This applied research was designed to analyze the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction as compared to teacher-directed instruction in 5th-grade mathematics and science courses at the subject school. The subject school modified mathematics and science curriculum for 3 years and became an Alabama Math, Science, and Technology (AMSTI) [2009] school. AMSTI provided extensive professional deve...

Student ratings of instruction can be a valuable indicator of teaching because the quality measurement of instruction identifies areas where improvement is needed. Student ratings of instruction are expected to evaluate and enhance the teaching strategies. Evaluation of teaching effectiveness has been officially implemented in Taiwanese higher education since 2005. Therefore, this research inve...

Delivering the instruction stream can be the largest source of energy consumption in a processor, yet loosely-encoded RISC instruction sets are wasteful of instruction bandwidth. Aiming to improve the performance and energy efficiency of the RISC-V ISA, this thesis proposes RISC-V Compressed (RVC), a variable-length instruction set extension. RVC is a superset of the RISC-V ISA, encoding the mo...

Direct instruction, an approach that is becoming familiar to Queensland schools that have high Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, has been gaining substantial political and popular support in the United States of America [USA], England and Australia. Recent examples include the No Child Left Behind policy in the USA, the British National Numeracy Strategy and in Australia, Effec...

Objective: This study evaluated the self-timed trial training for laparoscopic suturing. Methods: The set task involved grasping the suture, aligning the needle with a needle holder, passing the suture, making 3 knots, holding the 2 tails of the suture with one grasper, and cutting them. Trainees were given an instruction for suturing and reducing their suturing time. The same instruction was g...

Instruction fetch mechanism is a performance bottleneck of a Superscalar Processor. Fetch performance can be improved with the aid of an instruction memory known as a Trace Cache. This paper presents analytical expressions, which describe instruction fetch performance of a Trace Cache microarchitecture. The instruction fetch rates predicted by the expressions differ by seven percent from the si...

DRAMSys: A flexible DRAM Subsystem Design Space Exploration Framework Methodology for Rapid Accelerator Development Applied to Financial Applications A Reconfigurable Application Specific Instruction Set Processor. Adaptive processor architecture invited paperMichael Hübner, Diana Göhringer, Carsten Tradowsky, Jörg KAHRISMA: A novel Hypermorphic Reconfigurable-Instruction-Set Cross-architectura...

The design of an instruction set processor includes several related design tasks: instruction set design, microarchitecture design, and code generation. Although there have been automatic approaches for each individual task, the investigation of the interaction between these tasks still primarily relies on designers’ experience and ingenuity. It is thus the goal of this research to develop form...

This paper identifies a fundamental runtime program property: Instruction–Isomorphism. An instruction instance is said to be isomorphic if its component information derived from the instruction and its backward dynamic data dependence graph is identical to the component of an instruction executed earlier. By definition an isomorphic instruction will produce exactly the same output with the earl...