This is in response to Willingham Helping Students Know What They Know in the Washington Post's Answer Sheet column with guest columnist Daniel Willingham.
Test taking is a skill that can be developed -- especially if one focuses on thinking about their thinking processes (metacognition).
As a Math peak performance coach (and former engineer / MBA), I help students to know what they know and know what they don't...to know where the traps are and what could go wrong. Often students do know the material better than their test scores show -- points can be lost due to not reading/answering the questions carefully!!
Engineering school taught us this attention to detail --please click on this link to my mathconfidence blog:
http://mathconfidence.blogspot.com/search/label/metacognition
Robin Schwartz
Founder, www.mathconfidence.com
Author, Build Math Confidence monthly e-newsletter
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