a superficial glance at graduate-level entrance exam items and results (1387) for political science has led me to formulate the following question: to what extent is the process of test construction compatible with the scientific fundamentals of test construction process. the present research aims, on the whole, to upgrade the validity of the exam items and to prevent its dire consequences. the...

The Examination Timetabling problem (ETTP) regards the scheduling for the exams of a set of university courses, avoiding the overlap of exams of courses having common students, and spreading the exams for the students as much as possible. Carter et al [3] provide a set of formulations for ETTP, which differ from each other on some components of the objective function, along with a set of benchm...

This study examined the relationship between the changes of physical fitness across the 3-year spectrum of senior high school study and academic performance measured by standardized tests in Taiwan. A unique dataset of 149 240 university-bound senior high school students from 2009 to 2011 was constructed by merging two nationwide administrative datasets of physical fitness test performance and ...

In the first year of medical studies in France, students prepare for a highly selective entrance exam limited by numerus clausus into the second year. We have discontinued live lectures, made maximum use of new information and communication technologies and introduced tutorials in an attempt to make the first year more equitable and to personalise teaching. The reform is based on blended learni...

The purpose of this study was to create a means for comparing the vocabulary levels of Japanese junior and senior high school (JSH) texts, Japanese college qualification tests, English proficiency tests, and EGP, ESP and semi-ESP college textbooks in order to determine what the vocabulary levels are, and what additional vocabulary is required for students to understand 95% of these materials. T...

In order to answer question, we propose a matching algorithm that consists in generating and learning inferences needed to rely text passages to pairs (question, candidate answer). We first retrieve relevant passages, through lexical expansion involving WordNet and word vectors, that are enriches by lexico-semantic resources. Then a tree edit model is used on graph representations of the passag...

OBJECTIVE Premature birth is an important factor for mortality and morbidity of neonates. This study was designed to evaluate the outcome of preterm neonates who needed neonatal intensive care (NICU) hospitalization after 6 yr at their entrance to the school. MATERIALS & METHODS This cross sectional study was conducted on premature neonates consecutively hospitalized in NICU of Valie Asr Hosp...

The author investigated whether expressive writing enhances emotional adaptation to a stressful event (graduate entrance exams) by reducing event-related intrusive thoughts or by desensitizing people to such thoughts. Participants in the experimental group, who were instructed to write their deepest thoughts and feelings about the exam, exhibited a significant decline in depressive symptoms fro...

In response to changes in health care, American medical schools are transforming their curricula to cultivate empathy, promote professionalism, and increase cultural competency. Many scholars argue that an infusion of the humanities in premedical and medical training may help achieve these ends. This study analyzes Web-based messaging of Ohio's undergraduate institutions to assess premedical ad...

This paper describes the methodology for testing the performance of Machine Reading systems through Question Answering and Reading Comprehension Tests. This was the attempt of the QA4MRE challenge which was run as a Lab at CLEF 2011–2013. The traditional QA task was replaced by a new Machine Reading task, whose intention was to ask questions that required a deep knowledge of individual short te...