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Van Hoof, Hubert B.; Verbeeten, Marja J. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2005
This article reports on a study done among students who participated in student exchange programs, both in the United States and other parts of the world, between January 2001 and May 2003. Issues such as why students decide to study abroad, why they select a certain institution, how their home institution compares to a partner institution abroad,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Exchange Programs, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students
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Al-Hamly, Mashael; Coombe, Christine – Language Testing, 2005
This study investigates whether the practice of answer changing on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is beneficial to Gulf Arab students' overall test performance. The proficiency exam used in this study is the Michigan English Language Institute College English Test - Grammar, Cloze, Vocabulary, Reading (MELICET-GCVR), which was developed using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College English, Arabs, Multiple Choice Tests
Lindenberger, Michael – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
When Jason Johnson, a student at the University of the Cumberlands in the eastern Kentucky hills, posted comments about his new boyfriend on his Myspace.com Web page, he unintentionally sparked a controversy that quickly embroiled the college, the president of the state senate, and Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher. The Baptist-affiliated college,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Private Colleges, Homosexuality, Church Related Colleges
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Thomsett-Scott, Beth; Reese, Patricia E. – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
The incorporation of technology into library processes has tremendously impacted staff and users alike. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries is no exception. Sixteen years of reference statistics are analyzed to examine the relationships between the implementation of CD-ROMs and web-based resources and the number of reference questions.…
Descriptors: Library Services, Reference Services, Interviews, Questioning Techniques
ACT, Inc., 2007
Part of the third-largest school district in the nation, 77 percent of Chicago's nearly 427,000 public school students are poor, as defined by eligibility for participation in free or reduced-cost lunch programs. Many are members of minorities; many have limited proficiency in English. To make a successful transition to college--even to graduate…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Graduation Rate, Lunch Programs, Academic Achievement
Curry, Janice – Online Submission, 2008
This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's prekindergarten program for the 2007-2008 school year.
Descriptors: School Readiness, School Districts, Preschool Education, Grants
Smith, Robert L.; Carlson, Alfred B. – 1995
The feasibility of constructing test forms with practically equivalent cut scores using judges' estimates of item difficulty as target "statistical" specifications was investigated. Test forms with equivalent judgmental cut scores (based on judgments of item difficulty) were assembled using items from six operational forms of the…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Difficulty Level, Equated Scores
DeMauro, Gerald E. – 1995
Studies of the Angoff method of standard setting suggest that judges agree in their estimates of the relative difficulties of test questions for minimally competent examinees and that each judge's estimates correlate well with the observed item difficulties for examinees whose total test scores are near the judge's personal standard (G. E.…
Descriptors: Ability, Competence, Construct Validity, Difficulty Level
Platt, Elizabeth – 1996
This guide discusses the ways in which educators in technical and vocational education programs can maximize opportunities for limited-English-proficient students to learn English language skills. Vocational classrooms are viewed as potentially excellent environments for language learning because of the hands-on nature of the work, undertaken in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 1992
The program of studies for French as a Second Language is a legal document that specifies what Alberta (Canada) students are expected to learn in French as a second language from early childhood education through grade 12. In this volume, these expectations for learner knowledge, skills, and attitudes are expressed at the intermediate level of…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education
Schaeffer, Evonne L. – 1993
Context effects in test taking were explored, paying attention to the psychological processes that occur during test taking, and modeling context effects for each individual at the item block level. A sample of 279 high school students (140 females and 139 males) was chosen to yield adequate power for detecting interactions. Reading test forms…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Difficulty Level, High School Students
DeMars, Christine – 1998
Using data from a pilot test of science and math from students in 30 high schools, item difficulties were estimated with a one-parameter model (partial-credit model for the multi-point items). Some items were multiple-choice items, and others were constructed-response items (open-ended). Four sets of estimates were obtained: estimates for males…
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics), Goodness of Fit
Ito, Kyoko; Sykes, Robert C. – 1994
Responses to previously calibrated items administered in a computerized adaptive testing (CAT) mode may be used to recalibrate the items. This live-data simulation study investigated the possibility, and limitations, of on-line adaptive recalibration of precalibrated items. Responses to items of a Rasch-based paper-and-pencil licensure examination…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level
Maricopa County Community Coll. District, Phoenix, AZ. – 1991
Forms used at Rio Salado Community College (Arizona) to monitor student progress toward English language and civics requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 are presented. The forms include the following: (1) a checklist of beginning skills in United States government and history and in English reading and writing; (2) a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attendance Records, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists
Appel, Gabriela; Lantolf, James P. – 1991
A study compared the effects of cognitive complexity on the speech production of 14 advanced non-native speakers of English and 14 native English-speakers. Cognitively simple and complex tasks were distinguished based on text type (narrative versus expository). Subjects read one narrative and one expository text in separate sessions, then wrote…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
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