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The Effectiveness of Social-Emotional Learning Strategies and Mindful Breathing with Biofeedback on the Reduction of Adolescent Test Anxiety
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McLeod, Carolyn; Boyes, Mike – Canadian Journal of Education, 2021
Educational programs that incorporate social emotional-learning (SEL) strategies, study skills, and mindful breathing using biofeedback can help adolescents decrease worry and social stress, increase test preparedness self-efficacy, and improve academic performance due to lowered levels of test anxiety. The current study examined the efficacy of a…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning, Metacognition, Relaxation Training
Emotional Mastery and Performance Knowledge: A Dialogue between Education and the New Sciences. The Claremont Letter. Volume 1, Issue 3
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Arguelles, Lourdes; Daugherty, Alane – Claremont Graduate University (NJ1), 2006
It is well known among scholars and practitioners that stress and anxiety responses are genuine scientifically measurable reactions to a perceived stressor. It is also common knowledge that high levels of stress and anxiety have a multitude of negative psycho-physiological effects. These effects can contribute to the development of depression and…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Depression (Psychology), Stress Variables, Test Anxiety
Teaching Test-Taking Skills to Behaviorally Disordered Students.
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Scruggs, Thomas E.; Marsing, Lois – Behavioral Disorders, 1988
Seventeen behaviorally disordered adolescents received training in specific test-taking skills relevant to content area and teacher-made tests. The experimental subjects scored significantly and substantially higher on a posttest of test-taking skills than did untrained matched controls. Deficits on test-taking skills may contribute to observed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Junior High Schools
Practical Intelligence for School: Developing Metacognitive Sources of Achievement in Adolescence.
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Williams, Wendy M.; Blythe, Tina; White, Noel; Lin, Jin; Gardner, Howard; Sternberg, Robert J. – Developmental Review, 2002
Examined impact of intervention emphasizing metacognitive awareness to develop practical intelligence for school in middle school subjects. Found that program enhances practical and academic skills in reading, writing, homework, and test-taking in students from diverse SES backgrounds attending diverse types of schools. Evaluated results in terms…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Homework, Metacognition
Preparing Adolescents with High-Incidence Disabilities for High-Stakes Testing with Strategy Instruction
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Carter, Erik W.; Wehby, Joseph; Hughes, Carolyn; Johnson, Stephen M.; Plank, Don R.; Barton-Arwood, Sally M.; Lunsford, Lauren B. – Preventing School Failure, 2005
Recent policy initiatives promoting high-stakes testing for graduation present a significant challenge to practitioners charged with educating students with high-incidence disabilities. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of test-taking strategy instruction on the test performance of secondary students with high-incidence…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High Stakes Tests, Learning Disabilities, Educational Strategies
Instructional Support Academy. TEAMS Summer Academy, 1985-86. Final Report.
Houston Independent School District, TX. – 1986
A special 6-week program, designed to increase the scores of low achieving minority eighth-grade students on the ninth grade Texas Education Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) Test, was implemented in 1986 in the Houston Independent School District as "Summer Academies." The students, who voluntarily enrolled in the program, were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software