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Ma, Qing. "Empirical CALL evaluation." CALICO Journal 26, no. 1 (January 14, 2013): 108–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cj.v26i1.108-122.

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CALL evaluation is important because it is the most efficient means to prove CALL effectiveness. While both learning process and learning outcome should be investigated in empirical evaluation, the precise relationship between the two needs to be examined closely. Only by doing so can we identify useful CALL design features that facilitate relevant user-computer interaction which can lead to an improved learning outcome. This study examined how certain user actions can affect or predict receptive/productive vocabulary retention in a computer-assisted vocabulary learning (CAVL) program. Results showed that only the user actions which contributed to identifiable levels of vocabulary processing--those at which (a) the initial meaning-form mappings of the vocabulary items are established and (b) the vocabulary items are practiced in different contexts--significantly accounted for vocabulary retention. In addition, user actions accounted for receptive vocabulary retention better than for productive vocabulary retention.
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Thomsen, M., and L. Carlsen. "Evaluation of empirical versus non-empirical descriptors." SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research 13, no. 5 (January 2002): 525–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10629360290023359.

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Johnson, Nathan. "Empirical evaluation of monopolization." Critique 51, no. 1 (January 2, 2023): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2023.2238448.

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Koubek, Tomáš, and David Procházka. "Empirical evaluation of augmented prototyping effectiveness." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 60, no. 2 (2012): 143–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201260020143.

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Augmented reality is a scientific field well known for more than twenty years. Although there is a huge number of projects that present promising results, the real usage of augmented reality applications for fulfilling common tasks is almost negligible. We believe that one of the principal reasons is insufficient usability of these applications. The situation is analogous to the desktop, mobile or cloud application development or even to the web pages design. The first phase of a technology adoption is the exploration of its potential. As soon as the technical problems are overcome and the technology is widely accepted, the usability is a principal issue. The usability is utmost important also from the business point of view. The cost of augmented reality implementation into the production process is substantial, therefore, the usability that is directly responsible for the implemented solution effectiveness must be appropriately tested. Consequently, the benefit of the implemented solution can be measured.This article briefly outlines common techniques used for usability evaluation. Discussed techniques were designed especially for evaluation of desktop applications, mobile solutions and web pages. In spite of this drawback, their application on augmented reality products is usually possible. Further, a review of existing augmented reality project evaluations is presented.Based on this review, a usability evaluation method for our augmented prototyping application is proposed. This method must overcome the fact that the design is a creative process. Therefore, it is not possible to take into account common criteria such as time consumption.
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Raimondo, Estelle. "The power and dysfunctions of evaluation systems in international organizations." Evaluation 24, no. 1 (January 2018): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1356389017749068.

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Evaluations do not take place in a vacuum. Evaluation systems are embedded within organizations; they shape and are shaped by organizational norms, processes, and behaviors. In International Organizations, evaluation systems are ubiquitous. Yet, little is known about how they “function,” namely how they are used, how they contribute to organizational performance, and how they influence actors’ behaviors. These are empirical questions that cannot be solved without a robust theoretical grounding, which is currently absent from the existing evaluation literature. This article seeks to bridge some of the identified gaps by weaving together insights from evaluation theory and international organization sociology into a unifying framework of factors. The article then demonstrates how the framework can be used to empirically study the relative power and dysfunction of evaluation systems within International Organizations. A forthcoming connected contribution will illustrate such empirical inquiry through the case of the World Bank’s project-level evaluation system.
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Raby, Caroline, Dean Alexis, Anthony Dickinson, and Nicola Clayton. "Empirical evaluation of mental time travel." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30, no. 3 (June 2007): 330–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x07002166.

