The construct validity of the main student selection tests for medical studies in Germany
Frontiers in Education, 2023 Standardized ability tests that are associated with intelligence are often used for student selection. In Germany two different admission procedures to select students for medical studies are used simultaneously; the TMS and the HAM-Nat.
Julie Levacher +6 more
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Motivation to do well on low-stakes tests [PDF]
, 2018 The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. ; Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 20, 2007) ; Vita.
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Psychological proximity improves reasoning in academic aptitude tests
npj Science of Learning, 2023 Performance on standardized academic aptitude tests (AAT) can determine important life outcomes. However, it is not clear whether and which aspects of the content of test questions affect performance.
Britt Hadar +4 more
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Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 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 experimental section of the GRE that examinees were invited to take immediately after they finished
Attali, Yigal +2 more
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Nationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National AverageNationally Normed Elementary Achievement Testing in America's Public Schools: How All Fifty States are Above the National Average [PDF]
Nonpartisan Education Review, 2017 no ...
John J. Cannell
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Participation and performance on paper- and computer-based low-stakes assessments
International Journal of STEM Education, 2018 Background High-stakes assessments, such the Graduate Records Examination, have transitioned from paper to computer administration. Low-stakes research-based assessments (RBAs), such as the Force Concept Inventory, have only recently begun this ...
Jayson M. Nissen +3 more
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“Teaching To the Test” Family of Fallacies
Revista Iberoamericana de Evaluación Educativa, 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 ...
Richard P. Phelps
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Achievement Goal Orientation and Situational Motivation for a Low-Stakes Test of Content Knowledge [PDF]
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2012 To determine the extent of the relationship between students' inherent motivation to achieve in a doctor of pharmacy program and their motivation to achieve on a single low-stakes test of content knowledge.The Attitude Toward Learning Questionnaire (ATL) was administered to 66 third-year pharmacy students at the beginning of the spring 2011 semester ...
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High-risk students talking low-stakes assessments: Do the data reflect ability or effort?
Forum PedagogiczneThis exploratory study examined whether test-taking effort (TTE) might be a concern in monthly low-stakes testing of juvenile offenders’ (n = 50) reading abilities.
Deborah Reed +2 more
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Can mixed assessment methods make biology classes more equitable? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Many factors have been proposed to explain the attrition of women in science, technology, engineering and math fields, among them the lower performance of women in introductory courses resulting from deficits in incoming preparation.
Sehoya Cotner, Cissy J Ballen
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