This note describes a collaborative research program over more than three years (including two and half years of field research) between the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (J-PAL South Asia, for short) and Pratham to evaluate the impact on reading and maths test achievements of two of Pratham’s programs: “Learning to Read”...

Statistical relational learning (SRL) is the area of machine learning that integrates both first-order logic and probabilistic graphical models. The advantage of these formalisms is that they can handle both uncertainty and structured/relational data. As a result, they are widely used in domains like social network analysis, biological data analysis, and natural language processing. Bayesian Lo...

Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between cohesive readability of expository texts and reading comprehension in EFL students with different proficiency levels. One hundred students formed the participant of this study. They were undergraduate students majoring in English at University of Isfahan. To collect the relevant data, participants were divide...

Reading problems are among the most prevalent concerns for those who teach students with learning disabilities. In the present research, 39 students with severe reading problems were taught word recognition and comprehension skills using the failure free Reading Program. The intervention is based on principles identified in research on successful reading programs. Key steps in the program inclu...

Teaching a student to write computer programs well is much like teaching a student to write English prose well. That is, although a program must be correct in every last detail, achieving correctness is only half of the task. The other half consists of quality factors such as clarity, organization, conciseness, maintainability, etc. Although these factors cannot be automatically measured, they ...

This article addresses the prediction of treatment completion and outcome of 114 adult sex offender using variables found to predict treatment outcome in outpatient sex offender programs. The variables of reading ability, marital status, age, presence of antisocial personality disorder, offense and victim discrimination, and instant offense were used. Three outcomes of treatment were assessed: ...

The distinctive merit of the declarative reading of logic programs is the validity of all the laws of reasoning supplied by the predicate calculus with equality Surprisingly many of these laws are still valid for the procedural reading they can therefore be used safely for algebraic manipulation program transformation and optimisation of executable logic programs This paper lists a number of co...