Author: SRI International
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Utilizing Usability Testing Methods To Improve Oerl
In this paper, we describe a method for leader detection in multiparty spoken discourse that relies on unsupervised topic modeling to segment the discourse automatically.
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Measuring Student Learning Gains In Conceptual Mathematics When Scaling A Technological Intervention For Middle School Mathematics
In this paper, we present our assessment development process, its rationale, and the data we have collected (and continue to collect) to support our argument for the instrument’s validity.
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Expert Panel Review of OERL’s Instructional Utility
The OERL team has adapted and integrated several evaluation methodologies to examine patterns of usage, customer satisfaction, and the instructional utility of the site. These methods include surveys of target audiences, usability testing, and an expert panel review. This chapter presents the results from the expert review.
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Evaluating Web-Based Professional Development
The National Staff Development Council and the National Institute for Community Innovations (2001) have published a resource guide for the implementation of its standards for the professional development of educators in e-learning contexts. The guide presents examples of applications of Web-based professional development and posits quality criteria for meeting the standards
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Introduction to special issue on sensing-based interaction
Sensing-based interaction is at the core of, or synonymous with, many emerging or fast developing areas of human-computer interaction research, including pervasive, ubiquitous or context aware computing, intelligent environments, augmented reality interfaces, and tangible interfaces.
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Structural Metadata Research in the EARS Program
In this paper we provide a brief overview of research on structural metadata extraction in the DARPA EARS rich transcription program. Tasks include detection of sentence boundaries, filler words, and disfluencies.
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Teaching To The Test? A Comparison Of Two High Schools’ Responses To Mandated Testing
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Automatic Dialog Act Segmentation and Classification in Multiparty Meetings
We explore the two related tasks of dialog act (DA) segmentation and DA classification for speech from the ICSI Meeting Corpus. We employ simple lexical and prosodic knowledge sources, and compare results for human-transcribed versus automatically recognized words.
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The Independent Evaluation of the Science Teachers Initiative (CASCITI): Year 1 Report
This evaluation describes the CSP’s work since from 2001-02 to 2003-04 and assesses whether it met its goals under CASCITI. This chapter first outlines the CSP’s background to enable the reader to understand CASCITI in context and then presents an overview of this evaluation and report.
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Think Globally, Act Locally: An Analysis Of Community Participation Discourse In Education For All National Action Plans
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Participatory, Example-Based Data Modeling In Padi (Padi Technical Report 4)
We describe a Web-based tool for modeling that creates and manipulates a simple data model without representing it in UML, while promoting collaboration and the use of examples to compare and validate the model.
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Improved Phonetic Speaker Recognition Using Lattice Decoding
In this paper, we present results on the Switchboard-2 corpus, where we compare 1-best phone decodings versus lattice phone decodings for the purposes of performing phonetic speaker recognition.