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Standardized Testing Skills

Strategies, Techniques, Activities To Help Raise Students’ Scores

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Standardized Testing Skills

Strategies, Techniques, Activities To Help Raise Students’ Scores

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The purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 was to “drive broad gains in student achievement and to hold states and schools more accountable.” As early as third grade, students are required to master the grade curriculum while also becoming proficient in test taking skills. These young children now experience the stress of having to “pass” the test in order to be promoted (a process continued through high school graduation.). Standardized Testing Skills provides the materials that prepare teachers, parents and students for this undertaking.

This book is organized into four sections:
Concepts: An introduction to and explanation of the state required tests, including how to access the student’s state test guidelines, including practice tests.Computation: A description of types of tests with emphasis on test vocabulary.Application: The heart of the book; includes practical and proven techniques, strategies, and activities that guide teachers and parents in teaching test taking skills. Includes material on recognizing the child’s learning style and dealing with test anxiety.STOP: A review with added tips and ideas.

Table of Contents

Part l: Concepts1. Test-Wiseness: What, When, Why, and How2. The State Criterion Referenced Testing of Students3. The Five Categories of Tests
Part ll: Computation
4. Construction of Test Items
5. Weekly Format and Sample Lesson Plans

Part III: Application
6. Techniques: The Anxiety Factor
7. Techniques: Format Familiarity
8. Styles of Learning
9. Following Directions
10. Guessing: Narrowing to Two Choices
11. Guessing: Judging Answers
12. Working Backward
13. Key Words
14. Selecting Multiple-Choice Answers
15. Pacing
16. Math: Key Words, Reading Signs, Estimating
17. Science and Social Studies
18. Maps. Graphs, Tables, Charts, and Diagrams
19. Comprehension
20. Sequence
21. Writing

Part IV: Stop
22. Everyone’s Role: teacher, Parent, Student
23. Wind Down and Wrap Up

Appendices
A Definitions of Testing Terms
B Web Sites of State Departments of Education
C Game Chart
D Suggested Weekly Lesson Plan
E Daily Lesson Plan
F Definitions of Test Directions

References
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Product details

Published Feb 02 2014
Format Hardback
Edition 2nd
Extent 136
ISBN 9781610489942
Imprint R&L Education
Illustrations 5 Tables
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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