This paper describes the question answering system developed at Dublin City University for participation in the QA Lab shared task in NTCIR-11 [20]. We participated in three tasks: center exam (multiple choice) tasks in Phases 1 and 2, and secondary exam task (written) in Phase 2. We built a QA system in which we use the specialized-purpose parser KBarse to acquire meaning representation which ...

Different investigations have shown the stressfulness of exam periods and exam situations, manifested in increase of anxiety, depressiveness and negative emotional states as the exam approaches (Ellis & Fox, 2004; Gruzelier, Smith, Nagy, & Henderson, 2001; Laidlaw, Naito, Dwivedi, Enzor, & Brincat, 2003; Oaten & Chang, 2005; Ogden & Mtandabari, 1997; Vivian, Koh, & Chia, 2003). Apart from these...

Background: Score worksheets have been extracted for PhD candidates in Epidemiology, Microbiology and Parasitology for the academic year of 1386-87. The main objective in this study is the impact and importance of different subjects on the discrimination results of admission. Methods: Extracted scores from worksheets are analyzed by MINITAB15 statistical toolbox. The regression values of differ...

background: medical education curriculum improvements can be a chieved by evaluating students' performance. medical students have to pass two undergraduate comprehensive examinations, basic science and preinternship, in iran. purpose: to measure validity of the students' mean score in comprehensive basic science exam (cbse) for predicting their performance in later curriculum phases. methods: t...

BACKGROUND This paper describes an assessment approach of clinical competencies which widens the number of problems and tasks evaluated using videos and images. METHOD Clinical Image and Video Assessment (CIVA) was used to assess clinical reasoning and decision making of final year medical students. Forty to fifty clinical videos and images supported by rich text vignette and reviewed by subj...

Mouse models show that experimental stress mimicking prolonged life-stress exposure enhances neurogenic inflammation, induces adaptive immunity cytokine-imbalance characterized by a shift to Type 1 T-helper cell cytokines and increases apoptosis of epithelial cells. This affects hair growth in otherwise healthy animals. In this study, we investigate whether a prolonged naturalistic life-stress ...

Various forms of electronic exams have been provided at the University of Helsinki for years, but all in small scale; the mainstream is still to take a lecture hall exam written with pen on paper. Two pilot projects – the online exam pilot at the faculty of social sciences and the electronic examining project – provide electronic exam opportunities for teachers and students. This case study is ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of two types of paragraph on EFL learners’ written production. It addressed the issue of how three aspects of language production (i.e. complexity, accuracy, and fluency) vary among two types of paragraphs (i.e. paragraphs of chronology and cause-effect) written by EFL learners. Thirty intermediate level learners of English participate...

BACKGROUND When promoting active travel to school, it is important to consider school and district policies as well as attitudes of school and district administrators. METHODS School principals and district officials in South Carolina participated in the School Travel Survey. Frequency distributions and Chi-squared tests were used to analyze the data. RESULTS Three hundred fourteen persons ...