background: considering the importance of entering doctoral students to universities with hard competition, in order to detect the predictive power of entrance exam grade in educational achievement in early years, we attempted to investigate the efficacy of entrance exam with basic scientific test. methods: the existing data from national organization for education testing and education center ...

Abstract The present paper appraises a standardized test, the entrance exam of Iranian universities, known as “Konkur” that is administered annually means gaining admission to higher education in Iran. This norm-referenced test for students majoring mathematics, experimental sciences, and humanities whose scores along their weighted GPAs last 3 years high school are used indicators students’ ra...

introduction. measuring is the foundation of evaluation. the main way for evaluation of education progression is testing the exams and every test must have identity, validity, reliability and be easy to perform. more precision to preparing the exams can improve its validity. there are different ways for measuring validity and reliability in testing. do the faculty members know about these metho...

Testing the first year students of Informatics at the University of Debrecen revealed that students start their tertiary studies in programming with a low level of programming knowledge and algorithmic skills. The possible reasons which lead the students to this very unfortunate result were examined. The results of the test were compared to the students’ results in the school leaving exams and ...

In a Distributed Diagnostic Center (DDC), patients’ examinations (exams) are performed in Remote Units (RUs) and the collected data (images, lab exams, etc) are sent to expertise Diagnostic Units (DUs) for evaluation. The DDC’s quality of service per exam is considered through several factors, such as patient’s waiting time, RU-DU communicating load, expert’s occupancy, priority, administrative...