the bender-gestalt test was given to thirty mentally-retarded psychiatric patients. the mean, standard deviation, and standard error were 56.73, 26.25, and 4.80 respectively. rotation was the most frequent major deviation which occurred in all the designs. design # 7 was the most difficult one to be reproduced in the sample. this design by itself, was subject to 47% of distortion, 79% of omissi...

conclusions the mgap scoring system can be used as an appropriate scoring system to predict mortality in triage trauma patients. results patients were divided into three groups : scores of less than 18, 18 - 22 and greater than 22; in which the mortality rates were 75.2%, 9.5% and 0.1%, respectively (p < 0.0001). the best cut-off point was 22 in our study, and the mgap scoring system had 93.7% ...

Assessing mastery of bioethics in a graduate program requires careful attention not simply to the content knowledge and skill development of students but also to the principles of sound assessment processes. In this article, we describe the rationale, development process, and features of the comprehensive exam we created as a culminating experience of a master's program in bioethics. The exam b...

This paper describes the CMUQA entry into NTCIR QA Lab-3. CMUQA is an essay-question answering system that uses Wikipedia as its knowledge base. The essay-question portion of QA Lab-3 is composed of real exam questions from the University of Tokyo’s entrance exams which are focused on world history. The proposed system formulates answers to these questions using the following sequence of proces...

The aim of this study was to develop the application software, mathematics curriculum based measurement (iCBM), for children on the mobile tablet device. The iCBM was developed by various mobile technologies. Two features of iCBM were stated in this paper including the online measurement design and the automatically digital scoring rules. To exam students’ perceptions about the use of iCBM syst...

Over recent years, computers have been making their way into the classroom and lecture theatre. Overhead projectors, blackboards, and whiteboards have been joined or even displaced by smartboards and computer based multimedia presentations. Students with laptops are a common sight, and courses have their lecture notes on the web. Students are taking courses in programming, web-site design, comp...