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Individual Score Validity And Student Effort In Higher Education Assessment, Christine E. Demars, Steven L. Wise, Lisa F. Smith
Individual Score Validity And Student Effort In Higher Education Assessment, Christine E. Demars, Steven L. Wise, Lisa F. Smith
Department of Graduate Psychology - Faculty Scholarship
This study explored the use of the five invalidity flags plus a new sixth flag based on self-reported effort. Participants were 155 entering first-year university students who were measured during an orientation week and again 18 months later. The instruments were a faculty-developed test of oral communications skills with 40 four-option multiple-choice items and a self-reported measure of test-taking motivation (Student Opinion Survey; Sundre, 1999 adapted from Wolf and Smith, 1995). Results indicated that the Flags explored in this study generalized well to university students. There was a moderate correlation between Response Time Effort and Effort as measured by the …
Does The Relationship Between Motivation And Performance Differ With Ability?, Christine E. Demars
Does The Relationship Between Motivation And Performance Differ With Ability?, Christine E. Demars
Department of Graduate Psychology - Faculty Scholarship
In this study of college students taking a science test or a social science test under non-consequential conditions, performance was positively correlated with self-reported motivation. The association, though, was smaller for students of lower ability (as measured by the SAT).