Recipients of educational score reports generally welcome the idea of receiving more descriptive feedback about examinee performance than is provided by a total score or a percentile rank indicating overall performance. This is not surprising as descriptive score reports have the potential to aid score users in the development of student-based instructional plans and/or suggest areas for classr...

Over the years we have developed the Disciple theory, methodology, and family of tools for building knowledge-based agents. This approach consists of developing an agent shell that can be taught directly by a subject matter expert in a way that resembles how the expert would teach a human apprentice when solving problems in cooperation. This paper presents the most recent version of the Discipl...

Often the manual review of large data sets, either for purposes of labeling unlabeled instances or for classifying meaningful results from uninteresting (but statistically significant) ones is extremely resource intensive, especially in terms of subject matter expert (SME) time. Use of active learning has been shown to diminish this review time significantly. However, since active learning is a...

In 12 Navy–Marine Corps medical logistics studies and analyses conducted by the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) and Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) over the past 5 years, estimates of battlefield mortality have been a major metric of interest to medical planners. An ongoing concern is how mortality is related to delays in treatment for medical logistics reasons. In this paper, we describe ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate experienced secondary school teachers' (N"80) current and prior perceptions of their professional identity. A questionnaire was used to explore the way teachers see (and saw) themselves as subject matter experts, didactical experts, and pedagogical experts. The teachers currently see their professional identity as consisting of a combination of the d...

This paper presents an application of association rule mining in compliance in the context of health service management. There are approximately 500 million transactions processed by Medicare Australia each year. Among these transactions, there exist a small proportion of suspicious claims. This study applied association rule mining to examine billing patterns within a particular specialist gro...

Article history: Received 8 December 2013 Available online 16 February 2014 In times of rising longevity and shortage of skilled workers, post-retirement work has become increasingly prevalent in many countries. However, not much is known about the expectations and facilitating factors associated with work-related activities after retirement. In two studies we draw on the social cognitive caree...

plaintiff in civil litigation from the beginning which deals with petition to theend of litigation which the judge sets out a verdict, to reach his wasted or deniedright and to stabilize it, should comply with rules of proceeding and state matter offact and matters of law and prove the claim. therefor he must propose four issuesand prove them to reach the relief sought: 1.formal rules of proced...

To improve the rates of retention in all academic programs NYIT created the Office of Academic Support and Retention Services (OoASRS). In spite of this initiative, the rate of freshman-related retention in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences (SoECS) has not improved significantly. Contextual Teaching and Learning (CLT) is a concept of instruction that relates subject matter conten...