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Johnson, Mark William; Rodriguez-Arciniegas, Svetlana; Kataeva, Anna Nikolaevna – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The way in which informal learning in a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is coordinated is poorly understood. Conversation -- with teachers, friends or family -- contributes to the processes involved in meaningfully negotiating resources. While institution-centric education creates contexts for conversations and codifies educational attainment,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Independent Study, Concept Formation, Cybernetics
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Schlinger, Henry D., Jr. – Behavior Analyst, 2012
Rachlin (2012) makes two general assertions: (a) "To be human is to behave as humans behave, and to function in society as humans function," and (b) "essential human attributes such as consciousness, the ability to love, to feel pain, to sense, to perceive, and to imagine may all be possessed by a computer'. Although Rachlin's article is an…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Philosophy, Cognitive Processes, Cybernetics
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Tsai, Min-hsiu – Action in Teacher Education, 2012
This study investigates the consistency between human raters and an automated essay scoring system in grading high school students' English compositions. A total of 923 essays from 23 classes of 12 senior high schools in Taiwan (Republic of China) were obtained and scored manually and electronically. The results show that the consistency between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Writing (Composition), Essays
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Walters, William H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
This paper presents a comparative evaluation of Google Scholar and 11 other bibliographic databases (Academic Search Elite, AgeLine, ArticleFirst, EconLit, GEOBASE, MEDLINE, PAIS International, POPLINE, Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, and SocINDEX), focusing on search performance within the multidisciplinary field of…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Online Searching