Dissertations / Theses: 'Learning aid'

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Pate, Shari Ann. "Web tools: An aid for cognitive learning." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2777.

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The purpose of this project is to provide students and teachers with a disk of tools to aide in the development of Web pages either in the classroom or through online (distance education) learning. Many of the tools supplied on this disk have been field tested in a high school Web design class. When students are allowed to be creative and are able to fuse interesting visual displays the results can be significant in increasing cognitive and multiple intelligences skills.

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BROUSE, KIRSTEN. "Adaptive Aid in Haiti? How Aid Organizations Learn and Adapt in Fragile States." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34420.

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If we understand development as an emergent property of a complex system, then effective development assistance needs to adapt and evolve in-context. This thesis explores how learning and adaptation practices might help aid organizations apply complexity thinking to improve their effectiveness. Based on a new framework of organizational practices, this study uses a mixed methods approach to assess the extent to which 12 small and medium international aid organizations in Haiti learn and adapt. The study supports the assumption that learning and adaptation contribute to effectiveness, and finds that organizations vary significantly in their learning and adaptation practices. It finds that development organizations employ more learning practices than humanitarian assistance organizations, and that organizations are generally better at collecting information and adopting learning attitudes, than they are at establishing the structures and processes they need to be truly adaptive. The research also finds that the barriers that make learning and adaptation more difficult for organizations are largely structural and related to aid system dynamics, while organizations benefit from enablers that are largely attributed to individual agency. This thesis argues for the important role that aid organizations can, and must play in making aid more effective – at the project, organization, and aid system levels. However, the aid system itself does not encourage learning. International aid organizations will therefore need to actively engage in learning if they are to play an effective role in development, and be a meaningful part of the system-level aid effectiveness dialogue.

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Takahashi, Chie. "Aid partnerships and learning : UK and Japanese projects in Ghana." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3032/.

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International technical assistance today supports pro-poor intervention managed and implemented by a number of organisations working in partnership together located in several countries. They may include funding organisations, governments, non-governmental organisations and community groups. This thesis explores the meaning of aid sector partnership and some of the ways in which they work to support community development in Africa. The study is of the ways in which partners interact and learn from each other, the contextual issues that influence the process and the implication of this for what is achieved. Believed to be the first of its kind, the study compares two bilaterally funded projects implemented by Ghanaian NGO counterparts. The British Department for International Development (DFID) financed an adult literacy project in the North, while Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) supported a maternal and child health care project in the East of Ghana. The study examines the quality of relations between partners in the two projects and then the ways in which these are informed by incidental learning experiences. A fieldwork was conducted in Ghana, UK and Japan. Data are largely narrative derived from in-depth interviews with more than 100 informants. Critical incident analysis is employed as the main interpretative strategy. The thesis conceptualises instances of inter-organisational learning (TOL) in terms of theories of principals and agents, prisoners' dilemmas and women's place in community development. It shows (i) that IOL can be used to maintain and modify relations of control and dominance in partnership hierarchies, and (ii) that IOL serves as a by-product of horizontal relationships and be increased or reduced in the competition between partners for resources and identity. The influential role of individuals, beyond the boundaries of organisations is stressed through social networks and trust-based relations, as are instances of resistance to learning as a consequences of personal conflict. However, structural constraints in the aid system, as demonstrated by asymmetric access to resources, expertise, knowledge, status and networks, ultimately determine the quality of funding management schemes and an environment that stimulates mutual individual learning, which is advantageous circumstances may lead to organisational learning and inter-organisational learning.

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Kimura, Tadashi. "Organisational learning in aid administration : rethinking its potential and limitations." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427063.

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Nagel, Karin Lynne. "Training visual pattern recognition : using worked examples to aid schema acquisition." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28851.

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Maragno, Donato. "Optimization with machine learning-based modeling: an application to humanitarian food aid." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/21621/.

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In this thesis, we propose a machine learning-based optimization methodology to build (part of) optimization models with a data-driven approach. This approach is useful whenever we have to model one or more relations between the decisions and their impact on the system. This kind of relationship can be challenging to model manually, and so machine learning is used to learn it through the use of data. We demonstrate the potential of this method through a case study in which a predictive model is used to approximate the palatability scoring function in a typical diet problem formulation. First, the performance of this approach is analyzed by embedding a Linear Regression model and then by embedding a Fully Connected Neural Network.

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Eftekhar, Nassereddin. "Dynamic modeling of a teaching/learning system to aid system re-engineering." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0026/NQ31974.pdf.

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Palazzolo, Jerome J. "Robotic technology to aid and assess recovery and learning in stroke patients." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33918.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-343).
Each year, about 700,000 people in the United States have a stroke, making it a leading cause of serious, long-term disability. Modalities of therapy often assume the processes underlying motor recovery and motor learning are similar because both exhibit activity- dependent neural plasticity. However, the impact of other factors unique to recovery such as re-acquisition of muscle strength and resolution of abnormal muscle tone confounds the validity of this assumption. By implementing an adaptive impedance controller that collapses from a "virtual slot" between two targets to a "virtual spring" at the desired target, a new performance-based progressive therapy (PBPT) algorithm was developed to test whether recovery would be enhanced by incorporating learning strategies like repetition, goal specification, and positive reinforcement. A study of chronic stroke patients (8 to 95 months post-stroke) who were in a clinically verified "stable" phase of recovery was conducted with the PBPT protocol, in which patients made over 12,000 visually guided, point-to-point movements.
(cont.) Though prior clinical results suggested that recovery would plateau 6 months post-stroke, two studies using sensorimotor (SM) and progressive resistance (PR) therapy protocols achieved significant, though modest, reductions in impairment. The new PBPT protocol produced significantly larger impairment reductions with over 6,000 fewer movements than SM and PR. By design, the adapting PBPT parameters, namely, the time allotted to move between targets and the virtual slot sidewall stiffness, serve as indicators of patients' abilities to move and aim (as parameters decrease (increase), patients move faster (slower) and require less (more) aiming assistance). By analyzing the parameters' evolution throughout the PBPT protocol, it was shown that motor recovery follows an exponential progression similar to a motor learning "law of practice". In addition, a serendipitous benefit of the PBPT protocol occurred - a sustained reduction in abnormal muscle tone, a factor unrelated to learning. A spectral impedance estimation method suitable for a clinical setting was developed and validated by identifying known mechanical systems. In addition, preliminary data was collected on unimpaired subjects and stroke patients.
by Jerome J. Palazzolo.
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Hasan, Syed Shabih. "Mobile ecological momentary assessment for hearing aid evaluation." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5494.

