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The Continuity of Students' Disengaged Responding in Low-Stakes Assessments: Evidence from Response Times
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Bulut, Hatice Cigdem – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
Several studies have been published on disengaged test respondents, and others have analyzed disengaged survey respondents separately. For many large-scale assessments, students answer questionnaire and test items in succession. This study examines the percentage of students who continuously engage in disengaged responding behaviors across…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Response Style (Tests), Foreign Countries, International Assessment
How Much Time Do Adults Spend on the PIAAC Assessment and Why Does It Matter? Adult Skills in Focus. No. 10
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OECD Publishing, 2019
Log files from computer-based assessment can help better understand respondents' behaviours and cognitive strategies. Analysis of timing information from Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) reveals large differences in the time participants take to answer assessment items, as well as large country differences…
Descriptors: Adults, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Items, Reaction Time
Within-Item Response Processes as Indicators of Test-Taking Effort and Motivation
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Lundgren, Erik; Eklöf, Hanna – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2020
The present study used process data from a computer-based problem-solving task as indications of behavioural level of test-taking effort, and explored how behavioural item-level effort related to overall test performance and self-reported effort. Variables were extracted from raw process data and clustered. Four distinct clusters were obtained and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Problem Solving, Response Style (Tests), Test Items
Interviewers, Test-Taking Conditions and the Quality of the PIAAC Assessment. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 191
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Keslair, François – OECD Publishing, 2018
This paper explores the impact of test-taking conditions on the quality of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) assessment. Interviewers record information about the room of assessment and interruptions that occurred during each interview. These observations, along with information on interviewer assignment…
Descriptors: Interviews, Testing, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
Patterns in the Form of Formative Feedback and Student Response
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Ellegaard, Marianne; Damsgaard, Linn; Bruun, Jesper; Johannsen, Bjørn Friis – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Formative feedback currently receives attention as an effective means of increasing student learning. However, how to frame feedback to achieve the best effect is an ongoing debate. In this study we analyse a written data-set of 174 segments of teacher feedback and student response, coded using 10 emergent feedback and 14 response categories. As…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Student Reaction, Response Style (Tests)
Test-Taking Engagement in PIAAC. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 133
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Goldhammer, Frank; Martens, Thomas; Christoph, Gabriela; Lüdtke, Oliver – OECD Publishing, 2016
In this study, we investigated how empirical indicators of test-taking engagement can be defined, empirically validated, and used to describe group differences in the context of the Programme of International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC). The approach was to distinguish between disengaged and engaged response behavior by means of…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Adults, Response Style (Tests), Reaction Time