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Investigating the Relationship between Test-Taking Anxiety and Test-Takers’ Performance on the IELTS Test

Script Journal, 2019
Although there is a growing body of research indicating that anxiety relates to foreign language learning, the correlation between anxiety and learners’ performance on a high-stakes testing context has not been fully explored.
Dang Arif Hartono
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WHO IS WILLING TO TAKE LOW-STAKES ASSIGNMENTS?; pp. 417–432 [PDF]

Trames, 2013
The main purpose of this study is to explore which students of Estonian higher education institutions are willing to take low-stakes tests which have no direct consequences for them. Altogether 603 first-year undergraduates from different institutions of
Mari-Liis Mägi, Liina Adov, Karin Täht, Olev Must   +3 more
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Senior High School English Teachers’ Perceptions on a High-stakes Test (SBMPTN): A Washback Study

International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2018
The aim of this research is to explore the washback effect of a high-stakes test on teachers’ attitude and teaching methods used. High-stakes tests refer to tests results of which impact the future of the test takers.
Hafidz Wahyu Nur Cholis, Faricha Rizqi
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Re-Taking the Test [PDF]

, 2017
Application of Avital Ronnell's theory of the "test drive" to high-stakes standardized testing in K-12 ...
David Backer, Tyson Lewis
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Avoiding the Gaze of the Test: High Stakes Literacy Policy Implementation [PDF]

, 2017
This qualitative embedded case study documents the policy implementation of literacy assessment in a Texas urban high school, using Foucault’s theory of the panopticon to understand how teaching and learning were shaped by the state high-stakes exit exam.
Williamson, Thea
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Construct-Oriented or Goal-Motivated? Interpreting Test Preparation of a High-Stakes Writing Test From the Perspective of Expectancy-Value Theory

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Of the many possible individual factors bearing on test preparation, one is how individuals’ motivational and cognitive perceptions affect test-driven preparation practices.
Shasha Xu
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Test Review: Current options in at-home language proficiency tests for making high-stakes decisions

Language Testing, 2020
Administration of high-stakes language proficiency tests has been disrupted in many parts of the world as a result of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Institutions that rely on test scores have been forced to adapt, and in many cases this means using
Daniel R. Isbell, B. Kremmel
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Market-oriented reforms and “high stakes” testing: Incentives and consequences

Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs, 2005
This paper focuses on the use of “high stakes” tests and examinations, which by definition have serious consequences; high stakes tests are used in an attempt to raise standards and to evaluate school systems.
Anne West, Hazel Pennell
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Performance Funding: Exam Results, Stakes, and Washback in Danish Schools

SAGE Open, 2022
High-stakes testing is meant to create a positive washback effect on student learning. Performance funding can raise stakes. However, it is not often used, and its washback is uncertain.
Per Nikolaj Bukh, Karina Skovvang Christensen, Morten Lund Poulsen   +2 more
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Investigating Test Purpose Pluralism and Test Retrofitting in High-Stakes Language Proficiency Testing

Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 2021
There is a lack of clarity in current language testing practices regarding test retrofitting and repurposing. While Newton (2017) advocates for the inclusion of multiple perspectives in new test design, many existing tests are used in cases that extend ...
Melissa McLeod
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