School personnel currently lack an effective method to pattern and visually interpret disaggregated achievement data collected on students as a means to help inform decision making. This study, through the examination of longitudinal K-12 teacher assigned grading histories for entire cohorts of students from a school district (n=188), demonstrates a novel application of hierarchical cluster ana...

In this paper, the author at first briefly outlines the value of data in organizations and the opportunities and challenges in Afghanistan. Then the author takes the Kankor (National University Entrance Exam) data, particularly names of participants, locations, high schools and higher education institutions into account and explains how these data, that organizations in Afghanistan do not use f...

Day by day the competition get tougher, the exams harder and the textbooks larger. Indeed, it is a long and winding road for the high school graduate seeking university admission to study medicine. The graduate desiring to excel must prepare to travel a tortuous path laden with obstacles. In Iran, in order to obtain admission to medical school, one must place approximately among 3622 of the 442...

To improve science learning, science educators' teaching tools need to address two major criteria: teaching practice should mirror our current understanding of the learning process; and science teaching should reflect scientific practice. We designed a small-group learning (SGL) model for a fourth year university neurobiology course using these criteria and studied student achievement and attit...

Constructing a rigorous identification strategy based on a unique educational reform involving preference-based random assignment of students to different middle schools in Beijing, this paper examines how school and teacher characteristics affect student academic performance. Results show that school effects matter for the test scores on the High School Entrance Exam. We identify the role of t...

The article presents the experiments carried out as part of the participation in Recognizing Inference in TExt (RITE-2) @NTCIR10 for Japanese. RITE-2 has four subtasks Binary-class (BC) subtask for Japanese and Chinese, Multi-class (MC) subtask for Japanese and Chinese, Entrance Exam for Japanese and RITE4QA for Chinese. We have submitted three runs in BC subtask for Japanese (JA) (one run), Ch...

The study was conducted to investigate how students’ multiple intelligences were related to their tolerance of ambiguity and English proficiency. Subjects were 173 English major students in a private university in northern Taiwan, including 49 males and 124 females. They helped to fill out questionnaires of Multiple Intelligences (MI) (Gardner, 1983) and Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity S...

School personnel currently lack an effective method to pattern and visually interpret disaggregated achievement data collected on students as a means to help inform decision making. This study, through the examination of longitudinal K-12 teacher assigned grading histories for entire cohorts of students from a school district (n=188), demonstrates a novel application of hierarchical cluster ana...

BACKGROUND This study was planned to investigate the relationship between musculoskeletal problems, depression, and quality of life in students preparing for university entrance exams. METHODS A total of 180 students were included in the study, 104 were female (57.77%), and 76 were male (42.22%). Students were reached through the cram schools ("dershane") in Denizli. Musculoskeletal system pr...

large-scale allocation problem (lsap) is considered to be an important problem in operations research. in this paper, we have tried to model a sample lsap and show that famous linear or approaches in use cannot efficiently help us challenge, develop and handle such cases. we begin with efforts in this area to conclude that timely, efficient and less costly solutions could be only developed unde...