Publications
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Oerl Survey Design, Methodology, Administration And Results
This paper documents the process employed to develop and administer a methodologically sound set of surveys to evaluate the Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL) Web site.
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Globe: Using Padi Templates As An Alternative Structure For Specifying Globe Investigation Strategies
This paper begins by providing background on the PADI approach and GLOBE assessments. We then discuss the process by which GLOBE assessment resources were reverse engineered into a PADI task…
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Characterizing Adaptive Expertise In Science Teaching: Report On A Laboratory Study Of Teacher Reasoning
Our goal in this project is to apply the concept of adaptive expertise to science teaching in order to understand what benefits adaptiveness confers to teachers’ learning, development, and performance.
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Ontology-based multi-party meeting understanding
This paper describes current and planned research efforts towards developing multimodal discourse understanding for an automated personal office assistant.
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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…
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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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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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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…
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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…
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Reference-Free Objective Quality Metrics for MPEG-Coded Video
In this paper, we propose a reference-free video quality metric for MPEG coded videos. It predicts subjective quality ratings using both reference-free MPEG artifact measures and MPEG system parameters (known…
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Teaching To The Test? A Comparison Of Two High Schools’ Responses To Mandated Testing
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SRI’s 2004 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation System
This paper describes our recent efforts in exploring longer-range features and their statistical modeling techniques for speaker recognition. In particular, we describe a system that uses discriminant features from cepstral…