The objectives of this study were (a) to examine the writing performance of L2 learners on the level-specific tasks based on Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and (b) to study the likely difference between students' self-assessed level of writing and those reported by raters. The study was conducted with 138 Iranian students at BA and MA levels in Alborz Institute of Higher Educatio...

Insufficient effort responding (IER; Huang, Curran, Keeney, Poposki, & DeShon, 2012) to surveys has largely been assumed to be a source of random measurement error that attenuates associations between substantive measures. The current article, however, illustrates how and when the presence of IER can produce a systematic bias that inflates observed correlations between substantive measures. Not...

Student-University Identification (SUI) of virtual students in higher education is one area identity that receives less attention. This study aimed to explore the SUI a purposive sample five studying Teaching English as Foreign Language (TEFL) at Ph.D. level Iran. Investigating among TEFL candidates potentially contributes demystifying complex relationship factors, such cultural experiences, li...

In this paper, we present machine learning approaches for characterizing and forecasting the short-term demand for on-demand ride-hailing services. We propose the spatio-temporal estimation of the demand that is a function of variable effects related to traffic, pricing and weather conditions. With respect to the methodology, a single decision tree, bootstrap-aggregated (bagged) decision trees,...

The increasing importance of computers in today's world forces teachers and educators to become technology-proficient teachers, and to make use of technology in the classroom practices. All over the world most countries acknowledging the need for technologically proficient teachers, have started to infuse some degree of technological competency into pre-service teacher training programmes. Turk...

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Departments of 1 Internal Medicine, 2 Thoracic Surgery, Konyang University Hospital, Daejeon, 3 Myunggok Research Institute for Medical Science, Konyang University, Daejeon, 4 Department of Biochemistry, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, 5 Department of Hospital Pathology, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, Daejeon, 6 Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National Universi...