“Teaching To the Test” Family of Fallacies [PDF]
Revista Iberoamericana de Evaluación Educativa, 2017 This article explains the various meanings and ambiguities of the phrase “teaching to the test” (TttT), describes its history and use as a pejorative, and outlines the policy implications of the popular, but fallacious, belief that “high stakes” testing ...
Richard P. Phelps
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Economies, 2023 The main aim of this paper is to examine the dynamic relationship between the three pillars of the economy: unemployment, inflation, and GDP in Ethiopia using the cross-wavelet transform (XWT) analysis, the multivariate Student-t generalized ...
Yegnanew A. Shiferaw
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Can an Electronic Money Transaction Raise the Inflation Rate? (Indonesian Pre-Pandemic)
Финансы: теория и практика, 2023 Along with the rapid growth of technology, payment instruments are also changing. Electronic money is slowly but surely replacing the role of paper money and coins.
F. Fadli, V. Devia
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Are some forecasters' probability assessments of macro variables better than those of others? [PDF]
, 2020 We apply the bootstrap test of DíAgostino et al. (2012) to determine whether some forecasters are able to make superior probability assessments to others. In contrast to the findings of DíAgostino et al.
Clements, Michael P.
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Financial stability in Indonesian Islamic banking using Z-Score: Before and during Covid-19
al-Uqud: Journal of Islamic Economics, 2023 This study aims to analyze the level of comparison of the financial stability of Islamic banking in the period before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Moh Alfiyan +3 more
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Zero-inflated generalized Poisson models with regression effects on the mean, dispersion and zero-inflation level applied to patent outsourcing rates [PDF]
, 2006 This paper focuses on an extension of zero-inflated generalized Poisson (ZIGP) regression models for count data. We discuss generalized Poisson (GP) models where dispersion is modelled by an additional model parameter.
Czado, Claudia +2 more
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The effect of rare variants on inflation of the test statistics in case-control analyses. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: The detection of bias due to cryptic population structure is an important step in the evaluation of findings of genetic association studies. The standard method of measuring this bias in a genetic association study is to compare the observed ...
Lush, Michael +4 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) allows quantitative measurement and comparison of gene expression at the resolution of single cells. Ignoring the batch effects and zero inflation of scRNA-seq data, many proposed differentially expressed (DE ...
Zhiqiang He +3 more
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Testing the new Keynesian Phillips curve without assuming identification [PDF]
, 2006 We re-examine the evidence on the new Phillips curve model of Gali and Gertler (Journal of Monetary Economics 1999) using the conditional score test of Kleibergen (Econometrica 2005), which is robust to weak identification. In contrast to earlier studies,
Mavroeidis, Sophocles
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Elimination testing with adapted scoring reduces guessing and anxiety in multiple-choice assessments, but does not increase grade average in comparison with negative marking. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESES:This study is the first to offer an in-depth comparison of elimination testing with the scoring rule of Arnold & Arnold (hereafter referred to as elimination testing with adapted scoring) and negative marking.
Jef Vanderoost +4 more
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