Coming to know standardized tests: walking in our students' shoes --; Tests as a genre: what makes standardized tests unique --; Increasing student stamina: the role of workshop structures in becoming successful test takers --; Ask questions --; Create mental images --; Draw inferences --; Synthesize new learning and ideas --; Activate, utilize, and build background knowledge (schema) --; Determine the most important ideas and themes --; Monitor for meaning and problem-solve when meaning breaks down --; Q and A--weaving thinking together with testing --; Integrity: it's all about being true to ourselves and our profession.
How can teachers use the comprehension strategies put forward in books like Strategies That Work and Mosaic of Thought to help students become not just better readers and thinkers but also better test takers? The four authors of Put Thinking to the Test have spent years pursuing that question and have developed a groundbreaking approach, as their colleague Ellin Keene writes in the foreword to the book: "I knew that Lori, Patrick, Cheryl and Missy met frequently to discuss professional issues and that they were working on a book related to testing. I had no idea, however, that their proposal.
Educational tests and measurements.
Test-taking skills -- Study and teaching.
Thought and thinking.
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Lori L. Conrad [and others]; foreword by Ellin Oliver Keene.