INTRODUCTION Randy Bennett (2001) claimed, a decade ago, that no topic would become more central to the innovation and future practice in educational assessment than computers and the internet. His prediction has proven to be accurate. Educational assessment and computer technology have evolved at a staggering pace since 2001. As a result many educational assessments, which were once given in a...

The main purpose of this study was to compare the strategies used by Chinesespeaking students when confronted with familiar versus unfamiliar topics in a multiplechoice format reading comprehension test. The focus was on describing what students do when they are taking reading comprehension tests by asking students to verbalize their thoughts. The strategies were further compared with participa...

We have characterized cell death in THP-1 cells after exposure to heat-treated spores from satratoxin G-producing Stachybotrys chartarum isolate IBT 9631, atranone-producing S. chartarum isolate IBT 9634, and sterigmatocystin-producing Aspergillus versicolor isolate IBT 3781, as well as the trichothecenes T-2 and satratoxin G. Spores induced cell death within 3-6 h, with Stachybotrys appearing ...

This study aimed to investigate the connection between teachers' writing strategies and paraphrasing skills of Grade 12 Senior High School Students. The selected one section in schools Santa Rosa, Laguna, resulting 64 participants. researchers employed a survey questionnaire with five-point Likert scales measure level teaching writing. Additionally, students were given passage read asked paraph...

This paper presents an overview of the SpeechRater system of Educational Testing Service (ETS), a fully operational automated scoring system for non-native spontaneous speech employed in a practice context. This novel system stands in contrast to most prior speech scoring systems which focus on fairly predictable, low entropy speech such as read-aloud speech or short and predictable responses. ...