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Direct linkO'Neil, Harold F.; Abedi, Jamal; Miyoshi, Judy; Mastergeorge, Ann – Educational Assessment, 2005
This research attempted to discover the degree to which performance on assessments that have no direct consequences for individual students can be attributed to students' motivational states in addition to their underlying achievement in the domains measured. If such findings were reliable, it would allow us to correct underestimates of domain…
Descriptors: Incentives, Academic Achievement, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation
Download full textO'Neil, Harold F.; Abedi, Jamal; Lee, Charlotte; Miyoshi, Judy; Mastergeorge, Ann – US Department of Education, 2004
Recent information on international assessments (e.g., the Third International Mathematics and Science Study) indicates that 12th-grade students in the United States are doing extremely poorly on such assessments compared with their peers in other countries. These poor results are usually attributed to cognitive factors such as students' …
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Grade 12, High School Students
