Meanings of Test Preparation

From a qualitative study of the role of external testing in elementary schools, a typology of meanings of test preparation was constructed. Based on long-term, intensive observation and interaction with two elementary schools and the analysis of clinical interviews, we found eight types of orientation toward preparing pupils to take mandated, high-stakes achievement tests. These included (a) ordinary curriculum with no special preparation, (b) teaching test-taking skills, (c) exhortation, (d) teaching content known to be covered by the test, (e) teaching to the test in format and content, (f) stress inoculation, (g) practicing test or parallel test items, and (h) cheating. Meanings of teachers are contrasted with meanings of test preparation held by school administrators, testing experts, and school critics. The structure of meanings is analyzed with some concepts of micropolitics

Cheating · Content analysis · Curriculum · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Qualitative research · Sociology · Test (biology · Test preparation · Typology · Psychology · Psychometric Methodologies and Testing · Social Psychology · Student Assessment and Feedback · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

• Tests of English Language as significant thresholds for college-bound Chinese and the washback of test-preparation

  Marylou M Matoush, Danling Fu•Changing English•2012

  Añadir item

• Les évaluations externes à faibles enjeux

  Esteban Rozenwajn, Xavier Dumay•Revue française de pédagogie•2016

  Añadir item

• Processes and effects of test preparation for writing tasks in a high-stakes admission test in China

  Open Access•Shasha Xu•Studies In Educational Evaluation•2021

  Añadir item

• Combining internal and external evaluation

  Open Access•David Nevo•Studies In Educational Evaluation•1994

  Añadir item

• Teacher Commitment, Working Conditions, and Differential Incentive Policies

  Open Access•William A Firestone, James R Pennell•Review of Educational Research•1993

  Añadir item

• Does the English Test in the Spanish University Entrance Examination Influence the Teaching of English

  Pablo Eduardo Cabrera Pérez, Marian Amengual-Pizarro•English Studies•2009

  Añadir item

• I’ ll be a nothing’

  Open Access•Diane Reay, Dylan Wiliam•British Educational Research…•1999

  Añadir item

• Validity and Accountability in High-Stakes Testing

  Open Access•Mary Lee Smith, Patricia Fey•Journal of Teacher Education•2000

  Añadir item

• Stakeholders’ conflicting aims undermine the washback function of a high-stakes test

  Open Access•Qi Luxia•Language Testing•2005

  Añadir item

• The contradictory culture of teacher-based assessment

  Open Access•CHRIS DAVISON•Language Testing•2004

  Añadir item

• Toefl preparation courses

  Open Access•J Charles Alderson, Liz Hamp-Lyons et al.•Language Testing•1996

  Añadir item

• The Unintended, Pernicious Consequences of "Staying the Course" on the United States' No Child Left Behind Policy

  Open Access•Audrey Amrein-Beardsley•International Journal of…•2009

  Añadir item

• Who pays for standardised testing? A cost-benefit study of mandated testing in three Queensland secondary schools

  Merilyn Gladys Carter, Valentina Klenowski et al.•Journal of Education Policy•2016

  Añadir item

• Testing and Student Engagement with Literature in Urban Classrooms

  Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, Dorothea M Anagnostopoulos•Research in the Teaching of English•2003

  Añadir item

• Evaluating Schools Infused with Technology

  Open Access•Thomas C Reeves•Education and Urban Society•1992

  Añadir item

• Assessment for Measurement or Standards

  Open Access•Catherine Taylor•American Educational Research…•1994

  Añadir item