this study aims at discovering whether university entrance exam (uee), a high-stake selection test in iran, influences the high school and pre-university efl teachers` methodology and test development. the participants of this study included thirty high school and pre-university efl teachers who were randomly selected from ten different schools. to answer the research questions, five types of m...

Abstract: The widespread use of test scores for different educational and social decision making purposes has made the washback effect of tests a distinct educational phenomenon (Cheng, 1997).The high school third grade final exam in the general educational system of Iran has for long been a high stake test designed to assess the achievement of high school graduates in different school subjects...

This study analyses teachers’ viewpoints on the potential undesirable influences of high stake exams. Seven stimulants related to exams education were given 191 teachers in a pairwise comparisons format. The participating this asked choose one influence by comparing them and determine more prominent problem stemming from Data analyzed via many-facet Rasch model. As result, it was found that con...

This study aims at discovering whether university entrance exam (UEE), a high-stake selection test in Iran, influences the high school and pre-university EFL teachers` methodology and test development. The participants of this study included thirty high school and pre-university EFL teachers who were randomly selected from ten different schools. To answer the research questions, five types of m...

We describe a recognition, validation and segmentation system as an intelligent preprocessor for automatic pronunciation evaluation. The system is developed for large-scale high stake foreign language tests, where it is necessary to reduce human workload and ensure fair evaluation.