Abstract Although washback has been widely explored by applied linguists and education researchers, little attention paid to teacher agency in relation it. It is critical understand how language teachers navigate their pedagogy respond the broader curricular goals at a time when schools are being governed using examination test data as accountability mechanisms. Drawing on from classroom observ...

Examining the effect of high-stakes tests on learners’ perceptions has been one of the strands of washback-related research. The present study purported to investigate the washback effect of the English section of the Iranian National University Entrance Exam (henceforth INUEE) on the pre-university students’ perceptions about the high-stakes test. The participants of the study were 218 female ...

The effects of testing on students learning a foreign language have been the subject substantial investigation in related literature. In practice, majority teachers evaluate their through scheduled tests that they hold following semester's initial syllabuses. This qualitative study investigated importance washback effect (negative and positive) examinations Saudi EFL undergraduates at Majmaah U...

High-stakes testing is meant to create a positive washback effect on student learning. Performance funding can raise stakes. However, it not often used, and its uncertain. The purpose of this paper examine performance-funding programs based students’ exam results. We study principals’ perceptions interpretations how influenced stakes effects the exit exams. For that purpose, we selected four sc...

Washback research in language education aims to demonstrate, explain, and ultimately predict, the impact of tests on teaching learning educational contexts. A recent review international arena (Cheng et al., 2015) has revealed a rapidly growing field empirical washback research, yet only two studies were identified as occurring Japanese context. The present article therefore sought more fully d...

Testing holds an important place in the Iranian test-oriented context where the entrance examinations have serious educational and occupational outcomes. This study aimed to explore the potential washback effects of the General English Language Test of the Ph.D. (GELTP) as part of the Ph.D. University Entrance Examination (PUEE) on the humanities and science students’ perceptions and practices....

Ujian Tulis Berbasis Komputer (UTBK) is a high-stakes test for students. They strive to pass the and be accepted in their targeted institution. As one of subjects involved UTBK, English surely has influenced teaching & learning 12th-grade classrooms. This impact known as washback effect. While most studies investigate effect on whole subject, little about particular part test. Thus, this ca...