Working with middle and high school students, this teacher witnessed a marked transformation in her students’ feelings and anxiety around taking tests by making one small change in how she approached ...

Tests are a high-stress situation for many students and professionals as grades, advancement, and sometimes jobs can be on the line. However, some people tend to perform poorly on tests despite ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - With testing season rapidly approaching across Virginia, many students are feeling the pressure. From SOL exams in K-12 classrooms to AP, SAT, and ACT exams for high school ...

In education circles, it’s popular to rail against testing, especially timed exams. Tests are stressful and not the best way to measure knowledge, wrote Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at ...

Many elementary teachers have math anxiety stemming from their own schooling, which can impact their students' math performance. Ohio colleges are working to better prepare future teachers by focusing ...

As a person with anxiety, I faced some significant obstacles early in my career as a teacher. I felt confident in my ability to impart information about content, but the act of managing a high school ...

Rates of anxiety have spiked among school-age children in recent years, and this chronic stress can hamstring students’ efforts to recover lost academic ground. As part of the Teacher Anxiety Program ...

The end of the semester can be a nightmare for college students who get stressed out by exams. Up to 40% of students experience some test anxiety, with about half of those students suffering extreme ...

As Virginia students prepare for the spring testing season, many families are understandably focused on study guides and practice tests. However, an invisible factor may play just as important a role ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. It’s wrong to assume that striving for perfectionism is inherently bad. It’s often healthy for artists, athletes, and many service ...