Essay questions designed to measure writing ability, along with open-ended questions requiring short answers, are highly-valued components of effective assessment programs, but the expense and logistics of scoring them reliably often present a barrier to their use. Extensive research and development efforts at Educational Testing Service (ETS) over the past several years (see http://www.ets.org...

Background: To reduce the mortality and morbidity rates of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, and to have an effective clinical management, it is important to monitor the progression of the disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the progression of lung disease in CF patients by means of assessing the correlation of the CT scoring system with clinical status and pulmonary function test at th...

the goal of the present research was to determine the extent to which students use study and learning strategies (sls), and its relationship with their academic achievement. participants were 425 students from literature and social science and engineering schools of ferdowsi university of mashhad, who were randomly selected among two grades (i.e., year one and three) from both types of universi...

Abstract Machine learning methods can be used to reduce the manual workload in exam grading, making it possible for teachers spend more time on other tasks. However, when comes grading exams, fully eliminating work is not yet even with very accurate automated as any mistakes could have significant consequences students. Here, evaluation of an approach therefore extended from measuring relation ...

Because of the wide possession of the handheld mobile devices, the application of the mobile technologies in enhancing learning activities attracts much research interest. This investigation aims at implementing students faced mobile technologies into test and exam to simplify the exam management and performance assessment. The research work focuses on the aspects of mobile device and platform ...

Passing the entrance exam to a university is a major step in one's life. University entrance exam commonly known as Kankor is the nationwide entrance exam in Afghanistan. This examination is prerequisite for all public and private higher education institutions at undergraduate level. It is usually taken by students who are graduated from high schools. In this paper, we reflect the major educati...

In decathlon the athletes’ performances are recorded in meters, centimeters, minutes and seconds. These performances from different events are converted into points to make them comparable. However, how to convert results into points is a difficult and controversial issue. In this thesis, it is believed that points of a performance should be rewarded basing on its difficulty, the quality of a p...