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Chao, Lance Rolin. "Symmetric MultiProcessing for the Pintos Instructional Operating System." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78293.
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For the last decade, practical limitations have prevented processor speeds from increasing significantly. To increase throughput, the computing industry has turned to multiprocessing; that is, executing computations in parallel on separate processing units. Making use of these additional units requires support from the operating system (OS). Indeed, most modern operating systems do have the capability of recognizing and utilizing multiprocessor hardware.
Pintos is an instructional operating system used by many institutions to teach important operating systems concepts. Pintos aims to increase student engagement by providing challenging programming projects in which students personally implement many core functionalities of an operating system. However, prior to this work, Pintos was a uniprocessor OS. This makes it difficult for Pintos to expose students to the same synchronization challenges that most modern kernel developers face. In addition, the first structured project, aimed at teaching scheduling policies, requires students to implement an uniprocessor variant of MLFQS scheduler which is no longer used in modern systems.
We implemented Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) support in Pintos. We also created a new scheduling assignment to expose students to a multiprocessor proportional-share scheduling policy called Completely Fair Scheduler and to introduce them to the concept of load balancing. Finally, we evaluate the effectiveness of our new Pintos framework in augmenting students’ knowledge of OS scheduling and enhancing their ability to code and debug in a low-level environment.Master of Science
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Hervás, Gutiérrez María, and García Elisa Sáez. "Design of instructions for a remanufacturing operation using AR." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20184.
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The concept of sustainability is gaining visibility in recent years. Both society and companies are increasing their interest in every of its social, environmental, and economic dimensions. This interest is one of the reasons why the Circular Economy is escalating. One of the goals of this model of production and consumption is waste reduction through the creation of a closed-loop chain, where remanufacturing has a crucial role. Despite the benefits of remanufacturing, this process increases the complexity of the task, limiting access to this job due to the high level of knowledge required. This is the reason why Augmented Reality is presented in this thesis as a method to assist operators by guiding them and providing real-time feedback interactively. The main goal is to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and accessibility of this task. At the same time, this project aims to contribute to all dimensions of sustainability to a greater or lesser extent. To meet the objectives mentioned above, and keeping in mind the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM), an artifact is created. The case of study is an assembly operation reproduced in the IRMA-demonstrator in ASSAR Innovation Arena in Skövde (Sweden). A set of Augmented Reality instructions have been designed to guide the operator through the assembly task. First, with the help of the software provided by Microsoft, Dynamics 365 Guides, and afterward, by using Unity. The software is compared, and an attempt is made to justify the implementation of AR, specifically in the remanufacturing assembly task. The results seem to point to a reduction of errors in the operation. Finally, conclusions are extracted based on previous studies and the analysis of the design and implementation of the set of instructions.Det finns övrigt digitalt material (t.ex. film-, bild- eller ljudfiler) eller modeller/artefakter tillhörande examensarbetet som ska skickas till arkivet.
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Jaunbral, Janis. "TELEMETRY SYSTEMS TRAINING PROGRAMS: THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608829.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1993 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, NevadaIn today's world, the importance of training for telemetry systems continues to grow as new technologies provide users with ever-increasing capabilities. Successful training programs ensure telemetry systems quickly become operational yielding the acquisition of critical test data. Over the years, training programs have been greatly impacted by the changes in defense contracts -- specifically funding. Today's aggressive telemetry market requires contractors to develop complex telemetry systems within the constraints of Firm Fixed price (FFP) contracts and within very short schedules. As a result of these conditions, training programs have changed significantly over the last ten years. Projects which used to have dedicated training personnel (instructors, technical writers, etc.) now rely on the system developers to provide the training. In actuality, the quality of training has improved with this new approach. Now students benefit from having the most knowledgeable personnel teach them about the system and, often times, latent problems with the system are efficiently identified and corrected. This paper will summarize the evolution of training programs for telemetry systems developed by Computer Sciences Corporation. The benefits of a scenario where the system architects train the end users with the use of increased "hands-on" training will be explored.
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Jansson, Sofie, and Frida Delin. "Process for preparing work instructions : A multiple case study at Volvo Group Trucks Operations." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Logistik- och kvalitetsutveckling, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-118904.
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A study made by Johansson, Fast-Berglund and Moestam (in press) shows that diversity regarding how information is used exists in global production networks. To be closer to markets, organizations have chosen to globalize their business which is one reason for why diversity arises. This because product types and brands historically have been different. One company that is currently working with improving consistency among processes is Volvo Group Trucks Operations (GTO). The company wants to evaluate how the process for preparing assembly work instructions looks like at different sites within their production network. This enables Volvo GTO to start their work towards a standardized process and uniformity. A starting point for this is to make a current state analysis of the process for preparing assembly work instructions when producing Volvo trucks, engines and transmissions in Sweden. The purpose is to identify key activities within the process and important factors to consider when standardizing the process. This is done on three sites, one for each area. Volvo GTO is the part of the Volvo Group that covers all production of engines and transmissions as well as the production of Volvo, Renault, Mack, and UD trucks. In 2012 the group choose to reorganize from brand based where each brand was an own organization to joint units, for example center of development, operations etc. This has led to a greater need of one common process for preparing assembly work instructions in order to create uniformity among the brands Volvo, Renault, Mack, and UD trucks. The result of the current state analysis shows that the process for preparing assembly work instructions is differently performed depending on the site studied. Despite this, some activities in each process are similar. These were found to be: design, review, time setting, time analysis, balancing, station marking, create assembly work instructions, and share information. Since some activities actually are similar, it would be possible to standardize the process for preparing assembly work instructions in the future. Important to consider when standardizing a process is to create awareness and involvement among employees. It is also important to have the management committed as well as uniformity among IT systems used when performing a process. One last thing to consider is that the process needs to be adaptable because sites are located all over the world and have different culture and regulations.En studie gjord av Johansson, Fast-Berglund och Moestam (i tryck) visar variation i hur information hanteras i globala produktionsnätverk. För att komma närmre marknader har organisationer valt att globalisera sin verksamhet, vilket är en anledning till varför variation uppstår. Detta eftersom produkttyper och märken historiskt har varit annorlunda. Ett företag som för närvarande arbetar med att förbättra enhetligheten mellan processer är Volvo Group Trucks Operations (GTO). De vill utvärdera hur processen för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner ser ut på olika siter inom produktionsnätverket. Detta gör det möjligt för Volvo GTO att starta sitt arbete mot en standardiserad process och enhetlighet mellan siter. En början i detta arbete är att göra en nulägesanalys av processen för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner vid produktion av Volvo lastvagnar, motorer och växellådor i Sverige. Syftet är att identifiera nyckelaktiviteter inom processen och viktiga faktorer att tänka på när man standardisera processen. Detta sker på tre siter, en inom varje område. Volvo GTO är den del av Volvokoncernen som omfattar all tillverkning av motorer och växellådor samt produktion av Volvo, Renault, Mack och UD lastvagnar. År 2012 valde Volvokoncernen att omorganisera från varumärkesbaserad till organisatoriska enheter, till exempel utveckling, tillverkning etc. Detta har lett till ett ökat behov av en gemensam process för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner för att skapa enhetlighet mellan varumärkena. Resultatet av denna nulägesanalys visar att processen för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner utförs annorlunda beroende på siten som studerats. Trots detta är vissa aktiviteter i varje process liknande. Dessa visade sig vara: design, granskning, tidsättning, tidsanalys, balansering, stationsmärkning, skapa monteringsarbetsinstruktioner och dela information. Eftersom vissa aktiviteter faktiskt är lika skulle det vara möjligt att standardisera processen för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner i framtiden. Viktigt att tänka på när man standardisera en process är att skapa medvetenhet och engagemang bland medarbetarna. Det är också viktigt att ha ledningens engagement och stöd samt enhetlighet mellan IT system som används för att utföra processen. En sista sak att tänka på är att processen måste kunna anpassas då siter är placerade över hela världen och har olika kultur och lagar.
