“IELTS-out/TOEFL-out”: Is the End of General English for Academic Purposes Near? Tertiary Student Achievement Across Standardized Tests and General EAP

Interchange ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Johnson ◽  
M. Gregory Tweedie
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Tertiary Student

A critical assessment of published tests for elementary school mathematics

1974 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
L. Ray Carry
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Instructional Objectives ◽  
Average Student ◽  
Criterion Referenced

This paper is intended as an aid to the elementary school mathematics teacher who uses published tests for evaluating student achievement in e lementary school mathematics. (“Published tests” jn this paper refers to standardized tests and to published criterion-referenced tests.) Often teachers must administer to their students tests that do not directly assess the teacher's objectives. The almost certain outcome of such a procedure is that average student achievement is revealed to be unexpectedly low. Such an outcome may result in pressure to modify the instructional objectives so that instruction becomes consistent with the behaviors assessed by the achievement tests. Over a period of years this process could lead to a situation where mathematics course objectives are in effect determined by test content. Stated tritely perhaps, but accurately, we could end up “with the cart before the horse.”

A Closer Look at Standardized Tests

1982 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
Donald J. Freeman ◽  
Therese M. Kuhs ◽  
Lucy B. Knappen ◽  
Andrew C. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Teacher's Knowledge ◽  
Standardized Test Results

It is commonly argued that teachers should use scores from standardized tests to facilitate instruction. Specifically, teachers are encouraged to use standardized test results to evaluate student achievement on both a group and individual level, to identify students with learning problems, and to assess the effectiveness of instructional strategies that have been used. The use of standardized tests for any of these functions, however, must be tempered by the teacher's knowledge of the extent to which the content of the test parallels the content of instruction.

scholarly journals Saudi Standardized Tests and English Competence: Association and Prediction for Freshmen Medical Students’ Performance in Chemistry

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Abdulaziz Althewini
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Admission Criteria ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Admission Criterion ◽  
General Aptitude Test ◽  
Admission Test ◽  
English Competence

The research is created to investigate the prediction of admission criteria for medical student achievement in chemistry in Saudi Arabia. It examines if the General Aptitude Test (GAT), the Scholastic Achievement Admission Test (SAAT), and English competence, can to a certain extent predict and foretell students’ achievement in the chemistry. The study sample consists of 240 participants, providing their grades in the admission criteria and chemistry. Regression analyses are utilized to define the weight of individual admission criterion prediction for student achievement in chemistry. It illustrates that admission criteria could predict students’ grades in chemistry with a variance of 30%. The results also show English competence does play a more significant rule in predicting students’ performance in chemistry. More research is needed to examine whether these criteria are also predictors with a large scale of students’ population.

Improving Student Achievement on Standardized Tests: One Approach

1988 ◽  
Vol 72 (505) ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
Marlene K. Caplan ◽  
Thomas J. O'Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Improving Student Achievement

Does cultural intelligence matter?

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy S. Collins ◽  
Ibrahim Duyar ◽  
Carolyn L. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Latino Students ◽  
Achievement Scores ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Latino Student ◽  
Latino Student Achievement ◽  
Convergent Validation

