in this research azeri negative sentences are scrutinized with a focus on negative concord item (nci) s. linguists such asenç (1998), kornfilt (1997) and progovac (2005) assert that turkish and azeri lack negative concord item but we put forward a claim in the contrary. our purpose is to prove the existence of nci in azeri turkic. this paper includes an introduction to negative markers and spec...

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This paper argues that the use of information technology in educational management (ITEM) is an important component of the efficient and effective operation of a large K-12 school. Systems in place allow the development of a complete picture of a student’s activities and teachers are better able to make decisions that helps each student reach his potential.

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Multiple Choice tests are utilized widely in educational assessment because of their objectivity, ease of scoring, and reliability. This study aimed to compare IF and ID of MC vocabulary test items and attempted to find whether these indices are affected by the number of options. To this end, four 20 item stem equivalent vocabulary tests (3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-option MC) were administered to 194 (1...

Item banks are typically constructed from responses to items that are presented in one fixed order; therefore, order effects between subsequent items may violate the independence assumption. We investigated the effect of item order on item bank construction, item calibration, and ability estimation. 15 polytomous items similar to items used in a pilot version of a computer adaptive test for anx...