The purpose of this study was to explore individual- and school-level policy characteristics on student smoking behavior using an ecological perspective. Participants were 24,213 (51% female) Grade 10-11 students from 81 schools in five Canadian provinces. Data were collected using student self-report surveys, written policies collected from schools, interviews with school administrators, and s...

This paper proposes an approach to distill knowledge from an ensemble of models to a single deep neural network (DNN) student model for punctuation prediction. This approach makes the DNN student model mimic the behavior of the ensemble. The ensemble consists of three single models. Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is used to minimize the difference between the output distribution of the DNN st...

The present study demonstrates the application of cluster analysis to examine the typology of student categories of novice Luxembourgish teachers. Student categories are mental representations of groups of students in which teachers classify their students. The investigation of student categories is a relevant topic in education, because subsequent assessments of students may be biased by prior...

This article presents the results of a quasi-experimental research project investigating the impact of two different formal learning spaces – a traditional classroom and a technologically enhanced active learning classroom – on instructor behavior, classroom activities, and levels of ontask student behavior at the University of Minnesota. Using time-series data collected as part of a series of ...

Student spring break behaviors have been a topic that has received a fair amount of scrutiny in the academic literature. This research takes another look at the topic, with the main focus of the current study a comparison of student spring break behaviors with benchmarked student behaviors exhibited during the balance of the school year. The psychographic concept of sensation seeking is applied...

This study aimed to examine the conceptions of junior secondary school student misbehaviors in classroom, and to identify the most common, disruptive, and unacceptable student problem behaviors from teachers' perspective. Twelve individual interviews with teachers were conducted. A list of 17 student problem behaviors was generated. Results showed that the most common and disruptive problem beh...

This study explored relations between religiosity, both parent and student, and maternal parenting style and student academic self-regulation, academic achievement, and risk behavior among African-American youth attending a parochial college. Eighty-five students completed self-report survey measures of religiosity, self-regulation, academic achievement, and risk behavior. Participants also com...

This paper investigates how behavioral cloning can be used to decrease training time for students learning to y on simulators. The challenges presented to each student must be tailored to their unique learning experiences. This requires an intelligent training regime that exploits a model of each student that predicts where the student's performance will be de cient. Here we show that cloning t...

Several researchers have argued that the functional behavior assessment (FBA) and behavior intervention plan (BIP) mandates in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act of 2004 have gone beyond the current research base. For instance, although BIPs have been shown to improve student outcomes when implemented with strict control and oversight by researchers, it is unclear whether these rel...

This paper describes the student modeler of the GUIDON2 tutor, which understands plans by a dual search strategy. It first produces multiple predictions of student behavior by a model-driven simulation of the expert. Focused, data-driven searches then explain incongruities. By supplementing each other, these methods lead to an efficient and robust plan understander for a complex domain. 1. Basi...