Especially, it has been investigated how to upgrade the retention level for academic achievement and science concepts and how to improve positive attitudes towards science. Quasi-experimental design has been used in the study. In order to seek the effect of inquiry based learning approach, two of the classes constituted by the school management, except for random distribution, have been defined...

Separating between semantic and syntactic aspects of language processing in the brain is a difficult task. In an attempt to distinguish between the two, many studies so far have measured responses to semantic or syntactic violations in reading comprehension tasks. However, this methodology may be inaccurate in describing semantic and syntactic processing during normal reading. In this study, we...

I study a simple global game, in which I relax the assumption that preferences are common knowledge. I show that with higher-order uncertainty regarding preferences, players can at best coordinate on the risk-dominant equilibrium, regardless of whether information about fundamentals is common or private. The example also suggests that the strength of the coordinating effect of public informatio...

In some educational settings, the cost of textbooks approaches or even exceeds the cost of tuition. Given limited resources, it is important to better understand the impacts of free open educational resources (OER) on student outcomes. Utilizing digital resources such as OER can substantially reduce costs for students. The purpose of this study was to analyze whether the adoption of no-cost ope...

The concept of “believability” (of an agent) is difficult to pin down, making its value questionable for experimental design, quantitative empirical evaluations, and explanations of people’s perceptions of agents in general. We propose to replace “believability” with a set of finer-grained notions based on people’s attitudes that are better suited to these uses. Based on our analysis, we demons...

The statement, “Results of most non-traditional authorship attribution studies are not universally accepted as definitive,” is explicated. A variety of problems in these studies are listed and discussed: studies governed by expediency; a lack of competent research; flawed statistical techniques; corrupted primary data; lack of expertise in allied fields; a dilettantish approach; inadequate trea...

MAS314 Design of Experiments 15 May 2006, 14:30–16:30 Rubric: This paper has two Sections and you should attempt both Sections. Please read carefully the instructions given at the beginning of each Section. Calculators may be used. Cambridge Elementary Statistical Tables are provided. Section A: Each question carries 25 marks. You should attempt BOTH questions. Section B: Each question carries ...