High Stakes Testing
Perceptions of Middle School Math and Language Arts Teachers on High-Stakes Testing Cultures in Public Schools
... of high-stakes testing is upon us, and teachers in states like New Jersey are being evaluated based on annual student growth in standardized assessment ...
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Curricular constraints, high stakes testing and the reality of reform in high school science classrooms
... on high stakes testing has revealed how the pressure to teach to the test prompts teachers to focus on the basic factual information at the expense of how this information relates to real ...
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High-Stakes Testing and Its Relationship to Stress Levels of Coastal Secondary Teachers
... administered high-stakes ...of high-stakes tested area teachers with the non high-stakes tested area teachers with the self-efficacy of high-stakes tested area ...
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1:1 Laptop Experience And High-Stakes Testing: Effects On Eighth-Grade Student Achievement
... discussed high- stakes testing or the impact of the technology on such ...on high-stakes testing (Incantalupo, Treagust, & Koul, ...on high-stakes assessment is ...
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Accountability, Incentives and Behavior: The Impact of High-Stakes Testing in the Chicago Public Schools
... These findings have several interesting implications. On the one hand, they provide strong empirical support for general incentive theories, including the multi-task theories of Holmstrom and Milgrom (1991). Moreover, ...
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Examining the Myth of Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, and the Achievement Gap
... urban high schools in Houston were reporting that they had 0% dropouts, and it was claimed that the achievement gap on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was closing ...of high-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
... the high stakes associated with large-scale assessments were having a negative impact on the choice of instructional and assessment strategies used in classrooms (Amrein & Berliner, 2002; Battista, ...
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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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Louisiana Charter Schools Leading in High Stakes Testing: Teacher's Perspective on Their Charter Schools' Success
... a high school completion rate of 90 percent, (3) improve achievement for all Americans in all basic subjects, (4) make American students first in the world in math and science, (5) ensure that all adults were ...
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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 by its ...
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When testing stakes are no longer high: impact on the Chinese College English learners and their learning
... that high-stakes testing exerts powerful impact in controlling curriculum and pedagogy, and shaping students ’ ...of testing is especially strong in contexts where testing culture ...
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Subjective Cues to Deception/Honesty in a High Stakes Situation: An Exploratory Approach
... particular context; for example, acceptance of death, plea for the caller only, and insulting the victim. Furthermore, it can be noted that a number of cues identified in this study are not readily accommodated by the ...
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Development of competency models for assessors and simulators in high-stakes selection processes
... in high-stakes selection pro- cesses could reduce the potential variability among assessors/ simulators and ensure fair and consistent treatment of all ...
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Predicting the Difficulty of Multiple Choice Questions in a High stakes Medical Exam
... The paper presented an approach for predict- ing the construct-relevant difficulty of multiple- choice questions for a high-stakes medical licen- sure exam. Three classes of feature were devel- oped: ...
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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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EFL Chinese Students and High Stakes Expository Writing: A Theme Analysis
... We hope that the specific differences in theme markedness, thematic progression, and clause combining detailed in this article paired up with the brief insights on cultural awareness jus[r] ...
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The Child, the Heart, the Arts—The Literacy Game: High Stakes and Risk Avoidance
... brows high, waiting until all little faces have turned to her and a transient silence descends, her timing as perfect and as slick a seasoned performer – make them pop! ...
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An exploration of the determinants of applicant fairness perceptions in high-stakes selection settings
... In a longitudinal study of applicants for a manufacturing organisation, Macan et al 1994 found that perceptions face validity and fairness of a cognitive ability test battery and an asse[r] ...
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High stakes lies: police and non-police accuracy in detecting deception
... detect high‐stakes deception; this implies that, at least in some contexts, police officers utilise reliable cues to ...world, high stakes ...
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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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