GAIS (Global Assembly Instruction Strategy)
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Bashkoff, Jessica (Jessica Leigh). "Reducing reworkable discrepancies through standard work for writing inspection instructions and data distribution." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80990.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Each aircraft on the final assembly line inevitably has minor build errors and deviations from the intended design. Errors, like these, that can be corrected on the line are called reworkable discrepancies. Because hundreds of reworkable discrepancies can occur on each aircraft it is a huge opportunity for improvement and cost reduction. It would be impossible to analyze each one that occurs on the line. However, last year at X Aerospace another researcher created a tool to categorize discrepancies by key words based on free form text describing them. Root cause analysis and corrective action teams were put in place for the highest driving discrepancies but a more exhaustive analysis was not conducted. In this research, to continue the root cause analysis, and gain a more detailed understanding of why discrepancies occur, a single aircraft was followed through final assembly and each discrepancy reviewed. Some key findings of this review were confirmation that the tool created previously was accurate, that there is a time lag between creation of a discrepancy and its discovery upon inspection, and that there is lack of access to specifications and data on the floor. To address the issues with late discovery of discrepancies, more specific and guided inspection instructions are needed. Standard work has been developed for writing inspection instructions that are clearer. They include features such as guided and general tasks, references to specs for all directive instructions, specific locations on the assembly and drawings, and symbols and wording to indicate instruction versus reference information and which contain only instructions relevant for the particular inspection. Changes in management have halted the implementation of the standard work for writing inspection instruction. However, this standard work became the basis for changes being made to improve work instructions. To address the lack of access to data, a tool which collects data and displays a cross Pareto heat map of the highest driving issues on each line, position, and work order has been developed. The line managers have been trained on how to use the tool to determine high driving issues in almost real time and implement corrective actions more quickly. In addition the tool is in use by quality engineers to help guide reduction efforts.
by Jessica Bashkoff.
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Paqueo, Mariefel Casino. "Low Health Literacy and Preoperative Instruction Compliance Among Patients Undergoing Surgical Procedures." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4318.
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In addition to cancelations and delays of needed surgical procedures, serious or fatal complications can occur when patients with low health literacy do not comply with preoperative instructions. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to provide more insight about ways to decrease on cancelled and delayed surgical procedures in low health literacy patients' due to noncompliance with preoperative fasting instructions. The project was informed by the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance model (King, D. K., Glasgow, R. E., and Leeman-Castillo, B. (2010). The project question centered on whether health literate preoperative fasting instructions could decrease cancellations and delays of surgical procedures in low health literate patients. The project setting was conducted at a doctor's office. Interventions and changes to the preoperative instruction sheet were evaluated by using the preoperative communication checklist (POCC) which was developed for this project study. A 3-month pre-post POCC intervention design was used to evaluate changes in the numbers of cancelled and delayed surgical cases among 30 low health literate patients at a local community physician's office. The Newest Vital Sign which is a health literacy skill level assessment tool developed by Pfizer (2012), was used to assess patient health literacy. 30 (13 women and 17 men) who were aged 17-75 were enrolled. Pre-intervention, the and cancellation rate was 16.67%. Post intervention, there was a zero percent cancellation rate. This project has potential to produce positive social change by empowering patients with health literacy instructions for better understanding of what is being asked of them when having surgical procedures. This knowledge may result in better patient outcomes.
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Väänänen, André. "Smart Process for Automated Engineering Tasks : A case study at Volvo Group Trucks Operations." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för teknikvetenskap och matematik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-82773.
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Volvo Group Trucks Operations is a subordinate organization to the Volvo Group concern, which is one of the world's largest manufactures of trucks, buses, construction equipment, marine and industrial engines. Volvo Group Trucks Operations organization encompasses all production of the Volvo Group’s engines and transmissions as well as all production of Trucks. Volvo Group Trucks Operations is looking into digitize the methods utilized for information handling within their assembly plant in Tuve, Sweden, and this thesis project part in the digitization process. The currently used assembly work instructions at the assembly plant in Tuve are printed on paper and contains excessive amounts of information that makes it challenging for the assembly operators to consume the work instructions efficiently. Therefore, Volvo Group Truck Operations want look into the possibility to introduce dynamically adjustable and digital work instructions that could be tailor fitted to an operator's experience level and presented with smart technologies. The project is divided into two parts where the first part was assigned to identify the information need for smart process capable of generating dynamic digital work instructions and the second part to research how this information need could be satisfied with currently used simulation tools. The information needs analyses showed that the smart process needs to be divided into two sub-processes, one for gathering and processing production specific data into a fully detailed work instruction and the other one for filtering the fully detailed work instruction to tailor fit an operator independent of their skill level within assembly work. A framework containing three information aspects is stated to describe the information need for the smart process. These information aspects are Inputs, Smart process and Outputs. The information aspects are then further broken down into five required information areas that is important for the smart process functionality. The required information areas are Data, Attributes, Inputs, Instruction and Information structure and Instruction consummation. When combining the results for the information aspects and the required information areas, the framework for the smart process needed to be able to generate dynamic digital work instruction could be stated. Using the simulation software IPS IMMA to simulate a generic assembly demo case to generate and export production specific data in the human readable XML coding language showed that it is possible to satisfy the framework for the smart process. However, comparing the simulated data with the information need for the framework resulted in the discovery that the IPS IMMA version used in the project, PMTS event exporter, withholds information regarding the assembly work. The generated data provides information regarding movement distances, movement times and grip types when interacting with work objects. For the smart process to be able to generate fully detailed instructions it needs to be supplied with additional information regarding the work objects in action and directions of movements conducted during the assembly work. Despite this withhold of information from the export data, it would still be possible to fully satisfy the framework for the smart process. All the missing information is contained within the IPS IMMA hence the software needs an update that adds the additional information to the data export.
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Andreasen, Janet. "CLASSROOM MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES IN A PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS EDUCATION COURSE USING AN INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE RELATED." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2708.
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This qualitative study documents a classroom teaching experiment in a semester-long undergraduate mathematics education course for 16 prospective elementary school teachers. The purpose of this study was to investigate how social aspects of the classroom environment facilitated the collective mathematical learning of place value and whole number operations by preservice elementary school teachers. Design-based research methodology was used for formulating the study. A hypothetical learning trajectory and instructional sequence related to place value and operations were created and refined in the two semesters prior to this study. The instructional sequence was in its third iteration for this study. The developmental levels that children progress through in learning place value and operations were used in identifying the learning trajectory and supporting tasks in which the preservice teachers were asked to engage. A large portion of the instructional sequence involved a setting of base eight instead of base ten. The sequence returned to base ten in order to discuss whole number operations and alternative strategies for operations in an effort to further develop the preservice teachers' conceptual understandings of place value and operations and to examine children's thinking strategies. Data were collected through video-taped recordings of class sessions, audio-taped recordings of table discussions and research team meetings, field notes, and journals written by the research team. Sixteen preservice teachers participated in the study which lasted over 5 class sessions of 3 hours and 10 minutes each. The emergent perspective which attempts to coordinate the individual learning and the social aspects of the classroom that support collective learning was used as an interpretive lens for data collection and analysis. The social aspects along with some aspects of individual student understandings together give an indication of collective mathematical understandings of the students as a whole group. Social norms established were: a) the expectation of providing explanations and justifications for solutions and solution methods, b) making sense of each other's solutions and c) asking questions of classmates or the instructor. Sociomathematical norms that were valued but not fully established were: a) criteria for different solutions and solution methods and b) criteria for what constituted a good explanation. Data analysis for the establishment of classroom mathematical practices was conducted using Toulmin's argumentation model (Toulmin, 1969). A three phase approach described by Rasmussen and Stephan (in press) was used in determining what constituted a classroom mathematical practice. The classroom mathematical practices that facilitated student learning in this study were: a) unitizing, b) flexibly representing numbers, and c) reasoning about operations. This study led to the refinement of the hypothetical learning trajectory and further progress in defining an instructional theory of how preservice teachers may come to understand place value and whole number operations.Ph.D.
