Help students banish back-to-school stress and outsmart test anxiety BEFORE it takes a toll on academic performance! A growing body of research shows that fairly simple interventions targeting attitudes and “ways of thinking” can lower students’ anxiety AND boost achievement levels.
High-stakes testing and endless performance situations can pile on the stress in ways that hamper learning and compromise a student’s working-memory capacity. (Mattarella-Micke, Mateo, Kozak, Foster, & Beilo