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Mishra, Swaroop – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Humans have the remarkable ability to solve different tasks by simply reading textual instructions that define the tasks and looking at a few examples. Natural Language Processing (NLP) models built with the conventional machine learning paradigm, however, often struggle to generalize across tasks (e.g., a question-answering system cannot solve…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Models, Readability, Mathematical Logic
Chamberlain, Michael A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
More than 300,000 Chinese students attend U.S. universities annually (USDHS, 2017), many of whom reportedly "Leave China, Study in America, Find Jesus" (H. Zhang, 2016). However, research on this phenomenon of worldview change is thin, especially experiences of atheist or nonreligious Chinese graduate students attending Christian…
Descriptors: Christianity, Beliefs, Church Related Colleges, Study Abroad
Bartlett, Maggie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Children with dis/abilities the world over are widely required to sacrifice their human rights to education, equity, community, and inclusion. Fewer than 10% of children with dis/abilities in developing countries attend school. Namibia, Africa, where this study took place, is no different. Despite Namibia's adoption of international covenants and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Disabilities
Mackey, David R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This conceptual study asks how a Christian public elementary school teacher might go about teaching in a classroom in ways that reflect or draw upon said teacher's personal Christian beliefs while also maintaining the secular character required of a public school classroom in a pluralistic democracy. In other words, I ask how a Christian educator…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Christianity, Participation
Hines, Linda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
"The Impact of Alignment Coaching on Christian Teachers' Worthy Performance" uses Human Performance Technology and "teleonomics" (Gilbert 2007) to document several intersecting vantage points as one performance improvement system of alignment coaching (AC). Coaching relationships and accomplishments of consistently (daily) reading the Bible,…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Faculty Development, Teaching (Occupation), Christianity
Fritz, Tracy Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation attempts to explain how nineteenth-century American Spiritualist literature may have made readers feel like they were hearing voices, touching the dead, seeing celestial spaces, or enjoying other sensory proofs of the afterlife. Spiritualists believed that, while all human beings possessed faculties designed to perceive the dead,…
Descriptors: United States Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Aesthetics, Religion