High-stakes testing is meant to create a positive washback effect on student learning. Performance funding can raise stakes. However, it not often used, and its uncertain. The purpose of this paper examine performance-funding programs based students’ exam results. We study principals’ perceptions interpretations how influenced stakes effects the exit exams. For that purpose, we selected four sc...

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...

Examining the effect of high-stakes tests on learners’ perceptions has been one of the strands of washback-related research. The present study purported to investigate the washback effect of the English section of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam (henceforth INUEE) on the pre-university students’ perceptions about the high-stakes test. The participants of the study were 218 female ...

IELTS test is one of the well-known international standard level English language ability for those who intend to use as communication in country or regions study work. This was conducted Mainland China with a number 12 senior high school students, aiming explore washback listening and based on findings give some suggestions teaching learning. Thirty percent original paper revised quantitative ...

this study aimed to investigate the washback effect of three alternative assessment procedures, namely oral-conferences, portfolios, and corpora-based feedback on the writing achievement and attitudes of iranian efl university learners. the participants taking part in the study were 156 native iranian students in a mixed reading-writing course. through the two three-month semesters, the learner...