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Crimmins, Michael T.; Midkiff, Brooke – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Organic Chemistry is a required course for programs in chemistry, biology, and many health science careers. It has historically been considered a highly challenging course with significant failure rates. As with many science disciplines, the teaching of Organic Chemistry has traditionally focused on unstructured exposition-centered delivery of…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving
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Zhou, Guojing; Wang, Jianxun; Lynch, Collin F.; Chi, Min – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
In this study, we applied decision trees (DT) to extract a compact set of pedagogical decision-making rules from an original "full" set of 3,702 Reinforcement Learning (RL)- induced rules, referred to as the DT-RL rules and Full-RL rules respectively. We then evaluated the effectiveness of the two rule sets against a baseline Random…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide is intended for use in teaching a course in human and product transportation systems. The purpose of the course is twofold. First, students are introduced to the design process and the steps used to analyze various solutions to basic problems. Second, the course focuses on the application of the design and evaluation process to review a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Design
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Ward, William C. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
Laboratory experiments by Steele and Aronson (1995) found that African-American subjects' performance on difficult verbal items, described as a verbal problem-solving task, was adversely affected when they were asked about their ethnicity just before working on the items. These results were attributed to stereotype threat. Asking about ethnicity…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Test Items, Problem Solving
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Mundt, John P., Comp. – 1992
Among 53 conference papers, are the following: "Perceptions of Administrators, Guidance Counselors, and Science Teachers Concerning Pilot Agriscience Courses" (Johnson, Newman); "Relationship of Supervised Agricultural Experience Program Participation and Student Achievement in Agricultural Education (AE)" (Cheek et al.);…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Agricultural Education