This is analogous to expecting a prelinguistic human baby to learn typing answers to abstract natural language questions from scratch, and then being surprised that the baby takes too much time and too many training examples to learn accurately. In contrast, by “growing” the machine’s ...
Students were administered five writing screening and progress monitoring measures included in the IPAE for 1st and 2nd grade. The IPAE includes three alternate forms (i.e., fall, winter, and spring) of each measure: Allographs (ALLO), dictated words with arbitrary spelling (DWAS) (i.e.,...
In a seemingly odd comparison, Scholastic sees the marketing strategy along the same lines as their approach toThe Hunger Games. Editorial director David Levithan told NPR, “It’s kind of crazy to remember now, but that book was initially seen as a potentially difficult sell. After all, it...