TY - JOUR A1 - Penk, Christiane A1 - Richter, Dirk T1 - Change in test-taking motivation and its relationship to test performance in low-stakes assessments JF - Educational assessment, evaluation and accountability N2 - Since the turn of the century, an increasing number of low-stakes assessments (i.e., assessments without direct consequences for the test-takers) are being used to evaluate the quality of educational systems. Internationally, research has shown that low-stakes test results can be biased due to students’ low test-taking motivation and that students’ effort levels can vary throughout a testing session involving both cognitive and noncognitive tests. Thus, it is possible that students’ motivation varies throughout a single cognitive test and in turn affects test performance. This study examines the change in test-taking motivation within a 2-h cognitive low-stakes test and its association with test performance. Based on expectancy-value theory, we assessed three components of test-taking motivation (expectancy for success, value, and effort) and investigated its change. Using data from a large-scale student achievement study of German ninth-graders, we employed second-order latent growth modeling and structural equation modeling to predict test performance in mathematics. On average, students’ effort and perceived value of the test decreased, whereas expectancy for success remained stable. Overall, initial test-taking motivation was a better predictor of test performance than change in motivation. Only the variability of change in the expectancy component was positively related to test performance. The theoretical and practical implications for test practitioners are discussed. KW - Test-taking motivation KW - Low-stakes tests KW - Large-scale assessments KW - Expectancy-value theory KW - Growth modeling Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11092-016-9248-7 SN - 1874-8597 SN - 1874-8600 VL - 29 SP - 55 EP - 79 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - GEN A1 - Penk, Christiane A1 - Richter, Dirk T1 - Erratum to: Penk, Christiane, Richter, Dirk: Change in test-taking motivation and its relationship to test performance in low-stakes assessments. - (Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability. - 29 (2017), S. 55 – 79. - doi.org/10.1007/s11092-016-9248-7) T2 - Educational assessment, evaluation and accountability Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11092-016-9249-6 SN - 1874-8597 SN - 1874-8600 VL - 29 SP - 81 EP - 82 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rjosk, Camilla A1 - Richter, Dirk A1 - Luedtke, Oliver A1 - Eccles, Jacquelynne Sue T1 - Ethnic Composition and Heterogeneity in the Classroom: Their Measurement and Relationship With Student Outcomes JF - The journal of educational psychology N2 - This study explores various measures of the ethnic makeup in a classroom and their relationship with student outcomes. We examine whether measures of ethnic diversity are related to achievement (mathematics, reading) and feeling of belonging with one’s peers over and above commonly investigated composition characteristics. Multilevel analyses were based on data from a representative sample of 18,762 elementary school students in 903 classrooms. The proportion of minority students and diversity measures showed negative associations with student outcomes in separate models. Including diversity measures and the proportion of minority students, diversity of minority students mostly lost its significance. However, the results suggest that diversity measures may provide additional information over and above other classroom characteristics for some student outcomes. The various measures of diversity led to comparable results. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) KW - ethnic composition KW - diversity KW - multilevel analysis KW - academic achievement KW - classroom Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000185 SN - 0022-0663 SN - 1939-2176 VL - 109 SP - 1188 EP - 1204 PB - American Psychological Association CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wurster, Sebastian A1 - Richter, Dirk A1 - Lenski, Anna Eva T1 - Teachers' use of evaluation data to improve instruction and its relationship to student achievement JF - Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft N2 - In Deutschland stehen Lehrkräften mit Ergebnissen aus Vergleichsarbeiten, zentralen Abschlussprüfungen und internen Evaluationen verschiedene Informationen zur Verfügung. Diese Daten können von ihnen dazu verwendet werden, den eigenen Unterricht zu reflektieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Die Studie geht auf Basis des IQB-Ländervergleichs 2012 den Fragen nach, ob und welche Daten von Lehrkräften zur Unterrichtsentwicklung herangezogen werden und ob datenbasierte Unterrichtsentwicklung mit Schülerleistung zusammenhängt. Die Betrachtung mehrerer Evaluationsverfahren ermöglicht eine kontrastierende Analyse und die Untersuchung einer gemeinsamen Verwendung mehrerer Informationsquellen. Die überwiegende Mehrheit der befragten Lehrkräfte berichtet, Evaluationsergebnisse als Ausgangspunkt zur Unterrichtsentwicklung zu verwenden. Allerdings zeigt sich Heterogenität zwischen einzelnen Unterrichtsentwicklungsaktivitäten und Lehrkräften. Zur Initiierung einzelner Entwicklungsaktivitäten werden auch mehrere Datenquellen simultan herangezogen. Ein direkter signifikanter Zusammenhang zwischen datenbasierter Unterrichtsentwicklung und Schülerleistung kann nicht festgestellt werden. (DIPF/Orig.). KW - Centralized examinations KW - Data-based decision making KW - Self-evaluation KW - State-wide comparison tests Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-017-0759-x SN - 1434-663X SN - 1862-5215 VL - 20 SP - 628 EP - 650 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lenski, Anna Eva A1 - Richter, Dirk A1 - Lüdtke, Oliver T1 - Using the theory of planned behavior to predict teachers’ likelihood of taking a competency-based approach to instruction JF - European Journal of Psychology of Education N2 - Quality of mathematics education has gained significant attention in educational politics and among educators as mathematics advances the foundations of analytical thinking necessary to excel in today’s knowledge-based economy. Recent research on instructional quality has focused on students’ development of competencies. Competency-based instruction is believed to be an effective approach to instruction as it is closely aligned to educational standards. We use data from the National Assessment Study 2012 in Germany and apply the theory of planned behavior to determine what motivates mathematics teachers (n = 1660) to take a competency-based approach to instruction. Results indicate that competencies outlined in the educational standards are a tangible element of current mathematics instruction. Within the framework of this study, we identified teachers’ perceived behavior control as the strongest determinant of taking a competency-based approach to instruction. We conclude that advancement of competency-based instruction depends on teachers’ beliefs about their professional resources. KW - Instructional quality KW - Educational standards KW - Mathematics instruction KW - Large-scale assessment KW - Theory of planned behavior Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-017-0356-7 SN - 0256-2928 SN - 1878-5174 VL - 34 IS - 1 SP - 169 EP - 186 PB - Springer CY - New York ER -