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Showing 1 to 20 of 379 for “"High-stakes"”.
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Comparative pairs judgements for high-stakes practical assessments
… concern over the reliability of the scores. In high-stakes assessment, these problems are even more challenging. There is a need for an assessment method that could overcome these problems. In this study, such a method that will be referred to as the Comparative Pairs judgements was …
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Physiological Synchrony Predicts Cooperative Behavior with High Stakes
… were categorized as showing no, low, medium, and high trust, respectively. Participants were endowed with a more considerable sum of money ($120) than many other trust games (Johnson & Mislin, 2011) to encourage participants to perceive their decisions to have significant consequences, i.e., for …
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High Stakes Testing and School Characteristics: A Comparative Study
… and 2018 graduation rate amongst 290 Indiana high schools and the following variables: school size, average SAT reading score, percentage of students passing advanced placement (AP) exams, percentage of special education students, percentage of free or reduced lunch students, percentage of …
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Test Fairness in a Large-Scale High-Stakes Language Test
… examined the fairness of one large-scale high-stakes test in China—the Graduate School Entrance English Exam (GSEEE). To guide this doctoral research, I first drew on four sources of conceptual and empirical work to identify key issues encompassing test fairness. Informed by Willingham’s …
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Teachers' perspectives on the unintended consequences of high stakes testing
… divided into three phases to verify and explore high stakes testing’s effects on teachers’ perceptions regarding classroom practices, pressure, and commitment to the educational profession. Phase I utilized previous surveys and a peer review to create a knowledge base to generate a survey …
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Analysis of Georgia Elementary Principals' Perceptions of High-Stakes Testing
… of the Georgia elementary principals as high-stakes testing is utilized in the theme of accountability. The study examined 335 principals' personal and professional demographics and perceptions of the implementation of high-stakes testing. The study employed a descriptive, survey approach …
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Supporting and Transforming High-Stakes Investigations with Expert-Led Crowdsourcing
… attention. In contrast, crowds of novices can be highly scalable and parallelizable, but lack expertise and may engage in vigilante behavior. In this dissertation, I introduce and evaluate the framework of expert-led crowdsourcing through three studies across two domains, journalism and law …
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The purpose of education in an era of high-stakes testing
… to the purpose of education and to the impact of high-stakes testing. The six cultures of curriculum described by Joseph et al. (2000) were utilized to provide the lens through which curriculum directors could view the overall curriculum of their individual districts. For the purpose of this …
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Testing and evaluation of military systems in a high stakes environment
… system will not fail. In short, because of the high stakes consequences associated with the development and use of military systems, testers must adjust their testing strategies to ensure that high stakes consequences are adequately mitigated. The high consequence space is broken down into two …
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Virginia's Implementation of Web-based High-stakes Testing in Public Education
… testing was implemented within a statewide high-stakes testing program in Virginia's public education system. Virginia's state assessments, known as the Standards of Learning (SOL) tests, were first administered to public school students in 1998 as paper-and-pencil, multiple-choice tests …
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The Impact of High Stakes Testing on Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning
Research suggests that high stakes testing impacts teachers' decisions regarding curriculum and instruction, which, in turn, impacts student learning. Because Virginia administered SOL tests for Computer/Technology, then discontinued them, a study was possible comparing teachers' perceptions and …
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Are value-added models for high-stakes teacher accountability arbitrary and capricious?
… these evaluations will be used to inform high-stakes decisions about teacher salary and retention. However, value-added models are imperfect tools for assessing teacher effectiveness, and many scholars have argued that they are not appropriate for use in high-stakes decisions. This Article …
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Analytics-Enabled Quality and Safety Management Methods for High-Stakes Manufacturing Applications
… test for an optical transceiver module, a high-tech hardware product, manufactured by an industrial partner. Currently, human experts review all test logs for quality problems. This chapter proposes a two-stage machine learning classification model that is able to automatically pass the …
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The Influence of High-Stakes Accountability Policy on Teacher Job Satisfaction and Turnover
… examined the impact of teacher stress related to high-stakes testing and educational policy changes on teacher turnover. Predictors of teacher turnover such as demographics, stress, educational policy changes, commitment to organization, and school climate were examined in this online survey …
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Perceptions of Middle and High School Principals in Virginia on High-Stakes Testing
… study was to identify perceptions of middle and high school principals in Virginia regarding high-stakes testing. Perceptions were assessed regarding unintended consequences impacting the principals' role and their alignment with professional and scholarly literature. There were 22 findings …
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Understanding How Raters Communicate in the Context of Medical High-Stakes, Performance-Based Assessments
It is well established in the medical education literature that raters represent a significant source of unexplained variance in performance assessments. To better understand the variance associated with raters’ evaluative judgments, this dissertation investigated how raters, in various assessment …
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HIGH-STAKES TESTS FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES: DISABILITY-BASED DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING
… item functioning (DIF) on a statewide high-stakes mathematics test administered in the Spring of 2003 to all students seeking a high-school diploma in one state in the eastern part of the U.S. Overall performance scores for all students in grade 10 taking the test for the first time …
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Utilization Of Emotional Freedom Techniques (eft) To Reduce Test Anxiety In High Stakes Testing
<p>There are many reasons a person may fail a high stakes test such as the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN®). Sleep deprivation, illness, life stressors, knowledge deficit, and test anxiety are some of the common explanations. A student with test anxiety may …
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