scholarly journals Test review of Iranian university entrance exam: English Konkur examination

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Khodi ◽  
Sayyed Mohammad Alavi ◽  
Hossein Karami
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Present Review ◽  
High Stake ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Test Review ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Knowledge Of Language

AbstractThe present paper appraises a standardized test, the entrance exam of Iranian universities, known as “Konkur” that is administered annually as a means of gaining admission to higher education in Iran. This norm-referenced test is administered for students majoring in mathematics, experimental sciences, and humanities whose scores along their weighted GPAs in the last 3 years of high school are used as indicators of students’ rank. Based on the rank achieved, they would find the opportunity to select the highly regarded university for their education. Due to the importance of such a high-stake test which may bring about social and long-time consequences for the participants, the present paper tries to evaluate the test and its psychometrics aspects. It is ostensible that the exam provides a limited  situation for measuring the participants “knowledge of language” rather than their “knowledge about language.” Therefore, the dimensionality and validity of the test are debatable. Thus, the present review tries to characterize Konkur examination and discusses the rooms for untouched aspects for the betterment of its quality.

Transição entre os Ensinos Fundamental, Médio e Superior em São Paulo

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
Marlene Alves Dias ◽  
Valdir Bezerra dos Santos Júnior ◽  
Sirlene Neves de Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
National Education ◽  
Personal Relations ◽  
Institutional Expectations ◽  
Concept Of Function ◽  
Institutional Relationships

O objetivo desse trabalho de pesquisa é identificar as relações institucionais e as marcas dessas sobre as relações pessoais esperadas dos estudantes na transição entre os Ensinos Fundamental (6 a 14 anos), Médio (15 a 17anos) e Superior. As análises se apoiam na Teoria Antropológica do Didático com destaque para as noções de: relação pessoal e institucional, praxeologias, ecologia dos saberes e níveis de codeterminação. Foram consideradas as análises das expectativas institucionais via documentos oficiais e das relações institucionais existentes, por meio de livros didáticos do Ensino Fundamental Anos Finais, Médio e do Ensino Superior, que dão uma visão geral de como essas relações sobrevivem, atualmente, no Brasil. As relações pessoais esperadas dos estudantes foram apresentadas por meio das questões do exame vestibular da Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp). Identifica-se nas análises dos documentos que na tentativa de adequar as orientações impostas da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases de 1996, muitas foram as adaptações nos documentos oficiais para ajudar professores e educadores na formação de cidadãos autônomos. Em relação ao conceito de função se identifica que seria interessante realizar a articulação dos conhecimentos desenvolvidos no Ensino Fundamental Anos Finais e Ensino Médio, visando utilização dos mesmos como conhecimentos prévios disponíveis no Ensino Superior.Palavras-chave: Relações Institucional e Pessoal. Função. Transição na Educação Básica.AbstractThe objective of this research is to identify the institutional relationships and their marks on the students’ expected personal relations in the transition from Elementary School (6 to 14 years) to High School (15 to 17 years), then Higher Education. The analyzes are based on the Anthropological Theory of Didactics, highlighting the notions of personal and institutional relationship, praxeologies, ecology of knowledge and levels of codetermination. Analyzes of institutional expectations through official documents and institutional relationships were considered through textbooks of Elementary School, High School and Higher Education; they give an overview of how these relationships currently survive in Brazil. The students’ expected personal relations were presented through the “vestibular” exam (entrance exam to higher education) questions to Unicamp (University of Campinas). In the documents analyses, huge attempt was identified to adapt the guidelines imposed by the Law of Directives and Basis for National Education - LDB, 1996: there were many adaptations in the official documents to help teachers and educators shape up autonomous citizens. In relation to the concept of function, it was indentified that it would be interesting to carry out the articulation of the knowledge developed in Elementary School and High School, aiming to use them as prior knowledge available to HigherEducation.Keywords: Institutional and Personal relationships. Function. Transition in Basic Education.

scholarly journals High-stakes Entrance Examinations: A View from Brazil

2016 ◽  
pp. 19-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Schwartzman ◽  
Marcelo Knobel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Entrance Examinations ◽  
Entrance Exams ◽  
Regional Characteristics

In Brazil, the growing dominance of the national exam for secondary education as a massive, unified entrance exam for higher education has several detrimental consequences. Besides effectively shaping the high school curriculum, with clear disadvantages for those who will not attend college, it restricts the diversity and regional characteristics of the higher education sector. Similar criticisms apply to other countries that use national entrance exams. Some suggestions for possible changes are given.

Russian Education in the Mirror of Demography

2003 ◽  
pp. 4-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Grebnev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Demographic Indicators ◽  
Federal Districts ◽  
Stage System ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Russian Education

The dynamics of several demographic indicators of Russia - child and teenage cohorts in 1970-2000, life expectancy in 1995-2000, migration flows among federal districts in the period between two censuses of 1989 and 2002 - are considered in the article. The author puts forward the hypothesis about the influence of these indicators on the level of education in narrow and broad senses - in educational institutions and the society as a whole. He estimates the perspectives of regional higher educational institutions under conditions of absence of plan distribution of graduates and the double cyclical fall in the number of high school graduates. The agenda for the development of a two-stage system of higher education corresponding with international integration processes is formulated.

APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS IN ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT TRAINING AT VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-287
Author(s):  
The Vinh Tran ◽  
Tran Kim Thanh ◽  
Tran Manh Tuong ◽  
Vu Anh Linh Duy
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
High School Graduation ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Entrance Exams ◽  
School Graduation ◽  
And Training ◽  
Machine Learning Models

In Vietnam, since 2015, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam has decided to abolish university entrance exams and advocates the use of high school graduation exam results of candidates for admission to go to universities. The 2015 and 2016 exam questions for the Math exam are the essay questions. From 2017 up to now, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam has applied the form of multiple-choice exams for Mathematics in the high school graduation exam. There are many mixed opinions about the impact of this form of examination and admission on the quality of university students. In particular, the switch from the form of essay examination to multiple-choice exams led the entire Vietnam Mathematical Association at that time to send recommendations on continuing to maintain the form of essay examination for mathematics. The purposes of this article are analysis and evaluation the effects of relevant factors on the academic performance of advanced math students of university students, and offer solutions to optimize university entrance exam. The data set was provided by Training Management Department and Training Quality Control and Testing Laboratory of the University of Finance – Marketing. This dataset includes information about math high school graduation test scores, learning process scores (scores assessed by direct instructors), and advanced math course end test scores of 2834 students in courses from 2015 to 2019. Linear and non-linear regression machine learning models were used to solve the tasks given in this article. An analysis of the data was conducted to reveal the advantages and disadvantages of the change in university enrollment of the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training. Tools from the Python libraries have been supported and used effectively in the process of solving problems. Through building and surveying the model, there are suggestions and solutions to problems in enrollment and input quality assurance. Specifically, in the preparation of entrance exams, the entrance exam questions should not exceed 61-66 % of multiple choice questions.

scholarly journals School Choice in Guangzhou: Why High-Scoring Students Are Protected?

Games ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Yuanju Fang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Serial Dictatorship

Each year, millions of middle school graduates in China take a standardized test and compete for high school positions. Unlike other cities, Guangzhou still uses the immediate acceptance mechanism but implements a policy that students in the high-scoring group receive their allocations before those in the low-scoring group. In this paper, we study a class of the Guangzhou mechanisms, including the immediate acceptance (IA) and the serial dictatorship (SD) mechanism. We show that, if a collection of groups is refined by splitting its groups into a larger number of smaller subgroups, then the Guangzhou mechanism will perform more stably and less manipulable than before. This result provides a tool for policy makers to improve the allocation outcome of the IA mechanism under homogeneous priorities and justifies the use of a high-scoring student protection policy in Guangzhou’s high school admission.

Let’s tweet again? Social networks and literature achievement in high school students

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-64
Author(s):  
Gian Paolo Barbetta ◽  
Paolo Canino ◽  
Stefano Cima
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
School Students ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The availability of cheap Wi-Fi internet connections has encouraged schools to adopt Web 2.0 platforms for teaching, with the intention of stimulating students’ academic achievement and participation in school. Moreover, during the recent explosion of the SARS-CoV-2 crisis that forced many countries to close schools (as well as offices and factories), the widespread diffusion of these applications kept school systems going. Despite their widespread use as teaching tools, the effect of adopting Web 2.0 platforms on students’ performance has never been rigorously tested. We fill this gap in the literature by analyzing the impact of using Twitter as a teaching tool on high school students’ literature skills. Based on a large-scale, randomized controlled trial that involved 70 schools and about 1,500 students, we find that using Twitter to teach literature has an overall negative effect on students’ average achievement, reducing standardized test scores by about 25 percent of a standard deviation. The negative effect is stronger on students who usually perform better.

Predicting academic success for students of color within STEM majors

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gipson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
College Success ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Standardized Test Scores ◽  
Content Type ◽  
College Gpa ◽  
High School Gpa

Purpose The aim of this study is to determine what pre-college characteristics predict college success for students of color enrolled within science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs, as measured by cumulative grade point average (GPA) after three years of initial enrollment. Design/methodology/approach To increase the generalizability by avoiding a single-year focus, the sample includes 954 first-year students entering one predominantly White research university during Fall 2010, Fall 2011 and Fall 2012 (Allen and Bir, 2011); GPAs were collected following three years of initial enrollment. IBM statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) Statistics 22 was utilized to conduct correlation and multiple linear regression analyses. Findings Within all conditional models, after controlling for multiple variables, the number of advanced placement (AP) credits, standardized test scores and specific type of high school GPA were significantly related to cumulative college GPA after three years of enrollment. However, when multiple forms of high school GPA were included within a full model, only the number of AP credits and standardized test scores remained statistically related to cumulative college GPA. Further, high school core GPA is more strongly correlated with cumulative college GPA after three years of enrollment than overall high school GPA, high school science GPA and high school mathematics GPA. Originality/value This study adds to prior research by identifying that high school core GPA is an important predictor of college success and that the cumulative effect of enrollment within AP credits may be more beneficial than the cumulative effect of involvement within dual enrollment courses.

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