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5 ways to help special education students manage testing anxiety

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It’s a common belief that testing anxiety affects only older students, such as those taking high school or college placement exams. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America , this anxiety can stem from a fear of failure, negative testing experiences, or feeling unprepared.

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Do Professors With a ‘Deficiency’ Mindset Prevent Community College Students From Earning Credit?

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Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. These days more four-year colleges are dropping their SAT and ACT requirements. It did not use demographic data. The algorithm worked.

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Five Keys to Motivating Students

Faculty Focus

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.

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Five Keys to Motivating Students

Faculty Focus

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.

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Looking for Post-PISA Answers? Here’s What Our Obsession With Test Scores Overlooks

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In the latest edition, 600,000 students in 79 education systems across the world took the two-hour PISA exam. On the PISA 2018 exam, the countries where the most students disagreed with that statement hail from Europe (led by Estonia, Denmark and Germany), with the U.S. In the U.S., that included 4,800 students from 215 schools.

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How Automated Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

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As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Motivating Students: Highlights from Minds Online

Faculty Focus

Although they don’t often call it self-efficacy, most teachers regularly see how beliefs about ability affect behavior. They see tests as being designed to measure how smart they are, and so those exams become “anxiety- provoking ordeals. If students believe effort will pay off, that motivates them to expend effort.