Womankind Service Trip

STEP Category: Service-Learning and Community ServiceMy BUCK-I-SERV trip to New York City consisted of like-minded students serving at an organization called Womankind, which is dedicated on bringing refuge, recovery, support, and renewal to domestic violence survivors. We worked on painting and repairing the site’s infrastructure to make the place more inclusive and welcoming for the current residents living there.The Ohio State University Second-year Transformational Experience Program (STEP)Academic Major: Psycholog

Work in progress: a quantitative study of effectiveness in group learning

It is generally assumed that group studies are more effective for students than individual studies. The objective of this work in progress is to quantitatively evaluate and analyze the effect of collaborative studies on individual student’s performance. This effort would help the student stimulate interest in group learning and collaboration along with exposing them towards multiple problem solving approaches while working individually or in groups. This way the students are challenged to use their existing knowledge and approach, and augment it further with the knowledge and approach provided by group partners. While there are several efforts that focus on developing new group learning techniques, we intend to study the efficacy of previously proposed techniques under various test settings for EE and CS courses without significantly diverting from the course framework

Determining General and Specific Purpose Transfers : An Integrated Approach

This study attempts to provide an alternative methodology to calculate the horizontal equalization transfers. This methodology follows the Australian horizontal equalization principle using a panel model methodology where both revenue and expenditure side considerations are involved. First, it applies the Canadian model in calculating the fiscal capacity equalization. Then the expenditure side equalization has been carried out for two services - education and health. Results of the exercise indicate that the transfers suggested by the panel model are more progressive than the TFC recommended transfers.horizontal equalization transfers, education, health, fiscal capacity equalization

A Simple and Effective Approach to the Story Cloze Test

In the Story Cloze Test, a system is presented with a 4-sentence prompt to a story, and must determine which one of two potential endings is the 'right' ending to the story. Previous work has shown that ignoring the training set and training a model on the validation set can achieve high accuracy on this task due to stylistic differences between the story endings in the training set and validation and test sets. Following this approach, we present a simpler fully-neural approach to the Story Cloze Test using skip-thought embeddings of the stories in a feed-forward network that achieves close to state-of-the-art performance on this task without any feature engineering. We also find that considering just the last sentence of the prompt instead of the whole prompt yields higher accuracy with our approach.Comment: 6 page