Sentences with phrase «anxiety about standardized tests»
At one of the most socially difficult times of their lives, over a third of our children have more anxiety about standardized tests than any other issue.
http://hechingerreport.org/ Not exact matches
(And while I'm sure we could talk ad nauseum about the ways that standardized tests provoke anxiety and fear, I will leave that conversation for a different post.)
This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).
«There were various anecdotal reasons why students refused the test, ranging from test anxiety to concerns about this specific standardized assessment,» she said.
U.S. Schools Are Too Focused on Standardized Tests, Poll Says Washington Post, 8/23/15» «Clearly, there is anxiety about what's happening in teaching and learning,» said Andres Alonso, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former chief executive of Baltimore City Public Schools.»
This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).