Facing the Devil’s Test: The Truth According to René Girard

Review Psychometric Parameters of the 29th Residency Test (1380) According to the Classic Test Theory (CTT)

Introduction. To select the best group, and to make a good decision, are of the most important worries of the health and medical education ministry and also all entrants in the residency test. Having and performing a reliable and good exam will reduce doubts to a great deal. Considering different scientific methods consist of (precisely review of curriculum by the designer committee, sampling o...

Managed care: devils, angels, and the truth in between.

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

investigating the interaction of language knowledge and strategic competence in the performance of efl learners on reading-to-write and writing-only test tasks

این مطالعه به دو روش کمی و کیفی و با هدف بررسی استراتژی های فراشناختی فراگیران زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجی در دو آزمون نوشتن و نوشتن ترکیبی انجام پذیرفت. در بخش کمی برای سنجش میزان استراتژی های فراشناختی از یک پرسشنامه که بر اساس مدل بکمن و پالمر (1996) ساخته شده بود استفاده شد. پایایی و روایی سازه ی پرسشنامه هنگام مطالعه ی پایلوت و روایی محتوای آن با جمع آوری نظرات نُه متخصص در رشته سنجیده...

The test of truth

Assertion is fundamental to our lives as social and cognitive beings. Philosophers have recently built an impressive case that the norm of assertion is factive. That is, you should make an assertion only if it is true. Thus far the case for a factive norm of assertion been based on observational data. This paper adds experimental evid­ ence in favor of a factive norm from six studies. In these ...