1 We report experience in applying techniques for natural language processing to algorithmically generating test items for both reading and listening cloze items. We propose a word sense disambiguationbased method for locating sentences in which designated words carry specific senses, and apply a collocation-based method for selecting distractors that are necessary for multiple-choice cloze ite...

Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Multiple-choice items are used extensively in classroom achievement tests. This explains the importance attributed to understanding how to write these items correctly. Multiple-choice test items may be presented in a question or completion format, with negative, positive, simple or complex sentences, with language that is m...

Abstract In educational measurement, various methods have been proposed to infer student proficiency from the ratings of multiple items (e.g., essays) by raters. However, suitable models quickly become numerically demanding or even unfeasible as separate latent variables are needed account for local dependencies between same response. Therefore, in present paper we derive a flexible approach ba...

2. A teacher finds Garret, a freshman, smoking in the boys’ locker room. In accordance with school policy, the teacher completes a discipline notice and sends Garret to the principal’s office. Mr. Rodriquez, the principal, informs Garret that he has been accused of smoking in the locker room. He tells Garret that because this is his first offense, he will be suspended for three days. Mr. Rodriq...

Accurate knowledge about older adults is desirable for research into aging populations. The Palmore Facts on Aging Quiz (FAQ) has been one of the most widely used measures of knowledge about aging that has been used in English-speaking countries. The original true-false version has largely been replaced by the current multiple-choice format. Here I present data on a Canadian multiple-choice FAQ...

Introduction: Inappropriate advice interferes with the students’ achievementof educational and professional goals and they may fail to use proper resourcesfor their educational needs. The present study was carried out to compare thestudents’ satisfaction about the performance of academic advisors before andafter the advisor project in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences.Methods: This long...

The multiple-play recommender systems (RS) are RS which recommend several items to the users. RS are based on learning models in order to choose the items to recommend. Among these models, the bandit algorithms offer the advantage to learn and exploite the learnt elements at the same time. Current approaches require running as many instances of a bandit algorithm as there are items to recommend...

The multiple-plays recommender systems (RS) make a refer to RS which recommend several items to the users. Most of RS are based on learning models in order to choose items to be recommended. Among learning models, the bandit algorithms offer the advantage to learn and exploite the already learnt elements at the same time. The current approaches require running as many instance of single-play ba...