What is it about?
This article is about the relations between value added assessment and student motivation. We demonstrate that when value-added assessment models are implemented carefully and appropriately, the information about student growth can be utilized to positively enhance students' academic motivation.
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Why is it important?
Testing and assessment often are focused solely on learning outcomes (i.e., test scores), and not on student development/progress over time. When students (and teachers) can see that learning is truly developing over time (for a particular student), students can be shown that they are progressing, and this can lead to enhanced motivation, rather than frustration.
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Students are all too often concerned with how their test scores compare to those of others; value-added assessments allow for the examination of growth over time. A focus on growth can be used by educators to enhance motivation by showing students that they are truly progressing in their learning.
Professor Eric Anderman
The Ohio State University
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This page is a summary of: Value-Added Models of Assessment: Implications for Motivation and Accountability, Educational Psychologist, April 2010, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00461521003703045.
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