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AbstractAlthough the mental time travel (MTT) hypothesis provides a rich, conceptual framework, the absence of clear, empirically tractable, behavioural criteria for determining the capacity for MTT restricts its usefulness in comparative research. Examples of empirical criteria for evaluating MTT in animals are given. We also question the authors' evaluation of semantic foresight and their even-handedness in assessing human and nonhuman behaviour.
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Vial, Daniel, and Vijay Subramanian. "Empirical Policy Evaluation With Supergraphs." IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory 2, no. 2 (June 2021): 641–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jsait.2021.3073257.

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McGill, Brian J., Brian A. Maurer, and Michael D. Weiser. "EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF NEUTRAL THEORY." Ecology 87, no. 6 (June 2006): 1411–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1411:eeont]2.0.co;2.

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Pagel, Mark D., and Clifford E. Lunneborg. "Empirical evaluation of ridge regression." Psychological Bulletin 97, no. 2 (1985): 342–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.97.2.342.

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Riding, T. M. "Exploring values: an empirical evaluation." Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing, Health, and Social Care 1, no. 1 (March 1997): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/146900479700100105.

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Giménez, Linares Jesús Ángel. "Empirical machine translation and its evaluation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/6674.

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Aquesta tesi estudia l'aplicació de les tecnologies del Processament del Llenguatge Natural disponibles actualment al problema de la Traducció Automàtica basada en Mètodes Empírics i la seva Avaluació.

D'una banda, tractem el problema de l'avaluació automàtica. Hem analitzat les principals deficiències dels mètodes d'avaluació actuals, les quals es deuen, al nostre parer, als principis de qualitat superficials en els que es basen. En comptes de limitar-nos al nivell lèxic, proposem una nova direcció cap a avaluacions més heterogènies. El nostre enfocament es basa en el disseny d'un ric conjunt de mesures automàtiques destinades a capturar un ampli ventall d'aspectes de qualitat a diferents nivells lingüístics (lèxic, sintàctic i semàntic). Aquestes mesures lingüístiques han estat avaluades sobre diferents escenaris. El resultat més notable ha estat la constatació de que les mètriques basades en un coneixement lingüístic més profund (sintàctic i semàntic) produeixen avaluacions a nivell de sistema més fiables que les mètriques que es limiten a la dimensió lèxica, especialment quan els sistemes avaluats pertanyen a paradigmes de traducció diferents. Tanmateix, a nivell de frase, el comportament d'algunes d'aquestes mètriques lingüístiques empitjora lleugerament en comparació al comportament de les mètriques lèxiques. Aquest fet és principalment atribuïble als errors comesos pels processadors lingüístics. A fi i efecte de millorar l'avaluació a nivell de frase, a més de recòrrer a la similitud lèxica en absència d'anàlisi lingüística, hem estudiat la possibiliat de combinar les puntuacions atorgades per mètriques a diferents nivells lingüístics en una sola mesura de qualitat. S'han presentat dues estratègies no paramètriques de combinació de mètriques, essent el seu principal avantatge no haver d'ajustar la contribució relativa de cadascuna de les mètriques a la puntuació global. A més, el nostre treball mostra com fer servir el conjunt de mètriques heterogènies per tal d'obtenir detallats informes d'anàlisi d'errors automàticament.

D'altra banda, hem estudiat el problema de la selecció lèxica en Traducció Automàtica Estadística. Amb aquesta finalitat, hem construit un sistema de Traducció Automàtica Estadística Castellà-Anglès basat en -phrases', i hem iterat en el seu cicle de desenvolupament, analitzant diferents maneres de millorar la seva qualitat mitjançant la incorporació de coneixement lingüístic. En primer lloc, hem extès el sistema a partir de la combinació de models de traducció basats en anàlisi sintàctica superficial, obtenint una millora significativa. En segon lloc, hem aplicat models de traducció discriminatius basats en tècniques d'Aprenentatge Automàtic. Aquests models permeten una millor representació del contexte de traducció en el que les -phrases' ocorren, efectivament conduint a una millor selecció lèxica. No obstant, a partir d'avaluacions automàtiques heterogènies i avaluacions manuals, hem observat que les millores en selecció lèxica no comporten necessàriament una millor estructura sintàctica o semàntica. Així doncs, la incorporació d'aquest tipus de prediccions en el marc estadístic requereix, per tant, un estudi més profund.

