scholarly journals Test Context

2020 ◽  
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Test Context

scholarly journals Students’ and parents’ attitude towards the SEE English test

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Saraswati Dawadi
Keyword(s):  
Test Context ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Test Fairness ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Listening And Speaking

This paper reports on a study that explored students’ and their parents’ attitudes towards the fairness and accuracy of the Secondary Education Examination (SEE)English test- a high stakes test in the Nepalese context. It is most probably the first empirical study that has extensively explored this area. The data generated through a longitudinal survey among 247 SEE candidates and semi-structured interviews with six students and their parents in both the pre-test and post-test contexts indicates that students had mostly positive attitudes towards the test fairness and its accuracy in the pre-test context but mostly negative attitudes in the post-test context. However, parents had mostly negative attitudes towards the test in both contexts. Both students and their parents raised questions regarding the accuracy and fairness of the listening and speaking test in the post-test context. Having collected both the qualitative and quantitative data, this study has gained a comprehensive picture of the complexity of the test impacts within the Nepalese educational context, as perceived by students and their parents. The implications of the study have also been highlighted.

Contextual Condition and Sightsinging Achievement of Middle School Choral Students

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keitha V. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Group Treatment ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Treatment Method ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Test Context ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Harmonic Context ◽  
Main Effects

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of harmonic context on the sightsinging skill of middle school choral music students. A nonrandomized control-group pretest-posttest design with one between-group (treatment method) and two within-group (trial and test context) factors was used. The treatment method used three harmonic contexts: (a) melody only, (b) piano harmony, and (c) vocal harmony. The trial condition had two levels (pretest and posttest), and the test context condition had four levels: (a) melody-only, (b) piano-harmony, (c) vocal harmony/upper with the melody in the higher of two voices, and (d) vocal harmony/lower with the melody in the lower of two voices. A repeated measures ANOVA revealed significant differences for the test context and trial main effects and for the trial by treatment group interaction; subjects obtained the highest sightsinging scores when tested in a melody-only context. Because of the significant interaction between trial and treatment group, one-way ANOVAs were used to test for simple main effects in both trial conditions (pretest and posttest). Although no significant differences were detected in the pretest ANOVA, the posttest ANOVA revealed significant differences among treatment groups. Post hoc analysis indicated that subjects in the melody-only treatment group showed more improvement in sightsinging skill than did subjects in the vocal-harmony treatment group. No difference was revealed, however, between the melody-only treatment group and the piano-harmony treatment group.

The Influence of Test Context On Item Difficulty

1976 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Whitely ◽  
René V. Dawis
Keyword(s):  
Item Difficulty ◽  
Test Context

scholarly journals Do Successor Parties Influence Public Attitudes toward the Past? Evidence from Young Democracies

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Filipa Raimundo ◽  
José Santana-Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
Regime Type ◽  
Test Context ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transitions To Democracy ◽  
Citizen Attitudes ◽  
Support For Democracy ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
The Impact

What explains how citizens living in young democracies feel about their authoritarian past? While the impact of autocratic legacies on support for democracy and left–right placement has been thoroughly studied, we know less about the determinants of attitudes toward the past in post-authoritarian democracies. This study relies on survey data collected in Southern and Central European countries ten years after their transitions to democracy in order to test context-dependent variance in the relevance of ideology and party identification on citizen attitudes toward the past. The results show that classical factors such as regime type and mode of transition are not the main determinants of the politicization of attitudes toward the past and that the existence of a strong authoritarian successor party is associated with stronger politicization of the past.

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