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Washback Effect of TEFL MA Exam on Iranian Lecturers’ Classroom Activities [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2018 Washback refers to the effect of testing on teaching and learning. The university entrance exam for Iranian MA candidates of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (hereinafter TEFL MA UEE) is a nationwide high-stakes test administered every year, and ...
Azadeh Pakzad, Hadi Salehi
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Maintaining and monitoring quality of a continuously administered digital assessment
Frontiers in Education, 2022 Digital-first assessments are a new generation of high-stakes assessments that can be taken anytime and anywhere in the world. The flexibility, complexity, and high-stakes nature of these assessments pose quality assurance challenges and require ...
Manqian Liao +3 more
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Nonpartisan Education Review, 2005 John J. Cannell's late 1980's “Lake Wobegon” reports suggested widespread deliberate educator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results, resulting in artificial test score gains.
Richard P. Phelps
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Jurnal Pengabdian UNDIKMA, 2023 This service activity aims to increase knowledge and ability to solve high-stakes test questions as preparation for UTBK and KSN students of SMAN 3 Siak Hulu. Implementing this service used training with the evaluation instrument, namely a questionnaire,
Oktariani Oktariani +2 more
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The Source of Lake Wobegon (slide show)
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2007 John J. Cannell's late 1980's "Lake Wobegon" reports suggested widespread deliberate educator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results, resulting in artificial test score gains.
Richard P. Phelps
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Computers and Education Open, 2021 The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought with it the closure of many bricks-and-mortar testing centres and a concomitant move to the remote (online) proctoring of many credentialing exams that were scheduled to take place throughout 2020.
Gemma Cherry +4 more
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Testing like you teach: The challenge of constructing local, ecologically valid tests [PDF]
, 2008 In an educational context, local, ecologically valid tests can reflect the use of literacy and thinking tools. These tests present a challenge to central, content focused, high-stakes testing, and to transmission approaches to teaching.
Whitehead, David
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The Source of Lake Wobegon [updated]
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2010 John J. Cannell's late 1980's "Lake Wobegon" reports suggested widespread deliberateeducator manipulation of norm-referenced standardized test (NRT) administrations and results,resulting in artificial test score gains.
Richard P. Phelps
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Education SciencesTest anxiety is beginning to be recognized as a significant factor affecting student performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, potentially contributing to gender inequity within these fields.
Alysa Malespina +2 more
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Rise to the challenge or not give a damn: Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests [PDF]
, 2011 This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in high and low stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary
Attali, Yigal +2 more
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