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Hearing loss can significantly hinder an individual's ability to engage socially and, when left untreated, can lead to anxiety, depression, and even dementia. The most common type of hearing loss is sensor-neural hearing loss that is treated using hearing aids (HAs). However, a significant fraction of individuals that may benefit from using HA do not use them and, the satisfaction of those that do, is only around 60%. Today, we have only a limited understanding regarding the factors that contribute to the low adoption and satisfaction rates. This is a limitation of existing laboratory-based assessment methods that cannot accurately predict the performance of HAs in the real-world as they do not fully reproduce the complexities of real-world environments. There four core contributions of my PhD thesis: i) the development new computer-based methods for assessing HAs in the real-world. Our approach is based on the insight that HA performance is intrinsically dependent on the context in which a HA is used. A context includes characteristics of the listening activity, social context, and acoustic environment. To evaluate this hypothesis, we have developed AudioSense, a system that uses mobile phones to jointly characterize the context of users and the performance of HAs. ii) We provide the first instance of characterization of the auditory lifestyle of hearing aid users, and the relationships that exist between the context and hearing aid outcomes. iii) We utilize the subjective data collected using AudioSense to build novel models that can predict the success of hearing aid prescriptions for new and experienced users. We also quantitatively prove the importance of collecting contextual information for evaluating hearing aids. iv) We use the objective audio data collected with AudioSense to predict contextual information like acoustic activity and noise level. This provides us a way to intelligently infer contextual information automatically and reduce the burden on the study participants.

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Blomquist, Hanna, and Johanna Möller. "Anomaly detection with Machine learning : Quality assurance of statistical data in the Aid community." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Datalogi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-260380.

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The overall purpose of this study was to find a way to identify incorrect data in Sida’s statistics about their contributions. A contribution is the financial support given by Sida to a project. The goal was to build an algorithm that determines if a contribution has a risk to be inaccurate coded, based on supervised classification methods within the area of Machine Learning. A thorough data analysis process was done in order to train a model to find hidden patterns in the data. Descriptive features containing important information about the contributions were successfully selected and used for this task. These included keywords that were retrieved from descriptions of the contributions. Two Machine learning methods, Adaboost and Support Vector Machines, were tested for ten classification models. Each model got evaluated depending on their accuracy of predicting the target variable into its correct class. A misclassified component was more likely to be incorrectly coded and was also seen as an anomaly. The Adaboost method performed better and more steadily on the majority of the models. Six classification models built with the Adaboost method were combined to one final ensemble classifier. This classifier was verified with new unseen data and an anomaly score was calculated for each component. The higher the score, the higher the risk of being anomalous. The result was a ranked list, where the most anomalous components were prioritized for further investigation of staff at Sida.

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Davies, Richard J. "Order and diversity: representing and assisting organisational learning in non-government aid organisations." Thesis, Swansea University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558557.

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The aim of this thesis is to develop a coherent theory of organisational learning which can generate practical means of assisting organisational learning. The thesis develops and applies this theory to one class of organisations known as non-government organisations (NGOs), and more specifically to those NGOs who receive funds from high income countries but who work for the benefit of the poor in low income countries. Of central concern are the processes whereby these NGOs learn from the rural and urban poor with whom they work. The basis of the theory of organisational learning used in this thesis is modem evolutionary theory, and more particularly, evolutionary epistemology. It is argued that this theory provides a means of both representing and assisting organisational learning. Firstly, it provides a simple definition of learning that can be operationalised at multiple scales of analysis: that of individuals, organisations, and populations of organisations. Differences in the forms of organisational learning that do take place can be represented using a number of observable attributes of learning which are derived from an interpretation of evolutionary theory. The same evolutionary theory can also provide useful explanations of processes thus defined and represented. Secondly, an analysis of organisational learning using these observable attributes and background theory also suggest two ways in which organisational learning can be assisted. One is the use of specific methods within NGOs: a type of participatory monitoring. The second is the use of particular interventions by their donors: demands for particular types of information which are indicative of how and where the NGO is learning In addition to these practical implications, it is argued that a specific concern with organisational learning can be related to a wider problematic which should be of concern to Development Studies: one which is described as "the management of diversity". Individual theories, organisations, and larger social structures may not survive in the face of diversity and change. In surviving they may constrain and / or enable other agents, with feedback effects into the scale and forms of diversity possible. The management of diversity can be analysed descriptively and prescriptively, at multiple scales of aggregation.

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Otis, Kevin H. "Metacognition : a valuable aid to understanding for medical students in problem-based learning." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2596/.

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This study involved the first year medical students at the University of Glasgow and was designed to instil the students with metacognition. The students were briefly introduced to the concepts of context specificity, rote memorisation, and the variation in leaning styles. They were then given instruction in concept mapping stressing the metacognitive comfort of chunking and linking information. Emphasis was placed on thoughtful reflection and the integration of various disciplines. The students were told that the quality and effectiveness of their concept maps could not be assessed by anyone else. Following their normal process the students, in small groups, read the patient scenario, listed the main issues on the board and discussed each in turn. When the discussion was completed six to eight questions were generated based on gaps in knowledge highlighted during the discussion. The students individually sought answers to the questions posed. Before returning to their group for a final discussion of the questions the test subjects were asked to: put away all notes and texts, reread the scenario, using the 3-part NCR form provided construct a concept map indicating how you understand the problem, tear off bottom page of the form. The students were then instructed to take out notes and texts and make any corrections or additions desired, then tear off the bottom page of their form. The two concept maps were turned in at the beginning of the next PBL session. The students retained the top sheet of the 3-part form for their notes. Data was collected from 9 PBL groups for 10 scenarios, 546 2-part maps in all. The collected concept maps were analysed for general layout and quantity of data but not for accuracy. This analysis yielded some insight into concept formation and a quite surprising consistency of data bits for an individual over a variety of scenarios.

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Salmonsson, Martin. "Program evaluation and aid effektiveness : A case study of Sida as a learning organization." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Political Science, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9366.

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Program utvärderingar utgör till stor del grunden till det formella lärandet inom Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency). Utvärderingars syfte är att bistå med kunskap och Utvärderingar ska garantera att insatser är baserade på god förståelse om verkligheten i mottagarländerna. Genom att gynna organisatoriskt lärande förmodas utvärderingar bidra till biståndets effektivitet (Stefan Molund, 2004).

Teorier om den lärande organisationen hävdar att organisationers fall beror på medlemmars tendens att förenkla och misstolka verkligheten. Medvetet eller omedvetet leder detta till att organisationens vision försvagas, medlemmars engagemang försvagas och den verklighet man sökt att förändra förblir den samma (Peter M. Senge, 1994).

Genom att bistå sektorer som hälsa, utbildning och demokrati mm. har det svenska biståndet präglats av en objektiv eller positivistisk syn på verkligheten i utvecklingsländer. Insatser inom hälsa leder onekligen till effektivitet i fattigdomsbekämpningen.

Min uppsats visar hur Sidas strävan efter objektivitet löper risken att försvaga organisationens vision. I de fattigaste och mest socialt komplexa utvecklingsländerna finns inte förutsättningarna[1] för objektiv utvärdering, och resultaten av en utvärdering blir ofta öppna för olika tolkningar. Trots att utvärderingarna skildrar en sann bild av verkligheten så leder detta till frustration hos handläggare. Resultatet blir att utvärderingar görs av program som handläggarna redan har god kunskap om. Mitt resultat visar att denna trend successivt försvagar Sidas vision då insatser ämnade åt att öka effektiviteten i biståndet allokeras från de ”fattigaste länderna” till länder som kommit längre i utvecklingsprocessen.

[1] De “fattigaste” utvecklingsländerna saknar de institutioner för datainsamling som krävs för objektiv utvärdering. Att skapa förutsättningarna för den kostnadseffektiva objektiva utvärderingen i utvecklingsländer är ett utvecklingsmål som vilket annat som ingår i den övergripande fattigdomsbekämpningen.

