AGE STANDARDS FOR THE SEPARATE NORTHUMBERLAND TESTS

the washback effect of discretepoint vs. integrative tests on the retention of content in knowledge tests

در این پایان نامه تاثیر دو نوع تست جزیی نگر و کلی نگر بر به یادسپاری محتوا ارزیابی شده که نتایج نشان دهندهکارایی تستهای کلی نگر بیشتر از سایر آزمونها است

Customized birth weight for gestational age standards: Perinatal mortality patterns are consistent with separate standards for males and females but not for blacks and whites

BACKGROUND: Some currently available birth weight for gestational age standards are customized but others are not. We carried out a study to provide empirical justification for customizing such standards by sex and for whites and blacks in the United States. METHODS: We studied all male and female singleton live births and stillbirths (22 or more weeks of gestation; 500 g birth weight or over) ...

Methodologic standards for the evaluation of diagnostic tests: the need to evaluate the standards.

·comparing Transformations Using Tests of Separate Families

Cox's method for testing separate hypotheses is applied to derive a decision rule for choosing between the models f(Y) "'" NnC~~l' O'~!n) and g(y) "'" Nn(~~2' O'~!n)' The asymptotic distributions of the decision statistics are derived, subject to suitable regularity conditions.

Setting standards on educational tests.

OBJECTIVE This instalment in the series on professional assessment provides an introduction to methods of setting standards. METHOD A standard is a special score that serves as a boundary between those who perform well enough and those who do not. The practical steps in selecting it include: deciding on the type of standard; deciding the method for setting it; selecting the judges; holding th...