This study aims to explore the missing link between English textbooks used in high schools (9th-12th grades) and university entrance exams (2010-2019) Turkey on lexical syntactic complexity levels by using corpus linguistics tools: AntWordProfiler, TAALED, L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (L2SCA). Official complementary materials obtained from Ministry of National Education have been compared a...

The newly administered Iranian Ph.D. Program Entrance Exam (PPEE) is supposed to have had different washback effects on university curriculums. This qualitative study examined the effects of the new TEFL PPEE on the applicants’ study plans and strategies from the points of view of both Iranian university instructors and applicants. To this end, we conducted in-depth interviews with 10 experienc...

This paper describes the CMUQA entry into NTCIR QA Lab-3. CMUQA is an essay-question answering system that uses Wikipedia as its knowledge base. The essay-question portion of QA Lab-3 is composed of real exam questions from the University of Tokyo’s entrance exams which are focused on world history. The proposed system formulates answers to these questions using the following sequence of proces...

during the past few years, the iranian system of education and research in law has received severe changes, which have seriously damaged this system, and consequently have led to the decline of the iranian legal system. some such changes are not limited to law; rather, they are present in other fields of human sciences. this can be partially due to university instructors (e.g., how they are rec...

<p>It has been evidenced by a number of studies and international organizations that the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic caused disruptions to schooling around world; drastic measures were undertaken for health people, among which school closures. The expected impact on student learning was big and, in most cases, led loss; cost may seriously affect human capital accumulation, productivit...

This paper describes the Entrance Exams task at the CLEF QA Track 2014. Following 2013 edition, the data set has been extracted from actual university entrance examinations including a variety of topics and question types. Systems receive a set of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension tests where the task is to select the correct answer among a finite set of candidates, according to the given t...

This paper describes the Entrance Exams task at the CLEF QA Track 2015. Following the last two editions, the data set has been extracted from actual university entrance examinations including a variety of topics and question types. Systems receive a set of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension tests where the task is to select the correct answer among a finite set of candidates, according to th...

This paper describes our question answering system for Entrance Exams, which is a pilot task of the Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation at Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2013. We conducted experiments in which participants were provided with documents and multiple-choice questions. Their goals was to select one answer or leave it unanswered for each question. I...