A Comparison of Quiz Grading Criteria, Exam Question Type and Novelty, and their Effects on Exam Scores

Students in higher education perform better on exams when they complete frequent quizzes on the assigned reading material; but little research has investigated the different ways quizzes can be administered and how these variations affect quiz and exam performance. One variable that influences how quizzes are administered is the grading criterion. The standard practice grading criterion consists of receiving a score for the quiz based on the number of correctly answered questions. A passing criterion consists of requiring a student to obtain a certain score to earn full credit for the quiz. Previous research has found that students, particularly those who are at risk for failing, do significantly better on exams when there is a low-passing criterion as compared to a higher-passing criterion. Currently, there is no research that compares the effects of quizzes with a standard practice criterion and quizzes with a passing criterion on exam scores. The present study sought to compare a low-passing criterion and a standard practice criterion for quizzes and their effects on exam scores. Furthermore, we manipulated the type of exam question and whether the question has been replicated from a previous quiz across both a low-passing criterion and standard practice. This study replicated previous research demonstrating that students performed better on low-passing criterion exam questions. Additionally, students performed better on comprehension questions and replicated questions. Future research should conduct a parametric analysis of passing criteria to determine the optimal criteria for exam performance

Build on Your Law School Success

Much — perhaps too much — has been written about the skills one needs to obtain a legal job. From our point of view as administrators on either end of the law school experience, it is clear that many of the attributes sought by law school admissions committees are akin to those sought by prospective employers. We counsel students and attorneys to consider how the soft skills they relied on to gain entry to law school will serve them equally well as job seekers

MEKANISME PENERIMAAN PAJAK PENERANGAN JALAN DI KABUPATEN KAMPAR

ABSTRAK MEKANISME PENERIMAAN PAJAK PENERANGAN JALAN DI KABUPATEN KAMPAR YOLA SEPTIYENTI DALFEN NIM. 02070625960 Tugas Akhir ini dilakukan pada bulan Januari sampai dengan Februari tahun 2023 di Badan Pendapatan Daerah (BAPENDA) Kabupaten Kampar . Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan maksud dan tujuan untuk mengetahui mekanisme penerimaan pajak penerangan jalan di kabupaten Kampar. Pajak penerangan jalan merupakan salah satu pajak daerah yang berkontribusi dalam meningkatkan penghasilan asli daerah (PAD) . Untuk meningkatkan penghasilan asli daerah dari sektor pajak penerangan jalan. penelitian ini menggunakan jenis data primer dan sekunder. Dan metode pengumpulan datanya dengan cara observasi,wawancara, dan dokumentasi. maka mekanisme dalam penerimaan pajak penerangan jalan harus diperhatikan agar target penerimaan pendapatan tercapai. Dalam sistem pemugutannya, Pajak Penerangan jalan menggunakan sistem pemungutan selft assessment system. Wajib pajak diberikan wewenang dalam menghitung besaran pajak, melaporkan dan membayar. Oleh karena itu, sistem pemungutannya berpengaruh terhadap penerimaan realisasi dan target. Hasil tugas akhir yang telah dilakukan dapat disimpulkan,mekanisme peneriman pajak penerangan jalan dapat dilakukan dengan cara datang langsung ke kantor dan menggunakan Qris bank riau kepri. Kata kunci : Mekanisme, Penerimaan, Pajak Penerangan Jala

Background-free fluorescence decay time sensing and imaging of pH with highly photostable diazaoxotriangulenium dyes

Novel fluorescent diazaoxatriangulenium (DAOTA) pH indicators for lifetime-based self-referenced pH sensing are reported. The DAOTA dyes were decorated with phenolic receptor groups inducing fluorescence quenching via photoinduced electron transfer mechanism. Electron-withdrawing chlorine substituents ensure response in the most relevant pH range (apparent pK'a values ~5 and 7.5 for the p,p-dichlorophenol- and the p-chlorophenol-substituted dyes, respectively). The dyes feature long fluorescence lifetime (17-20 ns), high quantum yield (~60%) and high photostability. Planar optodes are prepared upon immobilization of the dyes into polyurethane hydrogel D4. Apart from the response in the fluorescence intensity, the optodes show pH-dependent lifetime behaviour which makes them suitable for studying 2D pH distribution with help of fluorescence lifetime imaging technique. The lifetime response is particularly pronounced for the sensors with high dye concentration (0.5-1% wt. in respect to the polymer) and is attributed to efficient homo-FRET mechanism

From Craft to Nature: The Emergence of Natural Teleology

A teleological explanation is an explanation in terms of an end or a purpose. So saying that ‘X came about for the sake of Y’ is a teleological account of X. It is a striking feature of ancient Greek philosophy that many thinkers accepted that the world should be explained in this way. However, before Aristotle, teleological explanations of the cosmos were generally based on the idea that it had been created by a divine intelligence. If an intelligent power made the world, then it makes sense that it did so with a purpose in mind, so grasping this purpose will help us understand the world. This is the pattern of teleological explanation that we find in the Presocratics and in Plato. However, with Aristotle teleology underwent a change: instead of thinking that the ends were explanatory because a mind had sought to bring them about, Aristotle took the ends to operate in natural beings independently of the efforts of any creative intelligence. Indeed, he thought that his predecessors had failed to understand what was distinctive of nature, namely, that its ends work from the inside of natural beings themselves

Aristotle on the Matter for Birth, Life, and the Elements

This essay considers three case studies of Aristotle’s use of matter, drawn from three different scientific contexts: menstrual fluid as the matter of animal generation in the Generation of Animals, the living body as matter of an organism in Aristotle’s On the Soul (De Anima), and the matter of elemental transformation in Generation and Corruption. I argue that Aristotle conceives of matter differently in these treatises (1) because of the different sorts of changes under consideration, and (2) because sometimes he is considering the matter for one specific change, and sometimes the matter for all of a thing’s natural changes. My account allows me to explain some of the strange features that Aristotle ascribes to the matter for elemental transformation in Generation and Corruption II. These features were interpreted by later commentators as general features of all matter. I argue that they are a result of the specific way that Aristotle thinks about the transmutation of the elements