Development of a Biological Science Quantitative Reasoning Exam (BioSQuaRE)

Development of a Biological Science Quantitative Reasoning Exam (BioSQuaRE)

Multiple reports highlight the increasingly quantitative nature of biological research and the need to innovate means to ensure that students acquire quantitative skills. We present a tool to support such innovation. The Biological Science Quantitative Reasoning Exam (BioSQuaRE) is an assessment instrument designed to measure the quantitative skills of undergraduate students within a biological...

Combination of different clinical reasoning tests in a national exam

Introduction: Clinical reasoning as a critical and high level of clinicalcompetency should be acquired during medical education, and medicaleducators should attempt to assess this ability in medical students. Nowadays,there are several ways to evaluate medical students’ clinical reasoningability in different countries worldwide. There are some well-known clinicalre...

A Science of Reasoning

This paper addresses the question of how we can understand reasoning in general and mathematical proofs in particular. It argues the need for a high-level understanding of proofs to complement the low-level understanding provided by Logic. It proposes a role for computation in providing this high-level understanding, namely by the association of proof plans with proofs. Proof plans are deened a...

A-Exam Proposal: Exploiting Random Walk Strategies in Reasoning

iranian efl learners’ pragmatic development: a study of proficiency and textbook effect

در تحقیق حاضراین پرسش که آیا دانش کاربرد شناسی زبان آموزان ایرانی همگام با پیشرفت بسندگی زبانی آنها افزایش می یابد مورد مطالعه قرار گرفته و هم چنین به این پرسش که آیا زبان آموزان تعلیم دیده از طریق کتاب های تاپ ناچ و اینترچینج تفاوت معناداری از لحاظ سطح دانش کاربرد شناسی دلرند ، پاسخ داده شده است. در این تحقیق55 فراگیر زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان دوم ازطریق نمونه گیری در دسترس مورد مطالعه قرار گ...