The University of Hawaii at Hilo: National Student Exchange Four-Part Workshop for the Outgoing Students at The University of Hawaii at Hilo

The University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH Hilo) is part of the National Student Exchange Consortium, a unique, not for profit organization of nearly 170 accredited, baccalaureate-granting Colleges and Universities that provide exchange opportunities to undergraduate students. These exchange opportunities are across the US mainland, the US territories and Canada. The purpose of the National Student Exchange Office at the University of Hawaii at Hilo is to provide UH Hilo students with exchange opportunities at a reasonable and affordable cost. This capstone explores the idea that it is important to prepare students for a domestic exchange program. This capstone will look at the current protocol for UH Hilo NSE students and highlights the significance of developing a four-part workshop series to enhance their program. The workshop series will focus on critical steps in the NSE process that will provide UH Hilo students with the tools, knowledge, and skills to navigate the system, and reflect on the NSE process and their exchange experiences

Actively Engaging Pre-service Teachers in Geometry and Measurement

Current work in mathematics education suggests that the learning experiences in which teachers engage during undergraduate study influences their knowledge of and beliefs about mathematics and the ways in which they will teach (Allen, et. al., 2008; CBMS, 2001; Hill, Rowan, & Ball, 2005; National Research Council, 2001). However, very little is known about pre-service teachers’ learning experiences and how those experiences influence their thinking about mathematics teaching and learning. The classroom excerpt described here attempts to illuminate how pre-service, elementary teachers’ active engagement in the learning of geometry and measurement influences their mathematical power: a positive disposition toward mathematics, ability to reason about mathematics, facility in making connections across content strands and to other subjects, and proficiency in communicating mathematical ideas (Baroody & Coslick, 1998; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989; Orrill & French, 2002). The author calls for research that more closely examines students’ learning experiences and educational outcomes such as mathematical power and mathematics knowledge for teaching (Hill, Rowan, & Ball, 2005)

Paper 3: Actively Engaging Pre-service Teachers in Geometry and Measurement

Current work in mathematics education suggests that the learning experiences in which teachers engage during undergraduate study influences their knowledge of and beliefs about mathematics and the ways in which they will teach (Allen, et. al., 2008; CBMS, 2001; Hill, Rowan, & Ball, 2005; National Research Council, 2001). However, very little is known about pre-service teachers’ learning experiences and how those experiences influence their thinking about mathematics teaching and learning. The classroom excerpt described here attempts to illuminate how pre-service, elementary teachers’ active engagement in the learning of geometry and measurement influences their mathematical power: a positive disposition toward mathematics, ability to reason about mathematics, facility in making connections across content strands and to other subjects, and proficiency in communicating mathematical ideas (Baroody & Coslick, 1998; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989; Orrill & French, 2002). The author calls for research that more closely examines students’ learning experiences and educational outcomes such as mathematical power and mathematics knowledge for teaching (Hill, Rowan, & Ball, 2005)

Applications of HRIS in Human Resource Management in India: A Study

This study intends to assess the applications of HRIS in human resource management (HRM) in companies operating in India. Primary data based on 544 respondents and 18 applications of HRIS in HRM were analyzed. Five factors from factor analysis were further analyzed. Respondents perceived “technical and strategic HRM” and “performance and reward management” as the most important factors for HRIS applications. The most frequent application of HRIS in organizations operating in India was found to be in “employee record”, followed by “pay roll”.  Sophisticated HRIS applications i.e. “technical and strategic HRM”, “performance and reward management” and “corporate communication” were also applied in organizations in India.  ANOVA results showed that manufacturing and service companies differed significantly on all sophisticated HRIS applications. Mean scores showed that on all the sophisticated HRIS applications, service companies had significant edge over the manufacturing companies. However Indian and multinational companies did not differ significantly on any of the HRIS applications. Keywords: Human resource information system, HRM, Corporate communication, Information technology, Sophisticated HRIS, India.

Visualizing Information Bottleneck through Variational Inference

The Information Bottleneck theory provides a theoretical and computational framework for finding approximate minimum sufficient statistics. Analysis of the Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) training of a neural network on a toy problem has shown the existence of two phases, fitting and compression. In this work, we analyze the SGD training process of a Deep Neural Network on MNIST classification and confirm the existence of two phases of SGD training. We also propose a setup for estimating the mutual information for a Deep Neural Network through Variational Inference.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1703.00810, arXiv:2202.06749 by other author