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ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2016

Red vs. green: Does the exam booklet color matter in higher education summative evaluations? Not likely.

Winfred Arthur, Inchul Cho, Gonzalo J Muñoz

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Article in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Winfred ArthurDepartment of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. w-arthur@tamu.edu.
Inchul ChoDepartment of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Gonzalo J MuñozDepartment of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Texas A&M University · USAdolfo Ibáñez University · CL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examined the so-called "red effect" in the context of higher education summative exams under the premise that unlike the conditions or situations where this effect typically has been obtained, the totality of factors, such as higher motivation, familiarity with exam material, and more reliance on domain knowledge that characterize high-stakes testing such as those in operational educational settings, are likely to mitigate any color effects. Using three naturally occurring archival data sets in which students took exams on either red or green exam booklets, the results indicated that booklet color (red vs. green) did not affect exam performance. From a scientific perspective, the results suggest that color effects may be attenuated by factors that characterize high-stakes assessments, and from an applied perspective, they suggest that the choice of red vs. green exam booklets in higher education summative evaluations is likely not a concern.

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AchievementColor PerceptionEducation, ProfessionalEducational MeasurementFemaleHumansMaleStudentsUniversitiesYoung AdultEducational testingExam performanceGreenRedTest booklet color

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PMID26884268
OpenAlexW2286539401

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