A key concern in game-based learning is the level of authenticity games require in order to match what learners can expect in the real world, what keeps them engaged in the game, and what they need to learn. We examined authenticity or credibility in a game from the learner’s perspective. There are very few studies on this aspect. We propose that authenticity is the result of a compromise betwe...

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...

background: the faculty of medical sciences, university of zahedan implemented the objective structured clinical examination (osce) in the final examination during the 2003–2004 academic year. simultaneously, the pediatric department initiated faculty and student training, and instituted the osce as an assessment instrument during the pediatric clerkship in year 5. the study set out to explore ...

abstract for evaluation and identification some of the chamomile species in two genera anthemis and matricaria, morphological and phonological characteristics were used. the experiment was conducted in a randomized completely blocks design (rcbd) with three replicates, sixteen quantitative and qualitative traits were evaluated such as plant height, anthodium diameter, receptacle diameter, ligul...

This paper presents two variants of pentavalued representation for neutrosophic entropy. The first is an extension of Kaufman's formula and the second is an extension of Kosko's formula. Based on the primary three-valued information represented by the degree of truth, degree of falsity and degree of neutrality there are built some penta-valued representations that better highlights some specifi...

For the first time, this study combined models and principles of authentic assessment from two parallel fields of applied linguistics as well as general education to investigate the authenticity of the TOEFL iBT speaking module. The study consisted of two major parts, namely task analysis and task survey. Utilizing Bachman and Palmer’s (1996) definition of authenticity, the task analysis examin...

Deep brain stimulation has been of considerable interest to bioethicists, in large part because of the effects that the intervention can occasionally have on central features of the recipient's personality. These effects raise questions regarding the philosophical concept of authenticity. In this article, we expand on our earlier work on the concept of authenticity in the context of deep brain ...

background and objectives: spiritual intelligence makes a major contribution to people’s health and well-being. since religion is considered as an enriched context for muslim communities, which can provide them with spiritual experiences, the aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire in order to assess spiritual intelligence among people in these communities. methods: in thi...

ion. The only restriction is that the field names of the dependees must be specified in the depends clauses. 5.1.2.2. Locality Rule. The locality rule is fairly natural: Usually, abstractions of dynamic components abstract from the states of their interface and representation objects. As long as these objects are reachable from an interface object via read-write references, such abstractions me...