Freshman Success

Teaching Robotics to Freshman Students

This paper describes the experience of teaching robotics at the freshman level, from the conception of the project through the offering of a computer science seminar in robotics, having a two-fold goal: the opening of a new area of interest for students and the integration of computing and technology programs at Cameron University.

The "freshman fifteen" (the "freshman five" actually): predictors and possible explanations.

OBJECTIVE To conduct a prospective, longitudinal study examining weight fluctuation and its predictors before and during the first year of college. DESIGN Men (n = 266) and women (n = 341) enrolled at Dartmouth College (age range: 16 to 26; body mass index range: 15.0 to 42.9) provided self-reports of weight and height and completed measures of self-esteem, eating habits, interpersonal relati...

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Automatically Scoring Freshman Writing: A Preliminary Investigation

In this work, we explore applications of automatic essay scoring (AES) to a corpus of essays written by college freshmen and discuss the challenges we faced. While most AES systems evaluate highly constrained writing, we developed a system that handles open-ended, long-form writing. We present a novel corpus for this task, containing more than 3,000 essays and drafts written for a freshman writ...

Teaching freshman logic with Mizar-MSE