Measuring learning curves allows for the inspection of rate and competency threshold each individual, training lesson, or method. In this work, we investigated in acupuncture needle manipulation with continuous performance measurement using a vision-based system. We tracked insertion depth 10 students to investigate their curves. The results show that group-level curve was fitted Thurstone curv...

This exhibition presents a Mixed Reality experience that applies basic research to the media industries of entertainment, training and informal education. Contributing areas of research include tracking, registration, rendering, real-time and distributed algorithms, and adaptations of existing as well as the creation of new forms of artistic convention.

Across a range of contexts, reductions in education costs and provision of subsidies can boost school participation, often dramatically. Decisions to attend school seem subject to peer effects and time-inconsistent preferences. Merit scholarships, school health programs, and information about returns to education can all cost-effectively spur school participation. However, distortions in educat...

This is the second of two papers that the authors have written on this subject, and together they describe the results of the first major study of the outcomes of the two general approaches to the clinical training of veterinary students. One approach provides students with a broad experience with multiple species and the other provides them with an in-depth experience with just the species tha...

A systematic review of randomised controlled trials was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of workplace interventions to prevent low back pain. Potential trials were located by a computerised search supplemented with citation tracking. The methodological quality of the trials was assessed on 11 criteria and the level of evidence for each intervention was determined, based upon the amount,...

Jessica Chin is an Artist/Designer/Researcher focusing on blending creativity with mechanical design. She has been collaborating with leading research and development laboratories including the Modeling, Analysis, and Predcition (MAP) Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. and the Center for STEM Education at Northeastern. For the past four years, Chin was a researcher working o...

The recently introduced national pupil database in England allows the tracking of every child through the compulsory phases of the state education system. The data from key stage 2 for three local education authorities are studied, following cohorts of pupils through their schooling. The mobility of pupils among schools is studied in detail by using multiplemembership multilevel models that inc...