Mental Help: Test-Prep Products Promise To Boost Your Students' Scores, but Do They Really Deliver?.

Hardy, Lawrence

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Publication Date: 2001

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Mental Help: Test-Prep Products Promise To Boost Your Students' Scores, but Do They Really Deliver?

Hardy, Lawrence

American School Board Journal, v188 n1 p33-35 Jan 2001

SkillsTutor and its competitors (including dot.com companies) are tapping a potentially lucrative market--kids wanting academic coaching to improve test scores. Some experts worry that test-prep could overemphasize skill-building materials or usurp broader-based, critical-thinking classroom activities. The jury is still out. (MLH)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness, Scores, Skill Development, Test Coaching, Test Wiseness, Tutors

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Language: English

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