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Progressive Response Effort Preference Assessments
The identification of preferred and reinforcing stimuli has long been a focus of behavior analysts in applied settings. Research has primarily focused on different methodologies for assessing whether stimuli are preferred and there has been additional research on identifying under what conditions …
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Student Perceptions Towards Mandated Assessments
… Benefits”. High school students agreed mandated assessments were irrelevant. In addition to the SCoA-VI and open-ended question, certain demographic characteristics were found to influence student perceptions towards mandated assessments. Females were more likely to view the assessments as …
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Sex bias in student assessments
Previous research examining sex bias in student assessments has focused on the differential evaluation of final year project marks (Bradley 1984, 1993, 1994; Newstead and Dennis 1990, 1993; Hartley 1992, 1994) and the pattern of degrees (Rudd 1984, Belsey 1988) awarded to male and female students. …
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Are All These Elementary Assessments Necessary? Phenomenological Study of Standardized Assessments in the Elementary School Setting
… are spent by each student taking standardized assessments, according to a comprehensive report of 66 of the nation’s large-city school districts by the Council of the Great City Schools. Standardized assessments measure about 2.3% of the classroom period for the regular eighth-grader in public …
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Presence verification for summative e-assessments
… gains of ensuring presence during summative e-assessments, a blob-analysis solution which follows an object tracking approach is proposed. The design of the blobbased presence verification (BlobPV) system involves video processing techniques which can be used to detect, verify and classify a …
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Coherent approximation of distributed expert assessments
… (both human and machine) to make educated assessments of the likelihood of various outcomes. Experts however are not immune to errors in judgment (due to bias, quantization effects, finite information or many other factors). One way to compensate for errors in individual judgments is to …
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Uncertainty in incinerator and landfill risk assessments
… in incinerator and landfill human health risk assessments. This aspiration has been in response to finding a limited and ambiguous use of the term 'uncertainty', a lack of consensus in its definition and nomenclature, and its perfunctory review in risk assessmentsI.n the light of the need for …
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Vulnerability Identification Errors in Security Risk Assessments
… cybersecurity threats. Information security risk assessments help organisations to identify their risks and vulnerabilities. An accurate identification of risks and vulnerabilities is a challenge, because the input data is uncertain. So-called ’vulnerability identification errors‘ can occur if …
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Treatment performance assessments of different wetland mesocosms
Despite their global acceptance as a sustainable and cost-efficient technology for water pollution control including urban wastewater contaminated with hydrocarbons, treatment performance of vertical-flow constructed wetlands can be hampered by clogging of the substrate media pores of the wetland …
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Self-assessments skills of occupational therapy students.
… students consistently under-rated their academic assessments although the majority were within a five-percent range of the experts' marks. One cohort of students did demonstrate an improvement in self-assessment over the three years but similar trends were not detected with the other two cohorts. …
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Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology: Competence Assessments
Smoking is a deep-rooted and complex psychological, behavioural, social and physiological practice. Smoking is reinforced by positive reinforcement outcomes and negative withdrawals symptoms experienced during abstinence (Marks et al., 2006). Furthermore smoking is a primary contributing factor in …
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Conservation Through Population Assessments Across Variable Landscapes
<p>Few areas of the planet are untouched by human actions, be they marine or terrestrial. Marine habitats face disturbance from overexploitation of fisheries and pollution while terrestrial habitats face significant threat from land cover conversion and degradation. To address these threats, …
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Psychosocial and physiological assessments of orthognathic patients
Aims: The primary aim was to compare, in the RoI, generic oral health-related quality of life (OHIP14), condition-specific quality of life (OQLQ), the fear of negative evaluation (BFNES) and self-reported BMI of patients seeking surgical-orthodontic correction of their malocclusion versus those of …
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Test coaching on assessments of cognitive constructs
In continuously administered employment tests, test security may be compromised by examinees revealing test items to future test candidates. Unlike academic testing, employee selection tests generally have longer test windows and are less likely to implement new test items or have multiple parallel …
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Assessments of long-term uranium supply availability
The future viability of nuclear power will depend on the long-term availability of uranium. A two-form uranium supply model was used to estimate the date at which peak production will occur. The model assumes a constant annual rate of production growth to the peak, and a fixed …
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Analysis of Technology and Engineering Education Assessments
Technology and Engineering Education has deep roots in Project Based Learning, with its beginning in the Industrial Arts, and tracing its ancestry to craft apprenticeships. This constructivist philosophy supports the idea that the creation of an artifact lends itself to higher order cognitive …
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Webcam-Based Optical Mark Reader for Grading Assessments
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) is a process of retrieving information from the forms where users put marks in particular locations. OMR technique has been improved significantly since its inception, moving from specialized hardware-based solutions to more adaptable and sophisticated software-based …
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Development on wireless IMU sensors for biomechanical assessments
Measuring human movement and posture is an important area of research for biomedical engineering and rehabilitation. These measurements can be used to evaluate functional performance under normal and abnormal conditions and aid in clinical assessment. An increasingly popular method to measure human …
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