Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) has become important in Malaysian education system to produce skilled workforce for industrial need. Career planning are very crucial TVET students guide them a better career future. path development model been develop student plan their path. But, understanding the structure underlying set of measures this is not easy as understand data depict...

A crowdsourcing platform enables solution seekers to use contributions from a group of online users, usually by organizing crowdsourcing contests through which online users contribute to the solution generation process. Knowledge sharing on a crowdsourcing platform could play an important role in the process of crowdsourcing contests and contestants generating high-quality solutions. On one han...

The photo-sharing website Flickr has become a valuable informal information source in disciplines such as geography and ecology. Some ecologists, for instance, have been manually analysing Flickr to obtain information that is more up-to-date than what is found in traditional sources. While several previous works have shown the potential of Flickr tags for characterizing places, it remains uncle...

This paper reports the use of several quantitative analytic methods, including Rasch analysis, to re-examine teacher responses to questionnaire items probing opinions related to the compulsory numeracy tests conducted in Years 3, 5, and 7 in Queensland, Australia. Nisbet and Grimbeek (2004) previously reported an interpretable and statistically acceptable 6-factor exploratory factor solution. T...

This exploratory study determined which set of student characteristics and disability-related services explained graduation success among college students with disabilities. The archived records of 1,289 unidentified students with disabilities in three public universities were examined ex-post-facto to collect demographic data on the students, the disability-related services they qualified for ...

The pressure to publish novel genetic associations has meant that meta-analysis has been applied to genome-wide association studies without the time for a careful consideration of the methods that are used. This review distinguishes between the use of meta-analysis to validate previously reported genetic associations and its use for gene discovery, and advocates viewing gene discovery as an exp...

Hierarchical models are increasingly used in many applications. Along with this increase use comes a desire to investigate whether the model is compatible with the observed data. Bayesian methods are well suited to eliminate the many (nuisance) parameters in these complicated models; in this paper we investigate Bayesian methods for model checking. Since we contemplate model checking as a preli...

Gelman’s article is a thought-provoking mix of opinions and creative methodology. I agree with Gelman that the disjunction of models and exploratory data analysis (EDA) in mainstream statistics is unsound. The assumption that models belong exclusively to confirmatory data analysis (CDA) is easily shown to be wrong in practice. Many uses of models, in particular model selection, are exploratory,...

Three studies using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses provided consistent evidence for a three-factor model of the social dominance orientation (SDO) in Mainland China. Support for exclusionism, which was not found in previous research, emerged as an independent SDO factor (Studies 1, 2, and 3). In Study 2, this factor predicted SDO difference between a high status group (managers) a...

In the recent years an alternative to the traditional class-based object-oriented language model has emerged. In this prototype-based paradigm [Bor86, Lie86, LTP86, Ste87, UnS87, SLU88, DMC92, Bla94] there are no classes. Rather, new kinds of objects are formed more directly by composing concrete, full-fledged objects, which are often referred to as prototypes. When compared to class-based lang...