AS-732-11 Resolution on Posting Program Learning Objectives in the Cal Poly Online Catalog

Program Learning Objectives (PLOs) to be listed with other program information in the Cal Poly online catalog

Hollywood and student learning

During second semester 1997 we undertook a project to ascertain how the use of Hollywood feature films with historical content affected students' learning of twentieth century American History. Questionnaires, reflective journals and interviews were used to gauge the impact of films on student learning. In this Research Vignette we will report on our findings

Conditional Teacher-Student Learning

The teacher-student (T/S) learning has been shown to be effective for a variety of problems such as domain adaptation and model compression. One shortcoming of the T/S learning is that a teacher model, not always perfect, sporadically produces wrong guidance in form of posterior probabilities that misleads the student model towards a suboptimal performance. To overcome this problem, we propose a conditional T/S learning scheme, in which a "smart" student model selectively chooses to learn from either the teacher model or the ground truth labels conditioned on whether the teacher can correctly predict the ground truth. Unlike a naive linear combination of the two knowledge sources, the conditional learning is exclusively engaged with the teacher model when the teacher model's prediction is correct, and otherwise backs off to the ground truth. Thus, the student model is able to learn effectively from the teacher and even potentially surpass the teacher. We examine the proposed learning scheme on two tasks: domain adaptation on CHiME-3 dataset and speaker adaptation on Microsoft short message dictation dataset. The proposed method achieves 9.8% and 12.8% relative word error rate reductions, respectively, over T/S learning for environment adaptation and speaker-independent model for speaker adaptation.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, ICASSP 201

Funding Student Learning: How to Align Education Resources With Student Learning Goals

Identifies factors preventing the education finance system from supporting high-level student learning. Recommends transparent, flexible, and strategic funding mechanisms and practices, including student-based funding and school-linked accounts

Homelessness and student learning

As increased foreclosure creates more homelessness and children change schools frequently, learning suffers. The author surveys the research and makes a case for urgent action.Homeless persons ; Education

Learning physics in context: a study of student learning about electricity and magnetism

This paper re-centres the discussion of student learning in physics to focus on context. In order to do so, a theoretically-motivated understanding of context is developed. Given a well-defined notion of context, data from a novel university class in electricity and magnetism are analyzed to demonstrate the central and inextricable role of context in student learning. This work sits within a broader effort to create and analyze environments which support student learning in the sciencesComment: 36 pages, 4 Figure

Improving Student Learning Through Strategic Compensation

Reviews the debate over teachers' pay; outlines the TeacherSolutions compensation reform model, developed by teachers in dialogue with experts and activists; and presents the Teacher Leaders Network Kansas' discussions of the reforms and their challenges