This paper studied the beliefs about mathematics, mathematics assessment, and written oral assessment in post-secondary education from professors’ perspectives. Seven professors instructors were interviewed asked to explain how they perceive compare exam exam. Four out of seven educated Poland, Romania, Bosnia, Ukraine, are currently teaching at a university Canada. The other three Canada, Germ...

AIM Using the data from graduate surveys, this study aims to analyze which factors related to teaching and learning at the Freiburg Faculty of Medicine can influence study success. BACKGROUND Study success and the factors influencing it have long been the subject of investigation, with study success being measured in terms of easily quantifiable indicators (final grades, student satisfaction,...

We describe experiments with a web-based system for peer assessment in a course on automata theory and program semantics. The paper describes the web-based assessment system, and experiences from the first round of use in 2011. We find a correlation between a high level of peer reviewing activity and a high grade obtained at written exam.

OBJECTIVES After dominance-related encounters, testosterone levels increase in winners and decrease in losers. In humans, many exceptions have been described. It is possible that the complicated patterns in humans result from the methods limitations--measurement of hormone concentrations in simulated competitive events or sport instead in real-life situations. METHODS Here we studied changes ...

The paper deals with the history of judge exam in Kingdom Serbia. So far, this issue has not been subject legal-historical research, although institution a special tradition more than century Serbian law. is processed mainly on basis original unpublished and published archival material, as well relevant domestic literature. Researching important for researching broader problem judicial independ...

OBJECTIVE The amendment of the Medical Licensing Act (ÄAppO) in Germany in 2002 led to the introduction of graded assessments in the clinical part of medical studies. This, in turn, lent new weight to the importance of written tests, even though the minimum requirements for exam quality are sometimes difficult to reach. Introducing exam quality as a criterion for the award of performance-based ...

This paper describes how a Many Faceted Rasch Measurement (MFRM) approach can be applied to performance assessment focusing on rater analysis. The article provides an introduction to MFRM, a description of MFRM analysis procedures, and an example to illustrate how to examine the effects of various sources of variability on test takers’ performance on a writing test by means of a MFRM analysis. ...

INTRODUCTION Paper has been the dominating means for capturing and storing written language for several centuries. Recently, computers have been established in this domain at the same time offering a far wider range of features. This has led many to believe that the use of paper might be completely replaced by computers in the near future. Yet there is no empirical data supporting such a hypoth...

Research on written language comprehension has generally assumed that the phonological properties of a word have little effect on sentence comprehension beyond the processes of word recognition. Two experiments investigated this assumption. Participants silently read relative clauses in which two pairs of words either did or did not have a high degree of phonological overlap. Participants were ...