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Posted: | Le An Ha, Victoria Yaneva, Polina Harik, Ravi Pandian, Amy Morales, Brian Clauser

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

 

This paper brings together approaches from the fields of NLP and psychometric measurement to address the problem of predicting examinee proficiency from responses to short-answer questions (SAQs).

Posted: | D. Jurich, L. M. Duhigg, T. J. Plumb, S. A. Haist, J. L. Hawley, R. S. Lipner, L. Smith, S. M. Norby

CJASN May 2018, 13 (5) 710-717

 

Medical specialty and subspecialty fellowship programs administer subject-specific in-training examinations to provide feedback about level of medical knowledge to fellows preparing for subsequent board certification. This study evaluated the association between the American Society of Nephrology In-Training Examination and the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Certification Examination in terms of scores and passing status.

Posted: | B. Michalec, M. M. Cuddy, P. Hafferty, M. D. Hanson, S. L. Kanter, D. Littleton, M. A. T. Martimianakis, R. Michaels, F. W. Hafferty

Med Educ, 52: 359-361

 

Focusing specifically on examples set in the context of movement from Bachelor's level undergraduate programmes to enrolment in medical school, this publication argues that a great deal of what happens on college campuses today, curricular and otherwise, is (in)directly driven by the not‐so‐invisible hand of the medical education enterprise.