The motive behind this study was to evaluate the Iranian State University EFL Entrance Examination Test (UEEET) based on Bachman and Palmer’s (1996) ‘Usefulness Six-faceted Model ‘accommodating Relia- bility, Validity, Impact, Interactiveness, Authenticity, and Practicality. To do so, thirty professors and one-hundred EFL freshmen were selected randomly from five universities. A questionnaire c...

University education is one of the primary incentives for internal migration and most educational in Turkey directed toward city İstanbul. In addition to vocational academic achievement, university also provides autonomy young people by allowing them live different perhaps distant areas from their families. this article, we analyze students who have moved İstanbul with regard characteristics ge...

large-scale allocation problem (lsap) is considered to be an important problem in operations research. in this paper, we have tried to model a sample lsap and show that famous linear or approaches in use cannot efficiently help us challenge, develop and handle such cases. we begin with efforts in this area to conclude that timely, efficient and less costly solutions could be only developed unde...

advanced data mining techniques can be used in universities classification, discovering specific patterns in the determination of successful students, design of a plan or a teaching method and finding critical points of financial management. in this article, we proposed a method to predict the rate of student enrollment in coming years. the data for this research were from data sets of voluntee...

BACKGROUND In Iran, admission to medical school is based solely on the results of the highly competitive, nationwide Konkoor examination. This paper examines the predictive validity of Konkoor scores, alone and in combination with high school grade point averages (hsGPAs), for the academic performance of public medical school students in Iran. METHODS This study followed the cohort of 2003 ma...

Ali Ghafouri 1, Jalal Amini 1,*, Mojtaba Dehmollaian 2 and Mohammad Ali Kavoosi 3 1 School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 1439957131, Iran; [email protected] 2 Center of Excellence on Applied Electromagnetic Systems, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 1439957131, Iran; [email protected]...

I examine how student allocation rules impact achievement of students of different ability and socioeconomic background. When the assignment rule shifts from exam to district based, a model illustrates that income relative to ability becomes a stronger predictor of student achievement and higher income households sort towards the better school districts. Using evidence from South Korea, I find ...