Department of Teaching and Learning Principles
Education
Mathematics Education
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Schieltz, Kelly Michele. "Effects of Motivating Operations on Academic Performance and Problem Behavior Maintained By Escape From Academic Tasks." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4908.
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At least three general subgroups of students display problems with their overall academic achievement: students with motivational deficits, students with academic performance deficits, and students with a combination of both types of deficits. The prevalence of students with both behavioral and learning problems has been reported to be between 10% and 25% and as high as 50%. The current study evaluated the effects of positive reinforcement and instructional strategies on the co-occurrence of motivational and academic deficits within three experiments. Experiments 1 and 2 were conducted with four school-aged children in a behavioral outpatient clinic. Experiment 3 was conducted with three school-aged children during extended behavioral evaluations. Experiment 1 evaluated the effects of positive reinforcement and an instructional strategy on the children's preference for academic work tasks and their academic performance. Experiment 2 evaluated the effects of instructional strategies on the children's problem behavior and academic performance. Experiment 3 evaluated the effects of positive reinforcement and instructional strategies on the children's preference for academic work tasks, academic performance, and problem behavior. The results of this study showed that (a) preference for an academic task changed with the addition of positive reinforcement (Experiment 3) or an instructional strategy (Experiment 1), (b) problem behavior decreased with the addition of an instructional strategy (Experiments 2 and 3), and (c) academic performance increased with the addition of an instructional strategy (all experiments). These results suggested that positive reinforcers and/or instructional strategies function as motivating operations by abolishing the value of negative reinforcement, thereby resulting in improved academic performance and decreased occurrences of problem behavior.
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Crumpton, Debra Joan. "Instructional Behavior and Its Impact on Student Engagement." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6003.
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The purpose of this quantitative study was to expand understanding of leadership behaviors and their influence on follower engagement. Researchers have shown that engagement is a predictor of retention and organizational performance. Leadership theory and the conceptual framework of worker engagement were the study's theoretical anchors. Despite a proliferation of leadership studies, engagement antecedents are largely unknown. The aim of this study was to narrow the gap in the literature by examining the extent to which there may be a relationship between college instructors' behaviors and student engagement. Although not traditionally regarded as frontline leaders, extant leadership literature affirmed college instructors' organizational position, role, and responsibilities as direct supervisors and students as their followers. The independent variables were instructor behavior, institutional support, and depth of learning. Student engagement was the dependent variable. Correlation and regression analysis were applied to existing survey data collected in 2014 from students who were enrolled in a diverse, urban community college located in a major metropolitan city in the United States. The most prominent finding, that leadership behaviors had the strongest correlation to student engagement, contributed to the body of leadership knowledge by reaffirming leadership behaviors as a predictor of follower engagement. Given the increasing diversity of workers and followers, this study's findings have the potential to help leaders more effectively engage followers who are members of historically marginalized groups, thereby, helping to narrow equity gaps and advance social justice, particularly in higher education.
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Timmons, Alysha Marie. "World Wide Graphics." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2089.
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The scope of this project describes World Wide Graphics (WWG) a software package that provides instructors with the tools needed to present a web-based presentation to a group of students while having the ability of enhancing the prepared HTML slide with userdrawn graphics and highlighting.
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O'Dell, Stephanie K. "Design thinking for the development of formal operations: A team-based middle school design curriculum." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4255.
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In this thesis, I propose a team-based design curriculum that aligns with the cognitive development of middle school age students. The ability to think abstractly develops at a specific time in development, according to widely accepted cognitive theory. The middle school years are the launching pad of abstract thinking. At this age, students are also primed for learning through social activity. The design process often includes abstract problem solving challenges, and working within a team structure. These ideas build a foundation for a research question—could a team-based design curriculum in middle school strengthen students’ natural cognitive development by providing opportunities for adaptations through experiential learning? In this thesis, I propose a team-based design curriculum for middle school students, which follows a trajectory of concrete to abstract challenges, complementing the natural cognitive transition of this age.
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Szumski, Edward Joseph. "Development of a curriculum for a course in photonics and fiber-optic technologies for telecommunications." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1403.
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Schopf, Christiane, Andrea Raso, and Michael Kahr. "How to give effective explanations: Guidelines for business education, discussion of their scope and their application to teaching operations research." Gesellschaft für Fachdidaktik e. V, 2019. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6969/1/RISTAL_Schopf_Raso_Kahr_END.pdf.
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Giving effective instructional explanations is one of the most important teacher competences. Recent di
dactic literature provides, however, little insight on teacher explanations. In our previous work we devel-
oped guidelines for designing comprehensible explanations in the field of business (teacher) education,
which are along general lines transferable to other subject areas and target audiences. In this article, we
first compare our guidelines to the state of research in
general and mathematics didactics. We then in
vestigate their applicability to teaching operations research at university level, based on interviews with
professors of the international operations research community.
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Brůžek, Zdeněk. "Mezinárodní centrum klinického výzkumu v Brně - stavebně technologický projekt." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-239966.
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The diploma thesis deals with construction and technological study of II. stage of construction of the international clinical research center in Brno. The aim is to design an appropriate technological process of construction of the main building and resources for construction. This work contains technological study of realization of the main technological stages of the main construction building and the technical report for site equipment with drawings and time schedule. The thesis is also focused on the installation of gypsum construction and clean room construction of the operating room, design of mechanical equipment and instructions for usage of the building.
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Shearer, Carin R. "Effects of Telepractice for Training Autism Teachers to Contrive Motivating Operations." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505179/.
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The rising rate of the autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has resulted in challenges for teachers in public schools, concerning the delivery of evidence-based practices for superior outcomes. Thus, school districts are in need of professional learning options that can be efficiently and effectively delivered to improve the procedural fidelity of interventions. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of using telepractice to teach autism teachers how to contrive motivating operations to teach manding to students with ASD. By utilizing multiple baselines across participants design, four autism teachers in public schools received intervention support through an online module along with video models as well as direct performance feedback from autism specialists via video-conferencing. The primary dependent variable was the percentage of correct responses from the instructional procedures of task analysis, and the secondary measure was the subsequent rate of student mands. Data were analyzed both visually (i.e., through the study of behavioral patterns) and statistically (i.e., analysis of effect size). Results indicate that telepractice increased accuracy of both teacher and student target responses.
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Washa, Alexis. "THE EFFICACY OF AND PREFERENCE FOR CHOICE IN TOKEN ECONOMIES DURING RESPONSE ACQUISITION." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1930.
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The present study evaluated preference for choice and its effect on motivation during response acquisition of receptive identification targets in children diagnosed with autism. Prior to the study a multiple stimulus without replacement preference assessment was conducted in order to determine the highly preferred stimulus. Choice was evaluated during a high-preferred, free-choice, and control condition for each participant. During the high-preferred condition, participants were only able to work for the high-preferred stimulus identified during the MSWO. During free choice, participants could choose among the five items presented in the MSWO, and during control each participant was unable to exchange his or her tokens for reinforcement. Choice was also evaluated during a concurrent-chain arrangement, where each participant was able to choose the condition he or she wanted to work under. The results showed that two out of the three participants did not show differentiation during the acquisition phase; however, during the concurrent-chain phase, all three participants demonstrated a stronger preference for free choice.
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Stanley, David Thomas. "A Countertenor Aria Collection Continuum for Studio Training and Performance." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248503/.
