PO066: Understanding and Managing Test Anxiety to Aid in Student Success

  • PMD: 3
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 8: Promoting Academic Success

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. recognize and describe the issues individuals who suffer from test anxiety face in school during assessments;
  2. understand the long-term effects test anxiety has on student achievement and success; and
  3. describe and implement evidence-based interventions to support students with test anxiety.

Description

Participants will be able to identify the physical, psychological, and academic consequences of test anxiety and identify effective interventions to help promote student success.

Presenter(s)

Nicole A. DiFoglio, Brick Township Public Schools
Heather L. Rickmers Tacovsky, Georgian Court University

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