There are a number of reasons for this growing interest by research and industry in applying IT to the assessment of student learning. First, there is the increase in the number of students attending institutions of higher education. Most universities offer a portion of their required freshman classes in lectures of hundred or more students. Bjedov (cited in Valenti, Cucchiarelli, & Panti, 2001...

In this paper, we present a novel approach toward generating floral patterns. We extract the essence of a pattern aside from its appearance and geometry into combinatorial elements. As a result, existing patterns can be reshaped while preserving their essence. Furthermore, we can create new patterns that adhere to high level concepts such as imperfect symmetry and visual balance. By decomposing...

The study investigates the balance between accounting regulation and political influences in the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in an emerging country. Forty-three interviews were conducted, from 2010 to 2013. Additionally, enforcement documents from 1998 to 2013 in relation to IFRS were evaluated. The study reveals that lack of accounting regulatory framew...

Health practitioners and policy makers translate health research into practice and policy. However, these end users have limited access to full versions of peer-reviewed literature in subscription journals. Thus, the essential information bypasses the people it is designed to help and the health benefits of medical research are limited and delayed. Open access (OA) publishing is one strategy to...

Qualitative methods seek to answer different questions from those of RCT, and for those types of questions they potentially provide a high level of evidence, higher than that of the RCT. “Potentially” remains an important qualification since as with any research the level of evidence produced is also dependent on the rigour of the study itself. Just as a poorly designed or conducted RCT provide...

This section of the study describes the modelling assumptions used, and the outputs from the highest level of harvesting modelled which is termed the high level of harvest. This scenario was developed specifically in response to the FSD requirement to assess the consequences of a level of harvest that approximated the estimated maximum annual volume of timber production. This level was intended...

This paper describes the fontspec package for the X E TEX–LTEX format which provides a high level interface for font selection and configuration of OpenType, and other, fonts.

This paper describes a goal-based architecture which provides a single source for all high level decisions made by AI players in real-time strategy games. The architecture is easily extensible, flexible enough to be rapidly adapted to multiple different games, and powerful enough to provide a good challenge on a random, unexplored map without unfair advantages or visible cheating. This framewor...