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Klapp, Alli – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
The purpose of the study was to investigate how grading in primary school affected students' achievement measured by grades in 7th, 8th and 9th Grade and educational attainment in upper secondary school (12th Grade), and how the effect varied as a function of students' cognitive ability, gender and socio-economic status. The data derived from the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Longitudinal Studies, Grading, Elementary School Students
Eklof, Hanna – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2010
An achievement test score can be viewed as a joint function of skill and will, of knowledge and motivation. However, when interpreting and using test scores, the "will" part is not always acknowledged and scores are mostly interpreted and used as pure measures of student knowledge. This paper argues that students' motivation to do their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Scores, Test Wiseness