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Does Students' Understanding of Test Designs and Demands of a High-Stakes Test Influence Their Learning Practices: A Washback Study

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Manxia Dong; Boyu Wang – Language Testing in Asia, 2025

This study aimed to explore the relationship between students' understanding of the National Matriculation English Test (NMET) and their learning practices through standard multiple regression (SMR) and structural equation modeling (SEM) with the purpose of unraveling the working mechanism of washback. A total number of 3105 Chinese senior high…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Seniors, Test Construction, Test Use

Cramming: The Effects of School Accountability on College-Bound Students. Working Paper 7

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Donovan, Colleen; Figlio, David; Rush, Mark – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2007

This paper presents the first evidence of the effects of school accountability systems on the long-term human capital development of high-performing, college-bound students. The results are mixed. On the one hand, the evidence is consistent that school accountability sanction threats are associated with changes in student study habits. Students…

Descriptors: Test Preparation, Test Coaching, Review (Reexamination), Context Effect