Criterion SM Online Essay Evaluation: An Application for Automated Evaluation of Student Essays Jill Burstein Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road‚ 18E Princeton‚ NJ 08541 jburstein@ets.org Martin Chodorow Department of Psychology Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York‚ NY 10021 martin.chodorow@hunter.cuny.edu Claudia Leacock Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road‚ 18E Princeton‚ NJ 08541 cleacock@ets.org Abstract This paper describes a deployed educational technology application:
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CHAPTER 9: THE VERDICT ON GROUPTHINK 1. In my experience‚ I found that decision-making groups do not tend toward groupthink. Groupthink is a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group‚ when the members’ striving for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action. Groups displaying most of the symptoms of groupthink are more likely to display symptoms ofdefective decision making‚ resulting in poor policy
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Behaviour Modification A Self-Control Program for Smoking Cessation Christine Chambers Trent University Introduction The behaviour modified for this self-directed behaviour change project is smoking. Smoking was selected as the behaviour I wish to change because it is known that tobacco use is the leading cause of premature‚ preventable death and disease (Edwards‚ Bondy‚ Callaghan‚ & Mann‚ 2014). Smoking is a behaviour that has been recently initiated; I started smoking occasionally in August
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usually gather around the true values. Galileo’s theory of the errors were discovered to be the characteristics of normal distribution and the formula for normal distribution‚ which was found by Adrian and Gauss‚ well applied with the errors. In 1778‚ Laplace‚ a mathematician and astronomer‚ discovered the same distribution. His “Central Limit Theorem” proved that even if the distribution is “roughly distributed”‚ the means of the repeated samples from the distribution is nearly normal‚ and the larger
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User Course Test Started Submitted Status Score Amy Mclaughlin Quantitative Methods Midterm Exam 11/6/11 5:27 PM 11/6/11 6:56 PM Completed 195 out of 200 points Time Elapsed 1 hour‚ 28 minutes out of 4 hours. Instructions false Question 1 5 out of 5 points Regret is the difference between the payoff from the best decision and all other decision payoffs. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Question 2 5 out of 5 points Variable costs are independent of volume and remain constant. True
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principles of Sutherland’s amended criterion for defining crime? If a behavior resulting in the violation of a criminal law does not result in a conviction‚ what is the benefit of defining that action as criminal even though it will not be punished? In our contemporary criminal justice system‚ what are some examples of the “pressure” on the criminal justice system discussed by Sutherland in the third of the four principles of Sutherland’s amended criterion for defining
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Due to the lack of funds that the Center has‚ we must be cost conscious. The directors have allocated $10‚000 for the new roof. Quality is our second criterion. The last roofer that came to fix a leak said that the shingles we currently have are poor in quality and is no longer sold in the state. We would like to have shingles that would last longer‚ so the children would not have to miss time from the
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having reached this certain proposition‚ in the second paragraph of Meditation II he goes on to claim that it also gives him a criterion for truth. He says that what assures him of the truth of the Cogito is that he perceives it clearly and distinctly and that‚ thus: a statement is true if‚ and only if‚ it is perceived clearly and distinctly. This is Descartes criterion for truth. At this point in his argument‚ he knows with certainty that he is a thinking thing. He now has to deal with objects
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A Path to Amputation For Body Integrity Identity Patients In this paper‚ I will argue that amputation is an ethically appropriate medical intervention for patients with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) as long as certain criteria are followed. My argument for this is based on the fact that it is every medical professional’s ethical responsibility to relieve patients from their suffering and there is an inherent lack of alternative solutions to treating BIID. It might be objected to this that
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Psychopathology—Five (PSY–5): Recent constructive replication and assessment literature review. Psychological Assessment‚ 24(2)‚ 432-443. doi:10.1037/a0025830 Psychology Glossary. 2012. Empirical criterion keying. Retrieved from http://www.psychology-lexicon.com/cms/glossary/glossary-e/2375-empirical-criterion-keying.html
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