the university of tehran english proficiency test (utept) is a high-stakes entrance examination taken by more than 10,000 master’s degree holders annually. the examinees’ scores have a significant influence on the final decisions concerning admission to the university of tehran ph.d. programs. as a test validation investigation, the present study, which is a bias detection research in nature, u...

Abstract Though the empirical findings of past studies in literature have offered strong support to significant role language knowledge and background reading comprehension, this issue has not been explored with regard specific purposes tests Iranian higher education context. Therefore, study aimed at exploring interaction effects between among university students majoring economics. For purpos...

Tuncay Ergene, Ph.D., is supported by NIMH, ICORTHA Fogarty International Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (MH/DD) Research Training Program (D43TW05807) at Children’s Hospital Boston; Principle Investigator (PI): Kerim M. Munir, MD, MPH, DSc. Introduction The purpose of the present study is to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms among senior high school students prepari...

Introduction: On account of the high student workload, expansive cognitive assignments, and being in a competitive space regarding their assignments and the university entrance exam, high school students might undergo stress, worry, anxiety, educational problems, and psychological damages. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and ...

In the last decade, Chinese government issued several policy documents to guarantee provision of reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities sitting in national College Entrance Exam. This study explores how new policies impact students visual impairment. It begins by highlighting recent changes China that provide optimism about attention being paid equal education opportunities By g...

C heating is a potentially serious problem on high-stakes tests, such as the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), because it can result in under-qualified individuals receiving their Board’s certification to practice, thereby undermining the certification process. Because cheating on exams has such serious ramifications, it is important for test administrators to minimize cheating opportunities and detec...

_________________ The intent of the present study was to examine the strength of the relationship between language proficiency in English and the 9 types of intelligences. As such, the objectives of this study were three-folded. The primary objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between multiple intelligences and language proficiency among the Iranian Ph.D candidates who par...

university of tehran administers a test known as the university of tehran english proficiency test (the utept) to phd candidates on a yearly basis. by definition, the test can be considered a high-stakes one. the validity of high stakes tests needs to be known (roever, 2001). as mesick (1988) maintains, if the validity of high stakes tests are not known, it might have some undesirable consequen...

The main purpose of this cross-sectional study was to compare the acceptance rate (AR) of left-handers (LHs) with that of right-handers (RHs) in the college entrance examination (CEE) for the national universities in Iran. During 5 successive years, fifty thousand participants in this exam were randomly sampled. We evaluated the relationships between AR and hand preference, sex, college admissi...