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Rozalski, Michael E. – Beyond Behavior, 2008
Generally, teachers are good students. Most know how to successfully address a variety of academic tasks demands. Many know how to compensate for any personal weaknesses they have with specific skills. Sometimes teachers are such good students that they forgot what it was like to struggle to learn something. Unfortunately, students with emotional…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Memory, Study Skills, Learning Strategies
Brown, John L.; Marzano, Robert J. – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2009
Implementing the action steps from ASCD's best-seller "The Art and Science of Teaching" is much easier when you use this in-depth resource for workshops, professional learning communities, teacher training, and self-help. Hundreds of samples, guidelines, checklists, and activities help teachers in all grades and subjects become instant experts on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Guides, Teaching Methods, Workshops
Wilmore, 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

Winder, Paul; And Others – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1975
This article presents a simple scale to detect faking good and faking bad responses on the 1967 16 Personality Factor, Form A. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: College Students, Personality Measures, Response Style (Tests), Responses
Lynch, Daniel O.; Smith, Billie Clifton – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1975
Counselors and teachers are sometimes asked for advice concerning the advisability of changing a response made to an objective test item. This article examines the current beliefs of students, the advice given in the 'how to' literature, and the effects of changed responses. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Objective Tests, Research Projects, Responses

Tracy, Russel L.; Fiske, Donald W. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1974
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Personality Measures, Response Style (Tests)
Phillips, Art – 1983
This pamphlet, prepared by the Southern Oregon Research and Development Committee (SORD), offers suggestions for students and teachers for improving the test-taking skills of primary school students. Seven suggestions for students to consider prior to taking tests cover such topics as studying, diet, exercise, and comfortable dress. Included in…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Pamphlets, Primary Education, Skill Development
Halpin, Gerald; And Others – 1987
A study involving 18 boys and 20 girls attending Grade 1 in a rural elementary school was conducted to determine if a program designed to develop test-taking skills would result in higher standardized achievement test scores than would one focusing on the content assessed by the test. Each student was assigned to one of two groups and administered…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Primary Education, Standardized Tests, Test Coaching
Scruggs, Thomas E.; Jenkins, Vesna – 1985
Research on test taking skills of LD (learning disabled) students is reviewed and implications for improving the skill are noted. Among findings considered are that separate answer sheets appear to inhibit the performance of LD students, LD students can benefit from training and demonstrate improved attitudes toward testing, and students should…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Teaching Methods
Kroger, Rolf O. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1974
This study proposes a social-psychological hypothesis of test faking which postulates that faking involves the enacting of a social role appropriate to the given testing situation. Subtle manipulations of the test-taking environment, designed to induce subjects to adopt given social roles, produced substantial role-specific changes in test scores.…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Role Perception, Social Psychology, Test Validity
Pedrini, D. T.; Gregory, Lura N.
The "Complementary Sheet" is applicable to Wechsler Scales: WBI, WBII, WISC, and WAIS. It consists of two sides of one sheet and has space for data collection of Picture Arrangement, Block Design, Object Assembly, and Digit Symbol or Coding. It lends itself well to an analysis of the means, not just the end result, of an examinee's…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Rating Scales, Response Style (Tests), Test Wiseness
Rudman, Masha K. – Learning, 1976
A few hints for teaching students the skills needed for taking standardized tests. (MM)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary Education, Standardized Tests, Test Wiseness

Cook, Donald H. – Contemporary Education, 1987
A 26-step plan is offered to help raise students' standardized test scores. (MT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Scores, Standardized Tests, Student Improvement

Masters, Geofferey N. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1988
High item discrimination can indicate a special kind of measurement disturbance via an item that gives high-ability persons a special advantage. The measurement disturbance is described, which occurs when an item is sensitive to individual differences on a second, undesired dimension that is correlated with the variable intended to be measured.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Item Analysis, Test Bias, Test Wiseness

Ramsey, Philip H.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1987
Reports on an evaluation of answer changing on multiple choice tests. States that any change a student is inclined to make, no matter how low the confidence, was found to lead to a significant gain. Concludes that students who change answers are likely to benefit despite the widely held belief that "first impressions are best." (GEA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Response Style (Tests), Test Wiseness