Oh, Deborah M., Joshua M. Kim, Raymond E. Garcia, and Beverly L. Krilowicz. Valid and reliable authentic assessment of culminating student performance in the biomedical sciences. Adv Physiol Educ 29: 83–93, 2005; doi:10.1152/advan.00039.2004.—There is increasing pressure, both from institutions central to the national scientific mission and from regional and national accrediting agencies, on na...

This paper uses insights from behavioral economics to explain a particularly surprising borrowing phenomenon: One in six undergraduate students offered interest-free loans turn them down. Models of impulse control predict that students may optimally reject subsidized loans to avoid excessive consumption during school. Using the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), we investigate st...

Corrected authors’ contributions MN made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafted the manuscript. DA made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data. MC made substantial contributions to the inception of the study, revision of the manuscript, and is ...

Assessment of student learning is an important task in a teaching and learning process. It has a strong influence on students’ approaches to learning and their outcomes. Recent development in tertiary education has shifted its emphasis from teacher-centered learning to student-centered learning. In a student-centered learning environment, criterion-referenced assessment techniques are often use...

This work presents a novel method for modeling collaborative learning as multi-issue agent negotiation using fuzzy constraints. Agent negotiation is an iterative process, through which, the proposed method aggregates student marks to reduce personal bias. In the framework, students define individual fuzzy membership functions based on their evaluation concepts and agents facilitate student-stud...