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Cognitive fatigue influences students' performance on standardized tests. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 Sievertsen HH, Gino F, Piovesan M.
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LEARNERS' PERSPECTIVES OF FACTORS INFLUENCING GAINS IN STANDARDIZED ENGLISH TEST SCORES
TEFLIN Journal, 2016 There has been an increased level of attention devoted to the consequences of test use in recent years; however, the majority of washback studies focused on teaching.
Yi-Ching Pan
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From policy networks to policy preferences: Organizational networks in the opt-out movement
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020 Organizational networks shape education policy by influencing power holders and elites, but do they have similar effects on grassroots activists? We use data from the National Survey on Opting Out (2016 and 2018; n = 2,909) to examine the role of ...
Nancy Green Saraisky, Oren Pizmony-Levy
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 While there is movement to create more equitable and holistic admission review processes, faculty continue to place strong emphasis on a single piece of information when making admissions decisions: standardized test scores.
Isabelle Rios Hernández-Colón +4 more
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Testing standards for sporicides [PDF]
Journal of Hospital Infection, 2011 Sporicidal products are of considerable importance in healthcare environments due to the requirement for products that are capable of dealing with contamination with Clostridium difficile spores. Sporicidal testing standards to validate the claims of sporicidal activity are an important tool in the evaluation of commercial sporicides.
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Opting out: Parents creating contested spaces to challenge standardized tests
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016 We explore how the opt-out movement has responded to the combination of a stringent federal policy with weak and often variable implementation among the states.
Dana Mitra, Bryan Mann, Mark Hlavacik
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Standardized Test Results: An Opportunity for English Program Improvement
HOW, 2017 This case study explores the relationship between the results obtained by a group of Industrial Engineering students on a national standardized English test and the impact these results had on language program improvement.
Maureyra Jiménez +2 more
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Analysis of Various Chevron Notch Types and its Influence on the Ligament Area [PDF]
, 2019 Specimens for the bending tests with the chevron notch are standardized for the evaluation of the fracture toughness of various materials. In this contribution a difference of the ligament area of the specimens with the straight through notch and the
Miarka, Petr +3 more
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Questions Vives, 2011 This article aims to analyze the growing influence of international standardized tests (PISA...) on local certifications. Originally, these international standardized tests aim to compare student performance in the different countries so as to enable ...
Xavier Roegiers
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Ingeniería e Investigación, 2023 This paper describes a gender-based research work on academic performance in engineering students. This study is based on the results of 9 469 students from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in the college`s Admission and exit standard tests (the latter ...
Luis Eduardo Gallego-Vega +1 more
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