The Huffington Post – Rebecca Jackson
“A staggering 16-20% of students have high test anxiety, making it the most frequent academic impairment in our schools today Another 18% are troubled by moderately-high test anxiety. These students actually draw a “blank” or “freeze-up” during tests. Students with high anxiety perform around 12 percentile points below their low anxiety peers; regardless of how much effort and time they put into studying. Adults can mistakenly jump to the conclusion that the student didn’t really study, didn’t study efficiently (crammed), or that they were having a bad day. Kids often blame themselves, telling themselves that they just need to try harder or study longer. When students have test anxiety, they can study their heads off and it won’t help–too much studying can actually hinder their performance…The solution lies in their taking control of the test, not letting the test control them.”(more)