The impact of tests in students’ perceptions and attitudes towards their learning task.

Abstract

This monograph explores the way the washback effect influences the students’ perceptions and attitudes towards their learning task, the participants are from an 11° in a public school in Bogota and the test they are going to be presenting is the standardized test Saber 11 °. This mixed method research is a case study in which the instruments to collect the data were, a survey, applied two times and field notes. The washback effect is discussed and the results are that the perceptions and attitudes did change when preparing the students for the test. The change in the material, the curriculum and the dynamics of the class, generated a change in terms of perceptions and attitudes towards assessment, autonomous learning and their learning task, subsequently, their behavior changed too, which finally reflected in their attitudes.