The impact of small changes in thoroughfare connectivity on the potential for student walking [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Student active commuting to school is an important component to student achievement and student health, yet this form of physical activity has significantly declined in the U.S. Distance between the school and student residence is often reported as a barrier for student walking, thereby increasing street and trail connectivity between and within ...
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Inequities and misaligned expectations in PhD students' search for a research group [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Joining a research group is one of the most important events on a graduate student's path to earning a PhD, but the ways students go about searching for a group remain largely unstudied. It is therefore crucial to investigate whether departments are equitably supporting students as they look for an advisor, especially as students today enter graduate ...
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The student evaluation of teaching and the competence of students as evaluators [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 When the college student satisfaction survey is considered in the promotion and recognition of instructors, a usual complaint is related to the impact that biased ratings have on the arithmetic mean (used as a measure of teaching effectiveness). This is especially significant when the number of students responding to the survey is small. In this work a
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How Expressive Are Friendly School Partitions? [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 A natural procedure for assigning students to classes in the beginning of the school-year is to let each student write down a list of $d$ other students with whom she/he wants to be in the same class (typically $d=3$). The teachers then gather all the lists and try to assign the students to classes in a way that each student is assigned to the same ...
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A Practical Study on Developing Mathematical Computation Ability of Ninth-Grade Students [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Practical research was conducted to cultivate students' mathematical computation ability using literature analysis, theoretical practice, and statistical analysis methods. The research involved 171 ninth-grade students from the author's school and was divided into two experimental groups (A and B) and a control group (C).
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Sense of agency, gender, and students' perception in open-ended physics labs [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Instructional physics labs are critical junctures for many STEM majors to develop an understanding of experimentation in the sciences. Students can acquire useful experimental skills and grow their identities as scientists. However, many traditionally-instructed labs do not necessarily involve authentic physics experimentation features in their ...
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Mining Student Responses to Infer Student Satisfaction Predictors [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The identification and analysis of student satisfaction is a challenging issue. This is becoming increasingly important since a measure of student satisfaction is taken as an indication of how well a course has been taught. However, it remains a challenging problem as student satisfaction has various aspects.
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Assessing the association between pre-course metrics of student preparation and student performance in introductory statistics: Results from early data on simulation-based inference vs. nonsimulation based inference [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 The recent simulation-based inference (SBI) movement in algebra-based introductory statistics courses (Stat 101) has provided preliminary evidence of improved student conceptual understanding and retention. However, little is known about whether these positive effects are preferentially distributed across types of students entering the course.
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A comparison between the styles Romanian and American students use to approach an E&M physics problem [PDF]
arXiv, 2005 Although Physics is the same worldwide, students belonging to different learning systems as well as different cultural environments may develop different styles of approaching and reasoning out Physics problems. In a first experiment we compare student physics problem-solving styles between two different student populations: a group of typical American
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Quantifying Student Effort and Class Involvement in the Introductory Higher Education Science Classroom [PDF]
arXiv, 2007 This note details a minimal effort program, Cash Participation, that quantifies class participation while increasing class energy, decreasing student apathy and removing student embraced anonymity.
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