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Using Audience Segmentation to Tailor Residential Irrigation Water Conservation Programs
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Warner, Laura A.; Chaudhary, Anil Kumar; Rumble, Joy N.; Lamm, Alexa J.; Momol, Esen – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
Today's complex issues require technical expertise as well as the application of innovative social science techniques within Extension contexts. Researchers have suggested that a social science approach will play a critical role in water conservation, and people who use home landscape irrigation comprise a critical target audience for agriculture…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Water, Natural Resources, Use Studies
Profiling Students' Multiple Source Use by Question Type
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List, Alexandra; Grossnickle, Emily M.; Alexander, Patricia A. – Reading Psychology, 2016
The present study examined undergraduate students' multiple source use in response to two different types of academic questions, one discrete and one open-ended. Participants (N = 240) responded to two questions using a library of eight digital sources, varying in source type (e.g., newspaper article) and reliability (e.g., authors' credentials).…
Descriptors: Profiles, Questioning Techniques, Information Sources, Undergraduate Students
Self-Efficacy, Textbook Use, and Activity Preferences of College Students in a High-Poverty Area
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Aagaard, Lola; Skidmore, Ronald L.; Conner, Timothy W., II – Online Submission, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between academic self-efficacy and preferences regarding the use of text materials and in-class activities of college students at a university that serves one of the highest-poverty regions in the United States. A convenient cluster sample of 105 students taking summer classes at a…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Textbooks, Preferences
Combining Unsupervised and Supervised Classification to Build User Models for Exploratory Learning Environments
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Amershi, Saleema; Conati, Cristina – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2009
In this paper, we present a data-based user modeling framework that uses both unsupervised and supervised classification to build student models for exploratory learning environments. We apply the framework to build student models for two different learning environments and using two different data sources (logged interface and eye-tracking data).…
Descriptors: Supervision, Classification, Models, Educational Environment
Redirecting Under-Utilised Computer Laboratories into Cluster Computing Facilities
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Atkinson, John S.; Spenneman, Dirk H. R.; Cornforth, David – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To provide administrators at an Australian university with data on the feasibility of redirecting under-utilised computer laboratories facilities into a distributed high performance computing facility. Design/methodology/approach: The individual log-in records for each computer located in the computer laboratories at the university were…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Learning Resources Centers, Computer Centers, Use Studies
INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL, REPORTS ON EVALUATION, CLUSTERING, AND FEEDBACK.
SALTON, GERALD – 1967
THE TWELFTH IN A SERIES COVERING RESEARCH IN AUTOMATIC STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL, THIS REPORT IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS TITLED EVALUATION, CLUSTER SEARCHING, AND USER FEEDBACK METHODS, RESPECTIVELY. THE FIRST PART, EVALUATION, CONTAINS A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF THE RETRIEVAL RESULTS DERIVED FROM SOME SIXTY DIFFERENT TEXT ANALYSIS EXPERIMENTS. IN EACH…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Computational Linguistics, Correlation, Evaluation Methods