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The Use of Rasch and Item Mapping in Determining Cut Score of Comprehensive Pre internship Exam [PDF]

Pizhūhish dar Āmūzish-i ̒ulūm-i Pizishkī, 2019
Introduction: One of the most controversial issues in educational measurement is to determine the cut score during the development and administration of a test.
Sh Habibzadeh, A Delavar, NA Farrokhi, A Minaei, M Jalili   +4 more
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Decision-making capacity assessment education. [PDF]

J Am Geriatr Soc, 2021
Charles L, Brémault-Phillips S, Pike A, Vokey C, Kilkenny T, Johnson M, Tian PGJ, Babenko O, Dobbs B, Parmar J.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Educational assessment without numbers

Frontiers in Psychology
Psychometrics conceptualizes a person's proficiency (or ability, or competence), in a cognitive or educational domain, as a latent numerical quantity. Yet both conceptual and empirical studies have shown that the assumption of quantitative structure for such phenomena is unlikely to be tenable.
Alex Scharaschkin, Alex Scharaschkin
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Authenticity in assessment tasks: a heuristic exploration of academics' perceptions [PDF]

, 2004
This study was an exploration of the extent to which higher education tutors' perceptions of assessment were consistent with the construct of authenticity.
Maclellan, Effie
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Acceptability of an mHealth breast cancer risk-reduction intervention promoting risk assessment, education, and discussion of risk in the primary care setting. [PDF]

Mhealth, 2021
Kaplan CP, Karliner L, Lee A, Livaudais-Toman J, Tice JA, Ozanne E.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Classroom-based assessment of oral language proficiency of young ELLs in ESL contexts. [PDF]

, 2018
With increasing numbers of young English language learners (ELLs) entering schools in English-speaking countries, assessment of their English language proficiency has become important for screening, placement, and diagnostic purposes, as well as for ...
Edwards, Susan
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The First-Year Gateway Experience: A Groundbreaking Model [PDF]

, 2014
Based on calls for a paradigm shift in higher education, which have appeared in the literature for years (Barr &Tagg, 1995; Tagg, 2003, Bryant University transformed its first-year experience into an innovative model, The First-Year Gateway). Informed by
Hazard, Laurie, Shea, Bob
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Forced vital capacity and body mass index of Xinjiang children and adolescents: an analysis based on seven successive national surveys, 1985–2014

BMC Public Health
Background Pulmonary function is very important for the healthy development of children and adolescents. However, fewer studies have been conducted on pulmonary function trends in children and adolescents in remote areas.
Feng Zhang, Cunjian Bi, Xiaojian Yin, Yuan Liu, Yaru Guo, Pengwei Sun, Jun Hong, Yanyan Hu   +7 more
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Learning outcomes and their assessment: putting Open University pedagogical practice under the microscope [PDF]

, 2005
The Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom's only university devoted to distance learning. It is also the UK's largest university with over 200,000 students overall. Around 150,000 students are studying undergraduate level courses.
Coats, Maggie, Dillon, Christopher, Hodgkinson, Linda, Reuben, Catherine   +3 more
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Triggers of curiosity in social constructivist classroom discourse

npj Science of Learning
Arousing and sustaining young students’ curiosity within school environments is an important concern in contemporary education. Our study investigated the triggers of curiosity in elementary classrooms centered around social constructivist discourse ...
Farhan Ali, Yuhan Wang, Serena J.-W. Wang, Gaoxia Zhu   +3 more
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