Designed to help middle and high school teachers, as well as students new to the rigor of college,Studying and Learning in a High Stakes Worldincorporates test preparation into classrooms without asking teachers to teach to the test. Instead, it enables teachers to focus on course content while simultaneously providing high quality, scaffolded study strategies. Whether they are facing a high stakes exam, or merely preparing students for a chapter quiz, the strategies modeled in this book allow teachers to use tests as platforms for students learning.
This book is divided into three parts that address how to:

Get students organized and in the right frame of mind to study, learn, and take tests
Study for essay and objective tests
Answer essay and objective questions and take tests

Studying and Learning features close learning strategies, ESL Best Practices, and alignment to the Common Core State Standards in order to help teachers make tests work for them.

Rona F. Flippo has taught in public schools and worked extensively with teachers at all grade levels. She is Professor of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and is also on the International Reading Association Board of Directors 2012-2015.

Rachel Gaines, a former middle school English teacher, is a Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology at University of Texas Austin, where she also teaches writing at the business school. She has published research on middle school writing.

Kathrine Crane Rockwell has worked as a Sheltered English Immersion teacher and an ESL interventionist in elementary and middle schools. She has published assessments developed for ELL students.

Kelly Cook teaches high school English and serves as department chair in her district. Previously, she supervised the writing lab at Mass Bay Community College.

Donna Marco Meliais a middle school English/language arts teacher who has designed multiple curriculum units and assessments based on the Common Core State Standards.

Part I: Doing Better in Schools
Introduction
Chapter 1: How to avoid test panic
Chapter 2: How to develop a game plan

Part II: Preparing for all tests
Chapter 3: Strategies for test study
Chapter 4: Preparing for essay questions and tests
Chapter 5: Preparing for objective questions and tests

Part III: Taking Tests and Doing Better
Chapter 6: Getting it together on test day
Chapter 7: Taking the essay test
Chapter 8: Taking the objective test

Using Test Results to Inform Learning
Making Tests Work for Teachers

References
Appendix A: Answer to Test Prep Exercises
Appendix B: Reproducible Forms for Test Preparation and Study
Appendix C: Common Core State Standards Alignment toStudying and Learning (Table)
Appendix D: Glossary