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Download full textDawadi, Saraswati – Online Submission, 2020
The author, having drawn examples from her doctoral study, describes how a thematic analysis approach was employed to interpret raw data in her doctoral study which explored the impacts of a high-stakes test on students and parents in Nepal. As the main purpose of this paper is to provide some guidelines for English language teaching (ELT)…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedVolante, Louis – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2004
Teachers typically receive the brunt of the criticism for poor performance on large-scale standardized tests. In order to stave off this criticism, some teachers have begun to provide instruction that utilizes actual or cloned items from these high-stakes tests. Such teaching to the test rarely helps learning and has a detrimental effect on the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Criticism
