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Download full textAbraham, Nisha; Telang, Nina Kamath – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2020
Exam reviews are a common offering within and across courses, often supported by departments, learning centers, and success centers. However, the majority of typical exam review formats follow the lecture or direct-teach format, with instructor-centered re-teaching or problem-solving as the mode of review. In lieu of this traditional and more…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Review (Reexamination), Test Coaching, Tests
Direct linkWhitlock, Kristin – Social Education, 2013
The Advanced Placement Psychology exam is one of the fastest growing exams offered by the College Board. The average percent of change in the number of students taking this exam over the past five years is 12.4%. With 238,962 students taking the exam in 2013, the AP Psychology exam is the sixth largest exam, surpassing AP Biology and AP World…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Psychology, College Students, Test Wiseness
Rocca, Francis X. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
One of the most striking developments in Italian higher education in recent years has been the growth of commercial tutoring schools, which help college students prepare for the oral examinations on which their grades are based. By far the largest of such schools, the European Center for University Preparation, known by its Italian abbreviation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tests, Graduates, Tutoring
Glenn, Robert E. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
Teachers can do something to help ensure students will do better on tests. They can actively teach test-taking skills so pupils will be better armed in the battle to acquire knowledge. The author challenges teachers to use the suggestions provided in this article in the classroom, and to share them with their students. Test-taking strategies will…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Test Wiseness, Tests, Test Coaching
Donaldson, Susan K. – 2001
This document describes a community college advisement program that was implemented to improve the student pass rate for the national nursing licensure examination. The nursing faculty at Manatee Community College (Florida) recently instituted an advisement system during the final semester of the two-year nursing program. First, students were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Nursing Education, Test Coaching
Peer reviewedNoah, Harold J.; Eckstein, Max A. – Oxford Review of Education, 1989
Reports on recent changes in examination policy and practice in China, England and Wales, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Japan, Sweden, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Identifies and discusses some significant trade-offs arising from the implementation of examination policy. Discusses four nearly universal dilemmas of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests
