Using Student Test Scores to Measure Principal Performance

Student test scores are improved in a virtual learning environment.

This study evaluates the effectiveness of delivering the core curriculum of an introductory neuroscience course using a software application referred to as a virtual learning interface (VLI). The performance of students in a virtual learning environment (VLE) is compared with that of students in a conventional lecture hall in which the same lecturer presented the same material. This study was n...

Effect of self-assessment on test scores: student perceptions.

After a sudden increase in most of the individual grades in a multiple-choice test, students were asked to rank the three most relevant factors responsible for this outcome. Among eight others, the availability of a test for self-assessment before the final test was by far the most frequently mentioned (82.4% of the students). Questions applied during different course activities did not have th...

Student achievement and French sentence repetition test scores

Sentence repetition (SR) tests are one way of probing a language learner’s oral proficiency. Test-takers listen to a set of carefully engineered sentences of varying complexity one-by-one, and then try to repeat them back as exactly as possible. In this paper we explore how well an SR test that we have developed for French corresponds with the test-taker’s achievement levels, represented by pro...

Motion Screening Test Scores for Female Student Athletes and Non-Athletes

Submodular Maximization using Test Scores

We consider the closely related problems of maximizing a submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint and that of maximizing the sum of submodular functions subject to a partition matroid contraint. Motivated by applications in team selection, we focus on settings where the function(s) can be expressed as the expected value of a symmetric submodular value function of a set of indepen...