Archive for March, 2009
09-03-23
Tags:Education psy145 Teaching
E.D. Hirsch Jr. has an op ed on NY Times yesterday (Reading Test Dummies) in which he attacks what he sees as the core problem of reading tests today:
These much maligned, fill-in-the-bubble reading tests are technically among the most reliable and valid tests available. The problem is that the reading passages […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 0
09-03-09
Tags:Computing Amongst the hypes of Alpha, I looked back at MIT START, a natural language search engine, and found evidence of … well, what do you call it in an age of knowledge computation?
Here, start with START, and click on one of the pre-defined queries, Why is the sky blue? . And you get the following […]
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends) | 0
09-03-05
Tags:Computing Research Watch List This is probably old news, but looks like we will be able to buy out-of-print books from Google sometime in the future. Three types of books In-copyright and in-print books
This agreement helps define how our users may access different categories of books on Google Book Search.
In-print books are books […]
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