People can much more readily picture a friend dying of cancer than they can call up images of anonymous people suffering from the consequences of testing.
Together, the foul-ups underscore the consequences of testing in an era in which a failing score can prevent a student from graduating.
In the late 1950s Sakharov became concerned about the consequences of testing in the atmosphere, forseeing an eventual increased global death toll over time.
Instead, the article was quashed, and they wound up with a grown-up lesson in the consequences of testing nerves in a post-Newtown-massacre world.
Whereas the consequences of test anxiety have been much researched, little work has investigated the relative importance of contextual antecedents of test anxiety.
This study investigates the social impact of a policy requiring university graduates to pass an English proficiency test by examining the consequences of test use in the workplace in Taiwan.
The importance of tests in all these areas has led to the investigation of the consequences of test use and the justification of that use to be regarded as vital steps in validating a test (Bachman, 2005; Kane, 2006; Messick, 1989).
The consequences of testing are discussed in the context of the fields of usage for our instrument.
Therefore, the consequences of testing on patient management are often investigated as an intermediate step in the pathway.
These fear-related reasons included fear of HIV testing as such, fear of stigmatisation attached to HIV, and/or fear of the consequences of testing HIV-positive.
