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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
Gregory James Heathco – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Performance on the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) is the primary criterion for university admission in South Korea. High-school seniors typically spend 60 hours or more per week preparing for the CSAT. Private tutoring for the CSAT accounts for nearly 2% of the Korean economy. These investments signify the high stakes attached to the CSAT.…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Phenomenology
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Jieun Kim – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
High-stakes reading tests significantly influence one's future success, leading many second language learners to engage in intensive test preparation. This study examines nine TOEFL reading preparation lectures from two popular cram schools, or [foreign characters omitted] "hagwons," in Korea, with a total duration of five hours and…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Reading Tests, Teaching Methods, Test Preparation
Marc H. Evans – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A state in the Midwest region of the United States passed legislation that ties the advancement of students in the third grade to achieving a level of proficiency on a required state assessment in English. The legislation also ties high school graduation to achieving a level of proficiency on a series of required state assessments in English,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, High Stakes Tests, Test Preparation, Educational Change
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Jiayu Liu – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Research on Portuguese language exams in the language assessment field remains scarce. To bridge this gap, this study examined washback from the large-scale, high-stakes Portuguese proficiency tests created by the Center of Evaluation of Portuguese as a Foreign Language ("Centro de Avaliação de Português Língua Estrangeira," or CAPLE as…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Language Tests, High Stakes Tests, Language Proficiency
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Gu, Kali – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2023
This study investigates washback effects of IELTS test on university teachers' adoption of teaching materials in the classroom in China and see how a high-stake language exam affects their teaching practices and how they and their students perceive the effectiveness of the pedagogic adjustments. To this end, individual interview to five teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
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Ambele, Eric A. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The role of English as a medium of communication among diverse linguacultural users has resulted in a significant rise in the number of new Englishes. Using a semi-structured interview for data collection, this qualitative study investigates the perceptions of six foreign English lecturers at four universities in Thailand towards Thai English and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Larson, Tiffany R. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
National and state-based assessments have been a common practice for the past several decades. These assessments often come with high-stake consequences for students and schools, which tends towards the creation of a test-centric environment where educators prioritize test-based instruction to prepare students to be successful on those…
Descriptors: Models, School Districts, High Stakes Tests, Test Preparation
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Yüzüak, Ahmet Volkan; Recepkethüda, Recep – Science Education International, 2022
This study aimed to determine science teachers' opinions about the skills-based questions (SBQs) used in Turkey's high school's entrance exam. In this study, the phenomenology method was used. The study consisted of 15 participants working as science teachers with at least 5 years of professional experience in public schools in different provinces…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Admission (School)
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Marsden, Emma; Dudley, Amber; Hawkes, Rachel – Modern Language Journal, 2023
The awarding organizations that create and administer high-stakes assessments for beginner-to-low-intermediate 16-year-old learners of French, German, and Spanish in England provide optional topic-driven word lists as guides for teachers and textbook writers. Given that these lists are developed by the awarding organizations, they exert a powerful…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Word Frequency, Secondary School Students, Second Language Instruction
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Alqahtani, Faten – English Language Teaching, 2021
Existing literature indicates that assessment is a critical aspect of teaching and learning language; the outcomes of testing are vital. The history of assessment can be traced back to when exams primarily served two significant purposes in China: choosing candidates for admission into government offices and preventing corruption. Washback as a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing Problems, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ro, Jina – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2018
Although there is growing interest in learning about the successful policies and practices of high-performing education systems, there is a lack of comparable attention paid to how the players in the systems, such as teachers, feel about and experience these systems. This study examines the teaching experience of four Korean novice teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Experience, High Stakes Tests
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Nevin, Christine – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This essay draws from the experience of observing writing practices in English lessons from 2010-2019, to suggest that the influence of education policy during this phase prioritises preparation for examination questions above the imperatives of learner creativity or volition. Through discussion of ways in which the 'high stakes' examination…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Educational Policy, English Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship
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Yung, Kevin Wai-Ho – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Literature has long been used as a tool for language teaching and learning. In the New Academic Structure in Hong Kong, it has become an important element in the senior secondary English language curriculum to promote communicative language teaching (CLT) with a process-oriented approach. However, as in many other English as a second or foreign…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Education, Test Preparation, Language Tests
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Chong, Sin Wang – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2021
The revived interest in the notion of 'evaluative judgement' in higher education is motivated by commitment of researchers and practitioners to effectively implement learning-oriented assessment and cultivate this high-order cognitive ability to develop students' capacity for self-regulated learning. Recent studies have examined the affordances…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Language Tests, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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