My niece wants to opt-out ( from testing) her three ps kids.

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10. I've actually got a one hour presentation on recognizing and reducing test anxiety

that I've been giving to my own students for years, as well as distributing it during inservice workshops, and more recently, to another DUer who forwarded it on to her friend.

After I developed the first form of this 14 years ago, my own students' scored improved by 20%. I have a lifetime average of 98% of my students passing the various forms of exit tests (TEAMS, TAAS, TAKS), and I have found that recognizing and reducing anxiety is the best short strategy I've found.

Just my 2 cents, although looking over this post, it looks like I think it's a million ( )