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The National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) are currently seeking a Test Construction Analyst I to join their Test Construction team. This position will provide analysis and test construction services for large-scale research projects requiring the development of complex data analysis solutions and systems to support the development and quality of the USMLE, NAVLE, AAMA and other exams.
The Institute of Education and the Center for Teacher Education of National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, invites application for one full-time assistant/associate/full professor tenure track position in education.
The Orlean Beeson School of Education seeks an exceptional leader as Dean. The Dean leads an administrative team currently comprised of one associate dean and four department chairs and works closely with the School’s Executive Council.
For the first time in 2018, PISA assessed global competence: the capacity of students to see the world through different lenses and to appreciate different ways of thinking and cultures.Tomorrow’s schools will need to help students think for themselves, be empathetic and work with others.
The research, titled "Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests" compared 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test scores of non-migrant, first-generation and second-generation migrant children in Australia.The research found out that gender stereotypes and cultural norms of a child's family heritage have impacts on academic performance in Australian schools.