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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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In our current educational landscape, you have to either receive a traditional high school diploma or pass the General Educational Development exam to access most postsecondary schooling options, including trade schools and community colleges.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

Student are convinced they can’t learn what we’re teaching, worry they won’t do well on the tests, and become filled with anxiety over anything in a course that looks like it might be hard. The anxiety some students feel about a course grows out of fears associated with test-taking. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.