Com a qüestió complementària, hem estudiat una de les principals crítiques en contra dels sistemes de traducció basats en mètodes empírics, la seva forta dependència del domini, i com els seus efectes negatius poden ésser mitigats combinant adequadament fonts de coneixement externes. En aquest sentit, hem adaptat amb èxit un sistema de traducció estadística Anglès-Castellà entrenat en el domini polític, al domini de definicions de diccionari.

Les dues parts d'aquesta tesi estan íntimament relacionades, donat que el desenvolupament d'un sistema real de Traducció Automàtica ens ha permès viure en primer terme l'important paper dels mètodes d'avaluació en el cicle de desenvolupament dels sistemes de Traducció Automàtica.
In this thesis we have exploited current Natural Language Processing technology for Empirical Machine Translation and its Evaluation.

On the one side, we have studied the problem of automatic MT evaluation. We have analyzed the main deficiencies of current evaluation methods, which arise, in our opinion, from the shallow quality principles upon which they are based. Instead of relying on the lexical dimension alone, we suggest a novel path towards heterogeneous evaluations. Our approach is based on the design of a rich set of automatic metrics devoted to capture a wide variety of translation quality aspects at different linguistic levels (lexical, syntactic and semantic). Linguistic metrics have been evaluated over different scenarios. The most notable finding is that metrics based on deeper linguistic information (syntactic/semantic) are able to produce more reliable system rankings than metrics which limit their scope to the lexical dimension, specially when the systems under evaluation are different in nature. However, at the sentence level, some of these metrics suffer a significant decrease, which is mainly attributable to parsing errors. In order to improve sentence-level evaluation, apart from backing off to lexical similarity in the absence of parsing, we have also studied the possibility of combining the scores conferred by metrics at different linguistic levels into a single measure of quality. Two valid non-parametric strategies for metric combination have been presented. These offer the important advantage of not having to adjust the relative contribution of each metric to the overall score. As a complementary issue, we show how to use the heterogeneous set of metrics to obtain automatic and detailed linguistic error analysis reports.

On the other side, we have studied the problem of lexical selection in Statistical Machine Translation. For that purpose, we have constructed a Spanish-to-English baseline phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation system and iterated across its development cycle, analyzing how to ameliorate its performance through the incorporation of linguistic knowledge. First, we have extended the system by combining shallow-syntactic translation models based on linguistic data views. A significant improvement is reported. This system is further enhanced using dedicated discriminative phrase translation models. These models allow for a better representation of the translation context in which phrases occur, effectively yielding an improved lexical choice. However, based on the proposed heterogeneous evaluation methods and manual evaluations conducted, we have found that improvements in lexical selection do not necessarily imply an improved overall syntactic or semantic structure. The incorporation of dedicated predictions into the statistical framework requires, therefore, further study.

As a side question, we have studied one of the main criticisms against empirical MT systems, i.e., their strong domain dependence, and how its negative effects may be mitigated by properly combining outer knowledge sources when porting a system into a new domain. We have successfully ported an English-to-Spanish phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation system trained on the political domain to the domain of dictionary definitions.

The two parts of this thesis are tightly connected, since the hands-on development of an actual MT system has allowed us to experience in first person the role of the evaluation methodology in the development cycle of MT systems.
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Fevang, Rune, and Arne Bergene Fossaa. "Empirical evaluation of metric indexing methods." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-8902.

