Is Testing Practice Beneficial to Your Students?

Educators, at this time in the year, you and your students are most likely tired of preparing for testing.  If you work in an under performing school, you are certain to have spent much time teaching your students test taking strategies and having them practice test taking formats.  All the while as teachers, we feel that we are “burning students out” on test taking and wonder if they will be so tired of test taking that they neglect to perform on the real state test.  A new study shows that test taking practice actually helps students learn.  The data from this test shows that the more often information is recalled from the memory, the easier it is to remember and thus improves learning.

If you would like to read more about this study, follow this link. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/10/15/sorry-kids-tests-help-learn/.