Using empathic virtual agents for Personal and Social Education is a powerful and immersive way to sensitise students for the problems and dangers related to persistent aggressive behaviour among students, also known as bullying. The work reported here relates to the evaluation of applying such agents in schools in the UK, Portugal, and Germany as well as to consequences that can be drawn from ...

of Town and City Superintendents. [1 ranklin, Ind.] 1908. Pp. 40. In the present state of our knowledge each new study not only adds to our knowledge of local conditions, but contributes something to the elucidation of the general problem of retardation. Not infrequently such studies present new facts, or lay a new emphasis on those already familiar. In the present report the statistical substr...

BACKGROUND We examined the associations between substance use (cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and cannabis use) and psychosocial characteristics at the individual and family levels among adolescents of the Seychelles, a rapidly developing small island state in the African region. METHODS A school survey was conducted in a representative sample of 1432 students aged 11-17 years from all ...

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Poverty Center or any sponsoring agency. Abstract Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in the educational process, however, has drawn very little atten...

The emergence of the big data era and economic significance facial recognition technology have greatly increased prospects market demand for this technology. purpose essay is to design a real-time video-based attendance system. This article primarily sets four directions consider issues: face system's truancy rate with video processing, stability system accuracy during actual check-in, interfac...

Do Home Computers Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in the educational process, however, has drawn very little attention in the previous literature. We use panel data from the two main...

Although computers are universal in the classroom, nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. Surprisingly, only a few previous studies explore the role of home computers in the educational process. Home computers might be very useful for completing school assignments, but they might also represent a distraction for teenagers. We use several identi...

Parents are often told that better monitoring can prevent adolescents’ misbehavior. However, recent research suggests that adolescents’ voluntary self-disclosure of behaviors is more important than parents’ active attempts to supervise (i.e., track and control) their children in determining adolescent misbehavior. This secondary analysis of a survey administered to students in grades 7, 9, and ...