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Article: Test anxiety in students.(FOCUS ON EDUCATION)
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- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Test taking is an unavoidable fact of life for the American school system. Students are routinely tested throughout course curricula. Their test scores then become the basis for a number of important educational decisions. Will the student be promoted? Graduate? Will the school be funded?
The United States is reeling from a steady decline in standardized test scores of the nation's elementary school students. More and more pressure is being applied to the national school system to document its success, with the net result being that standardized tests have become the end, rather than means to an end, in America's elementary and high schools. So it's no surprise ...
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Article: How to be a great test taker; three simple words can help you ...
Career World, a Weekly Reader publication;
September 1, 2002 ;
700+ words
... ... re also important. "Our society places an emphasis on test scores," says Maureen D. Gillette, associate dean of the College ... judgments about them, whether accurate or not, based on test scores." Talk about pressure! With so much depending on the results ...
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