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Sara E. Witmer; Elizabeth Barker; Nathalie Marinho; Courtenay A. Barrett – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2024
Extended time for testing is frequently recommended despite the possibility that it may have unintended negative effects. Test process data, now commonly available "via" computer-based testing programs, can offer objective information about who uses and experiences higher scores when using more than typical testing time. NWEA MAP test…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Achievement Tests, Students with Disabilities
Meyer, J. Patrick; Dahlin, Michael – NWEA, 2022
The MAP® Growth™ theory of action describes key features of MAP Growth and its position in a comprehensive assessment system. The basic premise of the theory of action is that all students learn when MAP Growth is situated in a comprehensive assessment system and used for its intended purposes to yield information about student learning and enable…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Student Evaluation
Jose Antonio Mola Avila – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Accountability in education was implemented to improve poor learning outcomes by documenting and monitoring learning achievement results. In this process, external standardized achievement tests have played a central role, being the mechanism most frequently used to measure learning outcomes. However, several decades after its initial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Accountability
José Manuel Arencibia Alemán; Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør; Henrik Daae Zachrisson; Sigrid Blömeke – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2024
Modest correlations between teacher-assigned grades and external assessments of academic achievement (r = 0.40-0.60) have led many educational stakeholders to deem grades subjective and unreliable. However, theoretical and methodological challenges, such as construct misalignment, data unavailability and sample unrepresentativeness, limit the…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grading, Achievement Tests, Test Validity
Mo, Jeffrey – OECD Publishing, 2020
This May sees the release of the results from the third PISA assessment of financial literacy. These results are largely consistent with previous findings, but also go beyond earlier assessments in probing students' behaviours and attitudes towards money matters (including digital money matters) and their exposure to financial education at school.…
Descriptors: Test Results, Money Management, Consumer Education, Decision Making
Gulnar Ozyildirim; Engin Karadag – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Focusing on the variables that can affect both academic achievement and the well-being of students has been crucial for their development, making schools effective and designing educational policy as well as curriculum. The study has aimed to investigate the effect of peer bullying on academic achievement and to determine moderators in the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis, Test Results
Sjøberg, Svein; Jenkins, Edgar – Studies in Science Education, 2022
PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) is one of two large scale international comparative projects of student assessment that now exert considerable influence upon school science education policy, the other being TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study). This paper focuses on PISA, now the most influential…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Marôco, João – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Using hierarchical linear models, this study probes into student, family, teacher, and schools' variables that can explain the variation in Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 results. Students' confidence in reading, early literacy tasks, and parents' expectations are the strongest explanatory variables of reading…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, International Assessment
Campbell, Janine Anne – Education Sciences, 2021
Globalisation and policy transfer in education make it incumbent upon decision makers to prioritise among competing policy options, select policy initiatives that are appropriate for their national contexts, and understand how system-specific factors moderate the relationship between those policies and student outcomes. This study used qualitative…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro J.; Reyes Arias, Francheska – Online Submission, 2021
This work aims to analyze the Results of the PISA Tests for the year 2018 in the Dominican Republic as subministered every three year by the OECD presided over by Dr. Andreas Schleicher, and that it is long awaited both for the Ministry of Education-MINERD-, and as well as for the non-governmental society and the opposition parties, among others.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Results, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Matthew A. Bowser – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there was a significant relationship between school-wide academic outcomes and the instructional modalities utilized by public schools during the 2019-2022 school years. This study also determined if there was a significant difference in assessment scores earned by public school students…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
Ediger, Marlow – Reading Improvement, 2017
This article explores the question of excessive testing in public schools, its value in the educational process, and the impact that excessive testing may have on the student and the family unit. While assessments are valuable when used properly, excessive testing may lead to problems with unforeseen consequences.
Descriptors: Testing, Public Schools, Standardized Tests, Test Results
Hipkins, Rosemary – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2019
PISA [Programme for International Student Assessment] will be in the news again this year. The 2018 results are due to be released at the end of 2019 and they usually generate media interest. This Rangahau Whakarapopoto is a research brief which outlines things to watch out for as you think about what the results might mean.
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Egan, Laura; Tang, Judy H.; Ferraro, David; Erberber, Ebru; Tsokodayi, Yemurai; Stearns, Pat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study designed to measure trends in mathematics and science achievement at grades 4 and 8, as well as to collect information about educational contexts (such as students' schools, teachers, and homes) that may be related to student achievement. TIMSS has…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
Hahn, William – Journal of Education for Business, 2019
This study is the first to explore how business core course review sessions impact standardized test results. A statistically significant improvement in students' overall scores of 16.5% was identified when core course reviews were conducted between Comprehensive Business Exam pre- and posttest dates. As a result, institutional results moved from…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Scores, Comparative Analysis