Adaptation and evaluation of a learning analytics dashboard to improve academic support at three Latin American universities

Despite the success of academic advising dashboards in several higher educational institutions (HEI), these dashboards are still under-explored in Latin American HEI's. To close this gap, three different Latin American universities adapted an existing advising dashboard, originally deployed at the KU Leuven to their own context. In all three cases, the context was the main ruling factor to these adaptations. In this paper, we describe these adaptions using a framework that focuses on four different elements of the context: Objectives, Stakeholders, Key moment and Interactions. Evaluation of the adapted dashboards in the three different Latin American universities is conducted through pilots. This evaluation shows the value of the dashboard approach in different contexts in terms of satisfaction, usefulness and impact in academic decision-making and advising tasks. The main contribution of this paper is the systematic reporting of the adaptations to an academic advising dashboard and showing the value of an academic advising dashboard on academic decision-making and advising tasks.     

Great Expectations? Childhood,Family, and Middle-Class Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century England

ABSTRACT

Existing histories of social mobility have focused on adults and on measuring the achievement of individual upward mobility. However, children and families were central to mobility strategies. Using the papers of the Heywoods of Bolton, this article examines how the families of the industrial middle class endowed their offspring with the goods and character needed to secure their social standing, highlighting the emotional intricacy of these processes. It demonstrates that such families conceived of social mobility as a familial project and that rather than pursuing upward mobility, their chief objective was to guard against social decline.     

母语习得特点与英语巧教

对照母语习得特点与中国学生学英语的外部条件从多年的教学实践中总结出四条巧教英语的可行办法。     

X25165与AT89C51在智能监控系统中的应用

从X25165芯片的结构、性能、工作原理出发，研究了X25165与AT89C51组成的智能监控系统的结构特点和工作原理。     

中学生电子游戏成瘾测评及影响因素分析

通过对西安、咸阳两地4所中学354名中学生调查数据的探索性因素分析和被试数据的验证性因素分析,结果表明：该量表因素结构清晰,信度和效度较好;成瘾组在性别、游戏时间、游戏类型、次数上均与对照组有显著差异,是最能预测电子游戏成瘾倾向的影响因素。     

Simulation framework for teaching in modeling and simulation areas

Simulation is the process of executing a model that describes a system with enough detail; this model has its entities, an internal state, some input and output variables and a list of processes bound to these variables. Teaching a simulation language such as general purpose simulation system (GPSS) is always a challenge, because of the way it executes the models and the abstraction level it can achieve, very different compared with most well-known programming languages. This article presents an open source simulation framework that implements a subset of entities of GPSS, which could help students to improve the understanding of this language. This tool also stores all entities of simulations in every single simulation time, which is very useful for debugging simulations, but also for getting a detailed history of all entities in the simulations, knowing exactly how they have behaved in every simulation time.     

“言文一致”与文学转型——胡适文学语雷言观释要

作为白话文运动理论倡导的先行者,胡适主要的文学语言观是“言文一致”。这一语言观的提倡将“言文分离”、封闭性太过的传统文言转型为经欧化过滤的语言新形式,从而形成文学形式与思维理念的双向更新。但二元对立思维下建立的“言文一致”的乌托邦思想,缺乏对文学语言本体性的深入思考,所带来的蒙蔽与损失也是必然的。     

Does the treatment integrity of a literacy instruction program foster student reading comprehension? A field experiment

European Journal of Psychology of Education - This study focuses on conditions that improve reading comprehension at grade 7th. We analyze the impact of the Lirécrire program, and...     

The flow of technological innovation in an R & D department

The flow of technological information, in particular the type of sources and transfer channels for technological information has been a focus of research interest since the very first studies concerning management of research and development. However, the results of these empirical studies, although encouraging and useful to managers, leave several questions unanswered, and even worse, contain some contradictions.In this paper we will try to explain some of these contradictions using the technology characteristics as an contingency factor. The model, which we will present has been tested in a twofold way: questionnaires were used to provide insight into the importance of some sources, while interviews on the basis of standardized problems led us to a better insight into sources and channels.