This article examines the reliability and validity of the modified essay question. An 18-item modified essay question was developed and pretested on a group of clinical experts. After the pretest, the modified essay question was administered to a group of 25 physical therapy students immediately before their second level orthopedic placement. A reliability index of .39 (coefficient alpha) was c...

background and purpose: multiple choice tests are the most common type of tests used in evaluating the general english knowledge of the students in most medical universities, however the efficacy of these tests are not examined precisely. we compare and examine the integrative tests and discrete point tests as   measures of the english language knowledge of medical students. methods: three test...

SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Malang City is a school which located on Jl Letjen Sutoyo No 68 City. This has great potential and the opportunity to carry out two tier multiple choice question-making service activities because school's top priority (partner). The problem faced that teachers have never compiled Two Tier Multiple Choice questions, especially science teachers. teacher said he was always prepa...

The Open-domain Question Answering system (QA) has been attached great attention for its capacity of providing compact and precise results for sers. The question classification is an essential part in the system, affecting the accuracy of it. The paper studies question classification through machine learning approaches, namely, different classifiers and multiple classifier combination method. B...