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Feuerstein, Rafi; Tzuriel, David; Cohen, Shlomit; Cagan, Anat; Yosef, Lea; Devisheim, Haim; Falik, Lou; Goldenberg, Rosalind – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2019
The current criterion for acceptance to universities in Israel is based on psychometric testing that presents a strong barrier for acceptance of students of Ethiopian origin (SEO) to the universities. Based on the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky and Feuerstein, we suggest an intervention aimed at integrating SEO, considered to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Barriers, Immigrants
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Moshinsky, Avital; Ziegler, David; Gafni, Naomi – International Journal of Testing, 2017
Many medical schools have adopted multiple mini-interviews (MMI) as an advanced selection tool. MMIs are expensive and used to test only a few dozen candidates per day, making it infeasible to develop a different test version for each test administration. Therefore, some items are reused both within and across years. This study investigated the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Medical Schools, Test Validity, Test Reliability