The present study was an attempt to examine how questioning was treated by EFL instructors and learners at a private language center in Yasouj, Iran. This study also intended to explore the types of questions posed by the EFL instructors and learners in different course levels and to scrutinize the extent to which the instructors’ classroom behaviors were geared towards enhancing the learners’ ...

Introduction: In the test-enhanced spaced learning, educationalcontents are presented in small packages of well-developedtest questions with a defined frequency to the learners. It is notclear that applying this educational style might have a positiveimpact on the summative assessment. Therefore, in this studywe assessed the effect of the test-enhanced spaced learn...

BACKGROUND Clinical examinations increasingly consist of composite tests to assess all aspects of the curriculum recommended by the General Medical Council. SETTING A final undergraduate medical school examination for 214 students. AIM To estimate the overall reliability of a composite examination, the correlations between the tests, and the effect of differences in test length, number of i...

Abstract Examinations form part of the assessment processes that constitute basis for benchmarking individual educational progress, and must consequently fulfill credibility, reliability, transparency standards in order to promote learning outcomes ensure academic integrity. A randomly selected question examination (RSQE) is considered be an effective solution mitigate sharing questions between...

The European Commission Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) call for tender to carry out two studies on the added value of strategic and life-course approach to vaccination , and on shortcomings related to low vaccination in healthcare workers, respectively, will close on 13 September 2016. According to the tender document 'each study has to include a representativ...

We propose strategic games wherein the strategies consist of players asking each other questions and answering those questions. We study simplifications of such games wherein two players simultaneously ask each other a question that the opponent is then obliged to answer. The motivation for our research is to model conversation including the dynamics of questions and answers, to provide new lin...

AnswerFinder is a framework for the development of question-answering systems. AnswerFinder is currently being used to test the applicability of graph representations for the detection and extraction of answers. In this paper we briefly describe AnswerFinder and introduce our method to learn graph patterns that link questions with their corresponding answers in arbitrary sentences. The method i...