This Collaborative Partnership to Teach Mathematical Reasoning Through Computer Programming (CPR2) memo includes recommendations and findings from the observations, teacher interviews, student surveys, and student assessments in fall 2020.
Publications
SynRoute: A Retrosynthetic Planning Software
SynRoute is a new retrosynthetic planning software tool that uses a relatively small number of general reaction templates, currently 263, along with a literature-based reaction database to find short, practical synthetic routes for target compounds.
IxDRL: A Novel Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning Toolkit based on Analyses of Interestingness
We propose a new framework based on analyses of interestingness. Our tool provides various measures of RL agent competence stemming from interestingness analysis and is applicable to a wide range of RL algorithms, natively supporting the popular RLLib toolkit.
Association of the rs17782313, rs17773430 and rs34114122 Polymorphisms of/near MC4R Gene with Obesity-Related Biomarkers in a Spanish Pediatric Cohort
Our results highlight that metabolic risk factors, especially alterations in carbohydrate metabolism, were related to rs17782313.
Evaluation of a device-agnostic approach to predict sleep from raw accelerometry data collected by Apple Watch Series 7, Garmin Vivoactive 4, and ActiGraph GT9X Link in children with sleep disruptions
This study demonstrates that raw acceleration data from consumer wearable devices has the potential to be harnessed to predict sleep in children.
C-SFDA: A Curriculum Learning Aided Self-Training Framework for Efficient Source Free Domain Adaptation
We propose C-SFDA, a curriculum learning aided self-training framework for SFDA that adapts efficiently and reliably to changes across domains based on selective pseudo-labeling. Specifically, we employ a curriculum learning scheme to promote learning from a restricted amount of pseudo labels selected based on their reliabilities.
Reimagining Instructional Coaching: Developing Observation Tools to Support Instructional Coaching in Pre-K Classrooms
Instructional coaching can improve teaching quality in early learning classrooms. SRI Education, in collaboration with Substantial and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, created a Target Product Profile detailing the ideal features of observation tools to support instructional coaching.
Multiagent Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Theory of Mind Reasoning
Our results show that the choice of baseline profiles is paramount to the recovery of the ground-truth rewards, and that MIRL-ToM is able to recover the rewards used by agents interacting both with known and unknown teammates.
Sound Town Evaluation Report
Digital learning programs are a promising tool to support teachers in providing students with strong early literacy instruction, but more research is needed to understand their effectiveness. This report describes an experimental study that examined the impact of Sound Town, a digital early literacy program, on prekindergarten students’ early literacy skills.