{"id":56281,"date":"2019-02-21T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=56281"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:52","slug":"volante-and-deluca-reduce-childrens-test-anxiety-with-these-tips-and-a-re-think-of-what-testing-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/02\/volante-and-deluca-reduce-childrens-test-anxiety-with-these-tips-and-a-re-think-of-what-testing-means\/","title":{"rendered":"VOLANTE AND DELUCA: Reduce children\u2019s test anxiety with these tips \u2014 and a re-think of what testing means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Volante, Professor in Brock\u2019s Faculty of Education, co-wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/reduce-childrens-test-anxiety-with-these-tips-and-a-re-think-of-what-testing-means-111730?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2015%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2015%202019+CID_b2df16095d30f57d58812850caaec324&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Reduce%20childrens%20test%20anxiety%20with%20these%20tips%20%20and%20a%20re-think%20of%20what%20testing%20means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in <em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> about confronting and minimizing the effects of testing on young students\u2019 anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>The piece was co-written with Christopher DeLuca, Associate Professor in Classroom Assessment in the Faculty of Education at Queen\u2019s University.<\/p>\n<p>Volante and DeLuca write:<\/p>\n<p><em>The term \u201ctest anxiety\u201d typically conjures up images of a high school or university student obsessing over an upcoming exam.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Certainly, older students have been the focus of more than a half a century of research examining test and assessment anxiety and its impact on grades. Researchers know that such test anxiety generally has\u00a0a negative impact on academic achievement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yet we also know schools and parents are recognizing\u00a0anxiety in younger children. Researchers have probed how, in particular, a rise in test anxiety in schools\u00a0corresponds to an increase in the use of standardized testing\u00a0increasingly mandated for accountability and evaluation purposes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Coupled\u00a0with growing awareness of responding to mental health challenges in schools, educators and policy-makers need to understand how to confront and minimize the effects of testing on students\u2019 anxiety.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the big picture, current assessment methods must adapt to reflect contemporary knowledge of both children\u2019s diverse cultural contexts and a more nuanced understanding of developmental competencies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/reduce-childrens-test-anxiety-with-these-tips-and-a-re-think-of-what-testing-means-111730?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2015%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20February%2015%202019+CID_b2df16095d30f57d58812850caaec324&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Reduce%20childrens%20test%20anxiety%20with%20these%20tips%20%20and%20a%20re-think%20of%20what%20testing%20means\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Volante, Professor in Brock\u2019s Faculty of Education, co-wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about confronting and minimizing the effects of testing on young students\u2019 anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,7,6],"tags":[2592,3028,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56282,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56281\/revisions\/56282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}