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Metric indexing is a branch of search technology that is designed for search non-textual data. Examples of this includes image search (where the search query is an image), document search (finding documents that are roughly equal) to search in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. Metric indexing is based on the theory of metric spaces, where the only thing known about a set of objects is the distance between them (defined by a metric distance function). A large number of methods have been proposed to solve the metric indexing problem. In this thesis, we have concentrated on new approaches to solving these problems, as well as combining existing methods to create better ones. The methods studied in this thesis include D-Index, GNAT, EMVP-Forest, HC, SA-Tree, SSS-Tree, M-Tree, PM-Tree, M*-Tree and PM*-Tree. These have all been implemented and tested against each other to find strengths and weaknesses. This thesis also studies a group of indexing methods called hybrid methods which combines tree-based methods (like SA-Tree, SSS-tree and M-Tree), with pivoting methods (like AESA and LAESA). The thesis also proposes a method to create hybrid trees from existing trees by using features in the programming language. Hybrid methods have been shown in this thesis to be very promising. While they may have a considerable overhead in construction time,CPU usage and/or memory usage, they show large benefits in reduced number of distance computations. We also propose a new way of calculating the Minimal Spanning Tree of a graph operating on metric objects, and show that it reduces the number of distance computations needed.

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Sebastian, Shalin. "Empirical evaluation of Monte Carlo sampling /." Available to subscribers only, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1075709431&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Ligon, Walter Batchelor III. "An empirical evaluation of architectural reconfigurability." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/8204.

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Joosep, Henno. "Empirical Evaluation of Approaches for Digit Recognition." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap (DV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-46676.

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a well studied subject involving variousapplication areas. OCR results in various limited problem areas are promising,however building highly accurate OCR application is still problematic in practice.This thesis discusses the problem of recognizing and confirming Bingo lottery numbersfrom a real lottery field, and a prototype for Android phone is implementedand evaluated. An OCR library Tesseract and two Artificial Neural Network (ANN)approaches are compared in an experiment and discussed. The results show thattraining a neural network for each number gives slightly higher results than Tesseract.
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Ramasamy, Ambigaibalan. "ASEAN free trade area : an empirical evaluation." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35518.

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) comprising six nations - Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand - covers an area of more than 3 million sq. km. with a combined population of about 310 million. These countries have experienced significant economic growth in the last decade and this growth is expected to continue into the next century. ASEAN was established in 1967 with the objective of accelerating the economic growth, social progress and cultural development of the region. However, during the first decade after inception, regional security was of primary importance, especially with the escalating political and ideological struggle in Indo-China. Serious economic co-operation came into place only in 1976 with a range of co-operative schemes suggested by a UN-team of experts. These schemes, on the whole, were unsuccessful. Calls for greater political will and action in economic co-operation from the academic and business sectors culminated in the signing of the Singapore Declaration in 1992 which gave birth to the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA). The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the extent to which intra-regional imports and exports will change as a result of such integration. Two main effects are evaluated - the static and the dynamic. The static effects are limited to trade creation and trade diversion effects. The methodology primarily uses the price elasticities of import demand and export demand, which are the author's own estimates, to measure the expected changes. While there are various components of dynamic effects, we have emphasised one, namely, the increase in intra-industry trade. Results of this study show that only Singapore would receive a net gain as a result of the integration, i.e. its trade creation effects would outweigh trade diversion, while Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand would face a welfare loss. These are however, optimistic results based on the assumptions which we have used. As a whole, AFTA would face a 10 percent increase in intra-ASEAN trade. With regards to intra-industry trade, the study finds that the potential for a larger proportion of intra-ASEAN trade to be of the intra-industry type is greater for Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippine compared to Malaysia and Singapore. However, comparing the level of intra-industry trade of the members with the Newly Industrialised Countries (NICs) and Developed Countries (DCs), there are indications that large gains would be accrued by all member countries as economies of scales and the benefits of greater efficiency through greater competition are realised when the free trade area is fully operational.
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Ponangi, Preethi Vinayak. "Cognitive Cyber Weapon Selection Tool Empirical Evaluation." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1303229011.

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Moattar, Haleh. "Empirical evaluation of subject-orientated business process modelling." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101341/1/Haleh_Moattar_Thesis.pdf.

