Hearing Abilities and their Measurement.

The Measurement of Abilities

and dangers which arise in using mental tests and indicates the chief methods of interpreting the significance of the results obtained. A considerable part of the book is devoted to a discussion of the defects of examinations and Present day methods of marking. The reader introduced to simple statistical methods of tabulating marks and calculating the Mean and Standard Deviation of a normal dis...

Measurement of modeling abilities

This paper discusses the difficulties of measuring modeling abilities within examinations. Modeling abilities are inherently difficult to measure since they imply cognitive processes that may not become evident in the result of a written examination. In addition, for a given problem there exists a wide variety of valid models that may just differ in the employed modeling language, technique, or...

investigating cda tendency and critical thinking abilities of iranian translation students in relation to their translation quality

امروزه مسئله ی اساسی در رویکرد های جدید زبانشناسی، ابعاد اجتماعی و ایدئولوژیک زبان تلقی می شود. گروه های مختلف اجتماعی، سیاسی و یا مذهبی از زبان به عنوان ابزاری برای دستیابی به اهداف درون گروهی خود استفاده می کنند (ون دایک، 2003). آنها معولا ایدئولوژی خود را صریحا ابراز نمی کنند بلکه آن را در غالب کلمات و ساختارهای زبانی پنهان نگه می دارند. تشخیص ایدئولوژی های پنهان در گفتمان نیازمند این موضوع ...

Towards Objective Measures of Functional Hearing Abilities.

AIMS People with impaired hearing often have difficulties in hearing sounds in a noisy background. This problem is partially a result of the auditory systems reduced capacity to process temporal information in the sound signal. In this study we examined the relationships between perceptual sensitivity to temporal fine structure (TFS) cues, brainstem encoding of complex harmonic and amplitude mo...

Measurement of learning and mental abilities.