Test Preparation
Good instruction is the best test preparation!
This page includes a collection of resources to help prepare students for state [or standardized] testing.
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Research Suggests Test Preparation should be:
- intensive - directly before the test and should be only for short periods each day
- cooperative - teachers and students should work together to discuss and negotiate meaning, the teacher should model problem solving ideas and listen to the students ideas
- non-threatening - the mention of reward or punishment for test performance should never arise, this is not a competition but a chance for students to show what they know
- short - the longer students dwell on tests and preparation the poorer the performance according to most research, students burn out and by the time the tests are there they have seen too many
Read more: Standardized test as a Genre
Teaching Testing as a Genre
- Why Testing as a genre? If we think about the test as a sort of genre, bizarre though it is, we could teach kids how to negotiate it in much the same way that we teach them how to negotiate any other genre…
- A booklet designed to help teachers teach testing as a specific
genre. Testing as a Genre for Writing - Test Taking as a Genre by Nichole Rozakos
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Last updated: 07/21/2011