scholarly journals The Correlation between EFL PBT Paper Based TOEFL Prediction and Verbal Assessment Test Scores of Engineering Students

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luh Ariyati ◽  
Lies Lestar
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Verbal Assessment

Physiognomic Perception as a Cognitive Control Principle

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 707-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry L. Rosett ◽  
Herbert Robbins ◽  
Walter S. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Abstract Reasoning ◽  
Course Grades ◽  
Work Style ◽  
Control Principle

Physiognomic perception, a tendency to suffuse percepts with an emotional or expressive quality, has been suggested as an additional cognitive control principle. In a study of an entire graduating class of 77 engineering students, Physiognomic Cue Test (PCT) performance loaded on a factor independent of factors representing field articulation, scanning, abstract reasoning, and academic achievement. PCT scores have been found to be related to career choice and to correlate significantly with measures of art aptitude and style, course grades, and personality test scores including the CPI. The relationships of physiognomic perception to intelligence, creativity and work style are considered. These data support the hypothesis that psysiognomic perception represents a significant cognitive control principle. Additional multivariate studies of more heterogeneous groups are indicated.

scholarly journals Measuring Industry Readiness of Engineering Students of Nagpur Region with Reference to Social Skills

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9S3) ◽  
pp. 1293-1305
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Test Group ◽  
Personal Interview ◽  
Aptitude Test ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Leadership Quality ◽  
Interview Score

Most of the students of Engineering colleges in Vidarbha region select their employment through campus placements. It is thus the responsibility of the colleges to make the students skilled to enhance the chances of their employability. The paper divided the skill sets into and Social skillsand measured its impact on Employability Test Scores viz. Aptitude Test Score, Group Discussion Score and Personal Interview Score. It is found that social skills viz. Industry Institute Interaction and Leadership Quality of the students play an important role in deciding Employability Test Scores of the students. The results were arrived at by taking the sample 629 students of engineering colleges of Nagpur region. Hence the mapping of various parameters in their past social skill superimposed with current assessment of their potential on the basis of aptitude test, group discussion and personal interview can generate certain indicators of success in future placement/ higher education/ entrepreneurship in engineering profession.

scholarly journals GENDER-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrna A. Whigham
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Women Students ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Related Attitude ◽  
Act Test

The following study compared academic achievement traits of men and women to determine why women are underrepresented in certain curricula, especially engineering. Math-related attitude and anxiety factors were examined via a questionnaire, and a number of ACT test scores were studied. The results may surprise some readers and should be of interest to all advisors working with science and/or engineering students, especially women students.

Entering the world of electrical engineering: A gateway course for first-year students at Wuhan University, China

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinsong Tao ◽  
Haihong Han ◽  
Xishan Wen ◽  
Ju Tang
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
First Year ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Feedback Questionnaire ◽  
The World

Chinese students, unlike those in western countries, have little control over their majors or courses. Many students are registered in electrical engineering based on GaoKao test scores, not personal interest in the field. As a consequence, many first-year students know little, or even nothing, about electrical engineering. To increase disciplinary knowledge among these students and improve retention rates, a gateway course, named Entering the World of Electrical Engineering, was established in the school of Electrical Engineering at Wuhan University, P.R. China especially for freshman electrical engineering students. To stimulate and inspire these new entrants to the World of Electrical Engineering, this course underscores the relevance of electrical engineering to everyday life and directs the attention of these newcomers to the dynamic and interesting research areas of the field. This paper describes the contents of this gateway course, the structure of the teaching materials, and analyzes the results of a feedback questionnaire administered at the end of the term. The results show that the gateway course successfully engages students’ interests in electrical engineering.

scholarly journals Evidence of probability misconception in engineering students—why even an inaccurate explanation is better than no explanation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Kaplar ◽  
Zorana Lužanin ◽  
Srđan Verbić
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Illusory Correlation ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Lower Test

Abstract Background In the rapidly changing industrial environment and job market, engineering profession requires a vast body of skills, one of them being decision making under uncertainty. Knowing that misunderstanding of probability concepts can lead to wrong decisions, the main objective of this study is to investigate the presence of probability misconceptions among undergraduate students of electrical engineering. Five misconceptions were investigated: insensitivity to sample size, base rate neglected, misconception of chance, illusory correlation, and biases in the evaluation of conjunctive and disjunctive events. The study was conducted with 587 students who attended bachelor schools of electrical engineering at two universities in Serbia. The presence of misconceptions was tested using multiple-choice tasks. This study also introduces a novel perspective, which is reflected in examination of the correlation between students’ explanations of given answers and their test scores. Results The results of this study show that electrical engineering students are, susceptible to misconceptions in probability reasoning. Although future engineers from the sample population were most successful in avoiding misconceptions of chance, only 35% of examinees were able to provide a meaningful explanation. Analysis of students’ explanations, revealed that in many cases majority of students were prone to common misconceptions. Among the sample population, significant percentage of students were unable to justify their own answers even when they selected the correct option. The results also indicate that formal education in probability and statistics did not significantly influence the test score. Conclusions Results of the present study indicate a need for further development of students’ deep understanding of probability concepts, as well as the need for the development of competencies that enable students to validate their answers. The study emphasizes the importance of answer explanations, since they allow us to discover whether students who mark the correct answer have some misconceptions or may be prone to some other kind of error. We found that the examinees who failed to explain their choices had much lower test scores than those who provided some explanation.

Biracial Testing: The Question of Clinicians' Influence on Children’s Test Performance

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Roy A. Koenigsknecht
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Drawing Test ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Preschool Age Children

Six speech and language clinicians, three black and three white, administered the Goodenough Drawing Test (1926) to 144 preschoolers. The four groups, lower socioeconomic black and white and middle socioeconomic black and white, were divided equally by sex. The biracial clinical setting was shown to influence test scores in black preschool-age children.

What Do We Want Them To Be When They Grow Up?

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Lyn Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Profound Hearing Loss ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss ◽  
Learning To Listen

Abstract Learning to listen and speak are well-established preludes for reading, writing, and succeeding in mainstream educational settings. Intangibles beyond the ubiquitous test scores that typically serve as markers for progress in children with hearing loss are embedded in descriptions of the educational and social development of four young women. All were diagnosed with severe-to-profound or profound hearing loss as toddlers, and all were fitted with hearing aids and given listening and spoken language therapy. Compiling stories across the life span provides insights into what we can be doing in the lives of young children with hearing loss.

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