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Testing basic assumptions reveals when (not) to expect mindset and belonging interventions to succeed

Stem education interventions

McPartlan P, Xu D.
GSID: 0m4JKE2cEi8J
P McPartlan, S Solanki, D Xu, B Sato - AERA Open, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com

In this case study, we investigated the effectiveness of growth mindset and social belonging interventions in a college setting with large numbers of traditionally underrepresented groups (n= 1,091). In doing so, we highlight the characteristics of the students in...

Detoxifying language models risks marginalizing minority voices

Minority STEM

Gururangan S, Pathak E, Wallace E, Xu A.
GSID: dk1Do6tXnp8J
A Xu, E Pathak, E Wallace, S Gururangan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org

… We identify that these failures stem from detoxification methods exploiting spurious correlations in toxicity datasets. Overall, our results highlight the tension between the controllability …

Looking beyond academic performance: The influence of instructor gender on student motivation in STEM fields

Stem education interventions

Xu D.
GSID: 0MGPSlOR9TEJ
SM Solanki, D Xu - American Educational Research Journal, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com

Recruiting more female faculty has been suggested as a policy option for addressing gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields given its ability to engage female students through a role model effect. While a small but...

OPT Policy Changes and Foreign Born STEM Talent in the US

Research training stem

Furtado D, Xu H.
GSID: I73i2pjNH9UJ
AD Catalina, D Furtado, H Xu - 2019 - ideas.repec.org

… in STEM fields, immigration policy may be used to attract and retain high-skilled STEM … policy extending the Optional Practical Training (OPT) period for STEM graduates. Using data …

OPT policy changes and foreign born STEM talent in the US

Graduate training programs stem

Amuedo-Dorantes C, Furtado D, Xu H.
GSID: G-up9-FowwAJ
C Amuedo-Dorantes, D Furtado, H Xu - Labour economics, 2019 - Elsevier

… the Optional Practical Training (OPT) period for STEM graduates. Using … -STEM graduates consistently had more OPT approvals than STEM graduates, but by 2016, STEM graduates …

Automated protein structure modeling in CASP9 by I‐TASSER pipeline combined with QUARK‐based ab initio folding and FG‐MD‐based structure refinement

pipeline programs

Xu D, Zhang J, Roy A, Zhang Y.
GSID: hL6I-10K2qQJ
D Xu, J Zhang, A Roy, Y Zhang - Proteins: Structure, Function …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library

… The QUARK server (for Easy targets) used all the eight LOMETS threading programs plus two in-house threading programs PPA-II and … top 20 templates identified by each threading programs and then re-rank the templates of all LOMETS programs...

How effective are community college remedial math courses for students with the lowest math skills?

education interventions

Xu D.
GSID: rn8weK_AI4kJ
D Xu, M Dadgar - Community College Review, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com

Objective: This article examines the effectiveness of remediation for community college students who are identified as having the lowest skills in math. Method: We use transcript …

L1 Graph Based on Sparse Coding for Feature Selection

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program AND Program Evaluation

He H, Xu J, Yang G.
GSID: ICYmYs0RjMEJ
J Xu, G Yang, H Man, H He - International Symposium on Neural …, 2013 - Springer

In machine learning and pattern recognition, feature selection has been a very active topic in the literature. Unsupervised feature selection is challenging due to the lack of label which would supply the categorical information. How to define an appropriate...

Ab initio calculation of the thermal conductivity of indium antimonide

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program AND Program Evaluation

Hellman O, Xu B.
GSID: cAqb7tfQ7bQJ
AL Miranda, B Xu, O Hellman… - Semiconductor …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org

A theoretical study based on the density functional theory and the temperature-dependent effective potential method is performed to analyze the changes in the phonon band structure as a function of temperature for indium antimonide. In particular, we show changes...

Online IS education for the 21st century

technology education

He W, Xu G.
GSID: dvU_QAaB5FAJ
W He, G Xu, SE Kruck - Journal of Information Systems Education, 2014 - aisel.aisnet.org

… These higher educational institutions realize the growing importance of online learning in information systems/information technology (IS/IT) education and are now offering online IS/IT courses and programs to students. However, designing, developing, teaching, and …

COVID-19 and community college instructional responses

community college

Hart C, Xu D.
GSID: QQFPX9NuGeUJ
C Hart, E Alonso, D Xu, M Hill - Online Learning, 2021 - ERIC

… by administering a survey in the California Community College system (the “CCC” system), … support distance education, we explored community colleges’ preexisting distance education …

Online learning in the Virginia community college system

community college

Jaggars S, Xu D.
GSID: WQPJBlsJnGQJ
S Jaggars, D Xu - 2010 - academiccommons.columbia.edu

… In January 2001, the Virginia Community College System (… among Virginia community college students;(2) college-ready … and college-ready students who participate in online learning. …

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