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Morrow, Sandra Lynn. "Adult learning during conference education programmes, how dual-mode handouts aid in retention/recall." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ64830.pdf.

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Sharp, Laura J. "The potential of rhythm as an aid to learning and development for those with special educational needs." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251182.

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Huyse, Huib. "Workplace and organisational learning in development aid : a case study of a Belgian development agency." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7058/.

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This thesis investigates workplace and organisational learning over the period 2000-2010 in a Belgian development agency (VVOB), involved in the implementation of educational development projects. It explores some of the structural causes of the perceived learning deficit at the project and the agency-wide level, and links it with similar findings in other development agencies. For the project level, two case studies in Zimbabwe (ZimPATH and St2eep) were selected in which the project's management invested significantly in team learning. These practices were put against the learning support activities that the head office was catering for. The study follows a qualitative case-study design inspired by phronetic-based research (Flyvbjerg, 2001), and utilises a mixed method approach to data collection involving a variety of research instruments. The author of the thesis worked in different positions in the field and in the head office (1997-2007). An improved version of the concept of learning patterns (Sterck, 2004) is introduced to gain insights in the tenacity of learning practices. It is derived from an in-depth analysis of the underlying characteristics of the formal and informal learning activities. Important drivers of the observed learning patterns are argued to be axiological in nature. These result in strongly diverging views about why learning should happen, what should be learned, and how learning should be organised. These views are captured and analysed through a newly constructed concept, the learning support framework. The findings for project level learning are multiple and point at the importance of both intra-organisational and external factors. The working environment of the two case study projects was characterised by internal (micro-political) and external (institutional and socio-economic) sources of pressure that seriously complicated learning processes. However, evidence is provided that both project teams managed to develop powerful learning processes. The ‘situated' learning patterns of ZimPATH and St2eep shared a view of learning as a strategy to deal with the complexity of work. Knowledge was regarded as a process, with a focus on knowledge creation and the use of local knowledge. Both projects integrated learning in their daily practice via the extensive use of social learning practices and by creating conducive conditions for implicit learning. The bulk of these practices was going under the radar in the head office. It treated implicit learning rather passively and it hardly addressed the structural factors hindering such learning. As a consequence, teams without skills and insights into workplace learning were largely left on their own. The analysis of agency-wide learning in VVOB confirms research that indicates that ‘tacit knowledge does not travel easily' (Gertler, 2003, p.84). The strong bias towards vertical learning processes, ICT-solutions and the codification of knowledge created a bureaucratic learning pattern. It did not stop VVOB from entering into a profound crisis. A severe institutional emergency, triggered by external pressure of back donors and institutional partners in the years 2005 and 2006, together with changes in the management brought the momentum for change. The resulting improvements in learning at the field level were, however, not replicated for agency-wide learning. This is linked in the thesis with a lack of ‘institutional proximity' (Gertler, 2003). Initiatives introducing changes in existing learning practices are deemed to face fierce resistance unless they take into account crucial internal factors (such as the configuration of views, interests and history with regard to knowledge and learning), and various external causes of pressure. An alternative 3 step approach is proposed. In conclusion, unless development agencies and back-donors become more responsive towards the challenges of sharing tacit knowledge across organisational, institutional, cultural and power divides, projects like ZimPATH and St2eep are likely to remain pockets of innovation.

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Smith, Robert. "The World Bank as a learning organization : an analysis of the Bank functions as an educational lender to the developing world." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/5fa36fa5-0612-4e92-aaca-56575d86c81c.

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Feldt, Zanna, and Erik Mekkelholt. "Different Methods and Strategies to Aid Reading for Pupils Affected by ADHD." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-34281.

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This study investigates the effectiveness of different methods and strategies to aid reading for pupils affected by ADHD. According to recent studies, 1-2 pupils are affected by ADHD in the classrooms (Lenard, Lorch, Milich & Hagans, 2008). Furthermore, these pupils are at a higher risk of falling behind their peers (Zentall,1993). Different factors contribute to these results, but one factor may be that the methods and strategies used for ADHD pupils are not sufficient. Furthermore, they might not even be used correctly or used at all. Additionally, there are precise results that some methods show a positive outcome, while others are lacking in the result area. We will, therefore, explore what methods are more considerable and which ones are worse and how the notable the results are. We also investigate the viability of these methods correlation to our age group and how viable in the classroom.

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Ostroff, Wendy Louise. "Non-linguistic Influences on Infants' Nonnative Phoneme Perception: Exaggerated prosody and Visual Speech Information Aid Discrimination." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27640.

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Research indicates that infants lose the capacity to perceive distinctions in nonnative sounds as they become sensitive to the speech sounds of their native language (i.e., by 10- to 12-months of age). However, investigations into the decline in nonnative phonetic perception have neglected to examine the role of non-linguistic information. Exaggerated prosodic intonation and facial input are prominent in the infantsâ language-learning environment, and both have been shown to ease the task of speech perception. The current investigation was designed to examine the impact of infant-directed (ID) speech and facial input on infantsâ ability to discriminate phonemes that do not contrast in their native language. Specifically, 11-month-old infants were tested for discrimination of both a native phoneme contrast and a nonnative phoneme contrast across four conditions, including an auditory manipulation (ID speech vs. AD speech) and a visual manipulation (Face vs. Geometric Form). The results indicated that infants could discriminate the native phonemes across any of the four conditions. Furthermore, the infants could discriminate the nonnative phonemes if they had enhanced auditory and visual information available to them (i.e., if they were presented in ID speech with a synchronous facial display), and if the nonnative discrimination task was the infantsâ first test session. These results suggest that infants do not lose the capacity to discriminate nonnative phonemes by the end of the first postnatal year, but that they rely on certain language-relevant and non-linguistic sources of information to discriminate nonnative sounds.
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Nyman, Måns, and Caner Naim Ulug. "Exploring the Potential for Machine Learning Techniques to Aid in Categorizing Electron Trajectories during Magnetic Reconnection." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279982.

