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High-stakes test anxiety among Taiwanese adolescents: a longitudinal study
Cogent EducationThis study examined changes of test anxiety under the reform of the examination system in Taiwan. We sampled 46,361 Grade 9 students in Taiwan for 9 consecutive years starting from 2011 to collect data on their test anxiety, cram school attendance ...
Tzu-Yang Chao +2 more
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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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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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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Treatment‐associated hepatotoxicity (TAH) is a common complication of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment, but genetic risk factors remain poorly understood. We evaluated the SOD2 rs4880 variant in 544 children with ALL at Texas Children's Hospital. After adjusting for demographic and clinical covariates, the rs4880 C allele
Emily J. Mason +14 more
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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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La familia de falacias "enseñando para el examen" [PDF]
, 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 ...
Phelps, Richard P.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich +5 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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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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A Framework for improving the quality of multiple-choice assessments [PDF]
, 2012 Multiple-choice questions are frequently used in high-stakes nursing assessments. Many nurse educators, however, lack the necessary knowledge and training to develop these tests.
Tarrant, M, Ware, J
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