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Motivational Differences in Students' Perceptions of Classroom and Standardized Achievement Tests.

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Roth, Jodie L.; Paris, Scott G. – 1991

How students perceive standardized tests and routine classroom tests on subject matter units was studied by surveying 61 fifth-grade and 65 eighth-grade students in public schools in Michigan. It was hypothesized that older students would more often distinguish between the types of test and would be more cynical and less motivated than would…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Classroom Research