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Juliana E. Raffaghelli; Bonnie Stewart – OTESSA Conference Proceedings, 2021
In the higher education context, an increasing concern on the technical or instrumental approach permeates attention to academics' data literacies and faculty development. The need for data literacy to deal specifically with the rise of learning analytics in higher education has been raised by some authors, though in spite of some focus on the…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Learning Analytics
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Zunde, Pranas – Information Processing and Management, 1984
Reviews what information and software sciences have thus far accomplished in search for empirical regularities and laws and examines what theories have been developed to explain and account for regularities and laws. Specific laws and theories of information highlighted are those of Zipf, Bradford, Lotka, Mandelbrot, and Simon. (Forty references)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Software, Equations (Mathematics), Information Science
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Harmon, Glynn – Information Processing and Management, 1984
Views information as residual or catalytic form of energy which regulates other forms of energy in natural and artificial systems. Parallel human information processing (production systems, algorithms, heuristics) and information measurement are discussed. Suggestions for future research in area of parallel information processing include a matrix…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Energy, Heuristics
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Arabie, Phipps – Psychometrika, 1991
The current state of multidimensional scaling using the city-block metric is reviewed, with attention to (1) substantive and theoretical issues; (2) recent algorithmic developments and their implications for analysis; (3) isometries with other metrics; (4) links to graph-theoretic models; and (5) prospects for future development. (SLD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Equations (Mathematics), Graphs, Literature Reviews