Genetics test report urges moratorium on disclosure

Test Design and Disclosure

An initially uninformed agent wishes to sell an asset to a competitive market. The agent selects a test that may generate a result that is informative about the asset’s quality and can be disclosed to the market. The test may not yield a result and the agent can choose to hide some results. Both the test choice and the disclosure policy are strategic. We characterize the unique equilibrium outc...

Harmful moratorium on stem cell research.

Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol

Bill Crowther’s RFC No. 67 raised a much more fundamental issue than the question of marking. Any change to presently established protocol is going to involve changes in the hardware/software development efforts that have, in some instances, been going on for over 6 months. In the case of Multics, this effort has yielded programs either complete or in the advanced debugging stages. This is no d...

Effects of test item disclosure on medical licensing examination

In 2012, the National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of Korea decided to publicly disclose all test items and answers to satisfy the test takers' right to know and enhance the transparency of tests administered by the government. This study investigated the effects of item disclosure on the medical licensing examination (MLE), examining test taker performance, psychometric charact...

Professional development. NIH report urges greater emphasis on training for all graduate students.

It’s a familiar complaint: Academic researchers intent on cranking out another paper and obtaining their next grant sometimes see their students as little more than another pair of hands rather than as scientists in training. Now comes a new report that attempts to redefi ne the goals of graduate and postdoctoral training and prods biomedical scientists to become better mentors. Similar exhorta...