Educational corruption is a relatively new area of study in economics due mainly to the lack of available data. This paper utilizes a unique data set to examine educational corruption of various types including bribing on exams and term papers as well as bribing to obtain credits and bribing to enter educational institutions. The data was gathered from 1588 students attending educational instit...

Japanese university entrance exams have two stages: The National Center Test (multiple choice-type questions) and second-stage examinations (complex questions including terms and essays). We participated in all phases of NTCIR-11 QA Lab-1 and NTCIR-12 QA Lab-2 task’s Japanese subtask and our system answered all of the questions. At QA Lab-2 task, we focused on term and essay questions in the se...

This article presents the participation of Synapse Développement to the CLEF 2014 Entrance Exam campaign (QA track). Since fifteen years, our company works on Question Answering domain. Recently our work concentrated on Machine Reading and Natural Language understanding. Thus, the Entrance Exam evaluation was an excellent opportunity to measure the results of this work. The developed system is ...

This paper describes the Entrance Exams task at the CLEF QA Track 2014. Following 2013 edition, the data set has been extracted from actual university entrance examinations including a variety of topics and question types. Systems receive a set of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension tests where the task is to select the correct answer among a finite set of candidates, according to the given t...

This article presents the participation of Synapse Développement to the CLEF 2014 Entrance Exam campaign (QA track). Since fifteen years, our company works on Question Answering domain. Recently our work concentrated on Machine Reading and Natural Language understanding. Thus, the Entrance Exam evaluation was an excellent opportunity to measure the results of this work. The developed system is ...

In the sequel, we tackle a real-world problem: forming examination boards for the university-entrance exams at the autonomous region of Asturias (Spain). We formulate the problem, propose a heuristic GRASP-like method to solve it and show some experimental results to support our proposal.

In school settings, students are typically evaluated using group achievement tests, IQ scales, and college entrance exams that focus more on rote-verbal skills (e.g., vocabulary, mathematical facts) than on higher level executive functions (e.g., abstract thinking, problem solving). However, recent neuropsychological findings suggest that rote-knowledge skills and executive functions are diverg...

Students who are candidates to enter universities, require an entrance examination to verify their knowledge acquired at the previous academic level in order to be able to perform adequately in their higher studies, one of the main tests carried out is the EXANI-II, the Which is applied by CENEVAL, who demands to fill out a survey with general data that provide socioeconomic data of each of the...