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Can MOOCs promote learning by reducing university dropout rates?
RIED: Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, 2017 Student dropouts at university-level education may result from varied situations and motivations, affecting the courses taught in the distance learning modality,and assuming a cost for both alumni and society. In order to improve learning and reduce the
Juan Carlos Aguado Franco
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Did the 2006 covenants reduce school dropout in the Netherlands? [PDF]
Early school-leaving is considered to be one of the major problems in Dutch education. In order to reduce the number of dropouts in the school year 2006-2007 the Dutch government has offered a financial incentive scheme to 14 out of 39 regions.
Dinand Webbink +2 more
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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Portland Public Schools: From Data and Decisions to Implementation and Results on Dropout Prevention [PDF]
, 2009 Many school district leaders, particularly those in urban areas, struggle to reduce dropout rates, but find themselves overwhelmed by the dimensions of the problem.
Daniel Stid, Kate O'Neill, Susan Colby
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Causal Prediction of TP53 Variant Pathogenicity Using a Perturbation‐Informed Protein Language Model
Advanced Science, EarlyView.A TP53‐specific predictor, CaVepP53, is developed by fine‐tuning ESMC on experimentally validated variants, quantifying pathogenicity via Euclidean distances. It outperforms general‐purpose models and extends to five cancer genes, enabling interpretable variant classification for precision medicine.
Huiying Chen +15 more
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High School Students at Risk: The Challenge of Dropouts and Pushouts [PDF]
, 2004 Analyzes the factors contributing to high dropout rates at schools in New York, Chicago, and Las Vegas. Explores the available alternatives and program reforms that have been implemented to improve graduation rates at urban ...
Lucy Hood
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Misplaced Emphases in Wars on Poverty [PDF]
, 1966 The development of the layer-by-layer (LbL) technique has turned out to be an efficient way to physically modify the surface properties of different materials, for example to improve the adhesive interactions between fibers in paper.
Rottenberg, Simon
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Integrated multi‐omic profiling maps the gene‐regulatory landscape of the coelomic mesothelium across heart, lung, and pancreas. A cardiac‐restricted regulatory program is uncovered in which TBX20 activates heart mesothelial (epicardial) cis‐regulatory elements, while MAF emerges as a conserved regulator of mesothelial identity.
Quang Minh Dang +3 more
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Nursing Practice TodayBackground & Aim: Nursing staff shortages pose challenges for healthcare systems, worsened by student dropouts. This study explores the factors driving students to choose nursing to leave their programs and the relationship between reasons for choice ...
Abdelmonim El Fadely +4 more
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Learners Programming Language a Helping System for Introductory Programming Courses [PDF]
Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2016 Programming is the core of computer science and due to this momentousness a special care is taken in designing the curriculum of programming courses. A substantial work has been conducted on the definition of programming courses, yet the introductory ...
MUHAMMAD SHUMAIL NAVEED +2 more
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