High and low stakes testing
Cultivating the myopic learner: the shared project of high and low-stakes assessment
... Both high and low-stakes testing as they have been developed in recent years demonstrate a similar disposition towards ...power. High-stakes testing is commonly associated ...
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Retrospective versus prospective measurement of examinee motivation in low-stakes testing contexts: A moderated mediation model
... in low-stakes testing ...during low- stakes testing centers on examinees’ conceptualization of ...on low-stakes tests is ...in low-stakes ...
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A Study of Formative Assessment and High Stakes Testing: Issues of Student Efficacy and Teacher Views in the Mathematics Classroom
... White and Frederiksen (1998) looked at how reflective assessment would impact learning. The study involved three teachers who taught four classes each of eighth grade science. Each class was given basic skills tests to ...
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An Analysis of Engaged Learning in Low Stakes and High-Stakes Assessment Contexts in Distance Education: A Case of English for Specific Purposes Tests
... the low-stakes and high-stakes groups are not significant, though the mean rank of the low-stakes group was a little higher than the high-stakes ...
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Accountability, Incentives and Behavior: The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in the Chicago Public Schools
... The recent federal education bill, No Child Left Behind, requires states to test students in grades three to eight each year, and to judge school performance on the basis of these test scores. While intended to maximize ...
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When testing stakes are no longer high: impact on the Chinese College English learners and their learning
... considerable stakes to its tertiary EFL ...and high-English-proficiency level (good CET-4/6 test results as a proof) mean good jobs and high salaries, whereas graduates from universities of ...
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The Writing Exam as Index of Policy, Curriculum, and Assessment: An Academic Literacies Perspective on High Stakes Testing in an American University
... All the Composition adjuncts I spoke with cited similar orientations to USU and what was to be expected of them. They said that they were given guidelines in terms of the minimum number of required papers, and they were ...
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Examining the Myth of Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, and the Achievement Gap
... from high school. This overemphasis on testing in Texas and elsewhere led to a national movement to “opt out” of ...a high school diploma, which has had a disparately large effect on ...
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Participation and performance on paper- and computer-based low-stakes assessments
... a low of − 2.7 to a high of ...hypothesis testing function in the HLM software to generate predicted logits and stan- dard errors for each of the combinations of variables and converted the logits to ...
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Allowing Adolescents to Weigh Benefits and Burdens of High-stakes Therapies
... These clinical findings are concerning for VT during exercise leading to low cardiac output and syncope. She then also had electrical fi ndings in the electrophysiology laboratory at a reputable and experienced ...
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Global perspectives on high-stakes teacher accountability policies: an introduction
... of high-stakes managerial accountability policies, which challenge prevailing notions of teacher professionalism and the associated norms, values and ...
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Item Response Theory Modeling of High School Students’ Behavior in a High Stakes Exam
... We put forward a model based on item response theory that highlights the role of latent features called “proficiency” and “propensity”. The model is ad- justed to data from the decisions made in a ...
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A new BIST scheme for low-power and high-resolution DAC testing
... the testing time is much longer than that in other ...for testing DAC-ADC pair with a Pseudo-Random Bit Sequence (PRBS) generated by a Linear-Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) as stimulus and a second LFSR, ...
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The Impact of Standardised Testing on Later High Stakes Test Outcomes
... standardised testing is that teachers become incentivised to focus on preparing their pupils for tests at the detriment of teaching a broad and balanced curriculum (so called “teaching to the ...standardised ...
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The Benefit of Power Posing Before a High-Stakes Social Evaluation
... predicted, high power posers performed better and were more likely to be chosen for hire, and this relationship was mediated only by presentation quality, not speech ...
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Assessing Assessment Literacy: Insights From a High-Stakes Test
... language testing, not much progress has hitherto been made to alleviate fears of the ...language testing in ...language testing in language programs (see Bridnley, 2001; Fulcher, 2012, among ...
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Low-Stakes vs. No-Stakes Practice Exams in Anatomy and. Physiology Classes: Which One Works Better? Peter Reuter
... some testing fatigue at the end of each semester, the main reason for the drop for the final exam was that students either knew that they would not be able to earn a better grade or were not in danger of dropping ...
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Bourgeois queens and high stakes games in the ant Aphaenogaster senilis
... queen production in A. senilis have few options other than inheriting the colony, as dispersal is only possible through colony fission which can only occur in large col- onies and under certain conditions [5]. Thus, not ...
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Stakes and Beliefs
... The access we have to our beliefs seems context-sensitive, and so might be stake- sensitive, what is at stake being a part of context. This will depend upon what we mean by ‘access,’ and it may be not clear whether this ...
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Stories of Principals’ Roles as a Result of High Stakes Teacher Evaluations in Louisiana
... because it looked a lot like other people’s lesson plans and I don’t think to this day she understands that the, what’s written on paper is the lesson plan but what you have in your mind that you’re going to do is ...
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