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This study is a comparative evaluation of Subject-oriented Business Process Modeling (S-BPM). It examined modeling effectiveness and efficiency of S-BPM, from the novice modeler perspective, in comparison to the current industry standard process modeling language; Business Process Modeling Notations (BPMN). A laboratory experiment were set up in which participants were trained in S-BPM and BPMN and asked to model with each of these process modeling languages accordingly.Overall, participants in the S-BPM group created models faster than those using BPMN and models in S-BPM had more accuracy than the ones using BPMN. However, there was no significant evidence to confirm that participants perceived modeling with S-BPM to be easier than modeling with BMPN.
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OLIVEIRA, KLEINNER SILVA FARIAS DE. "EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF EFFORT ON COMPOSING DESIGN MODELS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=28757@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
PROGRAMA DE EXCELENCIA ACADEMICA
Composição de modelos desempenha um papel fundamental em muitas atividades de engenharia de software como, por exemplo, evolução e reconciliação de modelos conflitantes desenvolvido em paralelo por diferentes times de desenvolvimento. Porém, os desenvolvedores têm dificuldades de realizar análises de custos e benefícios, bem como entender o real esforço de composição. Sendo assim, eles são deixados sem qualquer conhecimento prático sobre quanto é investido; além das estimativas de evangelistas que frequentemente divergem. Se o esforço de composição é alto, então os potenciais benefícios tais como aumento de produtividade podem ser comprometidos. Esta incapacidade de avaliar esforço de composição é motivada por três problemas: (i) as abordagens de avaliação atuais são inadequadas para mensurar os conceitos encontrados em composição, por exemplo, esforço e conflito; (ii) pesquisadores não sabem quais fatores podem influenciar o esforço de composição na prática. Exemplos de tais fatores seriam linguagem de modelagem e técnicas de composição que são responsáveis para manipular os modelos; (iii) a falta de conhecimento sobre como tais fatores desconhecidos afetam o esforço de composição. Esta tese, portanto, apresenta uma abordagem de avaliação de esforço de composição de modelos derivada de um conjunto de estudos experimentais. As principais contribuições são: (i) um modelo de qualidade para auxiliar a avaliação de esforço em composição de modelos; (ii) conhecimento prático sobre o esforço de composição e o impacto de fatores que afetam tal esforço; e (iii) diretivas sobre como avaliar esforço de composição, minimizar a propensão a erros, e reduzir os efeitos negativos dos fatores na prática de composição de modelos.
Model composition plays a central role in many software engineering activities such as evolving models to add new features and reconciling conflicting design models developed in parallel by different development teams. As model composition is usually an error-prone and effort-consuming task, its potential benefits, such as gains in productivity can be compromised. However, there is no empirical knowledge nowadays about the effort required to compose design models. Only feedbacks of model composition evangelists are available, and they often diverge. Consequently, developers are unable to conduct any cost-effectiveness analysis as well as identify, predict, or reduce composition effort. The inability of evaluating composition effort is due to three key problems. First, the current evaluation frameworks do not consider fundamental concepts in model composition such as conflicts and inconsistencies. Second, researchers and developers do not know what factors can influence the composition effort in practice. Third, practical knowledge about how such influential factors may affect the developers effort is severely lacking. In this context, the contributions of this thesis are threefold: (i) a quality model for supporting the evaluation of model composition effort, (ii) practical knowledge, derived from a family of quantitative and qualitative empirical studies, about model composition effort and its influential factors, and (iii) insight about how to evaluate model composition efforts and tame the side effects of such influential factors.
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McCreary, Faith. "Empirical Evaluation of a Technology-rich Learning Environment." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28948.

