Despite its perceived benefits, peer feedback provision is often associated with challenges such as superficial comments, poor content quality, and students' unwillingness to criticise their peers' work. This ...
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Despite its perceived benefits, peer feedback provision is often associated with challenges such as superficial comments, poor content quality, and students' unwillingness to criticise their peers' work. This study explores the effects of two well-established scaffolding strategies - scripting and self-monitoring on students' engagement, quality of peer feedback, and evaluative judgement. A total of 149 higher education students from a course that utilises a peer feedback tool were randomly divided into two conditions: one leveraging an interface for peer feedback provision that incorporates scripted instruction and the other using an interface implemented to support self-monitoring. Results suggest a significant distinction between the two scaffolded strategies. Students in the scripted condition provided longer and superior-quality feedback and also exhibited a more critical perspective in their evaluations compared to the self-monitoring condition. This study unfolds two significant contributions. First, it enriches the growing body of empirical evidence on educational design principles in peer feedback provision by expanding our understanding of the individual scaffolding tool effects, specifically in the context of scripting and self-monitoring. This contribution is crucial as it lays the groundwork for more nuanced explorations into optimal strategies for their application in future research. Second, the study contributes to the burgeoning interest in developing theory-based digital learning environments. We discuss the implications of these findings, including highlighting potential long-term advantages associated with the employment of the self-monitoring approach despite its seemingly less effective performance in the short run.
scripting languages are very popular and are being used to implement a wide range of applications. Meanwhile, multi-core processors are everywhere, from dektop computers to mobile devices, and concurrency has become t...
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scripting languages are very popular and are being used to implement a wide range of applications. Meanwhile, multi-core processors are everywhere, from dektop computers to mobile devices, and concurrency has become the only means to improve performance. However, concurrent programming remains difficult and despite some interest in researching new concurrency models for compiled languages, the conventional concurrency support in scripting languages is still lacking. In this paper we are interested in \emphsafe data sharing for scripting languages. We explore the landscape of conventional concurrency support in popular scripting languages and discuss some of its limitations. Then, we identify some emerging concurrency patterns in scripting languages, namely: no-default sharing, data ownership, futures and data immutability. Finally, we analyze some limitations in existing mechanisms and discuss how the patterns we identified can be used to provide safe data sharing in scripting languages. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Weaver is a high-level distributed computing framework that enables researchers to construct scalable scientific data-processing workflows. Instead of developing a new workflow language, we introduce a domain-specific...
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Weaver is a high-level distributed computing framework that enables researchers to construct scalable scientific data-processing workflows. Instead of developing a new workflow language, we introduce a domain-specific language built on top of Python called Weaver, which takes advantage of users' familiarity with the programming language, minimizes barriers to adoption, and allows for integration with a rich ecosystem of existing software. In this paper, we provide an overview of Weaver's programming model, which allows users to organize and specify scientific workflows by using a collection of datasets, functions, and abstractions. We also explain how these workflow specifications are compiled into a directed acyclic graph that is used by the Makeflow workflow manager to dispatch work to a variety of distributed execution platforms. To demonstrate the power and benefits of using the framework in constructing scientific research applications, the paper examines four distinct real-world applications scripted using Weaver and analyzes the performance, scalability, and impact of the distributed generated scientific workflows. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
This study investigates how an instructional intervention focused on engaging both the assessor and assessee in the peer feedback process can be advantageous for the quality of students' peer feedback and written ...
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This study investigates how an instructional intervention focused on engaging both the assessor and assessee in the peer feedback process can be advantageous for the quality of students' peer feedback and written product in a wild-based computer-supported collaborative learning environment in the first year of higher education. The main aim was to examine the effect of structuring the role of the assessee and/or assessor by respectively providing them with a peer feedback request and/or content checklist, together with a structured peer feedback template. The present study adopted a 2 x 2 design, in which four conditions were compared: (1) a control condition, (2) a feedback request condition, (3) a content checklist condition, and (4) a combination (feedback request + content checklist) condition. Every student (N = 125) belonged to a group (n = 27) of five and had to fulfil three consecutive assignments, each consisting of writing an abstract for a scientific paper in the wiki. The results revealed that the quality of both peer feedback and the final product increased for all conditions over time, but no significant differences were found between the conditions at time 2 and time 3. However, when the role of the assessee is structured to request for particular peer feedback, this appeared to be favourable for the peer feedback scores, but only at the initial stage of performance. Building on this, limitations, practical implications, and directions for future research are presented. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Nanoscience is full of promises. However, these promises often do not take into account the realities of product development and the limited coupling with scientific research. On the basis of literature and earlier pr...
