Improving Exam Performance

Mike Kirby

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Key information and guidance

Success in public examinations is a key issue for schools. Most publications that give advice on the subject limit themselves to study techniques and revision practice. This resource offers quite a different approach. It looks at the role that school management can play in coordinating and supporting the efforts of teachers and pupils. Emphasis is given to the importance of planning and strategy as tools that help bring out the best in teachers and pupils.

Improving Exam Performance is a practical resource for school managers and teachers. It aims to offer clear guidance on how to develop an effective strategy for examination success across the whole school. The main text is supported by forms, checklists, summary sheets, planning charts, overhead transparency masters, and handouts for pupils and parents.

Note that this product also forms part of Developing Your Staff 1: Working with Students.

Contents

Introduction

Units

• Examination Performance and School Management
• Reviewing Existing Practice
• A Co-ordinated Approach
• Aims and Objectives
• Examination Arrangements
• Examination Boards and Syllabuses
• Student Motivation
• Revision
• A Revision Plan for Students