1st Edition
Supporting Children and Young People with Test Anxiety in School How to Improve Wellbeing and Give Back Control
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter overviews
Chapter 1 What is Test Anxiety?
Chapter 2 Fear Appeals
Chapter 3 Using Desirable Difficulties to Give Back Control
Chapter 4 Self-efficacy in Test Taking
Chapter 5 Intervening in Test Anxiety
Chapter 6 Intervention - Giving Back Control – Reducing Test Anxiety – How To Do It
Chapter 7 Learning and Metacognition
Chapter 8 The Dream for Education. On the Soapbox
Chapter 9 School Development Plan to Give Students Back Control for Taking Exams
Chapter 10 In Conclusion
Appendix A
Index
Biography
Helen Barsham has extensive experience working as a head teacher in both primary and secondary settings. She recently completed a Doctorate of Education at the University of Cambridge, which explored pupil wellbeing, metacognition and desirable difficulties, using the ‘testing effect’ to reduce test anxiety.