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Nanoscience is full of promises. However, these promises often do not take into account the realities of product development and the limited coupling with scientific research. On the basis of literature and earlier projects, we have developed a mapping methodology ("bridging gaps in the innovation chain") and explored it for a particular case, scanning tunnelling microscopy in the liquid phase with two possible applications. The methodology can be used instrumentally, to improve valorisation of scientific research, but also reflexively, to enable scientists (particularly junior scientists) to gain a better understanding of the possible societal contexts of their work. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This conceptual paper addresses the need to design tools for supporting regulation in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). First, we extend previous work articulating the important role of self-regulation...
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This conceptual paper addresses the need to design tools for supporting regulation in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). First, we extend previous work articulating the important role of self-regulation, co-regulation, and shared-regulation in successful collaboration (Hadwin, Jarvela, & Miller, 2011;Jarvela & Hadwin, 2013). Second, we draw on this theoretical framework to address the capacity of CSCL environments to support regulation of collaboration in the form of two types of tools: (a) scripting tools that structure and sequence collaborative interactions, and (b) group awareness tools that collect, aggregate and reflect information back to learners to facilitate collaboration. Finally, directions for future research of regulation of collaboration and CSCL regulation tools are discussed. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
When planning a simultaneous integrated boost in breast treatment with sliding window intensitymodulated radiotherapy, the use of an oblique anterior field can be advantageous. To limit the irradiation to the tumor be...
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When planning a simultaneous integrated boost in breast treatment with sliding window intensitymodulated radiotherapy, the use of an oblique anterior field can be advantageous. To limit the irradiation to the tumor bed on the oblique anterior field, we use the "fixed jaw" option during optimization in Eclipse (v15.6, Varian Medical System). However, this option is not available for Halcyon (Varian Medical System) linear accelerators because the beam-defining collimator is only composed of a dual-layer multileaf collimator (MLC) without any jaw collimator. Hence, the optimizer opens the leaves on all target volumes, and leaves facing the heart or medullary canal may be opened on the oblique anterior field. To avoid this unacceptable behavior, we created an avoidance structure using the Eclipse scripting Application Programming Interface (ESAPI) to force the optimizer to close the leaves when facing critical organs at risk. The avoidance structure was the whole body of the patient subtracted from every beam path used: the tangential fields collimated to the breast planning target volume (PTV) and the oblique anterior field collimated to the tumor bed PTV. The ESAPI has a built-in method that returns a table of points, drawing the outline of a structure at the isocenter plane of a beam. We used this method to build the avoidance structure. We planned 6 breast cancer patients using this structure, and we were able to meet all dosimetric constraints. All MLC leaves were fully closed outside the tumor bed PTV for the oblique anterior field. (c) 2024 American Association of Medical Dosimetrists. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
When robot applications become more elaborated software becomes a critical success factor. Over the last years several robot middleware platforms have been developed to support the development of robot applications. T...
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When robot applications become more elaborated software becomes a critical success factor. Over the last years several robot middleware platforms have been developed to support the development of robot applications. These platforms rely on two software technologies: software components and distributed middleware. This paper proposes to add a third software technology to robot middleware platforms: scripting technology. scripting technology improves the ease-of-use of developing robot applications. It makes configuring software components easier and simplifies the integration into one application. Additionally, this paper presents a software architecture called Dynamic Script Generation to cope with more complex applications requirements.
By modifying Groovy with Matlab-like constructs, the authors created a compiled mathematical scripting language called GroovySci for the jLab platform. The resulting code generation enhancements could ultimately exten...
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By modifying Groovy with Matlab-like constructs, the authors created a compiled mathematical scripting language called GroovySci for the jLab platform. The resulting code generation enhancements could ultimately extend Java's potential for scientific computing.
Different from the highly evolved and refined traditions of paper publishing, the models for both storing and presenting computer-based interactive documents is rapidly changing (and will continue to change). It is im...
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Different from the highly evolved and refined traditions of paper publishing, the models for both storing and presenting computer-based interactive documents is rapidly changing (and will continue to change). It is imperative that standards for application-neutral, interchangeable, and self-describing information content be applied if we are to maintain the value of electronic technical documents throughout the lifetime of the systems that they describe. In addition, for these types of documents it is important that the application behavior-the control logic that governs how an interactive document acts-is recorded. This paper addresses the interaction between electronic documents and the presentation software that renders them, focusing on the scripting of interactive behavior. The concepts are illustrated using an application of the SGML standard called the Metafile for Interactive Documents (MID), developed for the U.S. Navy to improve interoperability of Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs).
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