These judgments were based on ETS's previous development of open-ended, computer-scoreable items as well as experience with paper-based versions of these items, where scoring rules had been developed to take into consideration instances where respondents underlined or circled information in the stimulus instead of writing an answer on the provided response line.
An inconclusive or open-ended ending?
BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Cuts in Computer Research The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon, which has long underwritten open-ended research by computer scientists, is sharply cutting such spending at universities in favor of financing more classified work, researchers say.
The stock-market bubble went hand-in-hand with the hype over the so-called new economy, in which many business executives decided that open-ended spending on computers and telecommunications equipment was the recipe for higher productivity and instant prosperity.
Two of the fields being developed are accuracy for voice recognition technology and open-ended dialogue with computers.
Patients also had an opportunity to provide an open-ended comment about the computers.
Many of these cases illustrate ways in which a prosecutor uses a vague, broadly-worded, and open-ended statute such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to charge crime.
The development consortium relied on evidence from previous ETS work on a derivative computer-based test for individuals to define a set of computer-scoreable, open-ended response modes for the trend items.
Stimulus materials needed to be adaptable to an onscreen presentation, keeping the same formatting as that used on paper, and all selected items needed remain open-ended, but be capable of being computer scored in order to support the adaptive design of PIAAC.
has had undergraduate students working on research projects in his laboratory since joining the CWRU faculty in 1987 and has repeatedly noted that many students with nearly perfect academic records do very poorly when confronted with real, open-ended problems, whether they are mathematical, computer, or experimental biology problems.
The individual experiences of the paper and pencil method and the computer method were mapped in an interview with open-ended questions (pros and cons with the paper and pencil method and computer method, respectively) directly after the trial.
