To help address test anxiety, researchers recommend setting aside a little time for simple writing or self-talk exercises before the test—they allow students to shore up their confidence, recall their test-taking strategies, and put the exam into perspective.
How to Design Better Tests, Based on the Research | Edutopia - 0 views
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Students who study moderately should get roughly 70 to 80 percent of the questions correct.
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Don’t start a test with challenging questions; let students ease into a test. Asking difficult questions to probe for deep knowledge is important, but remember that confidence and mindset can dramatically affect outcomes—and therefore muddy the waters of your assessment.
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Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion by Wendy Suzuki |E... - 0 views
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while we all experience anxiety, we seldom take the time to engage the emotion and give it the respect it deserves. Ignoring anxiety does not make it go away; it compounds until we fight, flee, or freeze – are we attending to these adaptive responses that tell us something is wrong? Even a persistent low level of anxiety has deleterious effects on our body and mind. If we do not respect anxiety, we virtually guarantee that we will not be performing at our best which can further drive rumination and further deleterious anxiety.
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helps us see anxiety as a biological system that has evolved for our protection but is flexibly under our influence. Bringing together an array of up-to-date research, she integrates the neuropsychology of both top-down and bottom-up processes into a set of practices that allow us to take advantage of the neuroplasticity of the system: relaxing the body, calming the mind, redirecting and reappraising, monitoring responses, and learning to tolerate the uncomfortable.
Improving Multiple-Choice Questions: A Thought-Provoking Pause |Education & Teacher Con... - 0 views
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well-designed MCQs could offer us the good stuff (“simplicty”) without the bad stuff (“merely surface learning”)
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prompt students to think
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make the alternative answers plausible
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