This paper provides a long-term follow-up of students who participated in the Tennessee STAR experiment. The Tennessee STAR experiment randomly assigned 11,600 elementary school students and their teachers to a small class, regular-size class or regular-size class with a teacheraide. The experiment began with the wave of students who entered kindergarten in 1985, and lasted for four years. Afte...

background: assessment of educational courses has a critical impact on quality improvement in all curricula. surveys aimed at alumni and graduating students may be useful for the evaluation of the program outcomes and revision. the aims of this study were to describe levels of competency of last year students of an iranian dental school in the major skills needed for a new dentist and to invest...

It is well known that preparing for and taking high-stakes exams has a significant influence on the emotional and physiological wellbeing of exam-takers, but few studies have investigated the resulting cognitive changes. The current study examined the effect of examination-induced academic stress on anticipation in information processing. Anticipation was indexed using the contingent negative v...

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...

Bu araştırmada LGS Türkçe sorularının PISA okuma ölçütlerine göre değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. amaçla araştırma nitel yöntemlerinden doküman incelemesine yürütülmüştür. Son dört yıldır ortaöğretime geçiş sınavında uygulanan soruları araştırmanın dokümanlarını oluşturmuştur. Elde edilen dokümanlar betimsel analiz yöntemine çözümlenmiştir. Sorular; çerçevesinde bilişsel süreçleri ve yeterlik ...

This paper describes an overview of RITE-2 (Recognizing Inference in TExt) task in NTCIR-10. We evaluated systems that automatically recognize semantic relations between sentences such as paraphrase, entailment, contradiction in Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The tasks in RITE-2 are Binary Classification of entailment (BC Subtask), Multi-Class Classification including par...

Title: Environmental Correlates of Efficiency and Safety in Emergency Departments Funds: Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation (AAHF) Research Grant and Herman Miller Grant Period: January 2010 to October 2012 Collaborators: Herman Miller, Synurgy Healthcare Solutions Location: Four emergency departments in large US hospitals Findings: 16 domains of physical design decisions influence s...