Most studies on the effect of incentives on risk attitude use within-subject designs. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability prospects. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking for small probabiliti...

This survey research was conducted to assess Thai regional college students' readiness for taking high-stakes computer-based English tests, which are offered more widely and regularly in the country. The data were collected from 572 university students five regions. questionnaire solicited their opinion regarding terms of computer skills language skills. included online registration, using a mo...

Abstract The current study involved multilevel analysis of high-stakes examination results (i.e., GCSE) in Northern Ireland to investigate gender differentials mathematical achievement, whereas most previous research the area used from low-stakes tests PISA, TIMSS). supported similarities hypothesis with respect both overall and content domain-specific attainment. Similar conclusions were drawn...