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Students’ adaptation of study strategies when preparing for classroom tests:
This article informs us about the various test taking strategies that students utilize when preparing for and writing tests. In addition, the article presents us with the view that instructors often have when administering tests and strategies for studying versus the students’ adaptation to these tasks and strategies given by the instructor. The implementation of student goals for studying and their ability to adapt to and implement the strategies are also studied. The main point of this study is to motivate further research on strategy adaptation, which will in the future help teachers and instructors administer tests as learning incentives for the development of students’ strategy adaptability. There are four conclusions that result from this study. First: there is a suggestion that teachers provide students with sufficient information about their intended task demands. Second: teachers ensure that the task demands they formulate are convincing and compelling enough. Third: teachers vary the types of study tasks they give to their students. Fourth: teachers may give metacognitive support to students.
The reference above helped me understand my topic, which was preparing for and taking tests. There were many strategies for test taking given in this article, as well as diagrams and charts. In addition, there were ideas for instructors as well and how they should administer the strategies so students can better understand. I found the information given in the article to be very similar and relative to the topics we are studying in class. For instance, the topics of student task environment and implementation of study strategies phases were very similar to the processes of self regulated learning we learned in class.

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