Forming learners' science concepts and conceptual change entails adaptive epistemic beliefs to support a high degree of interactivity within a coherent knowledge structure. Adaptive epistemic beliefs are character...
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Forming learners' science concepts and conceptual change entails adaptive epistemic beliefs to support a high degree of interactivity within a coherent knowledge structure. Adaptive epistemic beliefs are characterized by beliefs that knowledge is uncertain and should be justified through experimentation or multiple sources dependent upon the task contexts. Thus, assessing and evaluating learners' adaptive epistemic beliefs is a complex process that requires laborious analysis of learner artifacts based on reliable and valid coding schemes. This article aims to describe new ways of assessing and applying technologies that can measure and foster adaptive epistemic beliefs. We propose new strategies for a theoretically-based human-and-machine symbiotic learning Analytics (LA) framework. The application of this LA framework may facilitate the development of real-time detecting and representation of the individual and collective epistemic belief networks as well as diagnosing and providing appropriate scaffolds to promote adaptive epistemic beliefs via the design of personalised pedagogical feedback with experts' input. The heuristic application of technology infrastructure may propel a movement for more tangible and personalised learning in science education. The current gaps of using AI-based emerging technologies in science learning and implications for science education are discussed to advance science education in new directions.
Immigration is a hotly debated and deeply polarizing topic in American society. The past few decades have seen an influx of immigrants from Asia, Africa, and the Americas who contend with having a double-minority stat...
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Immigration is a hotly debated and deeply polarizing topic in American society. The past few decades have seen an influx of immigrants from Asia, Africa, and the Americas who contend with having a double-minority status. This qualitative study advances an understanding of the lived experiences and acculturation process of immigrant academics of color within American academia. Findings indicate struggles of cultural disequilibrium, marginalization, and the challenges of gaining or regaining cultural, professional, and social capital. Their experiences and perspectives have explicit implications for adult learning.
This study used deep learning techniques with Moodle log data to predict student performance in introductory computer programming courses. Particularly, this study would like to use prediction results to identify pote...
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This study used deep learning techniques with Moodle log data to predict student performance in introductory computer programming courses. Particularly, this study would like to use prediction results to identify potential low -performing students who may need assistance from teachers. The results suggested that deep learning models are promising to predict student performance and identify low-performing students in the researched context. What the prediction results provided by the models can inform teachers in learning settings was also further discussed in this paper.
We explore how Black and Latino/a students from economically marginalized communities drew upon dominant capitals accrued by virtue of attendance at elite secondary schools in conjunction with non-dominant family and ...
We explore how Black and Latino/a students from economically marginalized communities drew upon dominant capitals accrued by virtue of attendance at elite secondary schools in conjunction with non-dominant family and community capitals to chart their postsecondary lives through college and beyond. In so doing, we point to affordances offered by the authors' longitudinal qualitative research investigation, as we work to understand individual and collective class and race positioning practices and outcomes post high school.
Purpose: Digital tools are increasingly incorporated into genetics practice to address challenges with the current model of care. Yet, genetics providers ' perspectives on digital tool use are not well characteriz...
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Purpose: Digital tools are increasingly incorporated into genetics practice to address challenges with the current model of care. Yet, genetics providers ' perspectives on digital tool use are not well characterized. Methods: Genetics providers across Canada were recruited. Semistructured interviews were conducted to ascertain their perspectives on digital tool use and the clinical practice factors that might inform digital tool integration. A qualitative interpretive description approach was used for analysis. Results: Thirty-three genetics providers across 5 provinces were interviewed. Participants had favorable attitudes toward digital tool use. They were open to using digital tools in the pretest phase of the genetic testing pathway and for some posttest tasks or in a hybrid model of care. Participants expressed that digital tools could enhance ef fi ciency and allow providers to spend more time practicing at the top of scope. Providers also described the need for careful consideration of the potential impact of digitalization on the clinician -patient dynamic, access to and equity of care, and unintended digital burden on providers. Conclusion: Genetics providers considered digital tools to represent a viable solution for improving access, ef fi ciency, and quality of care in genetics practice. Successful use of digital tools in practice will require careful consideration of their potential unintended impacts. (c) 2024 American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Feature attribution methods from explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) provide explanations of machine learning models by quantifying feature importance for predictions of test instances. While features determinin...
