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Module 1082

High Stakes Testing: Increase Student Scores Year After Year

Tuition: $225 complete

What You'll Learn

Whether you are a fan of high stakes testing – or strongly opposed to it – there is no denying that high stakes tests can have a huge impact on students, teachers, and education policy. For students, these tests begin at an early age and follow them throughout their lives. For teachers, these tests may act as measures of success or even influence salary decisions. Regardless of your opinion, it is clear that student achievement on these tests is in everyone’s best interest. With special attention to state standards and focus on specific strategies, educators can increase the achievement scores of their classrooms and schools.

In this module, you will learn how to increase your classroom’s test scores and implement strategies that will impact students’ achievement scores year after year. You will discover:

• The main element of standardized testing
• The barriers to testing that many students face
• Strategies that will give students context to concepts so that they will not need to rely on memorization
• Techniques to collaborate with other teachers to increase student achievement

Highlights

Analyzing High Stakes Tests and Their Effect on Students

• Evaluate the elements of high states tests to find out exactly what students are being tested on
• Identify the specific testing barriers that are faced by English Language Learners and students from poverty
• Investigate state standards to prepare students for the right topics

Strategies to Prepare Students for High Stakes Testing

• Incorporate vocabulary matrices into your classroom lessons and activities
• Provide students with context to words so that they do not rely on memorization
• Incorporate graphic models into lessons to accommodate various learning styles

Preparing and Executing a High Stakes Testing Action Plan

• Identify specific standards to focus students on
• Create materials that allow students to go back and review
• Organize fellow teachers so that all lessons can become more impactful for students

Your Instructor

Dr. Donna Walker Tileston has served education as a leader in teaching, administration, research, writing, software development, and national consulting for the past thirty years. Her administrative responsibilities have included curriculum development, management, technology, finance, grants management, public relations, and drug abuse prevention programs. For the past fifteen years Dr. Tileston has been actively involved in brain research and the factors that inhibit learning or increase the brain’s ability to put information into long-term memory.

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