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Download full textSalgado, Felipe Almuna; Stacey, Kaye – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
This paper reports how the context in which a mathematics item is embedded impacts on students' performance. The performance of Year 10 students on four PISA items was compared with performance on variants with more familiar contexts. Performance was not better when they solved items with more familiar contexts but there was some evidence that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Performance Factors, Test Items, Context Effect
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Direct linkWalker, D. J.; Palmer, E. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2011
It has often been suggested that actual or anticipated final grades may influence the ratings given by students in student experience surveys but few studies have been able to test this using actual grades. A study was carried out involving six courses over all four year levels of an undergraduate engineering programme, where students were asked…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Participant Satisfaction, Achievement Rating
Ainley, John; Fraillon, Julian; Freeman, Chris – Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2007
This report is based on the assessment of ICT (information and communication technology) literacy conducted in October 2005. It describes the development of a computer-based tool for assessing ICT literacy among school students and the application of that tool with a nationally representative sample of approximately 7,400 students from Years 6 and…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Computer Software, Information Technology, Information Sources
