Misclassification means the observed category is different from the underlying one and it is a form of measurement error in categorical data. The measurement error in continuous, especially normally distributed, data is well known and studied in the literature. But the misclassification in a binary outcome variable has not yet drawn much attention…

People participate in vocational education and training (VET) for a variety of reasons and at different stages of their life. Some undertake VET to gain the vocational skills necessary to enter the labour market for the first time, while others enter in order to upgrade existing skills, learn new ones, or simply for personal interest. Successful…

This paper describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of an automated system for predicting the acceptability status of candidate reading-comprehension stimuli extracted from a database of journal and magazine articles. The system uses a combination of classification and regression techniques to predict the probability that a given…