This study assesses psychometric properties of the Modified Mini-Mental State Exam (3MS) and present population norms and demographic risk factors for low 3MS scores. The subjects were 885 persons aged 65 and older who took the 3MS as part of the Stirling County Study, a population-based longitudinal study of adult residents of a county in Atlantic Canada. 3MS scores were not dependent on the s...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate the physical and psychological dating violence among adolescents with respect to the profiles of directionality - only man perpetrates, only woman perpetrates, and bidirectional, ie, both perpetrate violence. METHODS Sample was performed by two-stage cluster selection in public and private school in the city of Recife (PE), Brazil, presenting data on 355 a...

Creating valid and reliable classroom tests are very important to an instructor for assessing student performance, achievement and success in the class. The same principle applies to the State Exit and Classroom Exams conducted by the instructors, state and other agencies. One powerful technique available to the instructors for the guidance and improvement of instruction is the test item analys...

There are four questions. They have equal weight, though they are probably not of equal difficulty. The exam is meant to allow an A performance in four hours of work. Long answers are less welcome than shorter, correct answers. The exam is available at 10AM Wednesday, January 23 and is due at 10AM Thursday, January 24. Submission of answers by email is OK, and I will verify that I have received...

In this study, we propose an IT-based peer assessment (ITPA) for enhancing interaction and feedback in universities’ large-scale lectures. These lectures often lack interaction and feedback, and focus on mainly imparting factual knowledge. Hence, these formats often cannot go beyond the basic cognitive levels of educational objectives. Using the ITPA within the learning process helps integratin...

8 James Mastro is with the Department of Professional Education at Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN. Daryl E. Miller is a Special Education Director at Robbinsdale Area Schools in New Hope, MN. Carol Leitschuh is with the Dept. of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Barry Lavay is with the Department of Kinesiology and PE at California State University at Long Beach. P...

Excessive entitlement – an exaggerated or unrealistic belief about what one deserves – has been associated with a variety of maladaptive behaviors, including a decline in motivation and effort. In the context of tertiary education, we reasoned that if students expend less effort to obtain positive outcomes to which they feel entitled, this should have negative implications for academic performa...

(30 pts) 1. You have been requested to troubleshoot problems with a well stirred reactor in your Texas chemical production plant. After taking the red eye flight and a long taxi ride to your hotel and then the plant your arrive exhausted, but eager to solve this problem. Apparently the problem with this 165 L reactor is that the conversion of the reactant, Anychemical, is too low at XA = 0.53. ...