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Teaching Strategies That Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests
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Teaching Strategies That Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests
By Sandra K. Darling (Ph.D. '90)
Corwin Press, 2008

Improve student performance on high-stakes tests with research-proven practices for teaching to standards. Standardized tests are one of the leading measures of student achievement and educator accountability today, so it is important to give students the necessary skills to perform well on state exams and to align instructional practices with standards. This step-by-step manual outlines a straightforward, powerful model for infusing state standards and knowledge benchmarks into lesson plans and day-to-day assessments to boost overall achievement.

Grounded in the results of more than 30,000 studies, the best practices shared by the authors are linked specifically to the two types of knowledge—declarative and procedural—assessed on high-stakes tests and are ranked according to their effectiveness for each type.