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Proctors Matter: Strategies for Increasing Examinee Effort on General Education Program Assessments

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This paper propose a protocol for administering general education tests under low-stakes conditions and describe simple proctor strategies that engender effort and inhibit inattention, which may not motivate students to perform optimally if they know the test results will not represent them personally.
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General education program assessment involves low-stakes testing, but students may not be motivated to perform optimally if they know the test results will not represent them personally. We propose a protocol for administering general education tests under low-stakes conditions and describe simple proctor strategies that engender effort and inhibit inattention.

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Standards for educational and psychological testing

TL;DR: For example, Standardi pružaju okvir koje ukazuju na ucinkovitost kvalitetnih instrumenata u onim situacijama u kojima je njihovo koristenje potkrijepljeno validacijskim podacima.

The Role of Gender in Test-Taking Motivation under Low-Stakes Conditions.

TL;DR: A review of the literature brings together gender-related findings regarding three measures of examinee motivation: attendance at the assigned testing session, time spent on each test item, and self-reported effort as mentioned in this paper.
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Is it all about value? Bringing back the expectancy component to the assessment of test-taking motivation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the complex relationship between expectancy, value, test-taking effort, and test performance using data from a large-scale educational assessment study of German ninth-graders.
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The Effects of Motivational Instruction on College Students' Performance on Low-Stakes Assessment

TL;DR: This article found that the instruction increased examinees' self-reported test-taking motivation by.89 standard deviations (SDs) and test scores by.63 SDs, and that students receiving the instruction spent an average of 14 more seconds on an item than students in the control group.
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Too hard, too easy, or just right? The relationship between effort or boredom and ability-difficulty fit

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of abilitydifficulty fit on test-taking motivation and emotion is unknown and rarely considered when interpreting test results, and the application of computerized adaptive testing is discussed.
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