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Dealing with Test Anxiety

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Learn the signs and symptoms for test anxiety. Learn how to collaborate with teachers, administrators and school counselors to lessen the effects of test anxiety for your child. Learning to cope with test anxiety now, in a healthy manner, will positively affect your child's ability to take tests in the future as they move through their education to college and the professional world.

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Helping Your Child with Test-Taking

You can be a great help to your child if you will observe these do's and don'ts about tests and testing: Do talk ...

Source: U.S. Department of Education
Overcoming Test Anxiety

Does your child suffer from test anxiety? Here's what you need to know about preparing your child for test taking.

Source: American School Counselor Association
Test Anxiety: How to Help Students Overcome It

Anxiety is a basic human emotion consisting of fear and uncertainty that typically appears when an individual perceives ...

Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
Tips to Help Your Child Prepare for Testing

Parents and families can help to create a positive test-taking experience and help students prepare for tests. Here ...

Source: Exceptional Children's Assistance Center
Reducing Test Anxiety

"TEST ANXIETY" is worrying too much about doing well on a test. It can keep students from doing their best. ...

Source: Exceptional Children's Assistance Center
The Case Against Gold Stars

Reprinted from Parents.Call it the "gold-star syndrome." Sometimes we paste stars on a chart. At other times ...

Source: Alfie Kohn
Testing- Helping Your Child

Want to know how you can help your children do their best on tests at school? First, make sure they attend school every ...

Source: Utah Education Association
Raising Cheaters

Last week I visited a high school that has a really spectacular Honor Code. There are no locks on the doors, and all ...

Source: Greater Good Science Center Raising Happiness Blog
Dealing with Failure

Whoever said there is no such thing as failure has lost touch with the planet earth! Of course there is such a thing as ...

Source: Forefront Families
Why Tests Matter, and How They Can Help Your Child

Learning how to take tests is a skill in itself. Find out how students can benefit from test-taking skills.

Source: Education.com
How To Do Your Best On College Exams

Before, During, and After: By now you've probably taken more tests than you can shake a number 2 pencil at, from pop ...

Source: White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
The Do's and Don'ts of Studying In College

Your Cramming Days Are Over In college, you may be shocked by the workload you suddenly face. Read a whole book for the ...

Source: U.S. Department of Education