Researchers and many educators agree that the ability to self-regulate learning is important for academic success. Yet, students struggle anticipate difficulties adjust accordingly. Further, despite theorizing self-regulated involves adaptation across cycles, few researchers have examined students’ evaluative judgments, their implications behavior in a subsequent cycle, or effects on achievemen...

Background: Academic tests are valuable tools for evaluating students’ knowledge and capabilities. This study aimed to assess the content validity offinal examinations at Mashhad Dental School. The practical purpose of this study was to enhance the quality of written examinations in this school. Methods: The present descriptive, cross-sectional study aimed to determine the content validity of f...

Recently work on the grammar of spoken English has advanced through the use of large, general, and varied corpora of the language, including corpora of spoken discourse. Here I review the research that has been emerging from the availability of such corpora, much of it emphasizing the need for new ways of conceptualizing spoken grammar, to replace the traditional reliance on grammatical models ...

This paper presents the results of integrating hands-on experience in an engineering MSc course on human-machine systems. Students could voluntarily complete a homework assignment in which they performed manual control tasks using dedicated software. The tasks were accompanied by questions that students had to answer using the theory taught in the lectures. The lecturer processed the students’ ...

Project Halo is a long-term endeavor to create ”knowledgeable machines”, systems containing large amounts of general and domain-specific knowledge in a computable form. As a medium-term target, our goal is to have the computer pass an elementary school science exam as written, and our approach heavily leverages textual entailment technology. Frequently, exam questions can be transformed into en...

RESULTS: Nine hundred and thirty-five academic plastic surgeons were identified with 532 having defined subspecialty training. Academic bibliometrics among subspecialty surgeons were comparable among the 5 groups with aesthetics and craniofacial surgeons displaying a preponderance of attaining more industry funding (p=0.043) and career publications respectively, with the latter not attaining st...

We investigate whether overconfidence is affected by superstitious beliefs and whether the effect is heterogeneous according to gender. With this aim, we run a field experiment involving about 700 Italian students. According to widespread superstitions, some numbers are considered lucky while others are thought of as unlucky. In our experiment, we exploited this by randomly assigning students t...

purpose : childhood blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity (rop) is an important concern, but this blindness or severe visual impairment may be prevented if at risk infants are screened before occurrence of advanced stages. in this study, we tried to find the role of parental education about rop in parents’ compliance for on-time attendance for rop screening. methods : demographic factors ...