Sentence examples for high-stakes examination from inspiring English sources
Within the Singapore context, Lim-Ratnam (2013) has described how the pressures of Singapore's high-stakes examination system in compulsory education often contribute to a strong focus in academic skills during preschool years.
Any high-stakes examination should be as accurate, and hence as repeatable, as possible.
A psychometric study design was employed to investigate the reliability and validity of communications skills instrument used for high-stakes examination.
The psychometric data demonstrated that the trained examiners had acceptable inter-rater reliability and that 4 scenarios would meet the standard of a g-coefficient of 0.80 for a high-stakes examination purpose [ 14].
High-stakes examination boards may struggle when attempting to choose a suitable examination format that meets the psychometric standards of the OSCE and yet includes the patient continuity and steering effect on learners that is present in a long case examination.
The particular focus of this project is a large-scale high-stakes examination conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education BISEE) in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
This study examined test-taker perception of the ability being measured by high-stakes examinations and investigated the agreement between test-taker perception and test developer intention.
They have dispensed with the machinery of educational accountability such as detailed national curriculums, school inspections, high-stakes examinations and school vouchers.
Now, how to ensure that continuous assessment measures pupils' performance, and not that of their parents?* "The long-run human capital and economic consequences of high-stakes examinations", by Victor Lavy, Avraham Ebenstein and Sefi Roth.
Ideally, high-stakes examinations assess 1 dimension of medical knowledge to produce precise estimates of a candidate's performance.
We investigate test-taker perception of the skills being measured by high-stakes examinations administered in two EFL countries, Japan and South Korea.
