and careers and college in general. The aim was for these students to consider college as an option and specifically a STEM discipline as a major. The modules were presented by enthusiastic faculty using demonstrations, laboratory exercises, and hands-on activities to stimulate the students. Participants were administered a questionnaire to assess this program. Students indicated that due to th...

Assumptions about the superiority of hands-on use of computer simulations over projecting them in whole class have seldom been tested. Contrary to expectations, preliminary pre-post results from two lesson sequences yielded no evidence for an advantage for students in the hands-on condition. We conduct qualitative analyses of one of the lesson sequences, in which a popular simulation was used i...

This document aims to clarify frequent questions on using the Accord.NET Framework to perform statistical analyses. Here, we reproduce all steps of the famous Lindsay's Tutorial on Principal Component Analysis, in an attempt to give the reader a complete hands-on overview on the framework's basics while also discussing some of the results and sources of divergence between the results generated ...

HiSPARC is a project where high school teachers and students work together to study cosmic rays. The combination of hands-on experience and truly participating in a scientific collaboration opens the eyes of many high-school students for the scientific and technological world surrounding us. In this way HiSPARC helps to achieve the targets set in Lisbon 2000 to increase the number of students c...

The Framework for the Evaluation for Machine Translation (FEMTI) contains guidelines for building a quality model that is used to evaluate MT systems in relation to the purpose and intended context of use of the systems. Contextual quality models can thus be constructed, but entering into FEMTI the knowledge required for this operation is a complex task. An experiment has been set up in order t...

In this study, we compared our computer tutor (“TED” for Training in Experimental Design) to a teacher-guided control lesson also targeting experimental design but incorporating hands-on learning. Students in both groups showed significant gains in ability to design unconfounded experiments. TED instruction was significantly more efficient than the control lesson. When the teacher’s ratings of ...

A large-scale, multi-year, randomized study compared learning activities and outcomes for hands-on, remotely-operated, and simulation-based educational laboratories in an undergraduate engineering course. Students (N 1⁄4 458) worked in small-group lab teams to perform two experiments involving stress on a cantilever beam. Each team conducted the experiments in one of three lab formats (hands-on...

In this paper, the authors present a qualitative study of student perceptions of a cognitive apprenticeship in an Online Research Lab (Lab). The Lab’s purpose was to provide psychology graduate students in an online university with hands-on experience in the full trajectory of a research project. Interview data were analyzed using the four categories of the Cognitive Apprenticeship theoretical ...

We investigate the evolution and state of the art of augmented reality games in order to develop a classification. In research, games are one of the fewest considered application areas of augmented reality. Relevant works often use a hands-on approach or look at isolated phenomena and form an inconsistent field of study. We use insights from a comprehensive literature review and an application ...

There is a tendency in information security education at universities to not only teach protection measures but also attack techniques. Increasingly more universities offer hands-on labs, where students can experience both the attackers’ and the administrators’ view. Getting to know the attackers’ view is thought to lead to a better understanding of information security and its problems compare...