Modern educational and psychological measurements are governed by models that do not allow for identification of patterns of student thought. However, in many situations, including diagnostic assessment, it is more important to understand student thought than to score it. We propose using entropy-based clustering to group responses to both a standard achievement test and a test specifically des...

A medical school general pathology course has been reformatted into a K-12 general pathology course. This new course has been implemented at a series of 7 to 12 grade levels and the student outcomes compared. Typically, topics covered mirrored those in a medical school general pathology course serving as an introduction to the mechanisms of diseases. Assessment of student performance was based ...

A medical school general pathology course has been reformatted into a K-12 general pathology course. This new course has been implemented at a series of 7 to 12 grade levels and the student outcomes compared. Typically, topics covered mirrored those in a medical school general pathology course serving as an introduction to the mechanisms of diseases. Assessment of student performance was based ...

there is a shortage of quantitative measures for assessing the concept of responsibility as a fundamental construct in medical education, ethics and professionalism in existing literature. this study aimed to develop an instrument for measuring responsibility in both undergraduate and graduate medical students during clinical training. instrument content was based on literature review and mainl...

This paper presents speech analysis, visualization, and student response evaluation techniques that have been used for computer-aided learning a foreign language by an adult learner. The general framework for student response evaluation is described. It is based on collecting experimental data about experts’ and novices’ performance and applying machine learning and knowledge management techniq...

background: academic failure of medical and medical sciences students is one of the major problems of higher education centers in many countries. this study aims to collect and compare relevant researches in this field in iran. methods: the appropriate keywords were searched in the national and international databases, and the findings were categorized into related and non-related articles acco...