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Magnetic reconnection determines the space weather which has a direct impact on our contemporary technological systems. As such, the phenomenon has serious ramifications on humans. Magnetic reconnection is a topic which has been studied for a long time, yet still many aspects surrounding the phenomenon remain unexplored. Scientists within the field believe that the electron dynamics play an important role in magnetic reconnection. During magnetic reconnection, electrons can be accelerated to high velocities. A large number of studies have been made regarding the trajectories that these electrons exhibit and researchers in this field could easily point out what type of trajectory a specific electron exhibits given a plot of said trajectory. Attempting to do this for a more realistic number of electrons manually is however not an easy or efficient task to take on. By using Machine Learning techniques to attempt to categorize these trajectories, this process could be sped up immensely. Yet to date there has been no attempt at this. In this thesis, an attempt to answer how certain Machine Learning techniques perform in this matter was made. Principal component analysis and K-means clustering were the main methods applied after using different preprocessing methods on the given data set. The Elbow method was employed to find the optimal K-value and was complemented by Self-Organizing Maps. Silhouette coefficient was used to measure the performance of the methods. The First-centering and Mean-centering preprocessing methods yielded the two highest silhouette coefficients, thus displaying the best quantitative performances. However, inspection of the clusters pointed to a lack of perfect overlap between the classes detected by employed techniques and the classes identified in previous physics articles. Nevertheless, Machine Learning methods proved to possess certain potential that is worth exploring in greater detail in future studies in the field of magnetic reconnection.
Magnetisk rekonnektion påverkar rymdvädret som har en direkt påverkan på våra nutida teknologiska system. Således kan fenomenet ge allvarliga konsekvenser för människor. Forskare inom detta fält tror att elektrondynamiken spelar en viktig roll i magnetisk rekonnektion. Magnetisk rekonnektion är ett ämne som har studerats under lång tid men ännu förblir många aspekter av fenomenet outforskade. Under magnetisk rekonnektion kan elektroner accelereras till höga hastigheter. En stor mängd studier har gjorts angående trajektorierna som dessa elektroner uppvisar och forskare som är aktiva inom detta forskningsområde skulle enkelt kunna bestämma vilken sorts trajektoria en specifik elektron uppvisar givet en grafisk illustration av sagda trajektoria. Att försöka göra detta för ett mer realistiskt antal elektroner manuellt är dock ingen enkel eller effektiv uppgift att ta sig an. Genom användning av Maskininlärningstekniker för att försöka kategorisera dessa trajektorier skulle denna process kunna göras mycket mer effektiv. Ännu har dock inga försök att göra detta gjorts. I denna uppsats gjordes ett försök att besvara hur väl vissa Maskinlärningstekniker presterar i detta avseende. Principal component analysis och K-means clustering var huvudmetoderna som användes, applicerade med olika sorters förbehandling av den givna datan. Elbow-metoden användes för att hitta det optimala K-värdet och kompletterades av Self-Organizing Maps. Silhouette coefficient användes för att mäta resultaten av dessa metoder. Förbehandlingsmetoderna First-centering och Mean-centering gav de två högsta siluett-koefficienterna och uppvisade således de bästa kvantitativa resultaten. Inspektion av klustrarna pekade dock på avsaknad av perfekt överlappning, både mellan klasserna som upptäcktes av de tillämpade metoderna samt klasserna som har identifierats i tidigare artiklar inom fysik. Trots detta visade sig Maskininlärningsmetoder besitta viss potential som är värt att utforska i större detalj i framtida studier inom fältet magnetisk rekonnektion.

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Gormbley, Edward Z. "The hope and lifetime learning credits: the political sociology of federal financial aid for undergraduate education." Thesis, Boston University, 2000. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32868.

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Thesis (B.A.)--Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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De, Beer Isabella Constance. "Experiences of learners when a computer simulation is used to aid teaching the photoelectric effect." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40532.

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This study explores the use of computer simulations to supplement learning in Science lessons, specifically the photoelectric effect. This study uses the Felder and Silverman Learning Style Model (FSLSM) as a theoretical framework to investigate the use of simulations as it provides a useful lens through which to explore the consistent way in which a person learns regardless of the teaching method or content learnt. Using this theoretical framework, this research investigates the experiences of learners with different learning styles when an interactive computer simulation is used to aid teaching the photoelectric effect in Physical Science. This case study used qualitative data collected from 17 computer literate Grade 12 learners in three different classes at a secondary school in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga. Analysis of the data collected in this study shows that when the simulation is used in Science, the learning experience of the learners is enhanced. Positive experiences for all four the Dimensions in the FSLSM could be indentified when the ICS was used and this could be linked to specific learning styles. Sensory and Intuitive learners enjoyed conducting the experiment that would normally require unsafe conditions and that the experiment could be set up quickly and with ease. The different dimension brought about by using the ICS was enjoyed by Intuitive learners. The visualisation of the abstract physical systems enhanced the learning for Visual and Verbal learners, whilst Global and Sequential learners felt that they gained a deeper understanding of the photoelectric phenomenon by using the ICS. Reflective learners enjoyed the precision of their pseudo-experimental data, but the Active learners felt that they did not understand the graphs given in the ICS. The interactive control variables and the fact that the learners had an option to work in either a group or on their own, benefitted both Active and Reflective learners.
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England, Rebecca Louise. "The use of hand-held mobile devices as aids to learning within flexible learning spaces in tertiary Information Technology classes." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/87965/1/Rebecca_England_Thesis.pdf.

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Mobile devices are very popular among tertiary student populations. This study looks at student use of hand-held mobile devices within the context of a first year programming unit. This research sought for ways in which an educational app on these devices could be successfully integrated into such a class's learning.

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Backlund, Alexander. "Switching hybrid recommender system to aid the knowledge seekers." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414623.

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In our daily life, time is of the essence. People do not have time to browse through hundreds of thousands of digital items every day to find the right item for them. This is where a recommendation system shines. Tigerhall is a company that distributes podcasts, ebooks and events to subscribers. They are expanding their digital content warehouse which leads to more data for the users to filter. To make it easier for users to find the right podcast or the most exciting e-book or event, a recommendation system has been implemented. A recommender system can be implemented in many different ways. There are content-based filtering methods that can be used that focus on information about the items and try to find relevant items based on that. Another alternative is to use collaboration filtering methods that use information about what the consumer has previously consumed in correlation with what other users have consumed to find relevant items. In this project, a hybrid recommender system that uses a k-nearest neighbors algorithm alongside a matrix factorization algorithm has been implemented. The k-nearest neighbors algorithm performed well despite the sparse data while the matrix factorization algorithm performs worse. The matrix factorization algorithm performed well when the user has consumed plenty of items.

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O'Neill, Michael John. "The use of a thinking skills approach to aid the learning of difficult concepts in physics education." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268459.

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McGilvray, Kellie Christine. "An Analysis of Student Preparedness Factors that Aid in Satisfaction and Retention in Online Courses and Programs." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1396452179.

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Breslin, Randal Scott. "Exploring the professional journeys of exemplary expatriate field leaders in the international aid sector : a collective case study." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25495.

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The international aid sector is a multi-billion dollar industry that has continued to grow in size, influence and complexity since the 1970s. The stakeholders are globalised and diverse, from elite UN politicians in New York and Geneva to malnourished infants in Somalia. This study attempts to focus on the professional development of one category of player in this multifaceted sector, that is the expatriate field leader employed international non-government organisations (INGO) and responsible for the implementation of projects in a cross-cultural environment. The study found that relationships, results, and grit were three foundational traits of exemplary expatriate filed leaders in the international aid sector. This collective case study takes a grounded theory approach to explore the professional journeys of 12 exemplary expatriate field practitioners in the international aid sector who work in Central Asia, Middle East, and North Africa with ten different INGOs and have an average of 12.5 years of field experience. The participants were nominated for the study by their supervisors or peers as being exemplary field leaders. The study purposes to gain insight into the professional journey of exemplary field leaders by examining their work-life experience from age 18 until present. Biographic narrative interviews were conducted and supplemented with professional development timelines to create the initial data set. The study provides insight into the processes of professional identity formation of expatriate aid workers and identifies seven events that shape their professional self-identity. These experiences consist of a variety of reflected appraisals and intrinsic rewards that validated or changed how the research participants saw themselves. Participants credited good relationships and seeing the results of their work as what keeps them going in spite of difficulties. On the other hand, the most difficult work experiences of the aid workers were not carjacking, riots, dust, heat, bugs, strange food, or low funding but relational conflicts and the grief associated with relational disappointments. Interpersonal relationships were core to both the best experiences and the most difficult experiences of the research participants. Gritty appears to be a better construct to describe exemplary field leaders than resilient. Grit is a trait defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals. The research participants demonstrated grit in many situations, not least of which was in their commitment to learn the local language in-situ of crisis-affected people. The research participants believed that learning local languages was a key to establish and maintain meaningful relationships and cooperation with local people. The study also includes a discussion of an apparent incongruity in the international aid sector. On one hand the sector promotes the necessity of humanitarian professionals to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with crisis-affected people, but survey evidence suggests most workers in the humanitarian sector put a low priority on learning the languages of crisis-affected people while others do not have sufficient opportunity to learn the local languages because of the well-entrenched tradition of short-term employment contracts of 1-12 months and the practice of churning (rotating experienced staff from project to project). It appears that the current system of doing business in the humanitarian sector may actually obstruct professional competence and contribute to failed outcomes.

