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Consequences, Impact, and Washback

2013· other· en· W1524578401 on OpenAlex
Liying Cheng

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicStudent Assessment and Feedback
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhenomenonContext (archaeology)Test (biology)PsychologySet (abstract data type)Empirical researchScale (ratio)Mathematics educationPedagogyComputer scienceEpistemology

Abstract

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Within a set of relationships, large‐scale high stakes testing induces consequences for its stakeholders—intended and unintended, positive and negative—between testing, teaching, and learning. At the core of this phenomenon lies the (mis)use of test scores and of the values and stakes attached to a test in society and within the pedagogical context where a particular test exists. Washback and impact in applied linguistics refer to two levels: “impact”—the effects of tests on macro‐levels of education and society, and “washback”—the effects of tests on micro‐levels of classroom teaching and learning. Over the past two decades empirical research has established the relationship between testing and teaching; this period has seen an increasing number of studies on learning and learners, as well as on other stakeholders such as publishers, parents, and employers; and studies have increasingly focused on the importance of contextual factors in testing. The challenges for future research relate to the call for collecting validity evidence from multiple stakeholders by using multiple methods to understand this complex phenomenon.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.088
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0890.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.337 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Citations28
Published2013
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