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Download full textWilmore, Elaine L. – 1995
American schools face pressure to increase their students' test scores. Research reports have shown American students to be particularly stressed over test taking partially because of other outside interests in their lives that also take up time. This paper offers tips to help students relieve stress arising from the testing situation. Students…
Descriptors: High Schools, Scores, Test Anxiety, Test Wiseness
Peer reviewedBirenbaum, Menucha; Nasser, Fadia – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1994
Investigated relationships between test anxiety and test performance among 431 10th graders from 15 classes of 2 Arab high schools in Israel. Findings revealed two types of test-anxious students: those who lack test-taking skills and those who lack study skills. Findings suggest that deficit and interference models of test anxiety complement each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, High School Students, High Schools
Schenk, Lisa – 1998
Certain easy-to-teach and relatively low-risk counseling exercises and techniques have been found to be effective in reducing test anxiety. Test anxiety is considered a "normal developmental difficulty" and is generally encountered as an academic difficulty rather than a personal one. A brief, convenient psychoeducational group format is…
Descriptors: College Students, Counseling Techniques, Group Counseling, High School Students
Peer reviewedOrnstein, Allan C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1993
Students who are prepared for tests (possessing content knowledge, test-taking strategies, and effective study plans) perform better in test situations than unprepared or unskilled students. This article presents strategies teachers can use to help students develop test-taking skills and discusses differences between the Scholastic Aptitude Test…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Entrance Examinations, Guidelines, High Schools
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1992
This guide is designed as a resource for (1) Oklahoma teachers, counselors, and parents, to help them help their students prepare for the ACT assessment; and (2) students, to help dispel some common myths and misunderstandings as they prepare for the test. Section A, for administrators, teachers, counselors, Indian program staffs, and…
Descriptors: American Indians, College Entrance Examinations, Counselors, High Schools
Shipman-Campbell, Alice – 1994
A practicum was developed to increase the number and success rate of junior Honors English students--63 students who were 62% Latino and 38% African-American--taking the English Advanced Placement (AP) examinations. Test strategies that were designed to allay students' innate fears about tests in general and specifically about English language and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement, Early Intervention, English Instruction