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An assessment of the standard voice instructor or performer collection of printed music would likely reveal numerous operatic repertoire volumes in anthology format appropriated to the primary four voice categories. However, thorough investigation divulges little in comparable printed material accessible to the countertenor. This scarcity of systemized collections is especially evident in the territory of comprehensive countertenor operatic repertoire. This project fills that present void by creating a compilation of sixteen countertenor arias drawn from various styles and historical periods for suggested application in studio instruction and performance. Perhaps, a more meaningful project intent is the presentation of a beneficial graded literature continuum resource for the studio teacher who instructs a countertenor in various stages of vocal development. For this purpose, each of the 16 arias is categorized into four difficulty levels based on considerations of range, tessitura, coloratura demands, rhythm, sustained phrase length, tonality, melodic considerations/overall musical difficulty, accompaniment support, and ornamentation requirements. The project also addresses common issues of pedagogy and ornamentation for voice teacher consideration when instructing a developing countertenor.
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Kline, Jeanie Pollard. "Managing change for a distance learning initiative: An evaluation." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618625.
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The purpose of this case study was to examine the degree to which those managing change for a distance learning initiative followed David Nadler's (1989) four action steps designed to reduce resistance in making the transition from the former operational state to a newly-created state.;The four action steps include providing opportunities for participation among employees, allowing employees to identify current operations that will not work in the new organizational state, rewarding behavior that assists in the transition, and allowing sufficient time for the change to take place. The findings in this study revealed that participation was the critical component that effected successful change.;Those units in which administrators encouraged employee participation in the transition were able to make adaptations in their operations that allowed for the development of effective and efficient student support services for distance learners. Employees were also very satisfied with the management of change provided by the administrators.;Those units in which administrators did not encourage employee participation in the transition were able to make adaptations for distance learners; however, the services provided were neither effective nor efficient. Further, employees were dissatisfied with the managers' styles in directing the change.;It is therefore recommended that managers involve employees whenever possible in their units' operations--decision-making, problem-solving, and transitions undertaken by the unit--for a productive and satisfied workforce.;Further research is suggested in employee participation and managerial style, as well as in women's leadership, and teamwork in organizations.
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Robinson, Laura Ann. "Graph Theory for the Middle School." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2226.
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After being introduced to graph theory and realizing how it can be utilized to solve real-world problems, the author decided to create modules of study on graph theory appropriate for middle school students. In this thesis, four modules were developed in the area of graph theory: an Introduction to Terms and Definitions, Graph Families, Graph Operations, and Graph Coloring. It is written as a guide for middle school teachers to prepare teaching units on graph theory.
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Arthur, Elizabeth A. "Successful Enterprise Resource Planning System Implementation: A Higher Education Managerial Perspective." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3016.
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The overall success rate of implementing enterprise resource planning systems is about 30%. Guided by systems theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore the strategies used to ensure a successful implementation by information technology managers working in higher education settings. The data were derived from semistructured interviews of 6 managers and documentation from a higher education institution in the northeastern United States that successfully implemented an ERP system. Data analysis consisted of reviewing interview transcripts, from which themes and patterns were identified and coded. Three recurring factors arose throughout the analysis involved commitment, communication, and change management. The main themes included pre-implementation strategy activities, implementation strategies, post-implementation strategy activities, and continuous improvement. Managers engaged in enterprise resource planning systems implementations should frame the strategic approach with a strong commitment, effective communication, and a comprehensive change management plan throughout the process. The implications for positive social change include the potential to improve the institution's business processes, cultivate a more knowledgeable workforce, increase student academic experience, and improve the institution's performance overall.
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Payne, Alina R. "Student satisfaction with online learning effectiveness at a Connecticut community college." ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/639.
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In recent years, institutions of higher education have dramatically increased the number of online courses and degree programs offered to students, and yet it remains unclear what factors determine student satisfaction with online course and instructor effectiveness. Accordingly, the purpose of this exploratory correlation study was to examine how factors related to courses and instructors contributed to student perceptions of course quality (CQ) and instructor effectiveness (IE). Six stepwise regression procedures assessed the effects of specific course and instructor characteristics on perceptions of CQ and IE across one year of course evaluation data collected in a northeastern 2-year college. Results revealed that IE, quality of readings and assignments, and quality of threaded discussions had significant effects on CQ. In turn, student ratings of CQ, instructor-inspired interest in course material, and instructor availability and helpfulness had significant effects on IE. The results of the study can allow higher education administrators to make more effective decisions regarding online instruction and course structure, thus leading to increases in student persistence and success within online courses and programs.
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Musasa, Mutombo Mike. "Evaluation of embedded processors for next generation asic : Evaluation of open source Risc-V processors and tools ability to perform packet processing operations compared to Arm Cortex M7 processors." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-299656.
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Nowadays, network processors are an integral part of information technology. With the deployment of 5G network ramping up around the world, numerous new devices are going to take advantage of their processing power and programming flexibility. Contemporary information technology providers of today such as Ericsson, spend a great amount of financial resources on licensing deals to use processors with proprietary instruction set architecture designs from companies like Arm holdings. There is a new non-proprietary instruction set architecture technology being developed known as Risc-V. There are many open source processors based on Risc-V architecture, but it is still unclear how well an open-source Risc-V processor performs network packet processing tasks compared to an Arm-based processor. The main purpose of this thesis is to design a test model simulating and evaluating how well an open-source Risc-V processor performs packet processing compared to an Arm Cortex M7 processor. This was done by designing a C code simulating some key packet processing functions processing 50 randomly generated 72 bytes data packets. The following functions were tested: framing, parsing, pattern matching, and classification. The code was ported and executed in both an Arm Cortex M7 processor and an emulated open source Risc-V processor. A working packet processing test code was built, evaluated on an Arm Cortex M7 processor. Three different open-source Risc-V processors were tested, Arianne, SweRV core, and Rocket-chip. The execution time of both cases was analyzed and compared. The execution time of the test code on Arm was 67, 5 ns. Based on the results, it can be argued that open source Risc-V processor tools are not fully reliable yet and ready to be used for packet processing applications. Further evaluation should be performed on this topic, with a more in-depth look at the SweRV core processor, at physical open-source Risc-V hardware instead of emulators.Nätverksprocessorer är en viktig byggsten av informationsteknik idag. I takt med att 5G nätverk byggs ut runt om i världen, många fler enheter kommer att kunna ta del av deras kraftfulla prestanda och programerings flexibilitet. Informationsteknik företag som Ericsson, spenderarmycket ekonomiska resurser på licenser för att kunna använda proprietära instruktionsuppsättnings arkitektur teknik baserade processorer från ARM holdings. Det är väldigt kostam att fortsätta köpa licenser då dessa arkitekturer är en byggsten till designen av många processorer och andra komponenter. Idag finns det en lovande ny processor instruktionsuppsättnings arkitektur teknik som inte är licensierad så kallad Risc-V. Tack vare Risc-V har många propietära och öppen källkod processor utvecklats idag. Det finns dock väldigt lite information kring hur bra de presterar i nätverksapplikationer är känt idag. Kan en öppen-källkod Risc-V processor utföra nätverks databehandling funktioner lika bra som en proprietär Arm Cortex M7 processor? Huvudsyftet med detta arbete är att bygga en test model som undersöker hur väl en öppen-källkod Risc-V baserad processor utför databehandlings operationer av nätverk datapacket jämfört med en Arm Cortex M7 processor. Detta har utförts genom att ta fram en C programmeringskod som simulerar en mottagning och behandling av 72 bytes datapaket. De följande funktionerna testades, inramning, parsning, mönster matchning och klassificering. Koden kompilerades och testades i både en Arm Cortex M7 processor och 3 olika emulerade öppen källkod Risc-V processorer, Arianne, SweRV core och Rocket-chip. Efter att ha testat några öppen källkod Risc-V processorer och använt test koden i en ArmCortex M7 processor, kan det hävdas att öppen-källkod Risc-V processor verktygen inte är tillräckligt pålitliga än. Denna rapport tyder på att öppen-källkod Risc-V emulatorer och verktygen behöver utvecklas mer för att användas i nätverks applikationer. Det finns ett behov av ytterligare undersökning inom detta ämne i framtiden. Exempelvis, en djupare undersökning av SweRV core processor, eller en öppen-källkod Risc-V byggd hårdvara krävs.
