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Direct linkKingsley Chinaza Nwosu; Moses Onyemaechi Edeh; Edna Nkechi Ofojebe; Hasina Cassim – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Introduction: Understanding the mechanism through which test anxiety affects students' learning outcomes is critical to its management. Test preparation strategies are associated with test confidence and might also affect students' academic performance. However, previous studies have downplayed the role that students' test preparation strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Test Anxiety, Test Preparation
Zachary S. Hazlett; P. Citlally Jimenez; Jennifer K. Knight – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Evidence abounds that passive strategies such as rereading or highlighting are less effective than active strategies such as drawing models or explaining concepts to others. However, many studies have also reported that students tend to use learning strategies that they perceive as comfortable and easy, even when other strategies may be more…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Testing, Learning Strategies, Study Habits
Wei, Wei – Language Learning Journal, 2017
The use of integrated skills tasks in language tests has been debated for many years and international English test developers such as Educational Testing Service (ETS) and Pearson Tests of English (PTE) already use such tests to assess English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' language proficiency. Empirical research has rarely investigated…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Tests
Download full textLiu, Ou Lydia – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
This study investigates the relationship between test preparation and test performance on the "TOEFL iBT"® exam. Information on background variables and test preparation strategies was gathered from 14,593 respondents in China through an online survey. A Chinese standardized English test was used as a control for prior English ability.…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Test Preparation, Language Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Hershkovitz, Arnon; Nachmias, Rafi – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The purpose of this study is to investigate the consistency of students' behavior regarding their pace of actions over sessions within an online course. Pace in a session is defined as the number of logged actions divided by session length (in minutes). Log files of 6,112 students were collected, and datasets were constructed for examining pace…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Carrell, Patricia L. – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
Utilizing a pre- and posttest research design, with an instructional intervention of good practices in notetaking, the notes taken by examinees during a computer-based listening comprehension test prior to and following the instructional intervention were examined for particular notetaking strategies. Questionnaires probed perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Pretests Posttests, Correlation, English (Second Language)
