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Record 1 2025-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Epidemiology
CONT

Reporting bias occurs when the participant, consciously or unconsciously, provides incorrect information. This can happen when the participant tries to please the investigator by supplying the presumed "correct" answer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Épidémiologie
CONT

Le biais de déclaration («reporting bias») survient lorsqu'un sujet interrogé, en particulier sur des sujets sensibles (utilisation de stupéfiants, d'alcool, relations sexuelles ...) oriente inconsciemment ses réponses pour «plaire» à l'observateur ou a tendance à répondre selon les normes sociales en vigueur et donc à sur ou sous-déclarer des comportements réprouvés par la société.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
DEF

A response for a multiple-choice item that is classed as an incorrect alternative. It is a plausible wrong answer designed to be attractive to students who do not know the correct response.

CONT

The incorrect alternatives(called foils) of a multiple-choice question must be plausible. Sometimes they are so unlikely that students can determine the correct answer simply by eliminating obviously wrong ones.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Docimologie
DEF

Réponse plausible autre que la réponse correcte ou admise pour un item à réponse choisie.

Spanish

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Record 4 1997-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

Articulate facts and strategies that vary from expert knowledge ... (misconceptions and procedural errors).

CONT

If the computer has a tutorial program, the student is asked a question by the computer, the student types in an answer, and then gets an immediate response to the answer. If the answer is correct, the student is routed to more challenging problems; if the answer is incorrect, various computer messages will indicate the flaw in procedure, and the program will bypass more complicated questions until the student shows mastery in that area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

erreur due à un défaut de conception du problème.

CONT

La détection des erreurs, des oublis et autres vices de raisonnement plus importants (que l'on rassemble sous le doux nom de bogues) n'est qu'une partie du problème; [...]

OBS

faille : Point faible, défaut, manque de cohérence dans un raisonnement [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Soporte lógico (Software)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
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Record 5 1995-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
  • Education Theory and Methods
CONT

Numeric Answer. Math and science problems frequently require numeric responses. They typically involve a single number and are easy to judge. The mode of such responses is almost always via the keyboard. The response is judged by comparing it to the correct number and optionally to one or more anticipated incorrect numbers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
DEF

Réponse en chiffres que l'apprenant donne à un problème de sciences ou de mathématiques : le nombre est inscrit au moyen du clavier.

Spanish

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Record 6 1995-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
CONT

Multiple-Selection Answer. This type of judgment is only slightly more difficult [than for single-selection answer]. The response modes and the response-answer comparison are basically the same as for the single selection case. Now, however, the response may be correct, incorrect, improper, or partially correct.... For example, a question requires the student to underline the nouns in a sentence containing two nouns. Underlining both nouns would be correct. Underlining anything but the nouns, such as two verbs, would be incorrect. Underlining one noun, a noun and a verb, or two nouns and a verb, would all be partially correct responses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Docimologie

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
DEF

[Feedback that] serves mainly to correct misunderstandings on the student’s part... Feedback can range from a simple yes/no to the provision of substantial corrective information, which can itself take on the form of new instruction.

CONT

Feedback should be corrective. It should provide the student with information to improve future performance. Simply saying "incorrect" after a response is not corrective. A potential danger of corrective feedback is that it may increase student errors. Simple corrective feedback, such as "No, the correct answer is Abraham Lincoln, "does not generally act as a reinforcer....

CONT

The "branching programs" ... offered corrective feedback as well as adapted their teaching to students’ responses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
DEF

Rétroaction qui émane du système et qui renseigne l'apprenant sur la source de son (ou de ses) erreur(s), afin de lui permettre d'améliorer ultérieurement sa performance.

CONT

Si l'élève fournit une réponse alors qu'il dispose de toute l'information nécessaire mais que cette réponse s'avère erronée, un feedback de redressement d'erreurs lui sera proposé.

Spanish

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