Background: Considering the importance of entering doctoral students to universities with hard competition, in order to detect the predictive power of entrance exam grade in educational achievement in early years, we attempted to investigate the efficacy of entrance exam with basic scientific test. Methods: The existing data from national organization for education testing and education center ...

In this paper, we investigate questions involving the impact of a multitude of covariates and their interactions on the scores of a comprehensive exit exam from 121 undergraduate students in Texas State University via a hierarchical Bayesian mixture model. The model uses a mixture of Beta distributions, inflated for the purposes of modeling the behavior of students who are no-shows for the exam...

OBJECTIVE The etiology of somatization is incompletely understood, but could be elucidated by models of psychosocial stress. Academic exam stress has effectively been applied as a naturalistic stress model, however its effect on somatization symptoms according to ICD-10 and DSM-IV criteria has not been reported so far. Baseline associations between somatization and personality traits, such as a...

Tool inside The new Welcome to Medicare exam revolves around preventive health care, something family physicians have always incorporated into their practice. But as you work out your routine for performing these visits, you might need to reframe your thinking about what constitutes a physical exam. The new Medicare exam includes seven elements, and they add up to a patient encounter that is as...

This study delved into the implementation of Study Buddy program to help college students who failed their English comprehensive exam. Nine participated in study. Descriptive qualitative methods were used. The was carried out by lecturers teaching at university. consisted two stages: training and private tutoring. materials related those exam, covering four language skills: listening, speaking,...

background and purpose: course-based assessment is a method to gather, analyze, disseminate, and use course data to improve student learning. we assessed the associations between medical students’ scores in basic sciences and general courses in a university in iran and compared these scores with their scores in comprehensive exam. methods: we collected the scores of medical students in their co...

During the 2004–2005 school year, over 900 eighthgrade students used an online intelligent tutoring system, the Assistment System of He ernan, et al. (2001), to prepare for the mathematics portion of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) end-of-year exam. A transfer model, identifying the skills that each tutoring task and exam problem depends upon, was developed to help alig...