Publications related to Evidence-based education

Modelling the sustainability of a primary school digital education curricular reform and professional development program

Francesco Mondada, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Emilie-Charlotte Monnier, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Sustaining changes in teachers’ practices is a challenge that determines the success of curricular reforms, from which Digital Education (DE) is not exempt. As the literature on sustainability is considered “scarce” and “scattered”, long-term studies model ...

2023

Discussion of ‘Experimental Evaluation of Algorithm-Assisted Human Decision-Making: Application to Pretrial Public Safety Assessment’, part 2

Mats Julius Stensrud, Aaron Leor Sarvet

Imai et al.(IJGHS) have conducted a timely experiment on evaluating a decision support algorithm. However, we are concerned by their choice of estimands which, even if they appear plausible at first, rely on notions and assumptions for which we cannot ever ...

2023

Localizing Traffic Differentiation

Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Muhammad Abdullah, Aikaterini Argyraki, Zeinab Shmeis

Network neutrality is important for users, content providers, policymakers, and regulators interested in understanding how network providers differentiate performance. When determining whether a network differentiates against certain traffic, it is importa ...

2023

When do Minimax-fair Learning and Empirical Risk Minimization Coincide?

Volkan Cevher

Minimax-fair machine learning minimizes the error for the worst-off group. However, empirical evidence suggests that when sophisticated models are trained with standard empirical risk minimization (ERM), they often have the same performance on the worst-of ...

2023

A case for co-construction with teachers in curricular reform: Introducing computer science in primary school

Francesco Mondada, Helena Kovacs, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Barbara Bruno

With the introduction of Computer Science (CS) into curricula worldwide, researchers have investigated whether CS could be introduced transversally, as a support other disciplines. Few however consider both student learning and the teachers’ perspective in ...

ACM2022

Facilitating Experiential Learning in Higher Education Teaching and Supervising in Labs, Fieldwork, Studios, and Projects

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac

This book provides evidence-informed and practical advice on how to design, teach, and facilitate hands-on, experiential learning in practical higher education settings. With rich case studies and carefully considered analysis tasks, all underpinned by res ...

Routledge2021

Interventions for Softening Can Lead to Hardening of Opinions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel

Motivated by the goal of designing interventions for softening polarized opinions on the Web, and building on results from psychology, we hypothesized that people would be moved more easily towards opposing opinions when the latter were voiced by a celebri ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Fostering computational thinking through educational robotics: a model for creative computational problem solving

Francesco Mondada, Christian Giang, Alberto Piatti, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier

Background: Educational robotics (ER) is increasingly used in classrooms to implement activities aimed at fostering the development of students’ computational thinking (CT) skills. Though previous works have proposed different models and frameworks to desc ...

2020

Using Educational Data From Teaching And Learning To Inform Teachers’ Reflective Educational Design In Inquiry-Based STEM Education

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is recognized as a top priority for school education worldwide and Inquiry-based teaching and learning is identified as one of the most dominant approaches. To effectively engage individual ...

2019

From experimental evidence to mechanical modeling and design expressions: The Critical Shear Crack Theory for shear design

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

Many research efforts have so far been devoted to the topic of shear design of members without transverse reinforcement since the first development in structural concrete. This has allowed a number of significant advances in the understanding of the phenom ...

2019

Towards a Living Lab to support evidence-based educational research and innovation

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Living Labs represent a promising approach to bridge the gap between evidence-based educational research and sustained innovation. This position paper presents our initial work related to educational Living Labs. It describes a model of the research and in ...

2017

Implementing bikesharing systems in small cities: Evidence from the Swiss experience

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Ander Audikana Arriola, Virginie Andréa Baranger

Research on bikesharing has largely focused on systems operating in large cities. Based on the Swiss experience, this paper explores the challenges that small cities (

Elsevier2017

Electronic Dura Mater Meddling in the Central Nervous System

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch

IMPORTANCE A growing number of neurologic treatments rely on neural implants capable of delivering electrical and chemical stimulation to targeted regions of the central nervous system for extended periods. OBJECTIVE To assess the potential of a novel clas ...

Amer Medical Assoc2017

Observation of Fermi-Arc Spin Texture in TaAs

Jan Hugo Dil, Joël Mesot, Stefan Peter Muff

We have investigated the spin texture of surface Fermi arcs in the recently discovered Weyl semimetal TaAs using spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The experimental results demonstrate that the Fermi arcs are spin polarized. The measured ...

American Physical Society2015

Robot-assisted gait training improves motor performances and modifies Motor Unit firing in post-stroke patients

Silvestro Micera

Background. Robotics and related technologies are realizing their promise to improve the delivery of rehabilitation therapy but the mechanism by which they enhance recovery is still unknown. The electromechanical-driven gait orthosis Lokomat has demonstrat ...

Edizioni Minerva Medica2015

Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance

Stefano Colonnello

This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter examines whether the availability of credit default swaps (CDS) has consequences for creditor governance. CDSs offer creditors the opportunity to hedge credit risk and may impact their willing ...

EPFL2015

Size effects in drift capacities of URM walls

Katrin Beyer, Sarah Petry

Examining the results of a large set of quasi-static cyclic tests on unreinforced masonry (URM) walls showed that the drift capacity of URM walls reduces with increasing wall size. Such a size effect is of concern since most wall tests were carried out on ...

2015

Review of Augmented Paper Systems in Education: An Orchestration Perspective

Pierre Dillenbourg, Daniela Caballero Díaz, Yun Wen

Augmented paper has been proposed as a way to integrate more easily ICTs in settings like formal education, where paper has a strong presence. However, despite the multiplicity of educational applications using paper-based computing, their deployment in au ...

Ieee Computer Soc, Learning Technology Task Force2014

Combining Statistical Evidence

Stephan Morgenthaler, Robert Staudte

The combination of evidence from independent studies has a curious history. The origins reach back at least to the beginning of the 20th century. Since the mid-1970s, meta-analysis has become popular in several fields, among them medical statistics and the ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

From Practice to Theory and back to Practice: Reflexivity in Measurement and Evaluation for Evidence-based Policy Making in the Information Society

Pierre Rossel, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

This article presents a comprehensive review of literature and practice on the measurement and evaluation of ICT impact in general and of selected public eServices (eGovernment, eHealth, and eInclusion), within the context of the Information Society paradi ...

Elsevier Inc2013