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Feature attribution methods from explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) provide explanations of machine learning models by quantifying feature importance for predictions of test instances. While features determining individual predictions have frequently been identified in machine learning applications, the consistency of feature importance-based explanations of machine learning models using different attribution methods has not been thoroughly investigated. We have systematically compared model explanations in molecular machine learning. Therefore, a test system of highly accurate compound activity predictions for different targets using different machine learning methods was generated. For these predictions, explanations were computed using methodological variants of the Shapley value formalism, a popular feature attribution approach in machine learning adapted from game theory. Predictions of each model were assessed using a model-agnostic and model-specific Shapley value-based method. The resulting feature importance distributions were characterized and compared by a global statistical analysis using diverse measures. Unexpectedly, methodological variants for Shapley value calculations yielded distinct feature importance distributions for highly accurate predictions. There was only little agreement between alternative model explanations. Our findings suggest that feature importance-based explanations of machine learning predictions should include an assessment of consistency using alternative methods.
This study investigated how different learning tasks influence students’ collaborative interactions in immersive Virtual Reality (iVR). A set of chemistry learning activities was designed with iVR, and 35 pairs of un...
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The extent to which students identify with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (i.e. STEM identity) is crucial in influencing them to pursue STEM-related careers after compulsory education. Given the pre...
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The extent to which students identify with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (i.e. STEM identity) is crucial in influencing them to pursue STEM-related careers after compulsory education. Given the predictive power of this construct, this study explores Thai students' STEM identities by focussing on three components (i.e. interest, performance, and recognition) in light of their gender, educational programme, and career aspiration. One hundred and thirty-one students in Grades 10-11 from two secondary schools participated in the study. A Likert-type questionnaire was employed to gather data, which were subsequently transformed into interval scores using Rasch analysis. Inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. This study reveals that male and female students do not significantly differ in terms of their interest in and recognition of STEM. However, gender differences manifest regarding performance in STEM. Those studying in STEM-focussed programmes are likely to show stronger STEM identities than those in non-STEM programmes. Despite this tendency within the STEM-focussed programmes, the students' recognition of STEM varies by school. Those with career aspirations towards STEM are likely to exhibit stronger STEM identities than those who aspire to non-STEM careers. Based on the data, this study suggests a hypothesis regarding learning progression for students' STEM identities.
Potency predictions are popular in compound design and optimization but are complicated by intrinsic limitations. Moreover, even for nonlinear methods, activity cliffs (ACs, formed by structural analogues with large p...
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Potency predictions are popular in compound design and optimization but are complicated by intrinsic limitations. Moreover, even for nonlinear methods, activity cliffs (ACs, formed by structural analogues with large potency differences) represent challenging test cases for compound potency predictions. We have devised a new test system for potency predictions, including AC compounds, that is based on partitioned matched molecular pairs (MMP) and makes it possible to monitor prediction accuracy at the level of analogue pairs with increasing potency differences. The results of systematic predictions using different machine learning and control methods on MMP-based data sets revealed increasing prediction errors when potency differences between corresponding training and test compounds increased, including large prediction errors for AC compounds. At the global level, these prediction errors were not apparent due to the statistical dominance of analogue pairs with small potency differences. Test compounds from such pairs were accurately predicted and determined the observed global prediction accuracy. Shapley value analysis, an explainable artificial intelligence approach, was applied to identify structural features determining potency predictions using different methods. The analysis revealed that numerical predictions of different regression models were determined by features that were shared by MMP partner compounds or absent in these compounds, with opposing effects. These findings provided another rationale for accurate predictions of similar potency values for structural analogues and failures in predicting the potency of AC compounds.
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