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Naujoks, Nick; Harder, Bettina; Händel, Marion – Metacognition and Learning, 2022
Two studies investigated the testing effects on performance and on metacognitive judgment accuracy in authentic learning settings. Across two educational psychology courses, undergraduate students had the opportunity to voluntarily participate in four different practice tests during the term--without feedback in Study 1 (N = 201 students) or with…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Accuracy, Tests, Test Preparation
Evans, Dilan P.; Jenkins, Lekelia D.; Crowther, Gregory J. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023
A main goal of academic courses is to help students acquire knowledge and skills that they can transfer to multiple contexts. In this article, we (i) examine students' responses to test question templates (TQTs), a framework intended to facilitate transfer, and (ii) determine whether similar transfer-promoting strategies are commonly embedded in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Microbiology, Science Instruction, Science Tests
Simone, Patricia M.; Whitfield, Lisa C.; Bell, Matthew C.; Kher, Pooja; Tamashiro, Taylor – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2023
Much of the learning that college students engage in today occurs in unsupervised settings, making effective self-regulated learning techniques of particular importance. We examined the impact of task difficulty and supervision on whether participants would follow written instructions to use repeated testing over restudying. In Study 1, we found…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, College Students
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
Phoebe L. Li; Rijul Asri; George Holan; Christin Traba; Sophia Chen; Jeremy J. Grachan – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
Peer-assisted learning and group facilitation have been proven to foster active participation in small-group learning, and these effective teaching modalities have been shown to enhance learning outcomes. This study introduced a student peer facilitator role in an anatomy small-group curriculum for pre-clerkship medical students and explored its…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Peer Teaching, Small Group Instruction, Active Learning
Tony Clark; Guoxing Yu – Language Teaching Research, 2025
There now exists an established body of work outlining the challenges international students can face as part of the acculturation process, including a range of academic and non-academic pressures to overcome. For many students, writing essays in academic English for the first time is problematic. This article considers pedagogical approaches for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Test Preparation, Essays, English for Academic Purposes
Bin Gao; Xiaoyun Chai; Quanwei Shen; Jiamei Lu; Li Li – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
In the context of examination-oriented education and the pressure of college entrance examinations (known as the "Gaokao"), Chinese high school students often experience academic burnout. Previous research has shown that effort-reward imbalance (ERI) is an important predictor of academic burnout among high school students, but the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Burnout, Stress Variables, Foreign Countries
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
Melzner, Nadine; Dresel, Markus; Kollar, Ingo – Metacognition and Learning, 2022
To be able to collaborate effectively and efficiently has been described as a complex and crucial twenty-first century skill. During collaboration, however, a variety of problems may emerge that require groups to engage in effective regulation processes, which is a complex task in itself. Up to now, little is known about (a) what types of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Case Studies
O'Sullivan, Barry; Dunn, Karen; Berry, Vivien – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2021
Test preparation has been shown to affect educational test scores to varying degrees. In language testing, however, there are no cross-regional studies that consider the effects of gender and age on test preparation practices. This study represents an attempt to remedy this situation. Questionnaire respondents to a global survey were tasked with…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Comparative Education, Preferences, Student Attitudes
Nagaletchimee Annamalai; Najah Rajeh Alsalhi; Mohd Elmagzoub Eltahir; Bilal Mohammed Zakarneh; Kamariah Yunus; Samer H. Zyoud – SAGE Open, 2025
This qualitative case study aimed to examine pre-service teachers' and teacher educators' interactions during their English grammar lessons via the WhatsApp platform. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) model was employed to categorize the WhatsApp interactions based on social, cognitive and teacher presences. Participants wrote their reflections for…
Descriptors: Computer Software, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Washback Effects of IELTS Test on Teachers' Adoption of Teaching Materials in the Classroom in China
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
Jian-Hao Huang – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of collaborative learning on learners' communicative strategies in English for specific purpose (ESP) tour guide training course. The 12-week study was conducted using a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test and post-test, following the instruction of twelve topics in the ESP language…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Darla Jean Franklin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was focused on adult English language learners (ELLs) that described their experiences with language acquisition in an elementary, middle, or high school in the United States. The problem addressed in this qualitative descriptive study was that public schools were unable to handle the academic inadequacies of ELLs as well as the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Learning Experience, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Daniel Hooper – TESL-EJ, 2025
Moving from one educational setting to another is often accompanied by various psychological and emotional stressors. In the case of English education in Japan this is exacerbated further by an enduring ideological division in the field between English for test-taking and the use of English as a communicative tool. In order to explore potential…
Descriptors: Role Models, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)