6 research outputs found
[[alternative]]Relationship Between Party System Transition and Local Faction Influence: A Case Study of I-Lan County (1950~2004)
No full text[[abstract]]After former President Chiang Ching-kuo’s death in 1988, Taiwan is seen going through the process of democratization, whereas now faced with the problem of democratic consolidation. In the past 15 years, the change of local factions is a very important issue in the political transition in Taiwan. Articles in various magazines, newspapers and periodicals all mentioned that there are at least 100 local factions once existed. Generally, before 1990, local factions had specific control over the mobilization of voters in all levels of elections.
In the 1950s, members of the local factions in I-Lan already participated in local affairs. They were: Lu Tsan Hsiang of the Lu faction, Lin Tsai-tian of the Lin faction, Chen Chin-tung of the Chen faction, Wu A-tu of the Chiao-shi Wu faction, Lin Sung-huei of the Chiao-shi Lin faction and Hsu Chen-hsiang of the Tung-Shan Hsu faction. However, I-Lan county is one of the few places that DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) in office. Under the dominance of DPP, it’s worth understanding how the transition of the local faction takes place. If the patron-client system theory is right, then under the long-term DPP dominance, those factions that previously under the KMT patronage will lead to a move of party support. Secondly, under the long-term dominance of DPP, many political figures of the DPP enter the central government and take major posts. Whether the central faction of the DPP seeks local power basis to form an alliance with the local DPP figures of I-Lan County, and form a patron-client relationship is the main theme of this study.
[[alternative]]A Study of Educational Profession Belief and Teaching Willingness of the Students in the Dep. of ITE
No full text[[abstract]]The purposes of this study were to explore the educational profession belief and teaching willingness of the students in the Dep. of I.T.E., which include the tendency, relation and the difference between genders and among grades. After sending Scales to all 532 subjects and remind six times, 239 scales retrieved. The data analyzed statistically by description statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson’s product-moment correlation. This study found that：1. Educational profession belief of the students in the Dep. of I.T.E. had positive tendency and had some difference between genders and among grades. 2. Teaching willingness of the students in the Dep. of I.T.E. had positive tendency and had no difference between genders and among grades. 3. Most of the relations among the formation of educational profession belief and teaching willingness were significant. Based on the results of this study, suggestions for teacher’s education and future research were proposed.
[[alternative]]Reading Literature, Narrating Death ~The Exposure of Gifted Children’s Death Worlds
No full text[[abstract]]This is a study concerning gifted children’s death perception. Reading young-adult fiction (YA fiction) was the frame to explore how eight sixth-grade gifted children perceived death. When they interpreted the text from reality to imagination, the dialogue focused on the topics of ‘the inevitability of death’ and ‘the possibility of on-death’. Through interpreting YA fiction, writing worksheets, drawing, children’s death perception was analyzed and interpreted. What follows are some major findings about the study.
1. Context: gifted children’s death perception
Gifted children showed three perception dimensions (feeling, analyzing, observing) to considerate social events, media text, and self-experiences. Furthermore, the eight gifted children’s death perception shared some common traits: questing the inevitability of death, gaining insight to analyze events, combining information to expand the sensibility of death, realizing fear and tension from death to disclose some aspects of their death perception.
2. Story: gifted children interpret YA fiction
When children discussed ‘the possibility of no-death’, they presented a variety of ideas and viewpoints. However, their interpretation oscillated between ecological rules to individual wishes. By contrast, when children discussed ‘the inevitability of death’, the life experiences became the main contextual interpretation. Items of meaningful metaphors about death revealed their narrative wisdom, though.
3. Metaphor: Stories in the context
What gifted children interpreted YA fiction was ‘the intention world’, such as stories full of metaphors. The stories about ‘the possibility of no-death’ were featured by conflicts of death, including three dimensions: the attachment to life vs. the approaching trial, the ecological rules vs. the right of life-and-death, and the state of no-death vs. the agreement of form and structure. They told the story of ‘the inevitability of death’ in the obscure atmosphere. When they guessed death to follow the life of being to death, their mind emerged the reflection of their life according to the text. The present research also analyzed in terms of case study three gifted children’s interpretation by the traits of over-excitability, spiritual sensitivity, and creative intuition.
