Information about others’ success in remembering is frequently available. For example, students taking an exam may assess its difficulty by monitoring when others turn in their exams. In two experiments, we investigated how rememberers use this information to guide recall. Participants studied paired associates, some semantically related (and thus easier to retrieve) and some unrelated (and thu...

Information about others' success in remembering is frequently available. For example, students taking an exam may assess its difficulty by monitoring when others turn in their exams. In two experiments, we investigated how rememberers use this information to guide recall. Participants studied paired associates, some semantically related (and thus easier to retrieve) and some unrelated (and thu...

background: quality of life evaluates the general well-being of individuals and it can be considered as one of the important aspects in programming and giving service to disabled people. blindness is one of the most important kinds of physical disability that has a direct effect on quality of life, so t his study aimed to explore how war blindness influences the quality of life .   methods: in ...

Background: Multiple choice questions find important place in assessment medical curriculum. Each MCQ is called item. Item analysis quality check of MCQs after valuation response sheets. This serves to recognize flaws so that the given can be preserved question bank, modified or deleted. Methods: 140 students second MBBS were assessed pharmacology through 20 single best type MCQ. Post exam vali...

The instruments used to measure student learning outcomes, especially in science at the elementary school level, are required be of good quality and have been tested. This study aims determine achievement test instrument for class IV SD, matter its changes based on content validity, reliability, discriminating power level difficulty test. subjects this were lecturers, teachers fourth grade stud...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the level of HIV/AIDS knowledge among men who have sex with men in Brazil using the latent trait model estimated by Item Response Theory. METHODS Multicenter, cross-sectional study, carried out in ten Brazilian cities between 2008 and 2009. Adult men who have sex with men were recruited (n = 3,746) through Respondent Driven Sampling. HIV/AIDS knowledge was ascertained th...

BACKGROUND It is widely recognised that deficiencies in fetal surveillance practice continue to contribute significantly to the burden of adverse outcomes. This has prompted the development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and an associated Fetal Surveillance Education Program to deliver the associ...

Bagua, I Ching was applied to tell the fortune of people in ancient Chinese. In the modern era, we apply tests to infer the intelligence, future development direction and potential of people. However, it is not easy to design tests, and the security issue has also become a difficulty for test designers. This study has employed Item Response Theory (IRT) and Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) ...

According to Item Response Theory, the difficulty level is a characteristic of test item. The items that are on scale with ability parameter. However, this relationship has not been studied optimally, especially in students' interest and motivation learning mathematics. This study examines impact student involvement assessing item mathematics approach assessment as learning. involved 176 studen...