Three experiments (N ^ 370) investigated the effects of social categorization on the experience of empathy. In Experiment I, university students reported their empathy for, and intentions to help, a student v^ho described a distressful experience. As predicted, participants reported stronger empathy and helping intentions when ^ e student belonged to an ingroup compared to an outgroup universit...

Framing a decision situation differently has affected behavior substantially in previous studies. This paper tests a framing effect in a field experiment at the University of Zurich. Each semester, every student has to decide whether to contribute to two social funds. Students were randomly informed that a high percentage of the student population contributed (or, equivalently, that a low perce...

Professional identity plays an important role in career development. Although many studies have examined professional identity, differences in cognitive-processing biases between Chinese student teachers with strong and weak professional identity are poorly understood. The current study adopted Tversky's social-cognitive experimental paradigm to explore cognitive-processing biases in Chinese st...

This study proposes an Adaptive Learning in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) for e-learning system (AL-TESL-e-learning system) that considers various student characteristics. This study explores the learning performance of various students using a data mining technique, an artificial neural network (ANN), as the core of AL-TESL-e-learning system. Three different levels of teaching c...

We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The first two groups were recruited according to procedures commonly used in experimental economics and therefore subjects self-s...

Random Forests are a powerful classification technique, consisting of a collection of decision trees. One useful feature of Random Forests is the ability to determine the importance of each variable in predicting the outcome. This is done by permuting each variable and computing the change in prediction accuracy before and after the permutation. This variable importance calculation is similar t...

Open collaborative authoring systems such as Wikipedia are growing in use and impact. How well does this model work for the development of educational resources? In particular, can volunteers contribute materials of sufficient quality? Could they create resources that meet students’ specific learning needs and engage their personal characteristics? Our experiment explored these questions using ...

The Great American Cookie Experiment was developed by Thiel (1987) as an experiential strategy for teaching basic research concepts to undergraduate students. This original strategy has been adapted for online learning by substituting music for cookies (Sternberger, 2002) and revised for use with graduate students, RN to baccalaureate nursing, and practicing nurses. Current undergraduate nursin...

In this paper we explore patterns in student behavior as they answer questions about documents they are reading. In earlier work [4] we showed that as students answer a question online, they can be categorized into one of 4 different clusters of “reading-scanning-scrolling” behaviors. Further, their readingscanning-scrolling behavior category predicts the quality of their answer to that particu...

This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing a bundle of best practices from high-performing charter schools into lowperforming, traditional public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental comparisons. The five practices in the bundle are increased instructional time, more effective teachers and administrators, h...