To what extent do high school students’ course grades align with their scores on standardized college admission tests? People sometimes make the argument that are “inflated”, but many districts only use outcome-based descriptive methods for evaluation. In order to answer question, this paper proposes econometric models panel data, which less well-known in educational particular, fixed-effects a...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness items 2014/15 university entrance examination English language based on parameters facility value and discrimination index. has used a descriptive research design concerned with quantitative methods which reveal statistical result exam. data were collected from database National Educational Assessment Examination Agency (NEAEA). co...

The knowledge of the radiation dose received by the patient during the radiological examination is essential to prevent risks of exposures. The aim of this work is to study patient doses for common diagnostic radiographic examinations in hospitals affiliated to Kashan University of Medical sciences, Iran. The results of this survey are compared with those published by some national and internat...

The first version of the UIMA-based modular automatic question answering (QA) system was developed for NTCIR11 QA Lab task[5]. The system answers multiple-choice English questions for the Japanese university entrance examinations on the subject of world history. We made improvements in the current system by adding components focused towards Source Expansion and better Semantic Understanding of ...

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...