Implications for the practice include constructing the dialogue life-and-death curriculums based on real-life experiences and using realistic and fictitious literature to expand the considerations of death. Suggestions for future researches consist of investigating the belief structure, paying attention to the thinking styles and the presentations of death perception, and employing the multiple research methods where possible.
[[alternative]]Coupled LO-phonon and Plasmon Modes in GaN nanowires
No full text[[abstract]]The GaN nanowires grown by the vapor-liquid-solid mechanism were studied by Raman scattering. The free electron gas was due to n-type impurities introduced during the growth. The Raman spectra clearly show the coupling of LO phonon and plasmon. The coupling between LO-phonon and plasma can be well explained by CDF (charge-density fluctuation mechanism) and by IIF (impurity-induced Frühlich mechanism). An overdamped plasma model, along with the Lindhard-Mermin dielectric function, was used to calculate the coupling of LO phonon and plasmon. We found it matched with measured Raman spectra, and impurity concentration can be deduced . Plasmon damping constant was over 200 cm-1 and concentration was about 1019 cm-3. The phonon-like peak was deduced by IIF mechanism and shifted when laser energy relatively close to fundamental band gap of GaN.
Metodología para el análisis del comportamiento y el desempeño de los estudiantes en un curso en línea
No full textAlthough many researchers have studied student performance prediction in online courses, they have primarily focused on courses with a linear structure, where students complete lessons and assessments sequentially. However, non-linear courses allow students to take lessons and assessments in any order, making performance prediction more challenging due to varying cumulative assessment percentages among students at any given time. This master's thesis aims to develop a data-driven method for early student performance prediction in non-linear courses.
We created a feature extractor and evaluated three types of features: engagement, behavior, and performance. The data comes from Moodle courses designed to prepare high school students for a public university entrance exam. Our method achieved early predictions at 20% of cumulative weight assessment with an F1-score of 0.73 for binary classification and an R² of 0.40 for regression. We also conducted a feature importance analysis, showing that performance and behavior features are the most significant predictors, with engagement features, such as time spent on educational resources, also contributing significantly.
In addition to predicting student performance, we performed a clustering analysis and identified four patterns that consistently appear across various cumulative weight assessments. These patterns significantly impact performance and can help educators provide better feedback and more personalized attention to students' needs.Aunque muchos investigadores han estudiado la predicción del rendimiento de los estudiantes en cursos en línea, se han centrado principalmente en cursos con una estructura lineal, en los que los estudiantes completan las lecciones y las evaluaciones de forma secuencial. Sin embargo, los cursos no lineales permiten a los estudiantes realizar las lecciones y evaluaciones en cualquier orden, lo que hace que la predicción del rendimiento sea más difícil debido a la variación de los porcentajes de evaluación acumulada entre los estudiantes en un momento dado. Esta tesis de máster tiene como objetivo desarrollar un método basado en datos para la predicción temprana del rendimiento de los estudiantes en cursos no lineales.
Creamos un extractor de características y evaluamos tres tipos de características: compromiso, comportamiento y rendimiento. Los datos proceden de cursos de Moodle diseñados para preparar a estudiantes de secundaria para un examen de acceso a una universidad pública. Nuestro método logró predicciones tempranas al 20% de la evaluación del peso acumulado con una puntuación F1 de 0.73 para la clasificación binaria y un R² de 0.40 para la regresión. También llevamos a cabo un análisis de la importancia de las características, mostrando que las características de rendimiento y comportamiento son los predictores más significativos, con características de compromiso, como el tiempo dedicado a los recursos educativos, que también contribuyen significativamente.
Además de predecir el rendimiento de los alumnos, realizamos un análisis de agrupación e identificamos cuatro patrones que aparecen de forma consistente en varias evaluaciones de peso acumulativo. Estos patrones influyen significativamente en el rendimiento y pueden ayudar a los educadores a proporcionar mejores comentarios y una atención más personalizada a los estudiantes.ModelamientoCOL0044448MaestríaMagíster en Ingeniería de Telecomunicacione
