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Direct linkSteedle, Jeffrey T. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2014
Possible lack of motivation is a perpetual concern when tests have no stakes attached to performance. Specifically, the validity of test score interpretations may be compromised when examinees are unmotivated to exert their best efforts. Motivation filtering, a procedure that filters out apparently unmotivated examinees, was applied to the…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Student Motivation, Sampling, Validity
Peer reviewedPowers, Donald E.; Fowles, Mary E. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1998
To determine the effects on test performance and test validity of releasing essay topics before an examination, 300 prospective graduate students wrote essays on a released and an unreleased topic. Analyses did not reveal any statistically significant effect of topic release. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Essay Tests, Higher Education, Performance Factors
