The Impacts of not having tests on Teachers and Students: More Influential Factors Mediating Washback Being Processed than Teachers?

Abstract

possible way, which might be either positive or negative, i.e. washback. Meanwhile, they are considered to have mainly negative impacts. Teachers teach to the tests by only focusing what is to be assessed; students do not allocate their time and effort to studying materials other than what will be on tests; a great deal of resource in the society will be invested solely to things related to tests. Granting it to be true, tests keeps motivating test-takers to upgrade knowledge and talent, giving opportunities to get a level playing fields for stakeholders. What if there were no testing? With respect to teachers, if it were not for testing, in what way would teachers be impacted in terms of classroom behaviors and their materials for class? Would there be any particular aspects of language that teachers were likely to put into action? Would they actually integrate them into their classroom activities? Then would not testing also have positive or negative impacts on students? If students stay motivated to keep pursuing their goal even in the absence of testing, what would be the factor preventing them from being deviated off course? Even though it seems that it is personal factors like teachers that are associated with negative washback, would there be any other factor other than that? Future research may try to investigate other phenomena that might take place but for testing: if testing were to be excluded, then would test-takers less likely depend on memorization?