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Eliatamby, Anna. "The use of frames by clinical psychologists in learning difficulties services to aid clinical decision making in crises." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264381.

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Frederico, Gustavo Cesar de Souza. "Feature selection and evaluation for genre classification of symbolically encoded classical music with the aid of machine learning." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27244.

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This work defines useful features for the classification of symbolically encoded music into 14 classical genres namely chorale, symphony, etude, fugue, prelude, contrafactum, sonata, mazurka, motet, sonatina, waltze, concerto, Gregorian chant and scherzo. Features are based on Music Theory and grouped into seven categories: distances in the harmonic mobius strip, distances on the line of fifths, scale, rhythmic syncopation and meter, polyphony measurements, duration and instrumentation. Features are extracted and ranked combining 5 filter-based methods. Six Machine Learning algorithms are defined for classification: three Support Vector Machines, one Bayesian network, the C4.5 and random forests. Using nested cross-validation for training and testing and considering all the features, the Bayesian network classifier yields 84.10% empirical accuracy. The FEATUROMETRE process measures the usefulness of the feature subsets in an approach similar to wrapper methods, conveying relevant information to domain experts. Another experiment measures the usefulness and accuracy of features individually and by category using FEATUROMETRE. Grouping the music pieces by their period, the measured accuracy with the random forest classifier in the second experiment reaches 89.81%.

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Taherzadeh, Alice Lida. "An Alternative Currency for Education : A Comparative Case Study of Learning Practices within Time Banks." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158120.

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This study aims to investigate learning practices within Time Banks in Spain. Time Banking is a community currency concerned with the exchange of services between members using time as the currency. Parallels can be drawn with Ivan Illich’s ‘Skills Exchange’ model in Deschooling Society (1971b) and this provides the initial motivation for the study of Time Banks from an educational perspective, which is identified as a gap in the literature. Moving on from Illich, the investigation of Time Banks is considered in relation to the wider context of Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society. The heterogeneity of Time Bank models in Spain motivates a comparative research design based on differing organisational logics, whilst the exploratory nature of investigating Time Banks as spaces of learning motivates a case study methodology in order to gain a contextualised understanding of the problem. The study finds that the Time Banks are built on principles of Mutual Aid (Kropotkin, 1902) and, whilst practices and values resonate somewhat with Illich’s critiques of modernism, a skills exchange model does not best represent the learning that takes place in Time Banks. Furthermore, this research finds that in all three Time Banks, the exchange of services forms only a small part of overall activities. Additional activities provide opportunities for the exchange of skills and knowledge between participants. However, the learning highlighted as more important by TB users is learning to participate. That is, learning solidarity and personal and social skills through active participation in the Time Bank. These findings are then positioned within the context of radical adult education and future lines of inquiry are identified.

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Chege, Wilberforce Wanjau. "Mobile phone technology as an aid to contemporary transport questions in walkability, in the context of developing countries." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31388.

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The emerging global middle class, which is expected to double by 2050 desires more walkable, liveable neighbourhoods, and as distances between work and other amenities increases, cities are becoming less monocentric and becoming more polycentric. African cities could be described as walking cities, based on the number of people that walk to their destinations as opposed to other means of mobility but are often not walkable. Walking is by far the most popular form of transportation in Africa’s rapidly urbanising cities, although it is not often by choice rather a necessity. Facilitating this primary mode, while curbing the growth of less sustainable mobility uses requires special attention for the safety and convenience of walking in view of a Global South context. In this regard, to further promote walking as a sustainable mobility option, there is a need to assess the current state of its supporting infrastructure and begin giving it higher priority, focus and emphasis. Mobile phones have emerged as a useful alternative tool to collect this data and audit the state of walkability in cities. They eliminate the inaccuracies and inefficiencies of human memories because smartphone sensors such as GPS provides information with accuracies within 5m, providing superior accuracy and precision compared to other traditional methods. The data is also spatial in nature, allowing for a range of possible applications and use cases. Traditional inventory approaches in walkability often only revealed the perceived walkability and accessibility for only a subset of journeys. Crowdsourcing the perceived walkability and accessibility of points of interest in African cities could address this, albeit aspects such as ease-of-use and road safety should also be considered. A tool that crowdsources individual pedestrian experiences; availability and state of pedestrian infrastructure and amenities, using state-of-the-art smartphone technology, would over time also result in complete surveys of the walking environment provided such a tool is popular and safe. This research will illustrate how mobile phone applications currently in the market can be improved to offer more functionality that factors in multiple sensory modalities for enhanced visual appeal, ease of use, and aesthetics. The overarching aim of this research is, therefore, to develop the framework for and test a pilot-version mobile phone-based data collection tool that incorporates emerging technologies in collecting data on walkability. This research project will assess the effectiveness of the mobile application and test the technical capabilities of the system to experience how it operates within an existing infrastructure. It will continue to investigate the use of mobile phone technology in the collection of user perceptions of walkability, and the limitations of current transportation-based mobile applications, with the aim of developing an application that is an improvement to current offerings in the market. The prototype application will be tested and later piloted in different locations around the globe. Past studies are primarily focused on the development of transport-based mobile phone applications with basic features and limited functionality. Although limited progress has been made in integrating emerging advanced technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Machine Learning (ML), Big Data analytics, amongst others into mobile phone applications; what is missing from these past examples is a comprehensive and structured application in the transportation sphere. In turn, the full research will offer a broader understanding of the iii information gathered from these smart devices, and how that large volume of varied data can be better and more quickly interpreted to discover trends, patterns, and aid in decision making and planning. This research project attempts to fill this gap and also bring new insights, thus promote the research field of transportation data collection audits, with particular emphasis on walkability audits. In this regard, this research seeks to provide insights into how such a tool could be applied in assessing and promoting walkability as a sustainable and equitable mobility option. In order to get policy-makers, analysts, and practitioners in urban transport planning and provision in cities to pay closer attention to making better, more walkable places, appealing to them from an efficiency and business perspective is vital. This crowdsourced data is of great interest to industry practitioners, local governments and research communities as Big Data, and to urban communities and civil society as an input in their advocacy activities. The general findings from the results of this research show clear evidence that transport-based mobile phone applications currently available in the market are increasingly getting outdated and are not keeping up with new and emerging technologies and innovations. It is also evident from the results that mobile smartphones have revolutionised the collection of transport-related information hence the need for new initiatives to help take advantage of this emerging opportunity. The implications of these findings are that more attention needs to be paid to this niche going forward. This research project recommends that more studies, particularly on what technologies and functionalities can realistically be incorporated into mobile phone applications in the near future be done as well as on improving the hardware specifications of mobile phone devices to facilitate and support these emerging technologies whilst keeping the cost of mobile devices as low as possible.

