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TestTalker
Tip: Tips for Test-Taking Strategies
In today's classrooms,
every teacher is quite familiar with the challenge of how to prepare
students for standardized testing.
Unfortunately,
assessment and high stakes testing will present insurmountable obstacles
to LD students due to productivity difficulties. These students
may well have mastered the targeted material, but are unable to
demonstrate that mastery via the traditional channels of writing
or speaking because of their significant difficulty planning and
monitoring their learning.
The following
tips focus on strategies you can practice with your students to
help them master standardized tests.
- Question
Formats in High-Stakes Tests
Familiarize students with many different question formats. Integrate
multiple choice, true/ false, and fill in the blanks into the
tests and quizzes you administer to your students. When they are
faced with these formats on standardized tests, they already will
be more comfortable with them.
- Practice
for High Stakes Tests
Help students learn from their mistakes. When practicing for standardized
tests with your students, be sure to review not only the right
answers to questions, but also the wrong answers. Explain or discuss
why each incorrect answer is wrong.
- Vocabulary
for High Stakes Tests
Write one new vocabulary word on the board each week to help build
critical vocabulary skills. Explain the word's meaning and usage,
and try to use it throughout the week. Motivate students to integrate
the new vocabulary into their repertoire by giving a bonus point
to any student who correctly uses the word throughout the week,
or by turning the word into an extra credit question on tests
or quizzes.
- Pacing
for High Stakes Tests
Emphasize the importance of pacing and time management during
standardized tests. Students should first answer the questions
that are easy for them. If they have extra time at the end, they
should check to make sure they have answered every question, and
reread/proofread.
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