IELTS and TOEFL Applicants’ Self-assessment and Actual Test Performance: A Mixed-Methods Study of Relationship and Variation [PDF]
Journal of Modern Research in English Language StudiesRecent research on self-assessment (SA) has primarily dealt with its relationship with students’ scores. However, few studies have systematically explored SA in language proficiency tests.
Reza Rezvani, Farshad Khadivikia
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Weaving theory/practice for art as knowing in early childhood education [PDF]
, 2018 Early childhood education has a tradition of arts based pedagogy. Current emphasis on high stakes testing and test scores as evidence of learning, even for young children, has educators moving away from the arts as academic learning. This visual essay is
Peterken, Corinna E
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Rural Elementary Administrators’ Views of High-Stakes Testing
The Rural Educator, 2018 This study examines how rural elementary school administrators perceive the effects of high-stakes testing in comparison to suburban and urban elementary administrators.
Robert J. Egley, Brett D. Jones
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Impact of learners' perceptions of a high-stakes test on their learning motivation and learning time allotment: A study on the washback mechanism. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Dong M, Liu X.
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Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 2005 A comparison of the testing movements in China and Washington State reveals a strange irony. While education in Washington, under State and National imperatives, is becoming test driven, China is trying to move away from 14 centuries of test driven ...
Jane Liu, Rita Seedorf
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Who wins and who loses from school accountability? The distribution of educational gain in English secondary schools [PDF]
In 1988 the UK government introduced greater accountability into the English state school sector. But the information that schools are required to make public on their pupil achievement is only partial.
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The PEAL project: co-operation or competition in the assessment process [PDF]
, 2007 This presentation reports on the first year of the PEAL (Primary English Assessment for Learning) project which seeks to enhance the implementation of formative assessment in Hong Kong primary schools.
Carless, DR
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Further Comment on "'Lake Woebegone,' Twenty Years Later"
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2006 no ...
Richard P. Phelps
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The Downside of Standardized Testing [PDF]
, 2013 Children in the United States are tested “to an extent that is unprecedented in our history and unparalleled anywhere else in the world.” The federal No Child Left behind Act has triggered a standardized testing “explosion,” the repercussions of which ...
Intschert, Nicole
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A Multidimensional Analysis of a High-Stakes English Listening Test: A Corpus-Based Approach
Education SciencesThe Gaokao, also known as China’s national college entrance exam, is a high-stakes exam for nearly all Chinese students. English has been one of the three most important subjects for a long time, and listening plays an important role in the Gaokao ...
Xuelian Tao, Vahid Aryadoust
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