Experiential learning is perhaps the most effective way to teach. One example is the scoring procedure used for exams in some decision analysis programs. Under this grading scheme, students take a multiple-choice exam, but rather than simply marking which answer they think is correct, they must assign a probability to each possible answer. The exam is then scored with a special scoring rule, un...

A key educational challenge is how to correct students' errors and misconceptions so that they do not persist. Simply labelling an answer as correct or incorrect on a short-answer test (verification feedback) does not improve performance on later tests; error correction requires receiving answer feedback. We explored the generality of this conclusion and whether the effectiveness of verificatio...

This study presents a light-duty automation system for the automatization of detecting and grading poultry eggs, namely SIRDGE, short for System of Intelligent Robot Detecting and Grading Eggs. This system combines crack detection, inner quality detection and eggs conveying in detecting and grading, which are all performed by a joint-robot to fully automate egg detection and gradation. The hard...

This paper assesses the ability of semantic text models to assess student responses electronics questions compared with that expert human judges. Recent interest in similarity has led a proliferation can potentially be used for assessing responses. However, it is unclear whether these perform as well early distributional semantics. We assessed 5166 response pairings 219 participants across 118 ...

OBJECTIVE The research sought to establish a rubric for evaluating evidence-based medicine (EBM) point-of-care tools in a health sciences library. METHODS The authors searched the literature for EBM tool evaluations and found that most previous reviews were designed to evaluate the ability of an EBM tool to answer a clinical question. The researchers' goal was to develop and complete rubrics ...

E learning is perhaps the most effective way to teach. One example is the scoring procedure used for exams in some decision analysis programs. Under this grading scheme, students take a multiple-choice exam, but rather than simply marking which answer they think is correct, they must assign a probability to each possible answer. The exam is then scored with a special scoring rule, under which s...

BACKGROUND Mesorectal grading was reported to be a valuable prognostic factor in rectal cancer surgery. Previous studies were retrospective, and had short follow-up. OBJECTIVE To assess the long-term influence of total mesorectal excision quality on disease recurrence in mid and low rectal cancer patients who received preoperative neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and postoperative chemothe...

This list is a short overview of some of my results. One can nd a more detailed description in my Research Statement or at 1. Simple associative algebras with nite Z-grading. Here, R is a simple algebra with a nite Z-grading over a commutative ring. A description of all such algebras was given 18]. As a corollary, it was proved that every (not necessarily nite dimensional) simple Lie algebra of...

Background: There have been substantial improvements in the management of acute pancreatitis since the publication of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) treatment guidelines in 2002. A collaboration of the IAP and the American Pancreatic Association (APA) was undertaken to revise these guidelines using an evidence-based approach. Methods: Twelve multidisciplinary review groups...