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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"EPT"”.
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An investigation of writing features which have predictive evidence of validity for EPT placement levels
… on the validation of criteria used to rate EPT compositions of graduate students at UIUC. The purpose of the research was to investigate which writing features are most useful (and not useful) in guiding EPT rating decisions. By verifying the appropriateness of each student's placement and …
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Adaptation of the EPT specification to a Ukrainian argumentative writing test within the contrastive rhetoric approach
… Illinois, USA) English Placement Test (EPT) Specification (spec) to the Ukrainian argumentative writing test taken by Ukrainian high-school graduates as a part of the obligatory Unified State Examination (USE) within the contrastive rhetoric approach. Never before has any argumentative …
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Beyond CTT and IRT: using an interactional measurement model to investigate the decision making process of EPT essay raters
"The current study as a doctorate dissertation investigates the gap between the nature of ESL performance tests and score-based analysis tools used in the field of language testing. The purpose of this study is hence to propose a new testing model and a new experiment instrument to examine test …
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Quality management and stakeholder accountability: Computerization of a mandate-driven placement test
… placement test, the UIUC English Placement Test (EPT), in order to accurately place students into appropriate ESL course(s) and to provide English language instruction to these students. Prior to the surge of 2008, the undergraduate EPT test-takers constituted only approximately 22% of the total …
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Akute biliäre Pankreatitis : Korrelation zwischen Schweregrad und dem Zeitpunkt der endoskopischen Papillotomie
… zum Zeitpunkt der endoskopischen Papillotomie (EPT) im Rahmen einer Endoskopisch Retrograden Cholangio- Pankreatikographie (ERCP) zu untersuchen. Dabei galten streng restriktive Richtlinien in bezug auf die Auswahl der Patienten. Es wurden nur Patienten in die Studie aufgenommen, bei denen …
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The ephemeroptera, plecoptera, and trichoptera of Missouri state parks with notes on biomonitoring, mesohabitat associations, and distribution
… Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera (EPT) through 2002 and early 2003. All totaled, 34,251 EPT larvae were collected, all specimens of which were identified to the lowest taxon possible. Of approximately 70,000 adult specimens collected, 10,342 were identified to the lowest taxon …
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Relative importance of Conservation Reserve Programs to mayfly, stonefly, and caddisfly species richness in the Kaskaskia River basin of Illinois
… (stoneflies), and Trichoptera (caddisflies) (EPT) in the Kaskaskia River basin, a heavily impacted, predominantly agricultural watershed in central and southern Illinois. A total of 10,522 EPT specimens were examined from 84 sites across the basin during May and June of 2013-2015. Seventy-six …
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The effects of interlocutors on student performance on constructed dialogue tasks assessing primary phrase stress production
… oral section of its English placement test (EPT). This study developed a comparable version of a specific section of oral section of the EPT's specification which was administered to 47 incoming UIUC students. The participants were split into two groups and tested using two different types of …
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Model-Based Design of an Electric Powertrain Vehicle; Focus on Physical Modeling of Lithium-ion Batteries
… has produced a prototype electric powertrain (EPT) vehicle, VTM16e, and will take their first EPT vehicle, VTM17e, to competition in 2017. The use of model-based design (MBD) for an EPT FSAE vehicle is investigated through this thesis. The goal of the research is to build the framework of a …
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Construct Validation of an Integrated -Approach EAP Placement Test Using Multi -Group Structural Equation Modeling
… investigation of the construct validity of the EPT. This powerful modeling technique enabled me to investigate comprehensively how listening and reading comprehension as proposed factors influenced or interacted with writing performance. Further, a fundamental concern in testing research, …
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Textural and Physical Properties of Fat-Free Turkey-Beef Frankfurters: Effects of Non-Meat Ingredients and End-Point Temperature
… 1, 2 and 3%), and end-point cooking temperature (EPT; 71.1 and 76.7 C) were examined. Regardless of the formulation, all turkey-beef frankfurters contained less than 0.4% fat. As levels of NaCl in the formula increased, the frankfurters had lower (P< 0.05) penetration values (total energy and peak …
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The Effect of Episodic Future Thinking on a Novel Measure of Behavioral Economic Demand for Exercise
… leisure-time-as-price exercise purchase task (LT-EPT), wherein participants (n = 175) indicate hypothetical likelihood to trade leisure time for access to exercise time. We observed weak to moderate correlations between demand indices (Q1%, α, BP1, and Pmax) generated from the LT-EPT and …
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Constructing and Validating Parallel Forms of Performance-Based Writing Prompts in an Academic Setting
… the degree of comparability among the three new EPT writing prompts was generally quite high in terms of both the placement reproducibility and the skill profile consistency, despite their slight differences in terms of the ""fit-to-specification"". In addition, it was found that the three new …
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TOEFL as a prediction tool for placement into ESL writing courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The English placement test (EPT) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is designed to provide an accurate placement (or exemption) of international students into ESL writing and pronunciation classes. Over the last three years, UIUC has experienced an increase in number of …
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Saberes, identidades e currículo: compreensões necessárias à formação de docentes para a educação profissional e tecnológica
… do currículo na formação dos docentes da EPT? De que forma são construídos os saberes e as identidades profissionais docentes e quais suas contribuições nessa formação? Qual a importância da valorização dos saberes da experiência na formação de docentes da EPT? O trabalho foi desenvolvido …
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The influence of lexical features on human rater's judgement of essay performance on local English Placement Test
… 262 essays from the English Placement Test (EPT) were collected and holistically scored based on the EPT holistic profile-based rating scales into five profiles across three proficiency levels. Lexical features related to lexical sophistication and lexical diversity were investigated in …
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Electrically Evoked Auditory Potentials Recorded at Three Levels of the Auditory Pathway From Multichannel Cochlear Implant Subjects: Characterization and Comparison to Behavioral Measures
… amplitude and evoked potential thresholds (EPT). Comparisons between the EPTs and behavioral measures suggest that thresholds of either the Wave V, the Na-Pa complex, or the N1-P2 complex may be used to select stimulus levels that are audible for subjects, although the location of the EPT …
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Effects of sediment upon benthic macroinvertebrates in forested northern Appalachian streams
… sediment.;The fine sediment experiments revealed EPT taxa richness and % climber to be sensitive to increasing proportions of fine sediment. The stream surveys identified significant declines (p < 0.0001) in EPT taxa richness occurring when fine sediment exceeded approximately 1% of the substrate …
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The Effect of Episodic Future Thought on Delay Discounting, Outcome Expectancies, and Alcohol Use among Risky College Drinkers
… were randomized to EFT, episodic past thinking (EPT), or a control condition in which non-autobiographical events were recalled (CET). Immediately following intervention, results demonstrated significantly less discounting in EFT and EPT, relative to CET. At follow-up, EFT demonstrated …
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