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Test-taking engagement in low-stakes context: An educational data science approach
Full text linkThe research conducted within this dissertation aims to explore and comparatively investigate real-world behavioral outcomes of test-taking engagement in an interactive test environment through self-report and analysis of log and process data. This dissertation brings together three empirical studies on this issue.
The instrument used in this research consisted of 10 problems of different complexity requiring interaction to solve, which were suitable for measuring the exploration strategies of different problems. The problems, based on the MicroDYN model, were administered to first-year university students in a low-stakes testing context using the eDia online assessment platform. The exploration of the problems and the interactions used to solve them were recorded in log and process data format, and the effectiveness of different exploration and learning strategies and their impact on problem-solving performance were examined by analyzing these behavioral log data. In addition to self-report questions embedded in different parts of the test, test-taking effort was monitored by the time spent exploring and solving problems and the number of interactions.
In the research presented in the first paper, we measured students' test-taking effort using different methods and determined the optimal procedure to diagnose test-taking effort. The results suggest that the number of clicks plays an important role in predicting performance in interactive problem-solving tasks. The responses to the self-report questionnaire did not fully reflect the actual test-taking behavior of the participants. A maximum effort was not required to achieve good results, but only a certain amount.
The second study investigated item- and person-level factors that influence test-taking disengagement. For tasks administering later and for more difficult tasks, the proportion of disengaged responses increased. The proportion of disengaged responses was higher among women. Individuals with lower admission scores, lower working memory capacity and lower self-reported effort also had higher rates of disengaged responses.
In the third study, we investigated the role of test-taking effort in the knowledge acquisition through exploration behavior. Latent profile analysis of labeled behavioral data to monitor the effectiveness of the exploration strategy identified four groups. The degree of test-taking effort differed between groups and decreased to various degrees during testing.
Our results suggest that successful problem solvers put in enough time and effort to solve problems. A sufficient amount of effort does not guarantee a successful outcome, but success is not possible without it. Therefore, practitioners should place considerable emphasis on using methods that improve students' test-taking effort
Real-time detection of methane emission for monitoring intestinal microcirculatory changes
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State-Sponsored Religious Schools: A Comparative Analysis of Turkey and Hungary
Full text linkThe relationship between state and religion has long been one of the fundamental subjects of debate in social sciences. This study examines, through a cross-regional and cross-religious comparison of Turkey and Hungary, how state-religion relations are reflected in education policies and the impact of state-sponsored religious schools on students' religiosity.
The research adopts a three-phase comparative approach. The first study analyzes state-religion relations in Turkey and Hungary using Ninian Smart's dimensions of religion theory. The second study focuses on Smart's institutional dimension to examine the relationship between states and religious schools in both countries. The third study investigates the impact of religious schools on students' levels of religiosity through expert interviews.
The first two studies employ descriptive analysis methods. The third study uses a grounded theory approach for qualitative data analysis. The data collection process combines document analysis and in-depth interviews to ensure methodological diversity.
Findings reveal that in both countries, states instrumentalize religious education for nation-building purposes, yet this often produces counterintuitive results such as religious indifference or reactive atheism/deism among youth. In Turkey, the politicization of Imam-Hatip schools, while in Hungary the academic prestige-focused preference for church schools, leads to these institutions being loaded with meanings beyond their original functions.
The study contributes to new discussions about religion's transformation in the public sphere by revealing the paradoxical effects of state-sponsored religious education on societal religiosity. The Turkey-Hungary comparison provides valuable insights into understanding similar mechanisms in state-religion relations and unexpected outcomes of education policies, despite different political and historical contexts
Defining the True Extent of Glioblastoma Based on Probabilistic Tractography and FLAIR Images
Full text linkKapcsolatok és koncepciók: A csehszlovák és magyar állambiztonság viszonyának alakulása a CSKP-n belüli koncepciós eljárások alapján, 1948–1954
Full text linkThis PhD dissertation aims to present the fluctuating relations between the Czechoslovak and Hungarian state socialist state security services in the earliest period of their relationship by focusing on the Czechoslovak political trials. The cooperation between the two services was indeed volatile. They established their unofficial and official connection quite late, only in 1947–1948. After the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform, the search for the ‘enemy within the party’ created the chance of a major cooperation between them in the case of Noel Field in 1949. However, the mutual efforts to unveil the ‘enemy’ showed a significant drop, mostly since the main actor in the relationship, Hungarian state security colonel Ernő Szücs was murdered during his own constructed case in 1950. From that point onward, even though there were many instances where the Czechoslovak political proceedings had Hungarian aspects, there was no collaboration between the two services to create a joint ‘investigation’ – as they did previously in the Field-case.
To give a broader context for the analysis of the two services’ relations, the dissertation uses the methods of comparative and transnational history to highlight the similarities and differences between the two main political trials and the two state security services in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Using archival sources from Czech, Hungarian, and Slovak archives, the doctoral work examines the earliest instances of connections, brings new perspectives and information to the Field-case, reveals Szücs’s relations to his Czechoslovak colleagues, and analyses four Czechoslovak political trials and their Hungarian aspects. These trials are examined as case examples supporting the theory about the setback in the relations after 1950, but they also highlight other reasons for this beside Szücs’s death. As a result, the dissertation gives a more nuanced inquiry into the topic’s already existing, yet deficient and fragmented historical knowledge, and presents new information, approaches, contexts, and interrelations of the rarely discussed relations between the two neighbouring countries’ state security services
Refining Diagnostic and Revascularisation Decisions and Outcomes Using Coronary Functional Assessments.
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