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Direct linkYanbin Guo – European Journal of Education, 2025
High participation systems (HPS) of higher education (HE) are common throughout the world. The consequences of HE expansion has attracted enough academic attention; however, much less discussed is the impact of the HE expansion on retaking the college entrance examination. Drawing upon China's provincial panel data, a battery of econometric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Entrance Examinations, Testing
Ning Yue; Chieh Li; Shangwen Si; Shanshan Xu; Qin Zhang; Lixia Cui – School Mental Health, 2024
Numerous studies have revealed an alarming prevalence of test anxiety among Chinese junior high school students. Prevention of test anxiety in this population has become crucial. Brief meditation intervention (BMI) has shown promising results for promoting students' well-being and reducing test anxiety, but its mechanism for reducing test anxiety…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Testing
Yin, Yue Melody; Mu, Guanglun Michael – Australian Educational Researcher, 2022
Alternative teacher preparation programs have triggered global debates. This study analysed 16 fellows of an alternative teacher preparation program who entered rural schools located in China--a high-stakes testing context--with a strong disposition toward quality-oriented education. Drawing on Bourdieu's sociology, we revealed four forms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alternative Teacher Certification, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Xiaomin Ye; Yilong Yang; Yi Qie; Zengbao Hu – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Take-home exam (THE) use has been reported in various disciplines, but research on THE use in language modules in higher education appears to be scarce. The current study employed surveys and interviews to examine how the shift to written THE, in place of the traditional in-class exam (ICE) during the pandemic, impacted language learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Tests, Testing
Xi Lin; Mingyu Huang; Qiuhan Lin – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
With the fast development of technology and the prevalent use of high-speed internet across campus, online courses have become a necessary option for course delivery in many universities in China. A sample group of 158 university students participated in this study. We examined differences in their expectations of instructors between face-to-face…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Educational Environment
Tianlai Deng – Cogent Education, 2024
Examination-oriented education (EOE) is widely recognized by academics as an educational system that upholds equality while stifling student creativity (alienation). However, studies have yet to identify the specific pathways through which EOE maintains equality. Furthermore, analyses of educational alienation have been limited to discursive…
Descriptors: Alienation, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Testing
Wang, Ziyu – Educational Studies, 2023
To gain insight into Chinese students' perspectives on their education, this study examines how they construct their learner identities by navigating multiple subject positions both at school and in their families. Drawing on the frame of learner identity formation and the concepts of Western and Confucian ways of being, thematic analysis is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
Zhao, Kang; Wang, Jingjie – History of Education, 2023
From the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, the development of the history of education in China can be divided into four stages: a budding period, one of tortuous development, a recovery stage and finally one of stable growth influenced by various ideas and themes from other countries. Abundant academic areas and topics as well as…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Intellectual Disciplines
Evers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
Keating, Xiaofen D.; Stephenson, Rachyl; Hodges, Michael; Zhang, Yiqiong; Chen, Leon L. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: For over six decades, in many countries, youth fitness testing has been seen as a critical component of physical education programs. As such, preservice physical education teachers (PPETs) must be trained appropriately for effective youth fitness testing, with careful consideration dedicated to PPETs perceptions, since many purported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Physical Fitness
Dai, Qiao – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2023
While there is growing research identifying the academic and nonacademic challenges to the wellbeing of Chinese international students, there is little discussion about the differences in and challenges of the assessment they experience. This gap appears to come from a tacit assumption that assessment is universal worldwide, or that students will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Well Being, Student Experience
Download full textYulong Li – Critical Education, 2022
As early as the 1990s, educationists, and even some governmental policy makers in China, advocated suzhi (quality) educational reform, aiming to develop creative individuals, and to revamp the exam-oriented and authoritarian education system. However, this suzhi educational reform was not entirely successful, with education in China becoming a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Hidden Curriculum, Power Structure
Aryadoust, Vahid; Ng, Li Ying; Foo, Stacy; Esposito, Gianluca – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This is the first study to investigate the effects of test methods (while-listening performance and post-listening performance) and gender on measured listening ability and brain activation under test conditions. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to examine three brain regions associated with listening comprehension: the…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Tests, Testing, Cognitive Processes
Fang, Jian-Wen; Shao, Dan; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chang, Shao-Chen – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
Scholars believe that computational thinking is one of the essential competencies of the 21st century and computer programming courses have been recognized as a potential means of fostering students' computational thinking. In tradition instruction, PFCT (problem identification, flow definition, coding, and testing) is a commonly adopted procedure…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming, Computer Science Education
Li, Xuelian – English Language Teaching, 2019
Based on the articles written by mainland Chinese scholars published in the most influential Chinese and international journals, the present article analyzed the language testing research, compared the tendencies of seven categories between 2000-2009 and 2010-2019, and put forward future research directions by referring to international hot…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Educational History, Futures (of Society)
