The errors, insights and lessons of famous AI predictions – and what they mean for the future

Predicting the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is a difficult project – but a vital one, according to some analysts. AI predictions already abound: but are they reliable? This paper will start by proposing a decomposition schema for classifying them. Then it constructs a variety of theoretical tools for analysing, judging and improving them. These tools are demonstrated by careful analysis of five famous AI predictions: th

An Analysis of Consistent Inclusion Programming District Wide

Inclusive education is the newest and largest change that the district being examined has had to face in recent years. However, within the six elementary buildings, inclusion is delivered in different ways. The inconsistency amongst the buildings in regards to inclusion was examined to determine if the effects have a positive or negative impact on the district as a whole. An interview/questionnaire was administered to twenty-five samples throughout the district. The interviews determined overwhelmingly that the practices are inconsistent, but whether the effect was positive or negative was debateable. The study also found common successful practices, shared commonalities and concerns that each administrator and teacher faces as they deliver services through an inclusion model

Final report : evaluation study of the Indiana Department of Education Gifted and Talented Program

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A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF STRUGGLING READERS IN SECONDARY LITERACY TEACHERS: A COLLECTIVE CASE STUDY

The Social Constructionism and New Literacies Studies supported the idea that the concept of (struggling) reader is not a given but is constructed in social interactions. With the literature review, I found that the frequently used term, struggling reader, was ill-defined and felt the need to see how the concept is used in reading classrooms. In this dissertation study using collective case study method, I explored how secondary teachers working with a group of students considered as struggling in reading construct the concept of struggling readers in their discourses and practices with the two guiding questions: (1) How do teachers identify and define the struggling reader in classrooms? and (2) How does this perception assist and inhibit teacher practices? With the analysis, three constructs and four contexts in the social construction of struggling readers in teachers were revealed. The three constructs include (a) reading assessments, (b) students’ schooling level, and (c) the diverse cultures of students are brought to the classroom were implicated in how teachers thought of struggling readers. Four contexts that affected the social construction of struggling readers in these teachers were (a) a deficit view of student culture, (b) high-stakes standardized testing, (c) everyday communications in school, and (d) absence of teacher education. Inequity from the larger context impacted on the construction of struggling readers in teachers deeply and viciously, by distorting the students' care as patronizing and institutionalizing.Doctor of Philosoph

Scottish television comedy audiences

This study explores how Scottish people feel about representations of Scottishness in contemporary television comedy. The thesis is in two related parts, articulating an exploration of genre, comedy and Scottish television texts with the theory, methodology and analysis of empirical audience research. The thesis begins by exploring how current television comedy is poorly served by critical literature beyond notions of genre although this field of study too fails to indicate significant contemporary permeabilities between comedy sub-genres, and between comedy and other kinds of leisure shows. The second chapter explores historical approaches to Scottish cultural criticism and literary myths (Tartanry, Kailyardism, Caledonian anti-syzygy, Clydesidism) and sets these against contemporary mythologising by individual Scottish comedy practitioners. The second half of the thesis marks a shift from textual studies toward audience research, and in particular develops a discussion about the problematics of researching comedy and audiences qualitatively. The first part of the second half is a literature survey of selected examples of audience research which is translated from theory and epistemology, to methodology and technique in the next section which comprises a discussion of the model for the empirical data collection. The next section presents data from a quantitative survey and qualitative focus-group discussions. The last part of the second section interprets the data through triangulation although this is limited by lack of comparable critical materials. The whole attempts to explore concepts of national identity in Scottish television comedy with audiences, but also develops the additional problematic of empirical quantitative research and comedy themes

School Psychologists’ Experience of Identifying Students With Specific Learning Disabilities In Urban Schools

The largest group of students receiving special education services in the United States qualify under the category of Specific Learning Disability (SLD) (Cottrell & Barrett, 2015). The most recent reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 2004) was the first time that federal special education law substantially changed the way in which Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs) could identify students as having SLDs. Because of their specialized training, school psychologists are considered to be the disability identification expert of the team (NASP, 2010a). This instrumental case study investigated school psychologists’ experience of identifying SLDs in urban schools and how they make sense of the process. This study was conducted with school psychologists who have at least five years of experience and currently work in an urban school in Cuyahoga County. School psychologists from all ten school districts that are designated as urban by ODE were solicited for participation. Seven school psychologists from six districts consented to participate in this study. Participants completed a brief demographic questionnaire and two semi-structured interviews, answering interview questions to address the following primary research questions: (1) What resources and existing knowledge do school psychologists draw on in the processes of SLD identification; and (2) What challenges occur for them in the SLD identification process. Participants identified themes regarding resources and existing knowledge that they use during the identification process as well as challenges related to their training, professional development, team dynamics, school and community iv resources, the legal definition of SLD, inconsistent application of policy, and SLD guidance and policy during this study. These findings highlighted the need for changes to university-level educator training programs, professional development, and community outreach and inclusion, as well as the need to recommit to students’ right to a Free Appropriate Public Education

Summer Enrichment Program for Elementary Students at the Intermediate Level

A six-week summer enrichment program with curriculum was developed for Liberty Christian School in Walla Walla. It is activity based and is in conjunction with A Beka Book Christian school curriculum. The student chooses activities from six disciplines at various difficulty levels. The program includes plans for student incentives and informal evaluation. It will be open to parochial and nonparochial students. The purpose is to (a) enrich curriculum, (b) help students retain concepts over the summer months, (c) promote application of content

The Effect of software requirements analysis on project success and product quality

This paper will demonstrate that the general project management principles\u27 regarding requirements analysis also hold true for software development projects. According to conventional project management wisdom, sound requirements analysis and scope definition tends to improve quality planning, thereby reducing project cost and duration, increasing project success and improving the quality of the resulting product. This paper will demonstrate that software development projects tend to challenge this time-proven notion. The paper will also demonstrate that the software development industry pays a high price for these practices by suffering longer project schedules, higher costs and producing poorer quality products by rushing requirements definition and analysis. The practice of unwise attempts to shorten software projects takes away from both the successes of the project and the quality of the resulting product. This demonstration will be accomplished by means of a literature review and an informal survey of various members of the software development industry

The first IEEE workshop on the Future of Research Curation and Research Reproducibility

This report describes perspectives from the Workshop on the Future of Research Curation and Research Reproducibility that was collaboratively sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in November 2016. The workshop brought together stakeholders including researchers, funders, and notably, leading science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) publishers. The overarching objective was a deep dive into new kinds of research products and how the costs of creation and curation of these products can be sustainably borne by the agencies, publishers, and researcher communities that were represented by workshop participants.National Science Foundation Award #164101