In pediatric radiology, radiological protection is of vital importance due to the great radio-sensitivity of body tissues in childhood, which can come to present stochastic effects as children have a longer life expectancy. The objective of this research is to establish diagnostic reference levels in chest exam pediatric patients. The study, carried out in one of the largest pediatric centers o...

Examining the effect of high-stakes tests on learners’ perceptions has been one of the strands of washback-related research. The present study purported to investigate the washback effect of the English section of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam (henceforth INUEE) on the pre-university students’ perceptions about the high-stakes test. The participants of the study were 218 female ...

The paper describes DGLab question answering system and automatic evaluation method at NTCIR-13 QA Lab-3 for Japanese university entrance exam on world history essay. Submissions of subtasks include extraction, summarization, and evaluation method, in Phase-2 and Research Run for both Japanese and English. The proposed system follows the organizer-recommended pipeline, consisting of an extracti...

Nowadays there are several types of entry points for new student admissions at tertiary institutions. There many ways that every prospective can prepare to pass the PTN entrance selection exam. Therefore research aim predict graduation by classification method using SVM algorithm (Support Vector Machine) which is assisted WEKA machine learning, data students in 2019 school year. The final resul...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of the predictive validity of selected sociodemographic factors and admission criteria for Master's studies in Public Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw (MUW). METHODS For the evaluation purposes recruitment data and learning results of students enrolled between 2008 and 2012 were used (N = 605, average age 22.9 ± 3.01). The predictive...

In the present article, the reorientation of a fourth-semester physiology course for pharmacy students is described. The motivation for the introduction of changes was to prepare the students to not only assimilate facts but to learn and understand how to integrate and apply them. The article considers how this reorganization was received by the students in both subjective and objective terms. ...

Zimmermann M, Eckert GP. Enhanced student experience: an analysis of subjective evaluation and objective learning success after the transformation of a pharmaceutical physiology course. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 1–10, 2010; doi:10.1152/advan.00091.2009.—In the present article, the reorientation of a fourth-semester physiology course for pharmacy students is described. The motivation for the introduc...

The NTCIR-12 QA Lab-2 task aims at the real-world complex Question Answering (QA) technologies using Japanese university entrance exams and their English translation on the subject of “World history”. The exam questions are roughly divided into multiple-choice and free-description styles, and have various question formats, which are essay, factoid, slot-filling, true-or-false and so on. We cond...

NTCIR9-RITE is the first shared-task of recognizing textual inference in texts written in Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese. JAIST team participates in three subtasks for Japanese: Binary-class, Entrance exam and RITE4QA. We adopt a machine learning approach for these subtasks, combining various kinds of entailment features by using machine learning techniques. In our system,...

In this paper, we describe the WSD team’s approaches to textual entailment recognition task (RITE) at NTCIR-10[1], a conference held in June 18-21, 2013, at NII in Tokyo, Japan, and present experimental results for three Japanese subtasks, called “Binary Class” (BC), “Multi Class” (MC) and “Entrance Exam BC” (ExamBC). Our approach employs two supervised learning techniques: support vector machi...