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  1 - A Comparison of Highly Successful, Moderately Successful, and Unsuccessful Test-Takers’ Performance on EFL Reading Comprehension Test Regarding Test Taking Strategies Use
  Maryam Bahardoust Alireza Ahmadi
  Because of the crucial role of test taking strategies in the test taking process, this paper set out to investigate whether EFL test takers differ in using cognitive and metacognitive test taking strategies or not. In addition, the study aimed at finding how the test ta More

  Because of the crucial role of test taking strategies in the test taking process, this paper set out to investigate whether EFL test takers differ in using cognitive and metacognitive test taking strategies or not. In addition, the study aimed at finding how the test takers might differ in their performance on different aspects of reading comprehension test. To this end, 130 female EFL learners who ranged in age from 19-21 were selected based on their availability to participate in the study. These university students were majoring in different fields of study including architecture, electronics, computer science, and hotel management. A reading comprehension test, a questionnaire, and a retrospective interview were the main instruments used to collect the data. The strategies of guessing, prior knowledge, translating, note taking, and underlining, as cognitive strategies and planning, self-management, and monitoring as metacognitive strategies were focused in this study,. Analysis of the data indicated that there was not a significant difference between highly, moderately, and unsuccessful test takers in their use of cognitive and metacognitive test taking strategies. However, based on the results of this study, there was a significant difference in the performance of highly, moderately, and unsuccessful learners on different reading comprehension items. The highly successful test takers appeared to perform more effectively than the moderately and unsuccessful test takers in responding to the reading comprehension items including main idea, factual information, vocabulary, and reference Manuscript profile
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  2 - The effectiveness of using offline electronic tests on test anxiety and test performance of elementary sixth grade boy students
  Milad Aghveranluei Skandar Alijani Alijanvand
  The present study aimed to the effectiveness of using offline electronic tests on test anxiety and test performance of elementary sixth grade boy students. This study is based on the objectives and hypotheses of the type of between-group experimental design with pre-tes More

  The present study aimed to the effectiveness of using offline electronic tests on test anxiety and test performance of elementary sixth grade boy students. This study is based on the objectives and hypotheses of the type of between-group experimental design with pre-test and post-test along with the control group and according to the method of data collection, it is a quasi-experiment type. The statistical population of this study is all boy students of the sixth grade elementary school in Tehran province who were studying in the academic year 2018-2019. Using a targeted sampling method, a school in Malard city was selected as the sample and 40 people were divided into two experimental and control groups. To collect the required data, test anxiety questionnaire and researcher-made test performance test were used. The validity of the researcher-made test was confirmed by experts' opinions and it reliability was calculated as 0.76 by Kuder Richardson 21 method. The results of ANCOVA and MANCOVA showed that the level of significance was less than 0.05 (p <0.05). Thus, the statistical null hypothesis was rejected and it was found that there was a significant difference between the students in the experimental and control groups in the scores related to the test anxiety and test performance in the post-test. According to the results of this study, it can be concluded that the offline electronic tests on the variables of tests on test anxiety and test performance has been effective and have reduced test anxiety and increased test performance. Manuscript profile