SPOTLIGHT ON INTERVENTIONS

Welcome to Spotlight on Interventions!  Each month this site will offer practical interventions for parents and teachers to use to support learning for students.  The topic for the month of April is test taking.
Test Taking
The ultimate goal of teaching test-taking skills is to help students retrieve previous learned information and transfer this knowledge onto the test.  We often assume students understand how to take a test.  Children experience test anxiety for many reasons, such as, lack of test-taking strategies or even poor attention to detail.

There are many common causes of test anxiety.  Children have specific fears, like, the possibility of forgetting learned information, or even the possibility of disappointing the adults in their lives.  Unfamiliarity with the test format or layout may cause distress. Also, students experience distractions during the test taking process.  These distractions may include lack of a good night’s rest; being bombarded with random thoughts during the test session; environmental noise; or even long periods of sustained quiet.

Tests often arouse a multitude of emotions.  Children need to learn test-taking strategies to support their natural emotional responses.  We hope that the tips shared will encourage a stress-free testing experience.  Let’s celebrate the sharing of learned knowledge not fear or dread it.

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