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Canadian Journal for the Academic Mind, 2023 Decriminalization and legalization of illicit drugs have been hot topics ever since they hit the black market, and they have progressed a long way since.
Abigail Proctor
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Nordicom Review, 2016 Researchers are key sources of an increasing amount of research news in the media. Hitherto, the meagre empirical literature on researchers’ media performances has been divided in two strands: one indicating that researchers are generally motivated to ...
Carlsen Benedicte, Riese Hanne
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High Art and High Stakes: The 3rd Duke of Dorset’s Gamble on Reynolds
British Art Studies, 2016 This article explores the art-collecting practices of John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745–1799), focusing on his remarkable investment in the experimental paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792).
John Chu
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Applying a two-parameter item response model to explore the psychometric properties: The case of the ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) high-stakes English Language Proficiency test [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2022 Perhaps the degree of test difficulty is one of the most significant characteristics of a test. However, no empirical research on the difficulty of the MSRT test has been carried out.
Shahram Ghahraki +2 more
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High Stakes in the Classroom, High Stakes on the Street: The Effects of Community Violence on Student’s Standardized Test Performance [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2014 This article examines the effect of exposure to violent crime on students’ standardized test performance among a sample of students in New York City public schools.
Patrick Sharkey +3 more
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Hyper-altruistic behavior vanishes with high stakes.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Using an incentivized experiment with statistical power, this paper explores the role of stakes in charitable giving of lottery prizes, where subjects commit to donate a fraction of the prize before they learn the outcome of the lottery.
Pablo Brañas-Garza +3 more
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Medical Journal of Babylon, 2022 Assessment is a crucial part of the medical curriculum and is present throughout the duration of undergraduate training. Assessments should be planned in such a way that something should always be at stake (means the consequence of the assessment ...
Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava +1 more
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Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan, 2022 From 2004 to 2018, the national examination (NE) has undergone three policy changes regarding its role in determining graduation. The NE score was decided to be the sole determining factor for student graduation in the period 2004 to 2010, with the ...
Rasmuin Rasmuin
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, 2017 This chapter describes the contradictory roles that weapons play in offender decision making as mechanisms that can both increase the physical harm to a victim of violence and also reduce the need for physical harm in victims of robbery. Because weapons serve simultaneously offensive and defensive purposes, the way in which offenders carry and use ...
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Preservice teachers’ beliefs about high-stakes testing and their working environments
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020 In this exploratory mixed methods survey study, we assess preservice teachers’ (n=379) experiences with and beliefs about their high-stakes testing experiences and analyze how they relate to their beliefs about the role and efficacy of high-stakes ...
Sharon L. Nichols, Shon Brewington
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