The burden of malnutrition children is a global challenge. Promoting mothers to prepare their own meals at home indicated as an important strategy prevent and improve nutrition in children. Despite the fact that prepared by are healthier, little known about what cooking means Thai context. This descriptive qualitative research intended describe perceptions perspectives mothers’ among school-age...

Conversations with computer agents can be used to measure skills that may be difficult to accomplish using traditional multiple-choice assessments. In order to achieve natural conversations in this form of assessment, we are exploring issues related to how test-takers interact with computer agents, such as what dialogue moves lead to interpretable responses, the influence of “cognitive characte...

Anxiety is a phenomenon encountered by human beings within their daily experience. It is a psychological discomfort resulted from potential threatening situation. The ubiquitous nature of anxiety creates different subtypes such as trait anxiety, social anxiety, situational and test anxieties. Apprehension has been found to interfere with many types of learning but when it is associated with lea...

We examined if caffeine intake has a differential effect in subjects with high and low genetic susceptibility to Parkinson's disease (PD), a common neurodegenerative disorder. A case control study involving 812 subjects consisting of PD and healthy controls were conducted. Caffeine intake assessed by a validated questionnaire and genotyping of PD gene risk variant (LRRK2 R1628P) was carried out...

A cross-sectional study was carried out between July 1998 and June 1999 to identify dengue virus-infected patients under age 15 admitted to seven government hospitals in Ang Thong Province, a central region of Thailand, and to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of their care takers. To differentiate dengue cases, clinical evaluation and laboratory diagnosis were used. Serum samp...

    Consequential validity, a component of construct validity as a unified concept introduced by Messick(1989), deals with the impacts of tests on teaching, learning, individual test takers, teachers, society, and educational system within a country. Although the impacts of language tests on teaching and learning have been somehow studied, the consequences of ESP tests on individual test taker...

Test-taker’s capability to answer questions is influenced by available cognitive resources for problem solving. Due to the limited working memory capacity, excessive cognitive load for interpreting instruction would impact test-taker’s constructrelevant process and test validity. Especially in STEM assessment where multimedia and interactive design are widely used, test-takers can easily get ov...

The validity of large-scale assessments may be compromised, partly due to their content inappropriateness or construct underrepresentation. Few validity studies have focused on such assessments within an argument-based framework. This study analyzed the domain description and evaluation inference of the Ph.D. Entrance Exam of ELT (PEEE) sat by Ph.D. examinees (n = 999) in 2014 in Iran....