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In the fall of 1996, the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech initiated a joint project with a local school district, to determine how ready access to networked computing in the fifth grade would affect students. Called the PCs for Families (PCF) project, its goal was to learn what could be achieved if technology access, support, and curriculum integration could be eliminated as obstacles or constraints in the classroom and at home. A technology-rich classroom was created, with the classroom teacher trained in constructivist teaching practices and technology integration by a master teacher. Network computers were found on every desktop, with scanners, digital cameras, and other technologies scattered throughout the room. A computer was sent home with each child and teacher, and as much support as necessary was provided to all program participants, including parents. As part of this research, a yearlong field experiment was undertaken to explore the effects of the PCF intervention on the third cohort of students participating in the project. Macroergonomics served as the theoretical framework for the experiment, which focused on the in-depth, systematic assessment of those quantitative changes that resulted from exposure to the PCF fifth-grade network classroom. Students participating in the field research were randomly selected from the larger pool of students eligible for the PCF project at the school. Selected students were randomly assigned to either to the PCF fifth-grade classroom or the standard fifth-grade classroom, which served as a control group. To first-time visitors walking into the PCF network classroom, the classroom bore little resemblance to its more traditional counterparts. However, the functioning of the PCF classroom was in many ways indistinguishable from that of its traditional counterparts. The yearly average for computer use in the PCF classroom was 4.275 hours, with computer use in the PCF classroom exceeding the three hours of computer laboratory time allotted to the control class only during the last 12 weeks of school. When used, the technology functioned as an electronic replacement for materials commonly found in traditional settings. Observers reported the pedagogy remained steadfastly teacher-centered and didactic. Despite limited utilization of the computer during classroom hours, analysis of individual, academic measures indicated PCF students made significantly greater gains than control students only on standardized writing tests. PCF students also performed significantly better than control students on measures related to technology skills. Boys in the PCF classroom also made greater improvements in their attitudes towards school than boys in the control classroom. At home, PCF students were found to interact with computer technology more often than their control counterparts. Despite lower overall home use, control students reported spending more time playing computer games than PCF students. Correlational analyses indicated significant linear relationships between changes in student performance, student entry characteristics, and home computer use variables. Student previous achievement was by far the strongest predictor of student SOL test performance, with computer use only linked to student standardized test performance on the writing and mathematics sections. As the number of email messages sent by the student increased, their writing performance increased with email usage accounting for almost ten percent of the total variance in the writing score. The only other computer use measure significantly associated with test performance was student self-reports of computer use, which accounted for less than four percent of the total variance in mathematics test performance. Computer use was associated more strongly with changes in student motivation. Student self-reports of home computer use accounted for fully 30 percent of the variance in changes on the school motivation survey. Analyses of data from the PCF proxy server suggest that student web browsing overshadows other home Internet activities, with email taking precedence over chat. Further, unlike chat or email, family web usage was sustained long after students left the PCF classroom. Over 68 percent of family web usage each week was attributable to student, not family, characteristics suggesting students play a large role in determining family usage. Academic information finding provides a plausible explanation for these results, with family web usage declining somewhat during summer months when students were not in school. Stability of both web and email use was relatively high among students. In keeping with critical mass theory, student email use increased when other students used email. However, social variables were not found to have a significant effect on web usage. Girls were found to make greater use of email than boys, with this research suggesting highly visual students used email more often. The field research also found a significant increase in student self-reports of musculoskeletal problems among the PCF students. A year-end examination of workstation fit found seat and monitor heights an average of two inches higher than the corresponding student dimensions. A participatory design study was used to elicit conceptions of computer workstations from PCF students, teachers, and parents. Children were interested in gaining greater control over the workstation, both in terms of individual technology and adjustability of furniture. Parents, however, focused on improving the richness of an individual student's workspace and de-emphasized collaborative work. Teacher opinions diverged more than other groups with designs strongly influenced by pedagogic beliefs. Results from the field study provide evidence that macroergonomic methodologies for analysis and design of work systems are extensible to classroom systems, and provide a systematic framework for examining issues related to the introduction of classroom computing technology. A critical element of any successful effort to integrate technology into the curriculum is access to adequate classroom technology and support; however, as this research illustrates, they are not sufficient to ensure successful integration. This research demonstrates other forces are at work, and in keeping with macroergonomic theory, key to the success of such an effort is the "fit" between the new technology and the characteristics of the classroom system, especially those of the teacher who effectively functions as the gatekeeper for the technology.
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Books on the topic "Empirical Evaluation"

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Yŏnʼguwŏn, Hanʼguk Kaebal, ed. Empirical evaluation of corporate restructuring. Seoul, Korea: Korea Development Institute, 2003.

