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Cornell, Dewey G.; Krosnick, Jon A.; Chang, LinChiat – Educational Policy, 2006
How do students react to being told that they have failed a test required for high school graduation? In 2000, 7,989 students were wrongly informed that they had failed the Minnesota Basic Standards Test in mathematics. The authors conducted a survey of 911 of these students to assess the psychosocial impact of this event. More than 80% of…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, High Stakes Tests, Failure, Mathematics Tests