Background: It is important to learn how to study for different examinations. The objective of the current study is to explore whether the assessment method selection would significantly affect the studying and learning approaches of students. Methods: This descriptive-analytical research consisted of 191 first-year undergraduate nursing students from three nursing schools and was conducted dur...

This study illustrates how eye-tracking data can be translated to “item process data” for multiple-choice test items the link between subjects’ item responses and reading behavior. Several modes of analysis were used hypothesized added value using identify patterns subjects testing whether some variances in these could explained by being correct or incorrect. Application from a larger experimen...

This introduction to the R package plink is a (slightly) modified version of Weeks (2010), published in the Journal of Statistical Software. The R package plink has been developed to facilitate the linking of mixed-format tests for multiple groups under a common item design using unidimensional and multidimensional IRT-based methods. This paper presents the capabilities of the package in the co...

How options are framed can dramatically influence choice preference. While salience of information plays a central role in this effect, precisely how it is mediated by attentional processes remains unknown. Current models assume a simple relationship between attention and choice, according to which preference should be uniformly biased towards the attended item over the whole time-course of a d...

This work studies the psychometric properties of the multiple choice tests used to assess skills in Statistics in the Integrated Masters Degree in Engineering and Industrial Management of the University of Minho. The results show the importance of measuring the quality of the instruments to a fair assessment of the students. Moreover, in the Bologna Process context, multiple choice tests in com...

Since no competitive online algorithms exist for general knapsack problems, we consider online variants of knapsack problems with two assumptions: (i) the weight of each item is very small compared to the knapsack capacity; (ii) the value-to-weight ratio of each item is lower and upper bounded by two positive constants L and U . We design a deterministic threshold-based algorithm for the online...

the aim of this descriptive and analytical type of study was to investigate epidemiological characteristics of post partum blues in pregnant women referring to maternity clinics in hafiz and zeinabieh hospital. the sample consisted of 400 pregnant women in their third trimester who were visited these clinics over the sampling period. the data were collected through two questionnaires; the first...