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Hedayati, Mohammad Hadi. "Visualization of microprocessor execution in computer architecture courses: a case study at Kabul University." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4960_1362394106.
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Computer architecture and assembly language programming microprocessor execution are basic courses taught in every computer science department. Generally, however, students have
difficulties in mastering many of the concepts in the courses, particularly students whose first language is not English. In addition to their difficulties in understanding the purpose of given
instructions, students struggle to mentally visualize the data movement, control and processing operations. To address this problem, this research proposed a graphical visualization approach
and investigated the visual illustrations of such concepts and instruction execution by implementing a graphical visualization simulator as a teaching aid. The graphical simulator developed during the course of this research was applied in a computer architecture course at Kabul University, Afghanistan. Results obtained from student evaluation of the simulator show significant
levels of success using the visual simulation teaching aid. The results showed that improved learning was achieved, suggesting that this approach could be useful in other computer science departments in Afghanistan, and elsewhere where similar challenges are experienced.
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Smith, Carla Breedlove. "Aligning Human Resource Development with the Strategic Priorities of Healthcare Organizations: The CFO Perspective." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4583.
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Anane-Boakye, Stephen. "Comparative Analysis: Successes and Failures of St. Louis." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2198.
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The St. Louis School District (SLSD) provided its students with a virtual education program (VEP) but abandoned it following a cut in federal funding, omitting an alternative pathway for students to complete their education. The problem addressed in this study was the effect of technology and management's decision to discontinue the VEP. The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine management's role and the effect of the technology in discontinuing the VEP. Dewey's theory of education and Koskela and Howell's theory of management established the theoretical foundation for the study. A purposeful sampling selection approach was used to recruit 8 administrator and teacher participants who were knowledgeable about the VEP and who worked in their respective districts. An interview questionnaire was created and used to collect data. The data were processed and analyzed using the thematic analysis approach. The results revealed that technology was not a problem for the 3 school districts, but the SLSD did not prioritize the VEP in its budget. The results of this study might help other institutions keep their online program intact in the event a similar situation occurs. The implications for social change could be that securing a VEP could contribute in producing more well-educated citizens to work in higher-level jobs, drive business development, and contribute to community development in society.
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Ho, Tia Ha-Quyen. "Education's Loss of the Public: An Archival Exploration of American Public Schools' Diminishing Social Returns and the Emerging Utility of Social Entrepreneurship." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1016.
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The literature presented in the following pages explores the shortcomings of the American public education system in the context of creating long-term, sustainable social change. Using financial illiteracy and its relationship to low quality of life as an entry point, the first section exposes public schools’ shortcomings as agents of social change by delving into the hardships endured by the original public school promoters of the 19th century, the pitfalls of President George W. Bush’s 2001 enactment of No Child Left Behind, and the shortcomings of the financial literacy programming that found traction in urban schools following the subprime lending crisis. These examples render the public education system unfit to address social change, at which point the paper segues into a discussion of social enterprise and the new field’s demonstrated potential to capture social value.
After a brief historical exploration of social innovation which examines some values and principles of this “fourth sector,” successful ventures and failed social organizations are scrutinized in the penultimate chapter. The comparisons made ultimately argue in favor of social entrepreneurship’s fitness, on both a structural and ideological level, in addressing the complex social, environmental, and cultural issues of our time.
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Mitchell, Lorianne D. "Best Practices for New Online Management Education Instructors to Overcome Resistance to Online Teaching: New Insights." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6771.
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Enrollment in online courses has increased rapidly in the last two decades, and exponentially in the last few years (Seaman, Allen, & Allen, 2018) as part of an e-revolution, especially in business schools (Kumar, Kumar, Palvia, & Verma, 2019), in which access to and use of information technology has become widespread. Instructors are one of the most important variables in online teaching as they function as the source of content for, and facilitators of, the online course. Some faculty, however, are ambivalent about teaching online for a variety of reasons (Mitchell, Parlamis, & Claiborne, 2015), and this ambivalence can be the impetus for the failure of the online course implementation. In addition, although research (“No significant difference”, n.d.) demonstrates that learning in online classes is comparable to learning in on-ground courses, instructors’ attitudes toward online teaching remain divided.In this chapter, I offer a brief review of Mitchell et al. (2015) and its general recommendations for management educators to help overcome their resistance to online teaching. I then expand upon what was previously written by sharing specific recommendations and resources focused on faculty, and for administrators to use with faculty, as they attempt the change to online teaching. To this end, I begin with a discussion of the notion of fit in the context of selecting faculty with a particular set of characteristics that are best suited to teaching online courses. The next portion of the chapter offers a research-derived list of best practices for new online instructors – addressing both hard and soft issues. Next, the discussion continues with a brief review of additional factors pertinent to teaching online but not included in the previous list. This will include topics gleaned both from research and over a decade and a half of personal online and hybrid experience as a management educator.
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Haidar, Noha Adib. "Perceptions of Higher Education Online Learning Faculty in Lebanon." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/104.
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The purpose of this case study was to explore faculty attitudes toward online learning in a Lebanese Higher Education Institution (HEI). The research problem addressed the disinterest among faculty at the Arts, Sciences, and Technology University of Lebanon (AUL) in enhancing learning using online technology. The research questions for this study explored the attitudes of the faculty toward applying online learning and the extent of the faculty readiness to adopt this technological change. A qualitative case study design was used that employed multiple sources of information including semi-structured interviews and existing literature. The target population was AUL faculty including full-time instructors and administration (n = 25). Data analysis was guided by the lens of Kanter's theoretical approach, which focused on the ADKAR model for adopting change in faculty's awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement. Key findings indicated negative faculty impressions concerning online learning authority over technology use, culture, and changes such as increased enrollment and different teaching styles. Despite these findings, opportunity for the adoption of online learning was identified. Faculty indicated positive elements, such as the competitive advantage to be the first online institution in the Lebanese Market and higher student enrollment. These results may encourage AUL's faculty to adopt online learning and to follow the educational development steps taken worldwide. This study contributes to social change by expanding the ability of AUL and Lebanese students to compete globally.
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Pine-Thomas, Joy Anne. "Educator's Technology Integration Barriers and Student Technology Preparedness as 21st Century Professionals." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3465.
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Millions of dollars have been spent to acquire educational computing tools, and many education, government, and business leaders believe that investing in these computing tools will improve teaching and learning. The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine whether charter school educators face technological barriers hindering them from incorporating technology into their classrooms. If they experienced self-efficacy issues integrating technology in their classrooms and if they believed their students were technologically prepared as 21st century professionals. A 5-point Likert scale survey, validated by a pilot study, was completed by 61 charter high school teachers. Their responses were analyzed, scores from the individual mean responses were used to calculate the total mean; and a parametric t test used to determine if the null or alternative hypothesis could be rejected. The theoretical foundation for this study was Cubans' and Brickners' first- and second-order barriers to change. In one charter school stratum, teachers experienced barriers integrating technology into their classes, while teachers in the other charter school strata did not. There was statistical significance in teachers' beliefs about their skills integrating technology into their classes and their students being technologically prepared as 21st century professionals. The results of this research could lead to positive social change by providing valuable information to help charter school administrators identify teachers who are experiencing barriers and how they can improve teacher's professional development integrating technology into their classrooms.
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Škoda, Martin. "Implementace symetrické blokové šifry AES na moderních procesorech." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-220616.
