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Differential Performance in High Versus Low Stakes Tests: Evidence from the Gre Test* [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 2019 Abstract We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in ‘high’ and ‘low’ stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE.
Schlosser, Analia +2 more
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Institutional strategies related to test-taking behavior in low stakes assessment [PDF]
Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019 Abstract Low stakes assessment without grading the performance of students in educational systems has received increasing attention in recent years. It is used in formative assessments to guide the learning process as well as in large-scales assessments to monitor educational programs.
Katrin Schüttpelz-Brauns +5 more
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Self-Control Outdoes Fluid Reasoning in Explaining Vocational and Academic Performance—But Does It?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Trait self-control, the ability to interrupt undesired behavioral tendencies and to refrain from acting on them, is one of the most important socio-emotional skills.
Fabian T. C. Schmidt +3 more
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Student Inspirational Posting as a Low-Stakes Intervention to Reduce Test-Anxiety
Journal of Scholarly Engagement, 2021 Test-anxiety is a common issue in education often connected with academic underachievement. This study attempted to alleviate test-anxiety through student-written inspirational messages projected on the classroom wall during the final exam. We recorded test-anxiety scores from 226 students before the exam and assessed the effects of the intervention ...
FILIPPO POSTA, ELIZABETH VALENTI
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Washback of the performance-based test of reading for EFL learners
Edulite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture, 2020 The effect of tests on the teaching and learning, generally known as washback, has been recognized by scholars for a long time. However, studies on washback are usually addressed for high-stakes testing. This study investigates the washback effect of low-
Wiyaka Wiyaka
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Pharmacy Students' Test-Taking Motivation-Effort on a Low-Stakes Standardized Test [PDF]
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2011 To measure third-year pharmacy students' level of motivation while completing the Pharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment (PCOA) administered as a low-stakes test to better understand use of the PCOA as a measure of student content knowledge.Student motivation was manipulated through an incentive (ie, personal letter from the dean) and a process of ...
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Change in test-taking motivation and its relationship to test performance in low-stakes assessments [PDF]
Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2016 Since the turn of the century, an increasing number of low-stakes assessments (i.e., assessments without direct consequences for the test-takers) are being used to evaluate the quality of educational systems. Internationally, research has shown that low-stakes test results can be biased due to students' low test-taking motivation and that students ...
Penk, Christiane, Richter, Dirk
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A Pharmacy Drug Knowledge Assessment Pilot: Who Will Fly Farthest and What Downs the Plane?
Pharmacy, 2023 Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a sequenced drug knowledge pilot in third professional year students in a capstone course. Methods: A three-phase drug knowledge pilot was conducted in spring 2022.
Laura K. Sjoquist +2 more
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Differences in self- and managerial-ratings on generic performance dimensions
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2022 Orientation: The 360-degree performance assessments are frequently deployed. However, scores by different performance reviewers might erroneously be aggregated, without a clear understanding of the biases that are inherent to different rating sources ...
Xander van Lill, Gerda van der Merwe
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The threshold of anxiety in low-stakes testing for foreign language reading
Reading in a Foreign Language, 2018 The following question has yet to be answered by researchers: when does anxiety have a systematic downward bias on foreign language (FL) reading test scores? The results of the correlation and regression analyses conducted in this study indicate that, at least in the case of university-level English learners in Japan, anxiety-induced bias occurs in a ...
Mikami, Hitoshi +2 more
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