When we teach our students test-taking strategies, we run the risk of inadvertently implying that it is possible to do well on a test by simply strategizing alone. This, of course, is not the case. No test-taking strategy can take the place of simply knowing the material, and it’s important that this be stated explicitly … Continue reading Standardized Test-Taking Tips & Strategies: Part IV – Secrets to Acing Tests
While many of the same strategies that students use to navigate other portions of standardized tests apply to math tests, there are a few additional methods with which they should be familiar. Math, after all, is an animal all its own and routinely requires students to solve a plethora of problems by applying a variety … Continue reading Standardized Test-Taking Tips & Strategies: Part III – Taking Standardized Math Tests
Every student in your class needs good test-taking skills, and almost all of them will need to be taught these skills. Even fluent readers and extremely logical students will fare better on standardized tests if they are taught a few simple skills for taking tests. Test-Taking Skills The ability to follow complicated and sometimes confusing … Continue reading Standardized Test-Taking Tips & Strategies: Part II – Test-Taking Skills
Standardized tests have not only been the subject of intense controversy among educators, but also the cause of much teeth-gnashing among students. And it’s understandable. If individuals are unique and learning styles and ways of understanding varied, how then can a standardized test accurately measure what a student knows? There is a story of a … Continue reading Standardized Test-Taking Tips & Strategies: Part I – Introduction