inference Diagnosis Model and Its Application in Intelligent Tutoring System
… mistake detection by structure analysis, misconception hypothesizing by abductive inference, and misconception verification by deductive inference. An intelligent tutoring system, "Recursive Programming Tutor" (RPT), has been designed and developed to teach students the basic concepts of …
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Pain or Pleasure: The Allure of the Masochistic Young Adult Fantasy Protagonist, As Seen in Twilight and Other Texts : With a particular focus on the language of sexuality used within a select number of young adult paranormal romance texts
There is a general misconception of masochism amongst critics and academics. Masochism is often analysed in a way that either regards it as a taboo subject, or wrongly identifies it as sexual abuse. Similarly, masochism is also presented in a highly negative way within young adult literature. In …
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Digital Storybooks to Teach Children Computer Science and Address Common Misconceptions
… study focuses on books created to address common misconceptions students form when learning foundational computer science concepts including variables, conditions, and loops. The primary objectives of this research are to evaluate the students' perceptions of the digital storybook format and …
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Consistency and Variation in Cicero's Oratorical Style
… study--is intended to dispel the prevalent misconception that Cicero's style is monotonously the same, overornate, bombastic, self-indulgent. The question we set out to answer is whether there are any substantial stylistic differences between orations of Cicero belonging to the same year or …
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To Know the One True God: Reconciling the God of the Old Testament with the God of the New Testament
There is a popular misconception in the world that Jehovah is too severe on occasion while Jesus Christ is always kind and merciful. The Latter-day Saint belief that Jehovah and Jesus are the same person presents a supposed conflict. There has not been much written on this subject by either …
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Open Space Planning; Utilizing Green Infrastructure to Preserve Community
… However, these alternatives still work under the misconception that there is a disconnect between planning open space networks and planning development. Through a comprehensive land use planning approach, this project explores combining concepts of landscape ecology, green infrastructure planning …
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The ladder divide : a look into leadership from both the individual contributor and manager perspective
There is a common misconception that equates management to leadership. There is also a common school of thought that believes in order to lead one has to traverse the corporate ladder from individual contributor to the people manager side. There is also the common thought that an exceptional …
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Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the Formation of the "Mendelssohnian" Style
… Mendelssohn's music. Or so goes the popular misconception. It is true that Felix did publish six of his sister's Lieder under his own name, in his Op. 8 and Op. 9, but there is no evidence that anything else he published was actually by Fanny. The perpetuation of this idea is by no means new …
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Factors associated with low utilization of female condoms as a birth control method among women of reproductive age (15 – 49 years) in Nabbanda, Chirundu district, Zambia.
… to health care workers. While due to myths and misconception there is a belief that using a condom reduces intimacy with their partner and belief that condoms make men weak. It is therefore recommended that government and all interested stakeholders should increase efforts at female condom …
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Factors associated with low utilization of female condoms as a birth control method among women of reproductive age (15 – 49 years) in Nabbanda, Chirundu district, Zambia.
… to health care workers. While due to myths and misconception there is a belief that using a condom reduces intimacy with their partner and belief that condoms make men weak. It is therefore recommended that government and all interested stakeholders should increase efforts at female condom …
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Rethinking the Force Concept Inventory: Developing a Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment to Measure Misconceptions in Newton's Laws
Student misconceptions in science are common and may be present even for students who are academically successful. Concept inventories, multiple-choice tests in which the distractors map onto common, previously identified misconceptions, are commonly used by researchers and educators to gauge the …
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