
Test-Specific Thinking
Teaching Students to Think the Way Tests Make Them (Help Students Better Prepare for Testing.)
Marzano Resources (Publisher)
Published on 26. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-943360-94-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Standardized testing is a widely adopted means of student assessment, but how test questions are structured, or "framed," raises concern about tests' true efficacy in measuring student achievement. Student success on tests subsequently requires intimate understanding of how test questions are designed. In Test-Specific Thinking: Teaching Students to Think the Way Tests Make Them, authors Robert J. Marzano, Bridget Cahill, Jeni Gotto, Brian J. Kosena, Michael J. Lynch, and Lucy Pearson critically examine common test questions from English and mathematics tests and identify common patterns or "frames" that cue certain skills and expected responses. With additional contributions by Cindy Davis, Lindsay Graham, Brenda Martin, and Claudette Trujillo, the authors provide recommended practices, methods, and means by which teachers may implement these structural schemas into their teaching, helping students better prepare for tests and formulate stronger responses to certain question frames. Armed with better understanding of how tests are designed, teachers will increase their students' chances of success with higher achievement scores and greater confidence when approaching and taking standardized exams"--
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Marzano Resources ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-943360-94-9 (9781943360949)
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Robert J. Marzano | Bridget Cahill | Jeni Gotto
Test-Specific Thinking
Teaching Students to Think the Way Tests Make Them (Help students better prepare for testing.)
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