What is expected of our students on test day? by Allison Poindexter

Time is important

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Unfamiliar texts/information

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There's no time to stressS

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Stress is a factor

Vocabulary

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Content and academic

Subtle differences in question structrue

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Understanding "except," "most," "almost"

Capacity for sophisticated thinking

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Are high school students prepared for this level of rigor?

Boredom

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Endurance

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Endurance across the test

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Being able to get through multiple choice and into the essays

Getting through two tests in one day

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Use strategies

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Process of elimination, etc.

Consider what you know about the context of material

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Being slow and methodical isn't necessarily best practice for the test

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Sometimes our kids are smarter, better test takers than we are

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But we have a broader knowledge base

It's OK for our kids to be better than we are!

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Course is much more collaborative/interactive than instructive

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It is necessary that we be deliberate and methodical in our instruction

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Hard work makes a difference

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Don't emphasize "passing the test"

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Content builds upon content, synthesis of content

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Memory, application of content

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Real world applications

Reasoning skills

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Students must be able to interpret data

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Experiment driven

Know how to do science

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Be scientists

Format of questions

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"Easy" questions trips us up

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Don't expect linear question difficulty

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Kids need to be OK with moving past a question that they don't understand/know

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There are plenty of OCD/perfectionist kids who will struggle

Logistics of taking the test

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