Developing a feasible evaluation plan is challenging when multiple activities, often sponsored by multiple agencies, work together toward a common goal. Often, resources are limited and not every agency's interest can be represented in the final evaluation plan. The article illustrates how the Antecedent Target Measurement (ATM) approach to logic modeling was adapted to meet this challenge. The...

The accuracy of thematic maps derived from remote sensing is often viewed negatively. This reflects difficulties in mapping but also issues connected with accuracy evaluation targets and assessment approaches. This paper focuses on the latter issues suggesting that the widely used target accuracy of 85% may often be inappropriate and that the approach to accuracy assessment adopted commonly in ...

Today, there are several drawback that impede the necessary and much needed use of robot learning techniques in real applications. First, the time needed to achieve the synthesis of any behavior is prohibitive. Second, the robot behavior during the Iearning phase is by dejinition bad, it may even be dangerous. Third, except within the lazy learning approach, a new behavior implies a new learnin...

Four physiology courses participating in a science education program used concept maps for the first time. At the conclusion of the term, students responded to an end-of-term survey about the activity. Following varied results, we sought to identify factors that students indicated are important for the acceptance of the technique. To encourage high student value of concept map exercises, instru...

Today, there are several drawbacks that impede the necessary and much needed use of robot learning techniques in real applications. First, the time needed to achieve the synthesis of any behavior is prohibitive. Second, the robot behavior during the learning phase is – by definition – bad, it may even be dangerous. Third, except within the lazy learning approach, a new behavior implies a new le...

In this paper, we propose interactive visual analysis as a means to study user browsing of information spaces such as maps or web pages on mobile devices. In particular, we propose a set of specific interactive visualizations that can augment the insights usually obtained with experimental evaluations on users. As a practical example, we will illustrate the usefulness of the visualizations on a...

Efforts within cartography on indoor maps have previously not received a lot of attention. Work that has been carried out on indoor maps often focus on map design very similar to an architectural style (Klippel et al. 2006, Ciavarella and Paternò 2004). In some cases the design has been of a more novel character where approaches with augmented and virtual realities have been carried out (Radocz...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are receiving growing attention in the research community. As simulation is a frequently used approach also to test and validate approaches, the simulation environments need to be able to support the evolving WSN design schemes. While a growing research trend in WSN is to address regions instead of single sensor nodes, existing WSN simulation environments still do...

Within the educational community, there is an increasing recognition of the need for formative assessment tools. Effective formative assessment must meet four criteria: it must assess higher order knowledge, identify students’ strengths and weaknesses, provide effective feedback, and be easy to use. Although concept maps and other structural knowledge representation techniques have been used su...