The effects of reward structure on student evaluation in a CAI lesson
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THIS STUDY examined the effects of reward structures on the ability of students to evaluate the correctness of their responses to open-ended questions in a Computer-Based Instruction (CBI) lesson. Students’ ability to evaluate responses was influenced, to some extent, by their incentive to achieve. In most instances, the evaluations of expert evaluators and students were found to correspond. However, differences between evaluations occurred when students perceive their responses as correct and evaluators evaluate them as incorrect. It was also found that the order in which the assessment items were presented affected evaluation performance.
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computer-assisted instruction evaluation computer-based testing constructed responsesReferences
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