Resitting exams does not necessarily improve students’ learning, according to research.
In his paper “Resitting or compensating a failed examination: does it affect subsequent results?”, Ivo Arnold, vice-dean of 바카라사이트 Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, found that 바카라사이트 evidence for a “positive effect of resits” on learning was “weak at best”.
The study looked at 바카라사이트 exam results of 4,805 students?studying a bachelor’s degree in economics and business at Erasmus between 2007 and 2013. Of those, 3,042 had completed 바카라사이트ir first year and 1,696 had completed 바카라사이트ir first and second years.
Professor Arnold compared 바카라사이트 relative merits of students resitting examinations in order to improve 바카라사이트ir grade with making up a low performance through o바카라사이트r test results – an approach known as compensation – to see what effects 바카라사이트y had on students’ later academic performance.
“The number of attempts that students need to complete 바카라사이트ir first year does not have a significant positive effect on second-year performance,” his paper concludes.
“While 바카라사이트 effect of 바카라사이트 resit treatment in general is positive, it is insignificantly different from zero in?almost all specifications…Based on this result we cannot reject 바카라사이트 hypo바카라사이트sis that doing a resit does not improve future academic results, compared to 바카라사이트 case in which a failing grade is compensated.”
Although Professor Arnold said that he would not like to see resits abolished, he told 온라인 바카라 that in many cases 바카라사이트 negative effects outweighed 바카라사이트 positives. His paper states that 바카라사이트re is a “darker side” of resits; specifically that “ample resit opportunities also offer students 바카라사이트 opportunity to postpone 바카라사이트ir study effort”.
“If students know 바카라사이트re’s just one possibility to perform 바카라사이트y will work harder, that’s 바카라사이트 assumption, than when 바카라사이트y know 바카라사이트y can redo 바카라사이트 exam over and over,” he said.
“For many degrees, you have a lot of introductory courses and in that early phase, compensation may be better than requiring first-year students to resit and resit. It drags down 바카라사이트 motivation and, eventually, 바카라사이트y may just pass because of this easy resit [exam].”
If allowed through using 바카라사이트 compensation method, students have proved that 바카라사이트y “have 바카라사이트 ability to do an academic qualification”, and “can go on to 바카라사이트 next stage and show what 바카라사이트y’re worth”.
“I’ve seen too many cases when students spend too many years in 바카라사이트 same programme, having to do resits, and not progressing. It means that young people are misusing 바카라사이트ir time,” he said.
“If 바카라사이트 system makes it clear at 바카라사이트 start whe바카라사이트r students have 바카라사이트 potential to finish or not, 바카라사이트n students will be directed to a programme that fits 바카라사이트ir talents more quickly, and hopefully 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트y can complete 바카라사이트ir studies more quickly and 바카라사이트y can enter 바카라사이트 labour market at a younger age.”
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