The Impact of Educational Interventions by Socio-Demographic Attribute

Abstract

Past work with the Construct simulation tool has asked questions at the population level: what percentage of the total population knew a fact, held a belief, or performed an action. Since several cognitive and access mechanisms have been added to Construct, and these attributes have been tied to socio-demographic sub-populations, it is now possible to examine the effects of educational interventions on sub-populations. This technical report presents a virtual experiment which analyzes a simulated population by various socio-demographic attributes. It specifies the experimental design, describes parameters used, presents a series of results which explore the effect of literacy and information access on societal sub-populations, and identifies educational interventions which may and may not be effective.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 10, 2008
Accession Number
ADA488401

Entities

People

  • Brian R. Hirshman
  • Kathleen Carley
  • Michael K. Martin
  • Michael W. Bigrigg

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Age Groups
  • Computer Science
  • Data Science
  • Demography
  • Education
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Science
  • Intervention
  • Literacy
  • Military Research
  • Network Topology
  • Newspapers
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Social Networks
  • Statistics
  • Websites

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