How Do Men and Women Perceive a High-Stakes Test Situation? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The results of some high-stakes aptitude tests in Austria have revealed sex differences. We suggest that such discrepancies are mediated not principally by differences in aptitudes, skills, and knowledge but sex differences in test takers' perceptions of
Julia E. M. Leiner +2 more
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Designing and validating a scale for evaluating the sources of unreliability of a high-stakes test [PDF]
Language Testing in Asia, 2023 The idea of sources other than the test-takers’ knowledge leading to different results on high-stakes tests was the motif based on which the present investigation was initiated on the probable sources of unreliability of a test.
Fateme Nikmard +2 more
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Dialogic teaching to the high stakes standardized test? [PDF]
, 2016 Within current educational discourse, dialogic pedagogy is diametrically opposed to teaching to the test, especially the high stakes standardized test. While dialogic pedagogy is about critical thinking, authenticity and freedom, test preparation evokes ...
Lefstein, A, Segal, A, Snell, J
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Process-based measures in high-stakes testing: practical implications for construct validity within military aviation selection [PDF]
Cognitive ResearchThis paper looks at how process-based spatial ability and attention measures taken within a high-stakes battery used to select pilots in the US Navy compare to lab-based measures of the same constructs. Process-based measures typically function by having
Joseph T. Coyne +5 more
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“Teaching To the Test” Family of Fallacies [PDF]
Revista Iberoamericana de Evaluación Educativa, 2017 This article explains the various meanings and ambiguities of the phrase “teaching to the test” (TttT), describes its history and use as a pejorative, and outlines the policy implications of the popular, but fallacious, belief that “high stakes” testing ...
Richard P. Phelps
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Language Testing in Asia, 2023 As a part of a larger project, this study reports a large-scale investigation of the impacts of the Iranian National University Entrance Examination (INUEE) on Iranian high school students and their parents.
Mohammad Ahmadi Safa +1 more
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High Stakes in the Classroom, High Stakes on the Street: The Effects of Community Violence on Student’s Standardized Test Performance [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2014 This article examines the effect of exposure to violent crime on students’ standardized test performance among a sample of students in New York City public schools.
Patrick Sharkey +3 more
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Test anxiety: Is it associated with performance in high-stakes examinations?
Oxford Review of Education, 2022 A long-established literature has found that anxiety about testing is negatively related to academic achievement. Yet there remains some debate as to whether this is simply due to less academically able pupils being more likely to develop education ...
John Jerrim
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Characteristics of test anxiety among medical students and congruence of strategies to address it [PDF]
Medical Education Online, 2014 Introduction: Medical students may experience test anxiety associated with ‘high stakes’ exams, such as Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination. Methods: We collected qualitative responses about test anxiety at three points in time from
John Encandela +4 more
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The influences of mindfulness on high-stakes mathematics test achievement of middle school students
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Research has shown that mindfulness can reduce students' negative emotions associated with high-stakes tests and thereby improve test performance. This study explored the association between mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) and high-risk math test ...
Haode Zuo, Lidong Wang
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