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The Princeton Review will train two AVID teachers as SAT Test Prep Instructors and will provide SAT preparation material for all enrolled students. The teachers will in turn enmesh the SAT strategies into the already rigorous AVID elective and SAT preparation class curriculum, teaching students strategies that will help them improve their SAT scores. Our research will focus quantitatively on the level of improvement each student makes as measured by full-length practice SATs and actual SATs, and qualitatively on how the instruction impacts students' overall level of test taking anxiety as measured by student and teacher surveys. AVID students at Asheville High School have often expressed that their test scores on standardized tests, teacher-made tests, and Scholastic Aptitude Tests do not accurately reflect their abilities. They are often nonplussed and frustrated about their test results, which only increases their level of test taking anxiety. Some resign themselves to the belief that they are just bad test-takers. This project seeks to undue this resignation by giving students the tools, practice, and strategies they need to translate their mastery of the content area into test mastery, beginning with the SAT and extending to teacher-made and standardized tests.
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//List each of your project goals here. At least one goal should relate to teacher learning and at least one goal should relate to student learning.// //Example goal: Fellows learn and implement at least 3 new classroom discipline strategies this year.// //Example goal: By the end of the year student discipline referrals in Fellow classrooms is at least 20% below the average referrals in his/her school.// 1. By the end of the school year 80% of the AVID juniors will take at least 3 full length Princeton Review SAT practice tests and 100% will take the SAT in March and/or May 2012. 2. At least 75% of the AVID juniors who participate in at least 3 practice tests will improve their composite practice SAT score (Critical Reading, Math and Writing combined) by at least 100 points as measured by the difference between their initial practice test score and their final practice SAT score as well as the actual SAT. 3. Fellow will design a rubric for grading SAT homework and holding students accountable for practicing Princeton Review techniques by October 21, 2011 and will adjust this rubric as needed throughout the school year with a net result of 90% of all AVID juniors completing all SAT homework on time and making a grade of 85% or better.
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