, intensivepractice, and skill mastery.Short-form (1-2 hour) workshops are often the most universal offering for training. They are theeasiest to book rooms for (or offer online as webinars), find instructors for, and create materialfor. For the participant, one hour is a reasonable amount of time to find in their day and there arerarely any follow-up requirements. Thus, there is very little risk of making a bad time investmentfor the learner, and the instructional team has a lot of flexibility in repeating the training andexperimenting with content. From research methods to retirement plans, this format is anexceptional platform for learners to explore new tools and services. Even though hands-onpractice can be quite limited in this format, this discovery
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filters provide relatively less similarity ingeneral. Among all five feature selection methods examined, GainRatio is determined as the bestapproach for our case study, because it identifies words relevant to the subject that highlycorrelate to a particular level (class) of Propensity for Exploration even if they are sparselyrepresented in the dataset. These words can be viewed as the diamonds in the rough thatdistinguish the question. We note that like most data mining based studies, the case study resultsare determined on the underlying dataset and the algorithms investigated. Our proposedapproach, however, can be applied to other curiosity exercise datasets as well, and provide therelevant experts a better insight into the student data.The
Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT). He is the co- author of five refereed journal articles, four book chapters, twelve refereed conference proceedings with full paper, and holds two co-patent applications. Dr. Cruz was awarded funding to support his research from the Consolidated Central Valley Table Grape Pest and Disease Control District, the CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology and the California Energy Research Center. His referee experience includes perennial membership on program committees for the IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (AI4I). He was also the Finance and Registration