Work in Progress – Please Do Not Quote Weights and Scales: a Discussion of Influences on Responses to Health State Valuation Questions

Explaining the Sources of Income-Related Inequality in Health Care Utilization in Denmark

Work in progress – please do not quote

Investigating EFL learners’ perception of narrative task difficulty

As this paper was a very close version of “Investigating task difficulty: learners’ and teachers’ perceptions” by Dr. Parvaneh Tavakoli (published in “International Journal of Applied Linguistics”, Vol. 19, No. 1) in terms of content, research design, analytic framework and research findings without appropriately referencing resources used or obtaining author's consent, the paper wa...

Looking for Clues Gauging Determinants of Coalition Formation in Belgium Work in Progress, Please Do Not Quote

مقایسه دو شیوه ارزشیابی پیشرفت تحصیلی توصیفی و سنتی از دید معلمان و مدیران مدارس دوره ابتدایی شهر شوش

The purpose of this paper is to compare two descriptive and classic academic suc-cess valuations from viewpoint of headmasters and teachers of primary schools in Shoosh during 2008-2009 period. The methodology was descriptive survey and statistical population was all teachers and headmasters of primary schools in Shoosh participating in descriptive valuation plan. Using Krejcie and Morgan Table...

The impact of 3-option responses to multiple-choice questions on guessing strategies and cut score determinations

Introduction: Research has asserted MCQ items using threeresponse options (one correct answer with two distractors) iscomparable to, and possibly preferable over, traditional MCQitem formats consisting of four response options (e.g., one correctanswer with three distractors), or five response options (e.g., onecorrect answer with four distractors). Some medical educatorshave also adopted the pr...