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The main aim of master's thesis is usage of new instructions from instruction set called Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI), which is available on processors with code name Westmere and newer. In theoretical part, there are described symmetric block ciphers and their operational modes. Cipher AES is described in details, especially used block transformations, key expansion and equivalent inverse cipher. Next topic is description of instructions of AES-NI instruction set – their function is explained using pseudo codes of instructions and there are examples of their usage in code. Further in work, dynamic-link library is created, which implements cipher AES with key sizes 128, 192 and 256 bites and implements operational modes described in theoretical part. Library functions are called from Matlab by scripts and their functionality is proved by checking test vectors values, which are provided in publications of National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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Chester, Todd D. "Factors Affecting Employee Persistence in an Online Management Development Certificate Program." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5063.
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An important approach to prepare new managers for increased responsibility is participation in online management development programs; however, there is a lack of information about the factors that affect employee completion of these programs. This study addressed how chief executive officers (CEOs) can implement these programs to rapidly develop new managers who are qualified to serve in the leadership roles left behind by many retirees. This qualitative descriptive case study explored employees' perceptions about persistence in an online management development certificate program at a U.S. nonprofit organization. Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory and Rovai's composite persistence model provided the conceptual framework for the study. The research questions addressed how employees' perceptions of persistence in an online management development program affected success rates and what steps CEOs could take to incentivize employees to complete the program. A combination of 12 semi-structured interviews, program data, and member checking was used for the data collection. Data were analyzed using Yin's 6 steps and constant comparative data analysis methods. Key results indicated that student persistence in the online program was affected by purpose and meaning, coaching and support, course relevance, barriers, learning preferences, motivation and readiness; and incentivized by CEOs conveying their perceived value of the online program directly to employees. This research has implications for positive social change: CEOs can better understand the persistence factors employees need to prepare for and complete online management development certificate programs that support the transition to higher-level management positions.
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Husár, Adam. "Implementace obecného assembleru." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-412779.
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This thesis describes the design of the universal assembler that represents a part of the Lissom project. You will be provided with the description of the assembler architectures and their usual tasks. Special attention is paid to GNU assembler. Designed assembler consists of the fixed and the generated part. The generated part is created automatically from the description of instruction set, that is defined using architecture and instructions set description language ISAC. Using this approach, it is possible to change assembler target architecture automatically. The second part of thesis describes the Parserlib2 library implementation that is a part of the Lissom project and provides the information about the target instruction set for an assembler generator.
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PIEN, CHING, and 邊. 靖. "The Projection for Establishing Foot Massagists’ Occupational Competency Standard via the Research of industrial operating instructions." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2p22e5.
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碩士正修科技大學
休閒與運動管理所
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Abstract Background: Conventional industries including naprapathy, chiro-practice and foot massage are governed by Executive Yuan since 2013 in Taiwan. Their prospects are envisioned. All circles of representatives discussed the improvement in service quality and arranged the standards for operatives. Purpose: There are two reasons why the research is proceeded. First, it is anticipated that the skills and services of foot massagists can ensure customers a cozy and satisfied experience. Second, the impetus of occupational competency standards which can be utilized for the appraisal of practitioners’ capacity is also expected to be definite. Methods: Master Teng’s spa provides an example of working instructions and practices. The format of occupational competency standards is given by the Workforce Development Agency as a model for research. According to these resources, the literature review has employed to collect and analyze data. Results: A table consisting of various behavioral indices and output of the job is designed in terms of the functional analysis. Conclusion: There is ground for the primary occupational competency standards via practical experiences of foot massage. The research with applicable considerations develops and facilitates the government sectors to make prospective policies for all practitioners and industries. Key words: occupational competency standards, professional function, function analysis, competency model
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FENG, QI-DE, and 馮啟德. "A Stacly of Multi-Operation Instruction Set." Thesis, 1991. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52823992284393489238.
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Wu，Yun-Lin and 吳韻霖. "A Study on the Illustrative Efficiency of Operation Instructions." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9mgf4x.
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碩士國立交通大學
應用藝術研究所
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Operation instructions plays an important role in the relationship among users, designers and products, thereby enjoying an increasingly wide application. The quality of an operation instruction has a huge impact on the user satisfaction towards a product. The aim of this study is to improve the illustrative efficiency of the operation instruction by finding the effective design principles for better understanding. Different from normal product instructions, the operation instruction cannot be designed only based on the cognition about the conveyed information. The design of operation instruction shall consider the accuracy of visual perception after the information are transferred into graphic symbols, the impacts of the conversion between 2D and 3D space on users’ understanding about the operation, which is required to guide users to make corresponding hand action, as well as the experience of users during the operation process, etc. Hence, the design of operating instruction is comprehensive which involves various fields like visual perception. The experiment takes the operation instruction of self-assembly furniture as the test sample. Based on the statistic analysis of the actual operation and interview of subjects, the design indexes influencing the conveying efficiency of instruction are summarized. Also, design principles that are able to improve the conveying efficiency of operating instruction are obtained finally according to the analysis on subjective opinion.
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Tseng, Po-Hao, and 曾柏皓. "Crosstalk-aware Assignments for Instruction Operation and Fuctional Codes." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77987189970712500718.
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碩士國立清華大學
資訊工程學系
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Crosstalk comes from coupling capacitance between parallel wires, and is getting more and more important as technologies continue to shrink. According to simulation result, eliminating all crosstalk in 10nm technology can bring delay reduction ranging from 22.62% to 83.47%. Many researches have been published to alleviate crosstalk. However, some of them, like shield insertion and encoder/decoder, incur extra hardware overhead, and others focusing on low power do not handle crosstalk. In this thesis, we propose an innovative algorithm of operation and functional codes assignment to minimize crosstalk and reduce dynamic power on instruction buses. Our algorithm °ow includes target benchmark pro‾ling, adjacency and resource graph generation, clique partition, and code assignment. Experimental results show that our algorithm can decrease 4C crosstalk from 32.70% to 67.10%, 3C crosstalk from 21.93% to 36.32%, and bit transitions from 4.63% to 6.69%, respectively.
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Lee, Wei-Cheng, and 李偉成. "The remedial instruction by block representation on four arithmetic operations of integers." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62816951116632425563.
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碩士國立臺南大學
應用數學系數學教材研發產業碩士專班
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The purpose of this research is to observe the fourth grader’s performance of problem-solving on four integer arithmetic operations and use pictures comblined with them to improve the students’ learning performance.This research takes three students in fourth grade in one elementary school as subjects in Tainan city. This research involes qualitative analysis. the research instrument is visual thinking made by myself. During the period of this research. I collected the data by worksheets,student interviews ,and so on. I also re-record and analyze the data to explore student performance for problem-solving on four arithmetic operations of integer. Here are the results of this research: 1.Regarding the problem-solving performance: (1) Significant progress in student’s achievement. (2) Underachieve students need their teacher to read the questions. (3) After remedial instruction. Students obviously willing to learn. 2.About the types of mistakes and misconceptions: (1) Some students need to improvements in their vocabulary and the corresponding mathematical concepts. (2) Students cant’s understand when the subject is difficult to do. (3) Unclear rules lead to errors.
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"Very large register file for BLAS-3 operations." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5888541.
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by Aylwin Chung-Fai, Yu.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-118).
