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TestEdge Program
The TestEdge Program is designed to help elementary and high school students self-regulate their emotional and physiological responses to challenging and stressful situations, including school tests. The 12-week program, based on research on test anxiety, emotional anxiety, and social and emotional learning, is composed of 12-15 lessons, depending on the participants' grade level, which last about 20 minutes each and are taught twice weekly by a classroom teacher (although different schedules can be followed). The lessons provide students with a better understanding of stress, emotions, and the brain, including its function and how it interacts with the heart. Students learn how to strengthen their expression of positive emotions, neutralize negative attitudes, solve problems, use computer technologies in preparing for and taking tests, and apply coherence-building techniques (i.e., methods of self-regulating stress and anxiety through the use of positive emotion in shifting attention from the brain to the physical area of the heart) while taking tests.
In the study reviewed by NREPP, the TestEdge Program was used with 10th-grade students from two high schools.
Descriptive Information
Areas of Interest
Mental health promotion
Outcomes
Review Date: April 2012
1: Test anxiety
2: Negative affect
3: Emotional discord
4: Social interaction
5: Classroom engagement
Outcome Categories
Education
Mental health
Social functioning
Ages
13-17 (Adolescent)
Genders
Male
Female
Races/Ethnicities
American Indian or Alaska Native
Asian
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latino
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
White
Race/ethnicity unspecified
Settings
School
Geographic Locations
Suburban
Implementation History
Since its formal release in the fall of 2007, the TestEdge Program has been implemented with an estimated 10,000 students in more than 200 schools in 44 States. The program also has been
The TestEdge Program is designed to help elementary and high school students self-regulate their emotional and physiological responses to challenging and stressful situations, including school tests. The 12-week program, based on research on test anxiety, emotional anxiety, and social and emotional learning, is composed of 12-15 lessons, depending on the participants' grade level, which last about 20 minutes each and are taught twice weekly by a classroom teacher (although different schedules can be followed). The lessons provide students with a better understanding of stress, emotions, and the brain, including its function and how it interacts with the heart. Students learn how to strengthen their expression of positive emotions, neutralize negative attitudes, solve problems, use computer technologies in preparing for and taking tests, and apply coherence-building techniques (i.e., methods of self-regulating stress and anxiety through the use of positive emotion in shifting attention from the brain to the physical area of the heart) while taking tests.
In the study reviewed by NREPP, the TestEdge Program was used with 10th-grade students from two high schools.
Descriptive Information
Areas of Interest
Mental health promotion
Outcomes
Review Date: April 2012
1: Test anxiety
2: Negative affect
3: Emotional discord
4: Social interaction
5: Classroom engagement
Outcome Categories
Education
Mental health
Social functioning
Ages
13-17 (Adolescent)
Genders
Male
Female
Races/Ethnicities
American Indian or Alaska Native
Asian
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latino
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
White
Race/ethnicity unspecified
Settings
School
Geographic Locations
Suburban
Implementation History
Since its formal release in the fall of 2007, the TestEdge Program has been implemented with an estimated 10,000 students in more than 200 schools in 44 States. The program also has been