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Item Washback Effect in Terminal Examinations(Central department of English Education, 2012) Joshi, Pryag RajThe thesis entitled Washback effect in terminal examinations is an attempt of the researcher to find out the washback effect of terminal as well as of the final examination. It further aims at analyzing the result sheets of public and private schools. It is an inevitable that washback is an inherent quality of an examination. Washback, either positively or negatively, it must leave its flavor inside and outside the classroom. Certain type of examination effect is there in the mind of students, teachers as well as the parents. It influences the whole societal scenario. Here within the periphery of classroom, there are various types of test, where terminal examination is one of them, what is its impact on students is the case. To meet the objective of the research, eighty students from two schools i.e. forty from Public and forty from private and twelve teachers from different public and private schools were selected and took their responses with the help of questionnaire. Similarly, marks obtained by the students in different examination were also being taken for the purpose. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted. The major findings of this study showed that there was almost all positive effect of terminal examination upon the students of private schools in comparison to the students of public schools. Teachers of private schools were more satisfied with the achievement of their students whereas the teachers of public schools were not satisfied with the achievements or progress of their students. I have divided this thesis into four chapters: Introduction, Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation, and Findings and Recommendations. The first chapter deals with the general background, review of literature, objectives and the significance of the study. The second chapter contains the methodology which is sub-divided as the sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and the limitations of the study. The third chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of the obtained data from the field. The last or the fourth chapter comprises the findings and recommendations for pedagogical implications.Item Washback Effect of Examination: A Case of Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking(Department of English Education, 2011) Bastola, ChiranjibiThe present study entitled “Washback Effect of Examinations: A Case of Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking” was carried out to investigate the washback effect of exam. The course ‘Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking’ is one of the courses prescribed for B.Ed. 1st year majoring English. In order to collect the data, both the primary and secondary sources were used. For this process, I selected fifty students of B.Ed. 2nd year majoring English and ten teachers teaching the course in five different education campuses of the Kathmandu Valley. Moreover, the questions asked in the previous examinations (2066 and 2067) were collected and analyzed on the basis of the specified objectives in the course and finally, thirty classes were observed. Questionnaires were distributed to the selected students and teachers. After collecting the data and responses, they were analyzed and interpreted and then recommendations were put on the basis of the findings. The major findings of the study were: the teaching learning process was exam oriented, lecture method was widely used, previously asked questions encouraged the students to guess the future questions, teachers were not trained, instructional materials were not used in the classroom and evaluation system was not effective. The study is divided into four chapters. The first chapter consists of the background, quality of good test, introduction of the course, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted to carry out the research work. The third chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of the data. The last chapter includes the findings of the study and some important recommendations are made on the basis of the findings.