This paper details our experience designing a privacy preserving medical marijuana registry. In this paper, we make four key contributions. First, through direct and indirect interaction with multiple stakeholders like the ACLU of Washington, law enforcement, the Cannabis Defense Coalition, state legislators, lawyers, and many others, we describe a number of intersting technical and socially-im...

Abstract High-stakes language tests are used around the world as a gatekeeping tool under internationalization of higher education. However, predictable aspect high-stakes is seldom discussed, especially from students’ perspectives. This study aims to address this gap by aiming better understand how certain factors and conditions contribute predictability issue IELTS perspectives within context...

• Examine gender differences in student performance response to different stakes. Male students outperform their female counterparts when under high pressure. The gap reverses favour of as the stakes decrease. Students with highest grades are impacted more strongly by at hand. Student university is a strong determinant individual decisions and future outcomes, most notably labour opportunities....

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision-making, we first illustrate key physiological and psychologi...

Test-based accountability is now the cornerstone of U.S. education policy, and it is becoming more important in many other nations as well. Educators sometimes respond to test-based accountability in ways that produce score inflation. In the past, score inflation has usually been evaluated by comparing trends in scores on a high-stakes test to trends on a lower-stakes audit test. However, separ...