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Dudley, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this action research case study was to explore attitudes and beliefs regarding strategies to improve math placement scores for low-socioeconomic community college students at an urban campus. Using a pragmatic worldview, qualitative techniques were used to gather data to explore this problem at a single community college located in…
Descriptors: Refresher Courses, Community Colleges, Action Research, Testing
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Simon, Marsha – Florida Journal of Educational Administration & Policy, 2010
Florida schools consistently fail to make Adequate Yearly Progress [AYP] (FDOE, 2005d). Title I schools which serve poor and predominately students of color comprise the majority of schools designated as needing improvement in Florida. Black and Hispanic students, students with disabilities, and English language learners overwhelmingly perform…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Second Language Learning, High Stakes Tests, Educational Quality
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Cao, Jing; Stokes, S. Lynne – Psychometrika, 2008
According to the recent Nation's Report Card, 12th-graders failed to produce gains on the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) despite earning better grades on average. One possible explanation is that 12th-graders were not motivated taking the NAEP, which is a low-stakes test. We develop three Bayesian IRT mixture models to…
Descriptors: Test Items, Simulation, National Competency Tests, Item Response Theory
Chang, Anna Ching-Shyang – TESL Canada Journal, 2008
This article investigates the strategies that EFL students used and how they adjusted these strategies in response to various listening test tasks. The test tasks involved four forms of listening support: previewing questions, repeated input, background information preparation, and vocabulary instruction. Twenty-two participants were enlisted and…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Anxiety, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Lewandowski, Lawrence J.; Lovett, Benjamin J.; Codding, Robin S.; Gordon, Michael – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2008
Objective: Previous research has found ADHD symptoms to be common in the general population but has not compared endorsement of symptoms between ADHD and non-ADHD groups. This study examines self-reported ADHD symptoms and academic complaints in college students. Method: Students without (n = 496) and with ADHD (n = 38) completed a questionnaire…
Descriptors: College Students, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Liu, Ou Lydia – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2009
Learning strategies have been increasingly recognized as a useful tool to promote effective learning. In response to the lack of available learning strategies measures for middle school students, this study evaluated an instrument assessing cognitive, behavioral, and metacognitive strategy use among middle school students. The instrument, called…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grades (Scholastic), Learning Strategies, Reliability
Hurst, Chris; Sparrow, Len – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
This study considered ways of improving mathematical outcomes for urban Indigenous students. It focused on three primary schools in Western Australia and identified factors that were perceived to be having an impact on student learning. These included expectations for students, attendance rates, parent involvement, student literacy levels, student…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Parent School Relationship
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Glass, Laura A.; Clause, Christopher B.; Kreiner, David S. – College Student Journal, 2007
We examined test-expectancy as it applies to fill-in-the-blank tests. We randomly assigned 60 college students to take a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary test in one of three conditions. Two groups took the test with a word bank available; we told one group but not the other that they would have a word bank. The third group took the test with no word…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, College Students, Tests, Expectation
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Stone, Andrew; Dearing, Mike – Education & Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of City & Guilds' development of simulation-based assessments for its ICT user qualification. These simulations are authentic scenario-based replicas of word processing and spreadsheet software, which present a series of tasks that the test-taker completes as if they were using…
Descriptors: Creativity, Familiarity, Computer Software, Measures (Individuals)
Paek, Insu; Lee, Jihyun; Stankov, Lazar; Wilson, Mark – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
This study investigated the relationship between students' actual performance (accuracy) and their subjective judgments of accuracy (confidence) on selected English language proficiency tests. The unidimensional and multidimensional IRT Rasch approaches were used to model the discrepancy between confidence and accuracy at the item and test level…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Accuracy, Item Response Theory, English
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Davis, Heather A.; DiStefano, Christine; Schutz, Paul A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
The authors explored patterns of appraising tests in a large sample of 1st-year college students. Cluster analysis was used to identify homogeneous groups of 1st-year students who shared similar patterns of cognitive appraisals about testing. The authors internally validated findings with an independent sample from the same population of students…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Homogeneous Grouping, Multivariate Analysis
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Bond, Lloyd – New Educator, 2008
Despite their current popularity, many still view coaching schools for college admissions as somehow vaguely unethical, as a form of "teaching to the test." But "coaching" as an instructional exercise only crosses some ethical line of propriety when instructors have access to and in fact teach the actual items that will appear…
Descriptors: Test Validity, High Stakes Tests, Test Coaching, Classroom Techniques
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Agbor-Baiyee, William – College Student Journal, 2009
Purpose: In common with most standardized admissions tests, the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores disproportionately screen out applicants from disadvantaged and underrepresented minority groups, relative to their demographic importance. The impact of programs to prepare students for the MCAT has not been adequately addressed. The…
Descriptors: Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, College Admission, Minority Groups
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Glenda C. Rakes – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2008
One continuing concern associated with online courses is assessment of student performance. One option for online assessment is the use of open book tests. This study investigated the impact of training in open book test-taking strategies on student test performance in online, timed, unproctored, open book tests. When the tutorial was required…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Test Format, Test Wiseness
Mayfield, Linda Riggs – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the effects of being taught the Mayfield's Four Questions multiple-choice test-taking strategy on the perceived self-efficacy and multiple-choice test scores of nursing students in a two-year associate degree program. Experimental and control groups were chosen by stratified random sampling. Subjects completed the 10-statement…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Multiple Choice Tests
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