This article provides an overview of objective and subjective class differences in experiences of postsecondary education. Using the metaphor of a funnel, it argues that cumulative disadvantage results when first-generation and low-income college students are disproportionately filtered out at each stage of the postsecondary education process. Subjective class differences largely serve to repro...

Consider a set-classification task where c objects must be labelled simultaneously in c classes, knowing that there is only one object coming from each class (full-class set). Such problems may occur in automatic attendance registration systems, simultaneous tracking of fast moving objects and more. A Bayes-optimal solution to the full-class set classification problem is proposed using a single...

• Motivation. Early adolescents may also experience a decline in indicators of academic motivation, such as attention in class, school attendance, and selfperception. Also seen are age-related increases in negative motivational and behavioral characteristics, such as learned helplessness in response to failure, focus on self-evaluation rather than on mastering tasks, truancy, and school dropout.

Purpose Minority groups experience significant barriers to participation in clinical trials. Little is known about characteristics of treatment adherence among low income minority populations in CAM trials. This analysis aims to identify factors associated with class attendance, a major component of treatment adherence, in participants engaged in a research study of yoga for chronic low back pa...

Blended learning is an emerging paradigm for science education but has not been rigorously assessed. We performed a randomized controlled trial of blended learning. We found that in-class problem solving improved exam performance, and video assignments increased attendance and satisfaction. This validates a new model for science communication and education.

We exploit Italian law DPR 81/2009, which determines class composition, as an instrument to identify the causal effect of grouping students of different grades into a single class (multigrading) on children cognitive achievement. This article focuses on 7-yearold students—those at the beginning of their formal education. Results suggest that attendance in multigrade classes versus single-grade ...

Attendance policies may grow stricter this semester following a letter from University Provost Thomas Burish reminding pro­ fessors th a t s tu d e n ts a re not a llow ed th re e u n ex cu sed absences. “Contrary to common student lore, there is no University policy p e rm it t in g s tu d e n ts ... th re e unexcused absences from class without consequences,” Burish said in the letter, which ...

The use of technology is increasingly adopted to support flexible learning in Higher Education institutions. The adoption of more sophisticated technologies offers a broad range of facilities for communication and resource sharing, thereby creating a flexible learning environment that facilitates and even encourages students not to physically attend classes. However this emerging trend seems to...

AIM The aim of this study was to explore the association between long-term pattern of dental attendance and periodontal disease among British adults. METHODS We used data from 3272 adults who participated in the 1998 Adult Dental Health Survey in the UK. Participants were classified into four trajectories (current, always, former and never regular attenders) based on their responses to three ...