Brookline Books/Lumen Editions

Teaching Test Taking Skills 

Helping Students Show What They Know

by Margo Mastropieri, & Thomas Scruggs 

Test-wise individuals often score higher than others of equal ability who may not use test-taking skills effectively. They use their knowledge of specific test formats and testing situations to show what they know! This work teaches general concepts about the test format or other conditions of testing, not specific items on the test.

It makes scores more accurately reflect what students really know by making sure that students lose points only because they do not know the information. Teachers can focus on whether poor performance truly reflects students' low levels of knowledge or merely poor skills in applying what they know to tests.