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1962-, Christensen H. I., and Phillips P. Jonathon, eds. Empirical evaluation methods in computer vision. Singapore: World Scientific, 2002.

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Bowyer, Kevin. Empirical evaluation techniques in computer vision. Los Alamitos, Calif: IEEE Computer Society, 1998.

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An, Chʻung-yŏng. Corporate restructuring in Korea: Empirical evaluation. Seoul, Korea: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2003.

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Krishnaswamy, O. R. The lead bank scheme: An empirical evaluation. Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu: Rainbow Publications, 1985.

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Jürgen, Ender, and Thunert Martin, eds. German students in Canada: An empirical evaluation. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1989.

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Empirical modeling in economics: Specification and evaluation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Ball, Ray. An empirical evaluation of accounting income numbers. [Preston: Lancashire Polytechnic, 1985.

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Horst, Bayrhuber, and Mayer Jürgen, eds. Empirical research on environmental education in Europe. Münster: Waxmann, 2000.

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Woittiez, Isolde. Modelling and Empirical Evaluation of Labour Supply Behaviour. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84508-6.

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Branke, Jürgen. "Empirical Evaluation." In Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments, 67–98. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0911-0_5.

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Frommberger, Lutz. "Empirical Evaluation." In Cognitive Technologies, 123–54. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16590-0_7.

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Vegas, Sira, Natalia Juristo, and Victor R. Basili. "Empirical Evaluation." In Identifying Relevant Information for Testing Technique Selection, 167–76. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0419-1_9.

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Barrett, Samuel. "Empirical Evaluation." In Making Friends on the Fly: Advances in Ad Hoc Teamwork, 95–124. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18069-4_7.

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Christen, Peter, Thilina Ranbaduge, and Rainer Schnell. "Empirical Evaluation." In Linking Sensitive Data, 323–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59706-1_12.

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Hester, Todd. "Empirical Evaluation." In Studies in Computational Intelligence, 51–84. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01168-4_5.

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Patten, Mildred L., and Melisa C. Galvan. "Program Evaluation." In Proposing Empirical Research, 43–44. Sixth edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429463013-22.

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Veit, Daniel J. "7 Empirical Evaluation." In Matchmaking in Electronic Markets, 143–60. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39995-7_7.

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Kretschmer, Katharina. "Empirical Findings." In Performance Evaluation of Foreign Subsidiaries, 133–292. Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-9922-1_6.

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Kretschmer, Katharina. "The Empirical Study." In Performance Evaluation of Foreign Subsidiaries, 91–132. Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-9922-1_5.

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Conference papers on the topic "Empirical Evaluation"

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Gorton, I., and A. Liu. "Mini-track: empirical software evaluation." In 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the. IEEE, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2004.1265650.

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Hobby, Laurian, John Booker, D. Scott McCrickard, C. M. Chewar, and Jason Zietz. "Facilitating and automating empirical evaluation." In the 43rd annual southeast regional conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1167350.1167437.

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Bissyande, T. F., F. Thung, Shaowei Wang, D. Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and L. Reveillere. "Empirical Evaluation of Bug Linking." In 2013 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/csmr.2013.19.

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Lung, Andreea, Simona Motogna, and Vladiela Petraşcu. "Empirical Evaluation of Reusability Models." In 17th International Conference on Software Technologies. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0011143100003266.

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Kjaer, Martin, Monika di Angelo, and Gernot Salzer. "Empirical Evaluation of MakerDAO's Resilience." In 2021 3rd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/brains52497.2021.9569811.

