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Jenifer, Jalisha B.; Levine, Susan C.; Beilock, Sian L. – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
Students who experience mathematics anxiety have long been suggested to engage in avoidance behaviors that negatively impact their mathematics performance. However, little is known about how these avoidance behaviors manifest for highly anxious students within the context of a mathematics course. Since the use of effortful study strategies has…
Descriptors: College Students, Mathematics Anxiety, Calculus, Tests
Shuxin Di – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Taking tests can trigger multiple emotions. To regulate emotions we might experience during test-taking situations, strategies such as reappraisal and suppression are often used. This study aimed to investigate if college students' cultural values affect their emotion regulation in test-taking situations. The sample included 298 college students.…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Self Management, Psychological Patterns, Testing
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Yeari, Menahem; Schlesinger, Liran Markel; Moshka, Ella – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
The present study examined the processing and performance of examinees in reading comprehension (RC) tests, when they read the whole text "prior" to its questions ("text-first" strategy [TFs]) compared to reading the text "while" and "for" answering the questions ("questions-first" strategy [QFs]).…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Timed Tests, Test Wiseness
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Hang Li; Shuting Zhang; Ximeng Tang – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
While the effect of reading strategies on L2 test performance has been extensively researched, the effect of test-taking strategies remains underexplored, with mixed results due to varying contextual factors. This study, therefore, investigated the latent structure of test-taking strategies and the relationships among test-taking strategies,…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Ketworrachai, Chonrachai; Sappapan, Pattama – Arab World English Journal, 2022
Tests are often applied to evaluate students' academic performance in all educational contexts. In order to be successful in the tests, students are required not only to possess the knowledge of the subject, but also test-taking strategies which enable them to gain higher test score. The present study was aimed at investigating the relationship…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Scores
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Myers, Aaron J.; Finney, Sara J. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2021
Perceived test importance and test-taking effort are typically measured after test completion, contrary to the temporal ordering specified by expectancy-value theory. Retrospective importance and effort scores may reflect students' self-protective attributions of performance, which would support collection of prospective importance and effort…
Descriptors: Change, Measurement Techniques, Student Motivation, Test Wiseness
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Papanastasiou, Elena C.; Stylianou-Georgiou, Agni – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
? frequently used indicator to reflect student performance is that of a test score. However, although tests are designed to assess students' knowledge or skills, other factors can also affect test results such as test-taking strategies. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to model the interrelationships among test-taking strategy instruction…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Metacognition, Multiple Choice Tests, Response Style (Tests)
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Stierle, Rolf; Fischer, Matthias; Braun, Thorsten; Gross, Joachim – Chemical Engineering Education, 2023
How is it possible to create and continuously improve a quality learning environment for our students? We present our one-year course on engineering thermodynamics as a case study in which we investigate the learning environment based on a competency model from the students' perspective. Based on the analysis of our course structure and exam…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Thermodynamics, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Jana Welling; Timo Gnambs; Claus H. Carstensen – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2024
Disengaged responding poses a severe threat to the validity of educational large-scale assessments, because item responses from unmotivated test-takers do not reflect their actual ability. Existing identification approaches rely primarily on item response times, which bears the risk of misclassifying fast engaged or slow disengaged responses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests
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Martin Braun – New Directions in the Teaching of Natural Sciences, 2024
During the COVID pandemic, universities around the globe had to move not only their content delivery online, but also their assessments. Due to COVID causing significant upheaval in Higher Education (HE), this enforced experiment also afforded an opportunity to reflect on traditional, invigilated, closed book exams (ICBE) resulting in research and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology
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Guo, Hongwen; Rios, Joseph A.; Ling, Guangming; Wang, Zhen; Gu, Lin; Yang, Zhitong; Liu, Lydia O. – ETS Research Report Series, 2022
Different variants of the selected-response (SR) item type have been developed for various reasons (i.e., simulating realistic situations, examining critical-thinking and/or problem-solving skills). Generally, the variants of SR item format are more complex than the traditional multiple-choice (MC) items, which may be more challenging to test…
Descriptors: Test Format, Test Wiseness, Test Items, Item Response Theory
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Simone, Patricia M.; Whitfield, Lisa C.; Bell, Matthew C.; Kher, Pooja; Tamashiro, Taylor – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2023
Much of the learning that college students engage in today occurs in unsupervised settings, making effective self-regulated learning techniques of particular importance. We examined the impact of task difficulty and supervision on whether participants would follow written instructions to use repeated testing over restudying. In Study 1, we found…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, College Students
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Holmes, Jeffrey D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
There is widespread belief that test-taking ability is an influential component of academic success distinct from domain knowledge and comprehension. Most of today's college students took many more tests over the course of their primary and secondary education than students of previous generations, and also participated in regular training to…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Student Attitudes, Identification (Psychology), Test Wiseness
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Tyrone B. Pretorius; P. Paul Heppner; Anita Padmanabhanunni; Serena Ann Isaacs – SAGE Open, 2023
In previous studies, problem solving appraisal has been identified as playing a key role in promoting positive psychological well-being. The Problem Solving Inventory is the most widely used measure of problem solving appraisal and consists of 32 items. The length of the instrument, however, may limit its applicability to large-scale surveys…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Item Response Theory
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Finney, Sara J.; Perkins, Beth A.; Satkus, Paulius – International Journal of Testing, 2020
Using a sample of 497 college students, we measured test-taking emotions (anger, worry, pride, enjoyment) after the first third, second third, and last third of a low-stakes cognitive test of sociocultural knowledge. We examined the simultaneous change in emotions and whether change in emotions predicted subsequent test-taking effort and test…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Cognitive Tests
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