Preparation
Tips, encouragement, and practice for the big day
Preparing Your Child for the Test
The most important thing to remember about preparing your child for a test is to relax! Some homeschool parents feel that everything is riding on their evidence of progress, an most of the time, this isn’t the case. Below you’ll find resources to help you prepare your child.
Testing Tips
A list of tips for both the parent and the student to help you prepare for taking tests.
Administering Tests
Sharpen Your Child’s Testing Skills
Learn some simple tips to help your child do his best when testing.
Gearing Up for Assessments
Is there a parent anywhere that approaches assessment time without the slightest trepidation? This article by Janice Campbell will help homeschool parents put testing in a proper perspective and understand how to both prepare and interpret the results.
Test Preparation & Review
A website offering free online practice tests.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors offers free practice test, flashcards, and classroom assessment resource.
Evaluation Tools
Essential Learning Objectives Quick Assessment
Are you considering home education, but you’re not sure where to begin with curriculum? Or are you taking your child out of school because he’s struggling academically, and you don’t know what level curriculum to purchase? Perhaps your child is advanced in one subject, but you think he may be behind in another subject–how can you find out?
If you want to know where to start with the basic-skill subjects, Essential Learning Objectives Quick Assessment can give you the information you need to start homeschooling at your child’s level of success. Read a review of this evaluation tool here.
Test Preparation Materials
Achieving Peak Performance
Why wait until testing day to find out if you have covered the right stuff? If you’d like to know how your child may score on a standardized achievement test, Achieving Peak Performance is a great resource. It can help both you and your student be ready and confident on testing day! Read a review of this test-preparation resource.
Scoring High
Scoring High comes in a variety of versions designed specifically for different tests, including for the CAT, ITBS, and SAT.
SRA
250 Old Wilson Bridge Road, Suite 310
Worthington, OH 43085
mheonline.com/discipline/
Triangle Education Assessments
Apex, NC 27502
877-843-8837
TriangleEd
director@triangleed.com
Test for Success
Can use to prepare for any test; designed to teach testing strategies and reasoning skills. Available for grades K-8.
Bob Jones University Press
Greenville, SC 29614
800-845-5731
Cost: $31
Triangle Education Assessments
Apex, NC 27502
877-843-8837
Cost: $30
Practice Tests
Previews or practice tests are also available for many tests. These tests, unlike other test preparation materials, focus mainly on introducing a particular test’s format rather than on general strategies/content. They are not complete tests, but rather provide samples of the type/format of questions on the test. Many places that sell the test will also sell a preview or practice test.
