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

Arthur, Winfred; Cho, Inchul; Muñoz, Gonzalo

doi:10.3758/s13423-016-1009-6

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“…There are several reasons why an examination of the effect of colour of test in a booklet on exam performance in higher education summative evaluation is important. Colour stimuli may vary on lightness, hue and chromatography (Arthur, Cho and muñoz, 2016). In present study, most of the students i.e.,86% show increase in grades.…”

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A Survey on Use of Colour Pens in Examinations Among the Dental Students

Balamithra¹

2020

Biosci. Biotech. Res. Comm

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The aim of the study is to find the effectiveness of use of colour pens among the students. Colour pens used in examinations make it easier for the students and teachers to do their task. .Highlighting the important points makes the students to study and score marks easily as from a teacher's point of view it makes paper corrections easier. The use of colour pens in exams has been found to be excellent which makes the exam paper colourful and the exam paper looks neat. There are several methods in using colours in exams either for underlining or for writing the important points with colour pens. A survey is conducted among 100 students with 15 questions in google forms. The students attending the survey are from Saveetha Institutes of medicine and technical Sciences.results were entered in the excel sheet and analysed through SPSS statistical platform. From the results of our study, we conclude that the use of colour pens during an exam increases the grade of the student's performance. Eventhough is not statistically significant, in our study we found the females use colour pens in exams more efficiently than males. Also, the study proved that instead the use of colour pens consumed more time than usual, by practice the time can be adjusted sufficiently along with the colour pen use will increase the performance level in their exams.

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A Survey on Use of Colour Pens in Examinations Among the Dental Students

Balamithra¹

2020

Biosci. Biotech. Res. Comm

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“…The pattern of findings obtained was not clear-cut: Some studies have found that red (vs. blue or green) inhibits performance, whereas others show that it facilitates it (for a review, see Mehta & Zhu, 2009). Other studies did not observe any differences produced by color in performance (Arthur, Cho, & Muñoz, 2016;Larsson & von Stumm, 2015).…”

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The Impact of Stimuli Color in Lexical Decision and Semantic Word Categorization Tasks

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In two experiments, we examined the impact of color on cognitive performance by asking participants to categorize stimuli presented in three different colors: red, green, and gray (baseline). Participants were either asked to categorize the meaning of words as related to the concepts of “go” or “stop” (Experiment 1) or to indicate if a neutral verbal stimulus was a word or not (lexical decision task, Experiment 2). Overall, we observed performance facilitation in response to go stimuli presented in green (vs. red or gray) and performance inhibition in response to go stimuli presented in red. The opposite pattern was observed for stop‐related stimuli. Importantly, results also indicated that color might also be used to categorize neutral stimuli. Overall, these findings provide support to the green‐go and red‐stop color associations and test the potential functional autonomy acquired by these colors and the boundary conditions to their effects on stimuli categorization.

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“…As mentioned already, the particular context, the salience of the red stimulus, the uncertainty or ambiguity in the decision, and numerous other factors may determine whether a red effect can be detected. A growing number of researchers have failed to find effects in various contexts ( Allen & Jones, 2012 ; Arthur, Cho, & Muñoz, 2016 ; García-Rubio et al, 2011 ; Hesslinger, Goldbach, & Carbon, 2015 ; Larsson & von Stumm, 2015 ; Lynn, Giebelhausen, Garcia, Li, & Patumanon, 2013 ; Pollet & Peperkoorn, 2013 ; Smajic, Merritt, Banister, & Blinebry, 2014 ; Steele, 2014 ). As such, the current results might be the result of difficulties in generalizing to real-world contexts or situations where a variety of influences are present.…”

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The Red Power(less) Tie

Kramer

2016

Evol Psychol

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Research has demonstrated that wearing red can have significant effects on perceptions of the wearer. However, these findings are based on impressions formed while viewing static images. Here, I focus on perceptions of political leaders and show participants short videos in order to investigate color effects in stimuli with increased ecological validity. Viewers watched videos of politicians and made judgments regarding how dominant, how good a leader, and how believable the politicians appeared to be. The colors of the politicians' ties were digitally manipulated to be red or blue. Whether the politician was familiar (Study 1) or unfamiliar to viewers (Study 2), tie color had no effect on perceptions. Even when the sound was muted in order to increase the influence of visual cues (Study 3), I found no clothing color effect. Finally, when only presented with a static image (Study 4), wearing red still had no effect on judgments. These results suggest that, at least in a political setting, wearing red has no effect on perceptions. Therefore, real-world applications associated with red clothing may be limited.

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

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

A Survey on Use of Colour Pens in Examinations Among the Dental Students

A Survey on Use of Colour Pens in Examinations Among the Dental Students

The Impact of Stimuli Color in Lexical Decision and Semantic Word Categorization Tasks

The Red Power(less) Tie

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