Abstract --- p.i
Acknowledgement --- p.iii
List of Tables --- p.v
List of Figures --- p.vi
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- BLAS-3 Operations --- p.2
Chapter 1.2 --- Organization of Thesis --- p.2
Chapter 1.3 --- Contribution --- p.3
Chapter 2 --- Background Studies --- p.4
Chapter 2.1 --- Registers & Cache Memory --- p.4
Chapter 2.2 --- Previous Research --- p.6
Chapter 2.3 --- Problem of Register & Cache --- p.8
Chapter 2.4 --- BLAS-3 Operations On RISC Microprocessor --- p.10
Chapter 3 --- Compiler Optimization Techniques for BLAS-3 Operations --- p.12
Chapter 3.1 --- One-Dimensional Q-Way J-Loop Unrolling --- p.13
Chapter 3.2 --- Two-Dimensional P×Q -Ways I×J-Loops Unrolling --- p.15
Chapter 3.3 --- Addition of Code to Remove Redundant Code --- p.17
Chapter 3.4 --- Simulation Result --- p.17
Chapter 3.5 --- Summary --- p.23
Chapter 4 --- Architectural Model of Very Large Register File --- p.25
Chapter 4.1 --- Architectural Model --- p.26
Chapter 4.2 --- Traditional Register File vs. Very Large Register File --- p.32
Chapter 5 --- Ideal Case Study of Very Large Register File --- p.35
Chapter 5.1 --- Matrix Multiply --- p.36
Chapter 5.2 --- LU Decomposition --- p.41
Chapter 5.3 --- Convolution --- p.50
Chapter 6 --- Worst Case Study of Very Large Register File --- p.58
Chapter 6.1 --- Matrix Multiply --- p.59
Chapter 6.2 --- LU Decomposition --- p.65
Chapter 6.3 --- Convolution --- p.74
Chapter 7 --- Proposed Case Study of Very Large Register File --- p.81
Chapter 7.1 --- Matrix Multiply --- p.82
Chapter 7.2 --- LU Decomposition --- p.91
Chapter 7.3 --- Convolution --- p.102
Chapter 7.4 --- Comparison --- p.111
Chapter 8 --- Conclusion & Future Work --- p.114
Chapter 8.1 --- Summary --- p.114
Chapter 8.2 --- Future Work --- p.115
Bibliography --- p.117
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Sheng, Lin Wei, and 林威昇. "A Research on the Instruction of Freeware Based on the Linux Operating System in Junior High School." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66710664403571852063.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
工業科技教育學系
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In the spirit of open education, the choice of the computer software for school classes is supposed to be multiple, especially the operating system. At present, the only choice of using “Windows” in all primary schools and junior high schools might bring to students the misconception about operating system. In addition, it is quite a good choice to teach with the assistance of freeware under the condition of limited expenses budget and without adding any burden to students. Therefore, schools and students don’t need to spend much money on computer software. Linux is a free, freely-sperad, and powerful operating system. It can work with a large number of freeware, and execute the graph interface of X Window. It can also be used as the school server, as well as the working platform of students’ computers. This research construct a computer lab, where Linux is used as the operating system. The subjects of this research are sixty seventh-grade students from two different groups. We observe their learning outcomes. The experiment proceeds for a semester. The main courses include “computer graph” ”Internet” “Homepage” and “word processing”. For the control group, Windows operating system and other relative software are used. As for the experimental group, they are taught the Linux operating system and its applications. After the courses are finisher, the researcher compare the test scores on “computer graph”, “Homepage” and “word processing” between the control group and the experimental group. The result shows that the score on “computer graph” of the Linux group is higher than that of the Windows group; however, there is no significant difference between the two groups when referring to the scores of “Homepage” and “word processing”.
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黃靜怡. "The planning and operation of the instructional resources website:taking the instructional resources webiste of Taipei county as an example." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75069244256760225182.
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碩士國立台北師範學院
教育傳播與科技研究所
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Abstract The rapid development of internet has changed the way of the dissemination of information. The features of the internet and the multi-media’s which includes the easy access and usage, various delivery and presentation, enrich the learning possibilities that educators should not be neglected. This research‘s objective is to probe the ‘ideal’ service function and the operation model concerning the instructional resources websites at the county/city level. The researcher reviewed thoroughly the related documents in the field of education resource websites at both the national and district level. Then, researcher focused on the Taipei County teaching resources website, as well as its model and operation. Researcher has interviewed participated personnel and experts, and analyzed the contents of EasyGo and Nine-Year Curriculum Projects. Researcher uses in-depth interview and content analysis method to understand the teacher’s needs toward the county-based education website and clarify the problems that the Taipei County’s EasyGo and Nine-Year Curriculum Projects website encountered. The conclusions are discussed below. The respondent’s need concerning the content of the instructional resources websites includes: 1) expecting more integrated instructional information. 2). Offering teachers professional online course and information. 3). Offering other related websites for further information. 4). The itinerary of county teaching guidance team . 5). The list of experienced teacher and experts database. As for the needs for the service the Taipei County’s instructional website are: the interface’s user—friendly attribute, better search system, more online interaction, information updated as soon as possible. As for the ‘EasyGo’ analysis, the drawbacks are: lacking of multi-media materials, limited online interaction, related websites are not clustered, and the county website resources are not well known. Based on the conclusions, the researcher offers the following suggestion: 1). the Taipei County’s educational website should have the designated personnel and section in charge to upgrade the overall quality. 2). Instructional website should focus on the user’s expectation to satisfy various teachers’ 3). The Taipei County should accelerate the process of all administrator’s the information literacy, and establish a concrete instructional resource center to support teachers. Key word: the instructional resources website, website planning, educational website management, teachers professional development.
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Lin, Chia-Chi, and 林家麒. "The Effects of Self-instruction Program on Operating Floor Scrubber for Senior High School Students with Intellectual Disability." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19105613207048727791.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
特殊教育學系在職進修碩士班
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The purpose of this study is find out the effects of self-instruction program on cleaning skills for senior high school students with intellectual disability. The researcher use self-instruction program, combine self-instruction and picture-prompt strategies, to teach three senior high school students, who study in a special school for students with intellectual disability, how to operate floor scrubber. The single-subject, multiple baseline across-subjects designs was adopted in this study, and the results of this study were as follow: 1. The self-instruction program facilitated the effects of cleaning skills for the students with intellectual disability in the treatment phase of this study. 2. The self-instruction program facilitated the effects of cleaning skills for the students with intellectual disability in the maintenance phase of this study. 3. The senior high school students with intellectual disability can perform self-instruction strategy on task in the treatment phase of this study. 4. The senior high school students with intellectual disability can iii perform self-instruction strategy on task in the maintenance phase of this study. 5. Teachers confirmed that self-instruction program could cause the positive effects for the students, and improve their abilities on cleaning skills. Also, teachers think self-instruction program is effective teaching method. Finally, several suggestions for future researches and instructional activities to promote students with intellectual disability on self-instruction performance were raised.
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Hsu, Di-cheng, and 許迪程. "Implementation of Long Word-length RNS Arithmetic Operations Using Custom Instructions on an Altera SOPC System." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53393002563872348329.
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碩士逢甲大學
資訊工程所
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In designing mobile embedded systems, due to the requirement for low cost, low power, and high performance, 32-bit fixed-point processors with RISC architecture are used in these systems. As a result, the precision of these 32-bit processors is not sufficient for high-precision applications. To overcome this precision problem, this thesis proposes to implement long word-length arithmetic instructions on a 32-bit processor by adopting residue number system (RNS) arithmetic with moduli set {2n+1-1,2n,2n-1,2n-1-1}. By using custom instructions, we designed the function blocks of RNS addition, subtraction, multiplication, binary-to-residue conversion, and residue-to-binary conversion, and added these instructions to the Nios II processor on an Altera DE2 board. Due to the carry-free and independent properties, the speed of the long word-length (64-bit) arithmetic operations can be enhanced. To compare the performance of our designed 64-bit RNS instructions with the 64-bit fixed-point instructions, we choose matrix multiplications for our experiment. In most cases, the speed of the 64-bit RNS instructions can be 1.07 to 2.46 times the speed of the fixed-point instructions with 32-bit multiplier or pure software implementation. However, if 64-bit multipliers are used in the fixed-point instructions, the RNS instructions will be a little slower. This results show that the proposed long word-length RNS instructions have some speed advantage in performing consecutive multiplication and addition operations.
