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Test-Wiseness Training: An Investigation of the Impact of Test-Wiseness in an Employment Setting
| Title: | Test-Wiseness Training: An Investigation of the Impact of Test-Wiseness in an Employment Setting |
| Author: | Houston, Susan Elizabeth |
| Description: | The current study examined ethnic group differences in test-wiseness and the extent to which test-wiseness training may eliminate these differences in a sample of 87 firefighters from three different metropolitan areas. As part of a larger eight hour training program on assessment centers, subjects were given two measures to assess their level of test-wiseness (learning and behavior pretests). Subjects were then instructed on test-wise strategies involving item construction. Following this training, subjects were given a measure to assess their reactions to the training program as well as two post-test measures (learning and behavior). The current research revealed that there were no significant differences between whites and African Americans on the pre-test Learning measure and the pre-test Behavior measure. While overall, training had a positive impact on subjects’ abilities to identify the test-wiseness cues on the Learning measure with subjects showing a significant improvement, subjects showed only marginal improvements on the Behavior measure. In addition, rather than diminishing group differences, test-wiseness training appeared to have no significant race by training effect on the Learning measure and appeared to exacerbate the differences between whites and African Americans on the Behavior measure. |
| Permanent Link: |
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1131730666
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/3743 |
| Date: | 2005 |
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