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Ghneim, Jabra F. "The Practice of Belonging: Can Learning Entrepreneurship Accelerate and Aid the Social Inclusion of Refugees in the United States." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8979.

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This dissertation examines the role that culinary entrepreneurship communities of practice, using Lave and Wenger's Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) model (Lave & Wenger, 1991), can lead to better social and economic inclusion for Middle Eastern Muslim refugee chefs in Utah. The life history approach was used to construct life histories for two Middle Eastern Muslim refugee chefs in Utah who joined the Spice Kitchen Incubator (SKI) program. SKI is a community of practice funded by the International Rescue Committee to assist refugee chefs in the resettlement process. This was an exploratory study, and given the limited number of cases reviewed, the conclusions cannot be generalized. However, this study concludes that SKI, as a community of practice, despite the many difficulties faced by refugee programs in the period 2016-2018 (the study period), had a positive impact on the social and economic inclusion outcomes for the participants.

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Larson, David K. Rhodes Dent. "Prototype decision support system to aid in predicting training strategy success using system dynamics modeling software /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3196651.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2005.
Title from title page screen, viewed September 26, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Dent M. Rhodes (chair), Temba C. Bassoppo-Moyo, Thomas Crumpler, Patricia Rushing. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-200) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Bensenberg, Michelle. "Learning when to ask : the quantity and type of implementation data as a function of when the data are collected in a program evaluation /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Shepherd, Melvin D. "A study using communcation practices, motivation principles and high performance learning strategies to aid students in the classroom with emotional disabilities." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004shepherdm.pdf.

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Kenving, Kristina. "Undervisning och dyslexi : Några gymnasieläraren arbetssätt för att stödja elever med dyslexi." Thesis, Karlstad University, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-6272.

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According to the curriculum the teachers have a responsibility to adjust the activities in the classroom in order to suit the pupils and to give them the means of assistance the pupils need to be successful in their learning. The teachers should also stimulate the interest to learn and support the pupils’ self esteem. One of the problems a dyslectic pupil faces is an often weak self esteem. Another is the weak phonological awareness which makes it hard to fully understand the context and to recognize different phonemes when writing. Their difficulties in writing results in a resistance to improve their own texts.

The methods of teaching which are said to be positive to pupils with dyslexia are used by the teachers at the reviewed school. They use teacher controlled lessons instead of individual work. They support the pupils with lesson’s notes which the pupil could complete with own words. They use pictures to support the theme of the lesson. They read many texts aloud.

Among the aids that are described as important to the dyslectic pupils are the computer and the programs adjusted to the special needs a dyslectic pupil has. The pupils in the separate class are given a computer, but the use of the supporting programmes is low. The computer is also regarded as a tool to increase one’s self esteem.

Föhrer and Magnusson as well as one of the teachers mean that the computer increase the pupil’s self esteem.

Taube asserts that in order to increase the self esteem the pupil needs to experience a number of concrete successes from one’s own work. The teachers at the reviewed school have some extra hours as a resource to use to support the pupils individually. The fact that the class is small helps the teachers to know the pupil.

Skolans styrdokument är tydliga med att skolan har ett stort ansvar för att anpassa verksamheten i klassrummet och ge eleverna de hjälpmedel som de behöver för att klara utbildningen. Lärarna ska stimulera intresset att lära samt bevara eller höja elevens självkänsla. Ett av de problem som en dyslektiker står inför är en ofta svag självkänsla. Ett annat är den låga fonologiska medvetenheten, vilken gör det svårt att läsa med sammanhang samt att känna igen de olika fonemen när texter ska skrivas. Svårigheterna att skriva kan göra att eleven har ett motstånd mot att bearbeta sina texter.

De undervisningsmetoder som framhålls som positiva för elever med dyslexi används av lärarna på den undersökta skolan. De arbetar med lärarledda lektioner istället för självständigt arbete. De ger eleven basanteckningar som eleven kan komplettera med egna ord. De använder bilder som stöd för lektionens innehåll. De läser många texter högt för klassen.

Bland de hjälpmedel som framställs som betydande för dyslektikern är datorn med dyslexianpassade program. Eleverna i den specialutformade dyslexiklassen får alla en dator men använder hjälpprogrammen i liten utsträckning. Datorn ses också som ett verktyg för att höja självkänslan.

Taube menar att för att höja självkänslan behöver eleven få uppleva en rad konkreta framgångar i det egna arbetet. Lärarna på den undersökta skolan har en extra resurs i form av tid för att stödja eleverna individuellt för att de ska kunna uppleva framgången. Att klassen är liten gör också att lärarna känner varje enskild elev bra och har lätt att hitta metoder att stödja eleven.

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Van, Assche Dimitri. "New methodological perspectives on PROMETHEE methods." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2019. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/287858/6/contratDV.pdf.

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A few methodological contributions to the PROMETHEE method, essentially based on 3 articles:-FlowSort parameters elicitation based on categorization examples;-PROMETHEE is Not Quadratic: An O (qnlog (n)) Algorithm;-Lexicographic constrained multicriteria ordered clustering.
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Liljegren, Emma, and Therese Nordström. "Inlärningssvårigheter i matematik - en systematisk litteraturstudie om undervisningsmetoder som fungerar i arbetet med elever som anses ha inlärningssvårigheter i matematik." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-52253.

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Matematiksvårigheter är ett omdebatterat ämne i det svenska samhället. Elever som är i matematiksvårigheter kan ses som avvikande från normen och skolans förmåga att möta dessa elever minskar. När denna förmåga minskar används medicinska diagnoser i större utsträckning. Inlärningssvårigheter i matematik är en diagnos som det råder oenighet kring. Undervisningen ska anpassas till varje elevs behov vilket innebär att elever med inlärningssvårigheter i matematik ska få det stöd som behövs för att kunna utvecklas i matematikämnet. Därför är syftet att, genom en systematisk litteraturstudie, undersöka vilka undervisningsmetoder det finns som kan underlätta för elever som anses ha inlärningssvårigheter i matematik. Databasen som använts för insamling av artiklar var Web of Science. Två övergripande teman framkom från resultatet: Stöttning genom interaktion och Stöttning genom material. Utifrån dessa teman framkom flera undervisningsmetoder som fungerar i arbetet med elever som anses ha inlärningssvårigheter i matematik.
Difficulties in mathematics is a well debated topic in the Swedish society. Students in mathematical difficulties can be viewed as divergent from the norm and the school´s ability to meet the needs of these student´s decreases. The rate of students receiving a medical diagnosis increases when this ability decreases. There are uncertainties surrounding the diagnosis of learning disabilities (LD) in mathematics. The instruction should be adapted to meet the needs of every student, which means that students with learning disabilities in mathematics should receive the support that is necessary to progress in mathematics. Thus, the purpose of the study is to, through a systematic literature study, examine the availability of teaching methods that can provide aid for students who are believed to have LD in mathematics. The database that was used to collect articles was Web of Science. Two general themes were discovered: Aid through interaction and Aid through materials. Several teaching methods that are successful in the educational practice of students who are believed to possess LD in mathematics was discovered.

