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Dewi, Resti Citra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of using authentic materials on EFL students' in listening comprehension. The participants of this study was the second year students of Junior High School in Indonesia, 2014/2015 academic year. The population of this study consisted of five parallel classes with the total number of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Listening Comprehension, Statistical Analysis, Control Groups
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Noble, Tracy; Rosebery, Ann; Suarez, Catherine; Warren, Beth; O'Connor, Mary Catherine – Applied Measurement in Education, 2014
English language learners (ELLs) and their teachers, schools, and communities face increasingly high-stakes consequences due to test score gaps between ELLs and non-ELLs. It is essential that the field of educational assessment continue to investigate the meaning of these test score gaps. This article discusses the findings of an exploratory study…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Evidence, Educational Assessment, Achievement Gap
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End, Christian M.; Worthman, Shaye; Mathews, Mary Bridget; Wetterau, Katharina – Teaching of Psychology, 2010
College students participated in a study on the "psychology of note taking" during which they took notes on video content and later completed a multiple-choice test on the material. Researchers assigned 71 participants to either the ringing condition (the video was disrupted by a ringing cell phone) or the control condition (no cell phone rings…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests, Telecommunications
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Ghatala, Elizabeth S.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1981
Two experiments on multiple-choice assessment of students learning from sentences were conducted. Interference arising from intersentence similarity was a function of both the kind of learning strategies students were instructed to employ and the kind of strategies they reported having employed spontaneously. Implications for test construction and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Control Groups, Elementary Secondary Education