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Applied Psychological Measurement, 2018 It is currently not entirely clear to what degree the research on multidimensional computerized adaptive testing (CAT) conducted in the field of educational testing can be generalized to fields such as health assessment, where CAT design factors differ ...
Muirne C. S. Paap +2 more
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Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose To assess the long‐term effects of a community cancer exercise program on quality of life, fatigue, weight, waist circumference, physical activity levels, lower extremity strength, body mass index (BMI), heart rate, and blood pressure, across non‐metastatic and metastatic patients.
Isaac Oppong, Roozbeh Naemi
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Determinants of Social-economic Mobility in the Northern Region of Malaysia [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Colleting the data through a survey in the Northern region of Malaysia; Kedah, Perlis, Penang and Perak, this study investigates intergenerational social mobility in Malaysia. We measure and analyzed the factors that influence social-economic mobility by using binary choice model (logit model). Social mobility can be measured in several ways, by income,
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Statistical uncertainty in educational experiment on the attenuation of gamma radiation [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 Due to time and financial restrictions in an educational laboratory, we are making compromises, using experimental setups in which limitations and uncertainties are important. In these cases we should pay particular attention to the role of different factors that affect our experiment, in order to achieve the best possible educational outcome and to ...
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New educational technology in university
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2014 The article is devoted to consideration of the two new educational technologies at the University. This quantization of texts and the supertest.
V S Avanesov
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How Gender and Birth Order Affect Educational attainment Inequality within-Families: Evidence from Benin [PDF]
arXivThis paper examines how gender, birth order, and innate ability shape within-household disparities in children's educational attainment in developing countries. Using data from Benin, I find that in households with non-educated parents, gender and birth order drive over two-thirds of the average educational attainment disparities among adult children ...
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Unfair items detection in educational measurement [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Measurement professionals cannot come to an agreement on the definition of the term 'item fairness'. In this paper a continuous measure of item unfairness is proposed. The more the unfairness measure deviates from zero, the less fair the item is. If the measure exceeds the cutoff value, the item is identified as definitely unfair.
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Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the impact of bone relative electron density (rED) assignment on radiotherapy planning for the abdominal region. Methods Twenty patients who received abdominal radiotherapy using MR‐Linac and underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) simulation were analyzed.
Kota Abe +4 more
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Large-scale Assessments in EducationCommon indicator-based approaches to identifying careless and insufficient effort responding (C/IER) in survey data scan response vectors or timing data for aberrances, such as patterns signaling straight lining, multivariate outliers, or signals that ...
Esther Ulitzsch +4 more
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Journal of Medical Education and Development, 2020 Introduction: Nowadays, admission of students for medical specialty courses has faced some challenges. Due to the special importance of the duties and mission of physicians and the necessity of careful selection in their admission, the purpose of this ...
Majid Salimi +3 more
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