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Walkinshaw, Neil, and Martin Shepperd. "Reasoning about Uncertainty in Empirical Results." In EASE '20: Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3383219.3383234.

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Xiao, Ziang, Susu Zhang, Vivian Lai, and Q. Vera Liao. "Evaluating Evaluation Metrics: A Framework for Analyzing NLG Evaluation Metrics using Measurement Theory." In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.676.

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Tzeng, Nian-Feng. "Empirical Evaluation of Incomplete Hypercube Systems." In 1993 International Conference on Parallel Processing - ICPP'93 Vol1. IEEE, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icpp.1993.78.

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Gestwicki, Paul V., and Brian J. McNely. "Empirical evaluation of periodic retrospective assessment." In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445399.

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Meraji, Sina, and Hamid Sarbazi-Azad. "Empirical Performance Evaluation of Stretched Hypercubes." In 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Workshops (aina workshops 2008). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/waina.2008.294.

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Reports on the topic "Empirical Evaluation"

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Sasso, William C. Empirical Evaluation of KBSA Technology. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, July 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada329322.

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Barwick, Panle Jia, Myrto Kalouptsidi, and Nahim Bin Zahur. China’s Industrial Policy: an Empirical Evaluation. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26075.

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Blundell, Richard, and Monica Costa Dias. Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics. Institute for Fiscal Studies, October 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1920/wp.cem.2008.2608.

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Rander, Peter W., and Brett Browning. Empirical Evaluation of the Virtual Autonomous Navigation Environment. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, March 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada520805.

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Giglio, Stefano, Bryan Kelly, and Seth Pruitt. Systemic Risk and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Evaluation. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w20963.

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Diaye, Marc-Arthur, Nathalie Greenan, and Michal Urdanivia. Subjective Evaluation of Performance Through Individual Evaluation Interview: Empirical evidence from France. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12979.

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Thompson, J. An Empirical Evaluation of Denoising Techniques for Streaming Data. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), August 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1165751.

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Kuo, Lynn, and Constantin Yiannoutsos. Empirical Bayes Risk Evaluation with Type 2 Censored Data. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, July 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada242291.

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Anderson, D. P., D. Ferrari, P. V. Rangan, and B. Sartirana. The Empirical Evaluation of a Security-Oriented Datagram Protocol. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada619421.

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Quick, Stephen A. Self Evaluation of OVE's Work: 2001-2010. Inter-American Development Bank, April 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010551.

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This self evaluation has been prepared by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) in response to a request from Executive Directors to support the work of the Independent Review Panel (IRP), which has been tasked with undertaking an external, independent review of the evaluation function at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Over the 10 years of its existence, OVE has produced a substantial volume of evaluation work, including 47 country program evaluations, 98 other documents in the "RE" series that are sent to the Board for consideration, 27 evaluation reports for the MIF, IIC and Japan Special Fund, and 65 technical reports and working papers. OVE has established formal procedures for the quality control of its evaluations, relying on both internal and external peer reviews of documents sent to the Board. The quality of data available varies across the range of evaluation studies, and some are able to mobilize better empirical information than others. Comments on the quality of OVE documents recorded in the minutes of Board discussions are overwhelmingly favorable. Across a broad range of issues, OVE has issued reports that challenge the empirical basis of prevailing claims regarding the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of Bank interventions in the region. These challenges have sometimes provoked controversy, but on the whole, it is OVE's view that these controversies have been helpful to the institution in deepening thought and opening up new possibilities. In thinking about the future of the evaluation function at the IDB, this self evaluation highlights the role that an independent, empirically focused, challenging OVE can play in opening up possibilities for institutional change and improvement. While there are clear opportunities for improvement in the work of the Office, (including improved outreach, more explicit and actionable recommendations, explicit and measurable quality standards for evaluation work) it's essential institutional role of challenging complacency deserves to be preserved.
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