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Finney, Sara J.; Perkins, Beth A.; Satkus, Paulius – International Journal of Testing, 2020
Using a sample of 497 college students, we measured test-taking emotions (anger, worry, pride, enjoyment) after the first third, second third, and last third of a low-stakes cognitive test of sociocultural knowledge. We examined the simultaneous change in emotions and whether change in emotions predicted subsequent test-taking effort and test…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Cognitive Tests
Finney, Sara J.; Myers, Aaron J.; Mathers, Catherine E. – International Journal of Testing, 2018
Assessment specialists expend a great deal of energy to promote valid inferences from test scores gathered in low-stakes testing contexts. Given the indirect effect of perceived test importance on test performance via examinee effort, assessment practitioners have manipulated test instructions with the goal of increasing perceived test importance.…
Descriptors: Testing, Test Construction, Performance Factors, Guidelines
Sessoms, John; Finney, Sara J. – International Journal of Testing, 2015
Because schools worldwide use low-stakes tests to make important decisions, value-added indices computed from test scores must accurately reflect student learning, which requires equal test-taking effort across testing occasions. Evaluating change in effort assumes effort is measured equivalently across occasions. We evaluated the longitudinal…
Descriptors: Testing, Measurement, Models, Change
Zilberberg, Anna; Finney, Sara J.; Marsh, Kimberly R.; Anderson, Robin D. – International Journal of Testing, 2014
Given worldwide prevalence of low-stakes testing for monitoring educational quality and students' progress through school (e.g., Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, Program for International Student Assessment), interpretability of resulting test scores is of global concern. The nonconsequential nature of low-stakes tests…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Test Validity, Accountability
Brown, Allison R.; Finney, Sara J. – International Journal of Testing, 2011
The current study examined whether psychological reactance differs across compliant and non-compliant examinees. Given the lack of consensus regarding the factor structure and scoring of the Hong Psychological Reactance Scale (HPRS), its factor structure was evaluated and subsequently tested for measurement invariance (configural, metric, and…
Descriptors: Testing, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Compliance (Psychology)
Barry, Carol L.; Horst, S. Jeanne; Finney, Sara J.; Brown, Allison R.; Kopp, Jason P. – International Journal of Testing, 2010
Given the prevalence of low-stakes testing internationally (e.g., NAEP, TIMSS, PIRLS), it is crucial to try to better understand examinee motivation in these contexts. In the current study, mixture modeling results supported three different profiles of test-taking effort over the course of five tests. Classes 1 and 2 had varying levels of effort…
Descriptors: Testing, Comparative Analysis, Accountability, College Students