Identifying Individual Factors Which Impact Student Learning in a Desktop Flight Training Simulator

With expected global growth in air transport demand and forecasted shortage of pilots, there is a need for faster and cheaper flight training. A range of protocols was used to assess factors such as student’s emotional state, adaptive performance, and situational awareness as possible predictors of flight performance based on the influence of these factors on student flight performance conducted using a Personal Computer-based Aviation Training Devices (PCATD). Factor analysis and regression models were used to identify how these factors related to student performance during a visual flight conducted using a desktop simulator and our findings demonstrated some influence of adaptive performance, emotional state, and situation awareness upon student flight scores

The Evolution of a Floodplain Aquaculture Management System in Bangladesh

A collective floodplain aquaculture (FPA) management approach, developed in the Daudkandi sub-district of Bangladesh, has become popular among local landowners of floodplains for managing aquacultural operation in their lands. Taking inspiration from a small-scale FPA formed by landowners, an NGO modernized the approach when it collaborated with the community in applying the management approach in a larger floodplain in 1996. Since then, the success of the early FPA resulted in proliferation of more NGO-collaborated FPAs and independently-formed FPAs. In this paper, we try to find how this management system has evolved over time in both types of FPAs. By studying 15 FPAs selected from five districts, we tried to identify the modifications in organizational and operational aspects of these FPAs. In the Daudkandi region, we observed that, as the realization of profitability increased among the landowners, they not only formed new FPAs by themselves but also, in some FPAs, tried to confine the rising benefits among themselves by excluding non-landowners’ participants. We also found the emergence of professional aquacultural managers who manage the aquacultural operation of an FPA by leasing it from FPA’s management committee. We conclude that, in the Daudkandi sub-district, the FPAs evolved along the way as users adaptively responded to the problem of lower profits by innovating lease-based management. In other parts of the country, where the FPA trend is relatively new and the FPA management committees were found to be still running the aquacultural operation instead of leasing it, the direction of the evolution should be carefully examined in the context of the community resource management

NCES Fast Response Survey System (FRSS)

All public-use files available were downloaded. The downloaded files include documentation about programs and services for HS English learners, school safety and discipline, condition of public school facilities, dual credit and exam-based courses, arts education surveys of elementary and secondary school teachers, dropout prevention services and programs surveys, distance education courses for public elementary and secondary school students, alternative schools and programs for public school students at risk of educational failure, teachers' useof educational technology in US public schools, after-school programs in public elementary schools, internet access in US public schools, distance education courses for public elementary and and secondary school students, public school principals' perceptions of their school facilities, foods and physical activity in public elementary schools, district survey of alternative schools and programs,condition of public school facilities, occupational programs and the use of skill competencies at the secondary and post-secondary levels, national student service-learning and community service survey, and advanced telecommunications in US private schools. However, all listed documentations were not available for all listed years