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Miranda, Joana Dias Lopes de. "O design de informação e os primeiros socorros - a aprendizagem de primeiros socorros por parte das crianças dos 8 aos 10 anos." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Arquitectura, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6074.

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Tese de Mestrado em Design de Comunicação.
Nos dias de hoje vivemos rodeados de grandes quantidades de informa-ção, que chega até nós nas mais diversas formas (televisão, jornais, internet, folhetos, cartazes, etc.). Nunca tivemos acesso a tanta informa-ção, contudo, para a compreendermos esta tem de ser trabalhada de forma a que se torne clara e objectiva. Caso contrário, não passam de dados aglomerados sem qualquer utilidade. Neste contexto, o design de informação ganha um papel crucial na sociedade, porque é a disciplina responsável por seleccionar, organizar e representar informação, tornan-do-a útil para determinado(s) utilizador(es). Este estudo procura utilizar as capacidades do design de informação na criação de materiais destinados à aprendizagem de primeiros socorros, para crianças entre os 8 e os 10 anos. Através das potencialidades do design, pretende tornar a informação dessas temáticas em algo fácil de compreender e memorizar. Para chegarmos a conclusões sobre que contributo esta disciplina pode dar a este tipo de materiais, foram primeiramente analisados os projectos já existentes sobre primeiros socorros para o mesmo público-alvo. A análise foi realizada, de um ponto de vista gráfico e infográfico, para detectar falhas e necessidades referentes à organização e representação da informação nos materiais apresentados e/ou distribuídos às crianças. Esses materiais foram relacionados com infografias com grandes capacidades ao nível da transmissão de informação e com teorizações de designers. Todas as conclusões obtidas através das análises, bem como os conhecimentos que foram aprofundados na área do design de informação e das suas estra-tégias, sustentaram, posteriormente, o desenvolvimento de um projecto no âmbito da investigação.

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Fuqua, McMath Blanche Floannell. "A Curriculum Design Using Mnemonic-Type Techniques to Aid Recall in Low/Average Achievers in the Fifth Grade." UNF Digital Commons, 1988. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/694.

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Children in the Duval County School System in Jacksonville, Florida, who are low/average achievers have to compete in a multi-graded classroom atmosphere. These students are passed along supported by low minimum-based competency test scores. The purpose of this project was to show teachers how they can present mnemonic procedures to these students in an effort to help these students raise test scores, boost self-esteem, and provide a self-help study device that can aid their progress in subsequent grades, aid morale, and thus avoid potential drop-outs in the system. This curriculum design is offered in the subjects of health and science. The research reviewed shows that mnemonic procedures can be used in all subject areas in the fifth grade.

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Marzilli, Michael Dean, and Michael Howard Minier. "The use of manipulatives and thematic units to aid with learning, to create interest, and to increase involvement for at-risk students in consumer math." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1473.

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Ljungvall, Anton. "Video Game Narratives in Swedish EFL Teaching : A Study of How the Use of Video Game Narratives Could Potentially Aid or Hinder Swedish EFL Teaching." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52297.

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This study aims to explore the potential benefits and disadvantages of utilizing video game narratives in Swedish EFL teaching. The subject is approached through a qualitative literature review of previous research on the use of video games in the process of L2 acquisition. The results are then discussed from a sociocultural perspective, in relation to the frameworks introduced in the background and to the Swedish steering documents. The results indicate that video games are likely to be part of many students’ out-of-school experiences of the English language and that playing video games can be seen as an example of extramural language learning. The results also highlight how engaging in multiplayer video game narratives can aid L2 acquisition by for example increasing motivation, expanding learner vocabulary and by providing learners with strategies for discourse management such as politeness, humor and small talk. The collaborative and interactive nature of the video game narrative and of video game communities is also shown to align well with the Swedish steering documents that promote social interaction and the development of communicative competence. However, direct classroom implementation of video games is problematized by the fact that not all students have previous experience or tools for interacting with the video game format of storytelling and that gender discrepancies in video game consumption could lead to boys benefiting more than girls from language learning through video game narratives.

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Ng, Sui-kou, and 伍瑞強. "Microcomputer and physics: a study of the effectiveness of computer assisted learning as an aid on students'understanding of the concepts of force and motion in secondary schoolphysics." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31955836.

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Chen, Xianda, and Xiaodi Chen. "How to Improve Customer Satisfaction Leading to Pay for Premium Service-Shanbay." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355134.

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With the increasing number of people studying online, self-aid learning platforms which help customers（users）study by themselves are more and more prevalent in China. Self-aid online learning is a relatively innovative field which has not been widely and thoroughly researched. This paper used Shanbay which is one of the largest self-aid English learning platforms in China as an example to investigate what and how factors influence customer satisfaction leading to their (re)purchase intention. Based on the previous models and empirical studies of some related fields, this paper outlined a new framework and generated eight propositions to explore these two research questions. Both free users and premium users of Shanbay were interviewed to gather the research material, and the data got from the interview were analyzed to develop the propositions. This paper found that positive service experience can facilitate customer satisfaction from their perceived utilitarian value and hedonic value. Among the proposed five factors influencing the two values, perceived usefulness was considered as the most important factor while perceived playfulness was the least one. What’ more, the relationship between customer satisfaction and (re)purchase intention was suggested to be positive in this paper.

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Royston-Muirhead, Lee. "Factors which aid or inhibit peer-to-peer interaction during Project Based Learning in a virtual high school for anxious school refusers: a case study in the United Kingdom." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22832.

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The prevalence of adolescent school absenteeism due to severe bullying in the UK exceeds 16 000 young people, and the occurrence of anxious school refusers (including self-exclusion due to bullying) is a well-documented issue that transcends geographical borders. The research context for this study is a virtual school (Red Balloon of the Air) that provides educational, therapeutic and social support for some of these young people who are missing out on an education, many of whom have had difficult experiences with peers in previous educational settings. The aim of this case study was to investigate factors that aid or inhibit peer-to-peer interaction and collaboration during a Project Based Learning (PBL) activity in a virtual high school for anxious school refusers. A conceptual framework drawing on the works of Moore (1989), Curtis and Lawson (2001) and Murphy (2004) was developed to analyse the subsidiary research questions. The findings show that notable levels of peer-to-peer interaction were recorded in the chat transcripts from the PBL activity (31.9%), however this interaction did not constitute any notable form of collaboration in the small group activities where the highest concentration of peer-to-peer interactions were recorded. The factors that appear to aid peer-to-peer interaction include incorporating small group work, pairing newer students with more experienced students, and introducing blended learning opportunities whereby students interact face-to-face. In addition to this, on average an increased length of time at the virtual school seems to increase peerto- peer interaction, with the exception of students experiencing emotional difficulty during activities, and level of student choice resulting in students sometimes choosing to working alone. The role of the teacher in peer-to-peer interactions and supporting collaboration is a prominent theme, in particular how the use of technology increases the teacher's access to student conversations which could make the teachers more likely to intervene with solutions. Peer-to-peer interaction and social presence are a pre-requisite for collaboration, however as evidenced in this study the presence of both does not automatically mean collaboration will occur. The limitations of this study include that the findings are based on one PBL activity, which took place in the final weeks of the academic year with no links to the national curriculum. The findings of the study serve as a foundation for further research in the field.

