Publications
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Joint Segmentation and Classification of Dialog Acts in Multiparty Meetings
This paper investigates a scheme for joint segmentation and classification of dialog acts (DAs) of the ICSI Meeting Corpus based on hidden-event language models and a maximum entropy classifier for…
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Findings from the Evaluation of The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District and Network Grants Program: The Challenge of Sustaining High-School Reform
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Build It: Girls Building Information Technology Fluency Through Design
The Computer Science education and practice community has made clear the need to increase the size and diversity of US-trained computer science professionals.
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Mathematizing Middle School: Results From A Cross-Disciplinary Study Of Data Literacy
In this paper we discuss a pilot study in which we investigate bridging the disciplines of social studies and mathematics to help students learn important aspects of data literacy. We…
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Measuring Middle School Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge Of Teaching Rate And Proportionality
We are investigating if teachers from across the state of Texas can use a specially designed replacement unit and SimCalc software to help their students learn mathematics important to the…
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The Many Challenges Of Designing And Teaching Nanoscience
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Reverse Engineering the NAEP Floating Pencil Task Using the PADI Design System (PADI Technical Report 16)
This report will discuss the reverse engineering of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Floating Pencil task. The PADI design system was used as an analytical tool for understanding…
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Review Of Evaluation Findings For The Intel Learn Program
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Teaching Nanoscience To High School Students: A Tale Of The Nanosense Project
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Contextual valency shifters
We argue that the current work in this area that concentrates mainly on the negative or positive attitude communicated by individual terms is incomplete and often gives the wrong results…
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Ethnic Identity Formation During Adolescence: The Critical Role of Families
Using structural equation modeling and, specifically, multiple group comparisons, findings indicated that familial ethnic socialization (FES) played a significant role in the process of ethnic identity formation for all adolescents,…
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Multi-Criteria Evaluation in User-Centric Distributed Scheduling Agents
This position paper discusses the problem of locally evaluating and comparing candidate schedules, in the context of a distributed scheduling task operating in unbounded environments in which each agent selfishly…