by Amy Romney | Jul 17, 2023 | Testing In-Person, Testing Online
ONLINE TESTING VS. IN-PERSON TESTING: WHICH IS BEST? The COVID-19 outbreak created a new opportunity in the areas of education and testing. For the first time in modern memory, education and testing needed to take place outside the usual locations. Suddenly, students...
by Amy Romney | Jul 5, 2023 | Candidate Health, Candidate Skills, Test Anxiety
AVOIDING PROCRASTINATION Techniques for Beating Procrastination Nearly everyone is guilty of procrastinating at some time in their life. Humans don’t like feeling uncomfortable, and we all have things that cause discomfort in our lives. Sometimes we’re good about...
by Amy Romney | Jun 15, 2023 | Candidate Health
A LITTLE FOOD FOR THOUGHT You Are What You Eat (And So Is Your Brain) We all know that eating well is good for your health, but did you also know that it’s good for your ability to learn and remember? According to research published in the Frontiers of Behavioral...
by Amy Romney | Jun 7, 2023 | Test Anxiety
TEST STRESS? GET A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP One important step for handling test anxiety is to be certain you get a good night’s sleep. While that might seem like a simple enough goal, achieving a good result takes a little investment of thought and time. To make sure...
by Amy Romney | Jun 1, 2023 | Candidate Skills
CAN SPACED REPETITION IMPROVE MEMORY? There are dozens of different study tricks, and all of them have some merit. Of course, they don’t all work the same way for different people. It’s important to know your particular learning style so you can find the study tricks...
by Amy Romney | May 23, 2023 | Candidate Skills, Test Anxiety
REDUCING TEST ANXIETY WITH A PENCIL (OR MAYBE A PEN) There are a lot of suggestions on how to reduce anxiety before an exam, but have you considered writing about it? Research sponsored by the journal Science and supported by the National Science Foundation suggests...
by Amy Romney | May 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
MEMORY AND RECALL – TRY SOME PEPPERMINT When it comes to memory and recall, there are dozens (or maybe hundreds) of clever tricks to help improve your ability to remember important information. There’s the old string-around-the-finger trick to help you remember to...
by Amy Romney | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Feeling Anxious for an Exam? You’re Normal! Not many people would admit to enjoying the process of taking a test. For most of us, test-taking is an uncomfortable process which we endure to achieve a goal. To some degree, almost everyone feels anxiety when it comes to...
by Amy Romney | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Certifications: A Quick History On a post about testing recently, a reader asked why so many fields require testing and certification. They wondered if it was just a way for governments to collect more money from people looking for a good job, or if there was some...
by Amy Romney | Apr 17, 2023 | Candidate Skills, Uncategorized
Practical Tips to Make Studying More Effective There are some easy methods to improve your study skills. If you’re like most people, you never took a class on how to study effectively in school. Many of us just had to figure it out on our own and do the best we...
