This paper suggests that online collaborative environments like Knowledge Forum provide an important arena for students to exercise their ability to formulate reflective ideas. A discourse analysis of three primary 4 classes’ verbal and written activities during a two-week science unit showed that, during online activities there was a significant increase in the number of words students used to...

Answering questions that ask about temporal information involves several forms of inference. In order to develop question answering capabilities that benefit from temporal inference, we believe that a large corpus of questions and answers that are discovered based on temporal information should be available. This paper describes our methodology for creating AnswerTime-Bank, a large corpus of qu...

In assessment of problem solving the use of short case-based testing is a promising development. In this approach an examination consists of large numbers of short cases each of which contain a small number of questions. These questions are aimed at essential decisions.Writing such cases, however, is not easy. In this article a description of this type of examination is provided.Also strategies...

1 2 hour examination. All questions carry the same weight. Answer all six questions. • Please print your name on the sticky note attached to the outside envelope, and nowhere else. • Please do not write your name on the examination booklets. • Please answer each question in a separate booklet, and number each booklet with that question number. • Read the questions carefully. Keep your answers b...

In this paper we argue that access to rich semantic structures derived from questions and answers will enable both the retrieval of more accurate answers to simple questions and enable inference processes that explain the validity and contextual coverage of answers to complex questions. Processing complex questions involves the identifications of several forms of complex semantic structures. An...

cultural requirements. It is set out in the unusual form of questions and answers, between an engaged couple and a doctor; all of which, we are told, are based on factual conversations; though it would be unusual to find such a series of logically consecutive questions (or perhaps answers) as are provided in these chapters! It is easy to refer to, and though technical, anatomical and physiologi...

The article considers the importance of quality questioning when appointing a customs examination, procedure and rules for posing such questions, assessing their correctness, shows algorithm correct formulation question regarding appointment examination. necessity updating methodological recommendations questions to expert is emphasized, since even best are useless if they not applied in practi...

OBJECTIVE To obtain feedback on teaching and assessment methods in professional undergraduate medical examinations. METHODS The study was conducted at Nishtar Medical College, Multan, Pakistan, from May 21 to May 26, 2012. A written questionnaire covering topics on various teaching and assessment methods was used to get feedback from students of 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year M.B.B.S. SPSS versio...