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Put thinking to the test
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational tests and measurements--Study and teaching.
- Educational tests and measurements.
- Test-taking skills.
- Thought and thinking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Stenhouse Publishers 2008
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How can teachers use the comprehension strategies put forward in books like Strategies That Work and Mosaic of Thought to help students become not just better readers and thinkers but also better test takers?.
- Contents:
- Coming to know standardized tests: walking in our students' shoes
- Tests as a genre: what makes standardized tests unique
- Increasing student stamina: the role of workshop structures in becoming successful test takers
- Ask questions
- Create mental images
- Draw inferences
- Synthesize new learning and ideas
- Activate, utilize, and build background knowledge (schema)
- Determine the most important ideas and themes
- Monitor for meaning and problem-solve when meaning breaks down
- Q and A
- weaving thinking together with testing
- Integrity: it's all about being true to ourselves and our profession.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612771743
- 9781003843467
- 1003843468
- 9781032682143
- 1032682140
- 9781282771741
- 1282771744
- 9781571108784
- 1571108785
- OCLC:
- 1402818338
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