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Ng, Sui-kou. "Microcomputer and physics : a study of the effectiveness of computer assisted learning as an aid on students' understanding of the concepts of force and motion in secondary school physics /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1988. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18039364.

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Chen, Beichen, and Amy Jinxin Chen. "PCA based dimensionality reduction of MRI images for training support vector machine to aid diagnosis of bipolar disorder." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-259621.

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This study aims to investigate how dimensionality reduction of neuroimaging data prior to training support vector machines (SVMs) affects the classification accuracy of bipolar disorder. This study uses principal component analysis (PCA) for dimensionality reduction. An open source data set of 19 bipolar and 31 control structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) samples was used, part of the UCLA Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics LA5c Study funded by the NIH Roadmap Initiative aiming to foster breakthroughs in the development of novel treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders. The images underwent smoothing, feature extraction and PCA before they were used as input to train SVMs. 3-fold cross-validation was used to tune a number of hyperparameters for linear, radial, and polynomial kernels. Experiments were done to investigate the performance of SVM models trained using 1 to 29 principal components (PCs). Several PC sets reached 100% accuracy in the final evaluation, with the minimal set being the first two principal components. Accumulated variance explained by the PCs used did not have a correlation with the performance of the model. The choice of kernel and hyperparameters is of utmost importance as the performance obtained can vary greatly. The results support previous studies that SVM can be useful in aiding the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and that the use of PCA as a dimensionality reduction method in combination with SVM may be appropriate for the classification of neuroimaging data for illnesses not limited to bipolar disorder. Due to the limitation of a small sample size, the results call for future research using larger collaborative data sets to validate the accuracies obtained.
Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur dimensionalitetsreduktion av neuroradiologisk data före träning av stödvektormaskiner (SVMs) påverkar klassificeringsnoggrannhet av bipolär sjukdom. Studien använder principalkomponentanalys (PCA) för dimensionalitetsreduktion. En datauppsättning av 19 bipolära och 31 friska magnetisk resonanstomografi(MRT) bilder användes, vilka tillhör den öppna datakällan från studien UCLA Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics LA5c som finansierades av NIH Roadmap Initiative i syfte att främja genombrott i utvecklingen av nya behandlingar för neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar. Bilderna genomgick oskärpa, särdragsextrahering och PCA innan de användes som indata för att träna SVMs. Med 3-delad korsvalidering inställdes ett antal parametrar för linjära, radiala och polynomiska kärnor. Experiment gjordes för att utforska prestationen av SVM-modeller tränade med 1 till 29 principalkomponenter (PCs). Flera PC uppsättningar uppnådde 100% noggrannhet i den slutliga utvärderingen, där den minsta uppsättningen var de två första PCs. Den ackumulativa variansen över antalet PCs som användes hade inte någon korrelation med prestationen på modellen. Valet av kärna och hyperparametrar är betydande eftersom prestationen kan variera mycket. Resultatet stödjer tidigare studier att SVM kan vara användbar som stöd för diagnostisering av bipolär sjukdom och användningen av PCA som en dimensionalitetsreduktionsmetod i kombination med SVM kan vara lämplig för klassificering av neuroradiologisk data för bipolär och andra sjukdomar. På grund av begränsningen med få dataprover, kräver resultaten framtida forskning med en större datauppsättning för att validera de erhållna noggrannheten.

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Henning, Karl, and Catja Lövstrand. "Krisstöd – ett finmaskigt skyddsnät : En studie om polisens krisstödsfunktion." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-375742.

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Police officers today run the risk of being exposed to events that others will never experience during their lifetime. Many of these experiences may lead to traumatic memories that, in worst case, could make them never wanting to work as a police officer again. How can the police get better at taking care of their employees? This study aims to shed light over how the crisis-supporters perceive their learning within the activity of debriefing. The research questions asked are:” what moments in debriefing do the crisis-supporters identify as a learning activity?” and ”in what ways do the crisis-supporters think they can develop professionally during their practice of debriefing?”. This study investigates the phenomenon of crisis support from a sociocultural theory. The result show that the crisis-supporters feel that they get more knowledge when they debrief police officers compared to when participating in formal education. The results also show that verbal communication is very important in the practice of debriefing. Finally the results show that the interaction between crisis-supporters and police officers plays an important role in both crisis-supporters as well as police officers learning.
Poliser löper varje dag risk att erfara händelser som någon annan aldrig någonsin kommer att få uppleva under sin livstid. Många av dessa händelser kan leda till traumatiska minnen som i värsta fall gör att de inte kan fortsätta arbeta som polis. Hur kan polisen bli bättre på att ta hand om sina medarbetare? Denna studie syftar till att ge lyse åt hur krisstödjarna uppfattar sitt lärande inom krissamtal. Vi ställde frågor om ”vilka moment i krisstödet ser krisstödjarna ett lärande?” och ”på vilka sätt kan krisstödjarna utvecklas inom sitt krisstödjande?”. Studien undersöker detta genom att med hjälp av det sociokulturella perspektivet belysa lärandet hos krisstödjarna i krissamtal. Fem krisstödjare inom polisen har intervjuats med semistrukturerade intervjuer. Datamaterialet analyserades deduktivt med hjälp av tematisk analys och med sociokulturell teori som utgångspunkt. Resultatet visar bland annat att krisstödjarna får mer kunskap av att hålla krissamtal än att delta i formella utbildningar. Det visar även att språket är fundamentalt för hur krisstödjarna kommunicerar med varandra och de drabbade samt att samspelet mellan krisstödjare och drabbade spelar en viktig roll i lärandet.

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Alan, LaVerne. "Technology: The Bridge to Facilitate Learning of Adult Learners of Mathematics." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-82301.

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Borg, Erika. "ICT as a pedagogical aid for supporting students with difficulties in their acquisition of English : An interview study and an action research study." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-6222.

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The aim of this study is to investigate some uses of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a pedagogical aid for supporting students with difficulties in reaching the curricular goals in the school subject English. Special focus is on students with reading and writing difficulties and on students with a foreign background in the ninth grade of the compulsory school and in upper secondary school. The method of investigation consisted of two parts: (a) interviews with eleven regular English teachers and with four remedial teachers about their experiences of using ICT as a pedagogical aid, and (b) an action study in which ICT-based activities were tested in a group of six students with difficulties in English. The results of the interviews showed that in the remedial classes ICT-based support was rather limited. The exceptions were students with severe reading and writing difficulties and other grave learning disabilities. These students were offered greater access to various technical aids and systematic support. For dyslexic students various ICT tools often proved to be an effective and indispensable support in their learning. In non-remedial English lessons, the use of ICT was somewhat greater. Here teachers used ICT as a pedagogical aid for the benefit of all students. The computer was considered to be a good support for project writing as it provided the students with a huge database, with online dictionaries and with a spell checker. The results of the action research showed that students were positive about communicating in English via ICT and they showed great interest in other activities facilitated by technology, such as training grammar, vocabulary, and reading. In conclusion, these surveys generated results similar to those of other studies, showing that although ICT can be an effective pedagogical aid in supporting students with difficulties learning English, it is not presently being used to its full potential.

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