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Sadao Otsuka; Toshiya Murai – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
There is widespread concern about declining literacy skills in recent young Japanese. The present study investigated how higher-level reading and writing proficiencies are underpinned by basic literacy skills in Japanese adolescents. From a large database of the most popular literacy exams in Japan, we retrospectively analyzed word- and text-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Test Score Decline, Data
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Karoline A. Sachse; Sebastian Weirich; Nicole Mahler; Camilla Rjosk – International Journal of Testing, 2024
In order to ensure content validity by covering a broad range of content domains, the testing times of some educational large-scale assessments last up to a total of two hours or more. Performance decline over the course of taking the test has been extensively documented in the literature. It can occur due to increases in the numbers of: (a)…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Test Score Decline, Testing Problems, Foreign Countries
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Finley G. E. Sims; Megan E. O'Connor; Jana K. Weber; Keenan T. Hartert – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Rising tuition rates across colleges and universities contribute to the mounting financial strain on students. In response to rising costs, literature details that students seek to bolster their financial security by working additional hours per week, consequently leading to less available time. Previous studies have focused on the negative…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Genetics