High-stakes Entrance Examinations: A View from Brazil

Assessing Assessment Literacy: Insights From a High-Stakes Test

This study constitutes an attempt to see what Language assessment literacy (LAL) isfor three groups of stakeholders, namely LAL test developers, LAL instructors, andLAL test-takers. The perceptions of the former group were derived from the contentanalysis of the latest version of the LAL test, and those of the latter 2 groups wereassessed through a survey designed by the researcher. Participant...

Mekh-mat Entrance Examinations Problems

Entrance Detection from Street-View Images

We present a system for detecting building entrances in outdoor scenes, an important problem for urban scene understanding. While entrance detection in indoor scenes has received a lot of attention, tackling the problem in outdoor scenes is considerably more complicated and remains largely unexplored. The wide variety of door appearances and geometries, background clutter, occlusions, speculari...

Accuracy of portrayal by standardized patients: Results from four OSCE stations conducted for high stakes examinations

BACKGROUND The reliability in Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) is based on variance introduced due to examiners, stations, items, standardized patients (SP), and the interaction of one or more of these items with the candidates. The impact of SPs on the reliability has not been well studied. Accordingly, the main purpose of the present study was to assess the accuracy of portrayal by...

assessing assessment literacy: insights from a high-stakes test

this study constitutes an attempt to see what language assessment literacy (lal) isfor three groups of stakeholders, namely lal test developers, lal instructors, andlal test-takers. the perceptions of the former group were derived from the contentanalysis of the latest version of the lal test, and those of the latter 2 groups wereassessed through a survey designed by the researcher. participant...