This paper reports on the participation of the system namely “sJanta” at NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research Project 11 (NTCIR-11) Question Answering (QA)-Lab English sub-task. sJanta is a modular question answering system that can answer multiple choice questions given in English natural language. We use English Wikipedia as knowledge-base. At first we retrieved Wikipedi...

This paper examines results from a multiple-choice test given to novice programmers at twelve institutions, with specific focus on annotations made by students on their tests. We found that the question type affected both student performance and student annotations. Classifying student answers by question type, annotation type (tracing, elimination, other, or none), and institution, we found th...

Concept inventories comprised of multiple choice questions are widely used in physics and astronomy to measure students pre-instruction knowledge and post instruction gains (Hestenes, Wells, & Swackhamer, 1992; Maloney, OKuma, Hieggelke, & Van Heuvelen, 2001, and others). Concept inventories are valuable because they address big ideas in the discipline with which students often struggle. The mu...

Financial incentives of various kinds have been suggested to alleviate the chronic shortage of transplantable organs in the United States. This paper analyzes the possible consequences of financial incentives on organ supply. We show that under current practice and current law (which are not the same), inducements to donate organs or to register as an organ donor may lead to a decline in the su...

How many incorrect response options (known as distractors) to use in multiple-choice questions has been the source of considerable debate in the assessment literature, especially relative to influence on the likelihood of students' guessing the correct answer. This study compared distractor use by second-year dental students in three successive oral and maxillofacial pathology classes that had ...

The purpose of this study was to identify which question/reflection format leads to the most favorable results in terms of effect on autonomous motivation and appreciation for the intervention in a web-based computer-tailored physical activity (PA) intervention, based on principles from self-determination theory (SDT) and motivational interviewing (MI). For this purpose, a randomized trial was ...

Visual question answering (VQA) is an interesting learning setting for evaluating the abilities and shortcomings of current systems for image understanding. Many of the recently proposed VQA systems include attention or memory mechanisms designed to support “reasoning”. For multiple-choice VQA, nearly all of these systems train a multi-class classifier on image and question features to predict ...

Test anxiety has detrimental effects on the academic performance of many university students. Moreover, female students usually report higher levels of test anxiety than do their male peers. The present study examined gender differences in test, trait, and math anxiety among university students, as well as differences in their academic achievement. Participants were 168 students from the Univer...

1 Luciana A M Zaina, University of São Paulo, Digital System Department of Polytechnic School , Brazil,[email protected] du 2 Graça Bressan, University of São Paulo, Digital System Department of Polytechnic School , Brazil, [email protected] 3 Wilson V Ruggiero, University of São Paulo, Digital System Department of Polytechnic School , Brazil, [email protected] Abstract  Distance educatio...