Educators find themselves weighing the goal of high student scores against broader educational needs, with student achievement hanging in the balance. Discusses the effects on increasing achievement, the ethics of providing test-taking skill instruction, and preparation for college admission tests. This Informed Educator addresses complex issues regarding test preparation in today's schools. It describes different types of test preparation, and highlights test preparation activities that researchers consider most appropriate and most effective. Finally, it presents examples of innovative ways that some schools and districts have structured their own test preparation programs.
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School districts may also purchase a camera-ready reproducible, which includes unlimited reproduction rights within the district. Phone and Web site orders accepted with purchase order number or Visa, MasterCard, or American Express. Or visit the ERS online catalog. Achieve, Inc. 2000. Berendt, Peter R., and Barry Koski.