Test anxiety happens to almost everyone, this articles teaches how testing strategies can help students reduce anxiety and shows a study “conducted on students of a university” to test different testing strategies. Strategies comes from the Greek word “strategia” that means a function of a general or a plan. The articles describe eight steps that has been develop to be conducted to such students to overcome or reduce test anxiety. Students that used testing strategies did better than those that did not. These strategies have been broken down into four main sections: “Before-test”, “Time management”, “During-test”, and “After-test.” Test anxiety can really effect college students’ scores in a test, especially an important test such as the SAT
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Testing strategies can help us more than we think, they are two instruments that were essential for this experiment. The first instrument is the “attitude” that is being taken when taking a test. For example, there is two students in a classroom one of them has a positive attitude and the other does not. Which one do you think will be more successful? Of course the one that has a positive attitude, because he or she would be more focused and practicing the strategies that has been taught. The second instrument is called the TAI also known as “Test Anxiety Inventory”. This tool was created by Spielberger in 1980 according to the article, the purpose of this creation was to estimate how high or how low the level of testing anxiety is. Using the tool helps students know where they are at in their anxiety, and see what steps are necessary to reduce it. This information encourages college students to use strategies that can not only reduce anxiety levels, but also succeed. Before taking a test, rest well the day before and eat a good breakfast. During the test, read all questions carefully and never leave a question blank. Measure your time wisely do not take twenty minutes on a question, if you are stuck on one move on and comeback to it later. After the test, go over your notes and see which question on the test you think you might have answered
Testing strategies can help us more than we think, they are two instruments that were essential for this experiment. The first instrument is the “attitude” that is being taken when taking a test. For example, there is two students in a classroom one of them has a positive attitude and the other does not. Which one do you think will be more successful? Of course the one that has a positive attitude, because he or she would be more focused and practicing the strategies that has been taught. The second instrument is called the TAI also known as “Test Anxiety Inventory”. This tool was created by Spielberger in 1980 according to the article, the purpose of this creation was to estimate how high or how low the level of testing anxiety is. Using the tool helps students know where they are at in their anxiety, and see what steps are necessary to reduce it. This information encourages college students to use strategies that can not only reduce anxiety levels, but also succeed. Before taking a test, rest well the day before and eat a good breakfast. During the test, read all questions carefully and never leave a question blank. Measure your time wisely do not take twenty minutes on a question, if you are stuck on one move on and comeback to it later. After the test, go over your notes and see which question on the test you think you might have answered