Online resources for standardized test preparation
Make your review classes more fun and interesting. Try these online tips and resources!
- College Board offers test preparation materials, tips for success, and other information related to several standardized tests in the US.
- Education Atlas: Study Skills Guide for Students is a resource for "developing effective study skills, improving reading comprehension, discovering one’s personal study style, learning to manage time more efficiently and learning the best way to prepare for exams."
- Family Education Network has sample questions by school level (elementary, high school) and get more tips for success.
- Glencoe Mathematics Online Study Tools contains self-check quizzes, chapter tests, standardized test prep questions, and vocabulary questions. Multiple-choice is included.
- HSTutorials.net has animated and step-by-step audio-visual tutorials in pre-algebra, algebra, and geometry and tutorials. These are mostly preparation for California's High School Exit Exam for math.
- Internet4Classrooms: Access activities on specific concepts within mathematics strands for grades 1-8 and an extensive list of standardized testing practice sites.
- Intervention Central provides intervention ideas in the areas of general academic strategies, reading, writing, math, behavior modification, studying and organization, classroom management, and making rewards work. The site is maintained by a school psychologist in New York.
- Kidtest.com helps students from kindergarten through college to do better on achievement tests. An online educational supplies store and online flashcards are offered.
- Math Counts Problem Solving Strategies lists eight strategies with an example of each. Math Counts is a well-recognized organization that provides contests for middle school students nationwide.
- Mathematics Tutorials is the online version of what a student might get from a tutor in a lab setting. It is a first-rate series of modules starting with basic mathematics through pre-calculus and calculus for business with slide shows, pdf files for printing content, and online exercises.
- Study Guides and Strategies contains several sections: study skills, preparing for tests, taking tests; improving research, project management, reading, writing, science, and math skills.
- That Quiz is recommended because of its practice tests (customized for student needs) with varying degrees of difficulty using integers, fractions, concepts (time, money, measurement, place value, graphs), geometry, algebra, calculus, probability, and more. Some are interactive and offer manipulatives (e.g., ruler, protractor).
Sources:
“Other Tips and Test Prep Materials.” Retrieved February 10, 2010 from
http://www.ct4me.net/standardized_test_preparation.htm
Phipps, Vicki. “Preparing your students for standardized tests fun.” Retrieved February 10, 2010 from
http://www.helium.com/items/967111-preparing-your-students-for-standardized-tests-fun
“Preparing Your Students for Standardized Tests.” Retrieved February 10, 2010 from
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3753188&print=1
(Published 01 March 2010, Smart Communications Inc.)
