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Eklof, Hanna – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2010
An achievement test score can be viewed as a joint function of skill and will, of knowledge and motivation. However, when interpreting and using test scores, the "will" part is not always acknowledged and scores are mostly interpreted and used as pure measures of student knowledge. This paper argues that students' motivation to do their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Scores, Test Wiseness
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Glass, Arnold Lewis; Sinha, Neha – Educational Psychology, 2013
In the context of an upper-level psychology course, even when students were given an opportunity to refer to text containing the answers and change their exam responses in order to improve their exam scores, their performance on these questions improved slightly or not at all. Four experiments evaluated competing explanations for the students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Item Analysis, Test Norms, Comparative Testing
Barnwell-Sanders, Pamela – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Graduates of associate degree (AD) nursing programs form the largest segment of first-time National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN®) test takers, yet also experience the highest rate of NCLEX-RN® failures. NCLEX-RN® failure delays entry into the profession, adding an emotional and financial toll to the unsuccessful…
Descriptors: Health Education, Exit Examinations, Scores, Day Programs
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Liu, Ou Lydia – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
This study investigates the relationship between test preparation and test performance on the "TOEFL iBT"® exam. Information on background variables and test preparation strategies was gathered from 14,593 respondents in China through an online survey. A Chinese standardized English test was used as a control for prior English ability.…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Test Preparation, Language Tests, College Entrance Examinations
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Moser, Kelly – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2012
For initial certification in French, German, and Spanish, teacher candidates in most states are required to pass one of the Praxis II subject matter tests. As of October 2010, a new test was added to the "Praxis Series." This Praxis II: World Language Test represents a significant change from previous versions and relies heavily upon the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Teachers, Teacher Education, Second Languages
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Socha, Alan; Sigler, Ellen A. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
The "Revised Learning Process Questionnaire" has been part of the development of a conceptual understanding of how students learn and what motivates them to engage in particular tasks. We obtained responses from 329 student volunteers at a mid-sized public university in the southeast USA. We first investigated whether the psychometric…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Multidimensional Scaling, Psychometrics
Prins, Esther; Drayton, Brendaly; Gungor, Ramazan; Kassab, Cathy – Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2011
This study investigated the types, use, and effectiveness of distance learning (DL) for General Education Development (GED) candidates in rural Pennsylvania. The research goal was to provide information for enhancing DL GED study options. Specifically, the study, which was conducted in 2009-2010, sought to: identify the types and use of GED…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, High School Equivalency Programs, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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Schutte, Marc; Spottl, Georg – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2011
Developing countries such as Malaysia and Oman have recently established occupational standards based on core work processes (functional clusters of work objects, activities and performance requirements), to which competencies (performance determinants) can be linked. While the development of work-process-based occupational standards is supposed…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Field Tests, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development
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Cleary, Timothy J.; Callan, Gregory L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
This study examined the predictive validity of a teacher rating scale called the Self-Regulation Strategy Inventory-Teacher Rating Scale (SRSI-TRS) and its level of convergence with several student self-report measures of self-regulated learning (SRL). Eighty-seven high school students enrolled in one of four sections of a mathematics course in an…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Rating Scales, Predictive Validity
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Pan, Yi-Ching – TESL-EJ, 2014
In much of the world, the issue of accountability and measurement of educational outcomes is highly controversial. Exit testing is part of the movement to ascertain what students have learned and hold institutions and teachers to account. However, compared to the large number of teacher washback studies, learner washback research is lacking…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Exit Examinations, Questionnaires, College Students
Misischia, Cynthia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A large number of undergraduate students have naive understandings about the processes of Diffusion and Osmosis. Some students overcome these misconceptions, but others do not. The study involved nineteen undergraduate movement science students at a Midwest University. Participants' were asked to complete a short answer (fill-in the blank) test,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Undergraduate Students, Test Wiseness, Error Patterns
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Mitchum, Ainsley L.; Kelley, Colleen M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Two experiments tested whether differences in problem-solving strategies influence the ability of people to monitor their problem-solving effectiveness as measured by confidence judgments. On multiple choice problems, people tend to use either a constructive matching strategy, whereby they attempt to solve a problem before looking at the response…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cues, Confidence Testing, Strategic Planning
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De Lisle, Jerome; Smith, Peter; Keller, Carol; Jules, Vena – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
High-stakes placement testing at eleven plus remains a central and constant feature of education systems in the Anglophone Caribbean. In the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the Eleven Plus has been retained well into the era of universal secondary education, with a perceived legitimacy founded on the belief that examinations provide the fairest…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Geography, Testing, Foreign Countries
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Dollinger, Stephen J.; Clark, M. H. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The issue of race differences in standardized test scores and academic achievement continues to be a vexing one for behavioral scientists and society at large. Ellis and Ryan (2003) suggested that a portion of the cognitive-ability test performance differences between White/Caucasian-American and Black/African-American college students could be…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Verbal Ability
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Holzer, Mary LaFrance; Madaus, Joseph W.; Bray, Melissa A.; Kehle, Thomas J. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2009
Limited research exists related to empirically validated strategies to assist college students with learning disabilities (LD). Given that students with LD demonstrate both fewer test-taking skills and higher levels of test anxiety than their peers without LD, and poor test-taking skills contribute to higher levels of test anxiety, such research…
Descriptors: College Students, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Test Anxiety
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