The influence of interdisciplinary forces stemming from developments in cognitive science, mathematical statistics, educational psychology, and computing science are beginning to appear in educational and psychological assessment. Computer adaptiveattribute testing (CA-AT) is one example. The concepts and procedures in CA-AT can be found at the intersection between computer adaptive testing and...

Canada-Wide Science Fair 2014 Windsor, Ontario Best Project Award Sponsor: BlackBerry Award, $10,000 cash Picture This!: A Novel Approach to Limb Donor Identification & Prosthetic Design Daniel McInnis [16] – Ottawa ON Platinum Award Best Senior Project Sponsor: BlackBerry Award, $5,000 cash Picture This!: A Novel Approach to Limb Donor Identification & Prosthetic Design Daniel McInnis [16] – O...

this study examined the substantive and predictive validity facets of the university entrance examination for english major (ueeem) students. to that aim, 111 english major students were recruited to report their scores on each of the subtests of the test as well as their grade point average. sequential multiple regressions and factor analysis were used in the analysis of the data. results ackn...

Background & aim: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, which its early diagnosis is of paramount importance for the prevention of its associated mortality and morbidity. Breast self-examination (BSE) is one of the methods for the early detection of breast cancer. Education plays an important role in increasing BSE practice. Regarding this, the present study was conducted to measure...

Junior middle school stage is the key period of teenagers’physical and mental development.It an effective measure to 
 improve national system bring physical education into entrance examination,and at same time,it has certain influence on junior education.This research mainly uses literature material method,under sports examination background teaching present situation,simultaneously propo...

This paper describes the Question Answering for Machine Reading (QA4MRE) Entrance Exams at the 2013 Cross Language Evaluation Forum. The data set of this task is extracted from actual university entrance examinations as-is, and therefore includes a variety of topics in daily life. Another unique feature of the Entrance Exams task is that questions are designed originally for testing human exami...

AIM To identify the risk factors for scholastic backwardness in children. PARTICIPANTS Children in the 6-12 year age group attending regular schools and referred to the child guidance clinic for scholastic backwardness. SETTING Tertiary care hospital in South India. METHODS Participants were compared with an age-and sex- matched group of children with good academic performance, to ascerta...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of appropriate placental examinations in a university hospital. METHODS A retrospective review of all deliveries and all placentas submitted for pathologic examination from live births. Placentas were reviewed by a perinatal pathologist to determine whether they met the College of American Pathologists (CAP)-recommended gui...

This paper describes an overview of the first QA Lab (Question Answering Lab for Entrance Exam) task at NTCIR 11. The goal of the QA lab is to provide a module-based platform for advanced question answering systems and comparative evaluation for solving real-world university entrance exam questions. In this task, “world history” questions are selected from The National Center Test for Universit...