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CHING, CHEN SU, and 陳素菁. "The Learning Effect of the Direct Instruction and Self-Instruction Strategy for Math Low Achievement Six Graders on the Four Arithmetic Fundamental Operations." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92879728654647192722.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
特殊教育學系碩士班
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This research aims to discuss the learning outcomes from the combination of direct instruction and self-instruction strategy for math low achievement six graders that had low performance on four arithmetic fundamental operations. Single subject analysis with multi-testing design was the main research method and three Taipei County elementary school students with low math achievement participated in the study. A direct experimental teaching integrating direct instruction and self-instruction on the four fundamental arithmetic operations were carried out to explore and to keep the immediate evaluations and results. Through charts and visual analysis, the effects were: 1. The combination between direct instruction and self-instruction immediately improved the performance of the low math achievement six graders in the learning of the four fundamental arithmetic operations. 2. In the learning of the four fundamental arithmetic operations, through the combination between direct instruction and self-instruction, the low math achievement six graders showed reserved effects in the overall results’ correctness. 3. The combination between direct instruction and self-instruction showed immediate positive results on the performance of the low math achievement six graders when solving different kinds of four fundamental arithmetic operation exercises. 4. In the learning of the four fundamental arithmetic operations, by the combination between direct instruction and self-instruction, the low math achievement six graders showed reserved effects when solving on diversified four fundamental arithmetic operation exercises. According to the above results, this study proposes suggestions for future researches on teaching low math achievement students.
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Beaumont-Smith, Andrew James. "MatRISC : a RISC multiprocessor for matrix applications / Andrew James Beaumont-Smith." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21852.
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"November, 2001"Errata on back page.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183)
xxii, 193 p. : ill. (some col.), plates (col.) ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
This thesis proposes a highly integrated SOC (system on a chip) matrix-based parallel processor which can be used as a co-processor when integrated into the on-chip cache memory of a microprocessor in a workstation environment.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2002
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Lan, Wei-Ying, and 藍偉瑩. "A Study of Operation and Instructional Change of Cross-School Teacher Learning Community." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27g2gv.
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博士國立臺灣師範大學
科學教育研究所
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Since the promotion of the professional development of teachers’ evaluation in 2009, the types of teachers' professional learning communities have changed from the original task-oriented or the single school form because of the popularity of community network. Community networks Teachers who had the same need in professional development were connected through community networks. The establishment of the teacher communities became cross school and cross county, and their community organizations and modes of operation were different from those of a single-schooled teacher’s community. In this study, there were seven cross school teacher’s professional learning community from senior high schools in Taipei City taken as the objects of study. They were established for 2.5 years or 2 years and were all to change the teaching and curriculum in the classroom as a goal. Through the collection of questionnaires, the study was to understand the background of the community and community members, teaching and community operation, and to understand the relationship between members of the community. Through interviews with the core members of the community, the study was to analyze the formation, setting goals, operation, output, and the community teachers’ teaching change in these communities. And the study also took the chemistry teachers’ learning professional community as the focus group, through the application of the core members of the interview, field observation, to analyze the community learning culture for the community members of the teaching changes. The results of the study showed that the operation of the teacher’s professional community can be discussed by the concept of community members, the purpose of community formation, the establishment of members, the connotation of community development, the relationship among members, the community leadership and the future outlook of the community. Cross school teacher community focused on the purpose of co-preparation in the preparation for class. The community operations focused on classroom teaching. By decentralized leadership, community members shared the work of the community, and had expectations for the future development of the community. It can be found from the study of the cross school chemistry teachers' community that when the community operation pattern belongs to the convergence-diversity-type, the growth of the members of the community would move towards the expected target, and the teaching of the members of the community would change. Cross school teachers learned the advantages of community integrated entity and network community operation, resulting in breadth and depth of learning. The results of the study were expected to provide suggestions for the future cross-school teacher learning community and teacher development community so that teachers can implement curriculum and teaching changes in addition to professional development.
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Li, Chih-Jung, and 李直容. "An action research on the integration of games into 5th grade Number and Operation Instruction." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99422256764232448443.
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碩士國立中山大學
教育研究所
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In respond to the Ministry of Education’s attention to analyze students'' learning abilities, and attempts to narrow individual differences among students, the researcher believe that teacher may carry out action research to arouse students'' interest in learning mathematics. This study is an action research, the researcher is also the instructor, with subjects being 24 grade 5 elementary school students. The researcher designed 3 math games to integrate into teaching in during flexible weekly course. Finally, the researcher collects and analysis data (mathematical learning interest scale, math unit test, worksheets for mathematical games, feedback for mathematical games, record on students’ interviews, classroom observation notes and teaching reflections records) to answer 3 research questions. The findings were three: First, integrating games into mathematics instruction is feasible. In the process of teaching practice, the researcher observed that students are more willing to express their opinion when playing games. The teacher realized that the integration can change the learning environment in the classroom, make math learning not boring. Second, according to the unit math test scores on mathematics learning achievements, students made progress in different units. When student''s interests in game is higher they the performance of students'' learning achievements was enhanced. Third, according to the pretest and posttest scores of learning interests scale for the paired samples t test, the average scores on cognitive, affective, action dimensions increased, but only the cognitive dimension increased significantly. Finally, the researcher included recommendations for future research and teaching.
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Chang, Wan-Chin, and 張菀津. "The Effects of Direct Instruction on Multiply Operation Learning for Students with Mild Intellectual Disablilities." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96853245697139300984.
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Tai, An-Ting, and 戴安庭. "Information Display Evaluation of Augmented Reality Based Machine Assisted Operation Instruction System on Smart Glasses." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p72wha.
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LI, JIUN-SHIAN, and 李俊賢. "Applying The Adaptive Learning Platform in The Remedial Instruction of Arithmetic Operations for Seventh Graders." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7y23d7.
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碩士國立臺中教育大學
教育資訊與測驗統計研究所
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The research aimed at using the adaptive learning platform to diagnose and remedy learning weaknesses of students adaptively, and evaluating the effect of the adaptive remedial instruction with this platform. This platform was developed by National Taichung University of Education and funded by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. In this study, the diagnostic testing and adaptive remedial instruction experiment were conducted based on the knowledge structure of the mixed operations with integers unit provided by the adaptive learning platform for seventh graders. In the process of learning, the system could provide individual diagnostic report as feedback immediately and online adaptive remedial media. The participants of experiment were seventh graders of six classes from three different junior high schools in Taichung city. There were 74 students in the experimental group and 67 students in the control group, and totally were 141 participants. All participants needed to use the computer systems to conduct the pre-test to diagnose misconceptions and skills. Next, in the experimental group, the adaptive remedial instruction was implemented according to the individual diagnostic report of the pre-test. Following the adaptive remedial instruction, the students then took a computerized post-test to evaluate the effect of the adaptive remedial instruction. In contrast to the experimental group, traditional remedial instruction for whole-class was used in the control group. The research results were as follows: 1. Through the application of adaptive remedial teaching, the difference between pre-test and post-test scores reached a significant level. With the conditions of different abilities and gender, there were also significant improvements through adaptive remedial teaching using adaptive learning platform. It represented that the learning performance of students with different abilities and gender could be significantly improved after adaptive remedial instruction. In addition, all competence indicators involving in this unit also were significantly improved except competence indicator “7-n-10”. 2. Overall, the average of learning performance in the experimental group was better than that in the control group. Moreover, excepting competence indicator “7-n-08”, for remainder competence indicators, the experimental group also was significantly better than the control group. 3. In the responses of the teaching feedback , more than 78% of students had positive attitudes towards the adaptive learning platform. They felt that the platform could give them diagnostic reports immediately when they got the wrong answers, and provided more assistance during learning process. There were also comments from students stating that the platform gave them more time to repeatedly review the teaching videos which were unclear instructions given by their teachers.