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Berliner, David; Casanova, Ursula – Instructor, 1986
Research shows that most students who received test-wiseness training scored much higher than did students of equal ability who had no training. Familiarity with the test format, the test-taking situation, and the conventions of the test contribute to good performance. (MT)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Standardized Tests
Alabama Center for Higher Education, Birmingham. – 1984
This conference, whose theme was "The Testing Issue," addressed problems encountered with standardized testing in Alabama's historically black colleges and universities, and predominantly black high schools. It focused on immediate intervention strategies designed to provide access to high school diplomas, college, graduate and professional…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Black Education, Black Students
Murphy, Ellen Rae; Smith, Richard Alan – Computing Teacher, 1988
Describes summer school sessions developed by Houston schools to improve performance of academically at-risk eighth graders on the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS). Highlights include content area lessons in language arts and mathematics; study and test-taking skills; multimedia instructional materials; and student and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