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine whether the levels of cultural intelligence (CQ) of principals and teachers influence Latino students’ achievement. The study first tested the applicability of Ang and Van Dyne’s (2008) Cultural Intelligence Questionnaire (CQS) for the measurement of principals and teachers’ CQ levels by construct validating this instrument. Later, it investigated whether the CQ levels of principals and teachers explain the achievement levels of Latino students in mathematics and language arts. Design/methodology/approach A naturalistic relational research design was used to study the relationships between the study variables. Participants included a cluster random sample of 86 principals and 311 teachers in a southern state. The convergent validation was used to establish the construct validity of the CQS by correlating CQS subscale scores with several measures of principal and teacher multicultural exposure. A series of hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to investigate the association between the principal and teacher CQS subscale scores and the Latino student achievement scores on state standardized tests. Findings The four-factor structure of the CQS scale was found to be valid in the educational settings. Principals’ level of CQ significantly predicted Latino students’ achievement scores of eight grade math and eight grade language arts. On the contrary to the expectations, there was no evidence to suggest that teacher-level CQ as measured by the CQS is predictive of Latino student achievement. Further analyses showed that multicultural exposures of teachers, such as being multilingual and visiting other countries, significantly predicted Latino students’ language arts performance. Originality/value This study has policy and research implications toward understanding and eliminating achievement gaps of Latino student populations. It sheds empirical light on whether this gap can be explained with the multicultural intelligence levels of principals and teachers, the two most influential actors in schools. By construct validating CQS, the study methodologically contributed to the pertinent educational research, which lacks instruments for the measurement of CQ levels of educational workforce.

What Do We Know About how Teachers Influence Student Performance on Standardized Tests: And Why Do We Know So Little about Other Student Outcomes?

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Good
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Proactive Management ◽  
Research On Teaching

Background/Context Since the 1970s, researchers have attempted to link observational measures of instructional process to student achievement (and occasionally to other outcomes of schooling). This paper reviews extensively both historical and contemporary research to identify what is known about effective teaching. Purpose/Objective Good, after reviewing what is known about effective teaching, attempts to apply this to current descriptions of effective teaching and its application value for practice. Good notes that much of the “new” research on effective teaching has simply replicated what has been known since the 1980s. Although this is not unimportant (since it shows that older findings still pertain to contemporary classrooms), it is unfortunate that research has not moved beyond the relationship between general teacher behavior (those that cut across subject areas) and student achievement (as measured by standardized tests). How this information can be applied and the difficulty in using this information is examined in the paper. Research Design The paper is a historical analysis and reviews research on teaching from the 1960s to today. Conclusion This paper has stressed that our data base on effective teaching is limited— still it has some implications for practice. Even though the knowledge base is limited, there is no clear knowledge that teachers-in-training learn and have the opportunity to practice and use. It would seem that teacher education programs would want to assure that their graduates, in addition to possessing appropriate knowledge, would also have clear conceptual understanding and skills related to active teaching, proactive management, communication of appropriate expectations for learning, and the ability to plan and enact instruction that balances procedural and conceptual knowledge. Future research on the use of this knowledge base and its effects in teacher education programs would be informative. If done correctly, research on teaching can improve instruction. However, the research must be applied carefully if it is to have useful effects. And, as noted often in this paper, research must consider outcomes of schooling other than achievement such as creativity, adaptability, and problem finding.

scholarly journals Social-Emotional Learning in a Time of Chaos

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Bond
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Social Emotional Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Emotional Learning ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
The World

Over the last generation public schools in the United States have strongly emphasized student achievement as measured by standardized tests. In this paper the role Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) can play in improving student success is emphasized. Research on SEL has shown that student achievement is positively affected by SEL programming. Yet, an argument continues over how the limited time in the classroom is used. As the world faces a pandemic during which students are often not attending school in person, their social-emotional health is of increased concern.

Analyzing the Potential Benefit of Microcomputer Use for Teaching Figurative Language

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn A. Nippold ◽  
Ilsa E. Schwarz ◽  
Molly Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Language Intervention ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Language Learning Disabilities ◽  
Promising Application ◽  
Experience Difficulty

Microcomputers offer the potential for increasing the effectiveness of language intervention for school-age children and adolescents who have language-learning disabilities. One promising application is in the treatment of students who experience difficulty comprehending figurative expressions, an aspect of language that occurs frequently in both spoken and written contexts. Although software is available to teach figurative language to children and adolescents, it is our feeling that improvements are needed in the existing programs. Software should be reviewed carefully before it is used with students, just as standardized tests and other clinical and educational materials are routinely scrutinized before use. In this article, four microcomputer programs are described and evaluated. Suggestions are then offered for the development of new types of software to teach figurative language.

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