Richard Driscoll, Ph.D. Seminar
Anxiety Reductions
Improves Test Scores
Stronger Faster
Cheaper
School Programs
Presented by
Sponsored by the
American Test Anxiety Association
(amtaa.org)
November 9, 2007
9 am to Noon
Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Test?
High test anxiety reduces working memory and impairs reasoning. Highly test-anxious students score about 12 percentile points below their low-anxiety classmates, or half of a letter grade below.
About 20% of students have high test anxiety and another 16% have moderately-high anxiety, making it surely the most prevalent handicap in our schools today.
"Active Control" Intervention
Our intervention uses active stretch–tense–air–release– suggestion (stars) sequences to rapidly control anxiety, and associates imagined interest and a sense of challenge to learning, review, and testing scenes. The stars sequences provide considerably stronger anxiety control than standard relaxation, and the experienced sense of interest is highly adaptive to testing situations. See: www.peacewithmyself.com
Supporting Research
Active control interventions appear to provide solid anxiety reduction and stronger test gains than familiar cognitive and desensitization methods taking much longer. The protocol has produced:
Ø Substantial anxiety reduction in five consecutive samples. www.amtaa.org/res/ac.html
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18 percentile test gains with college freshmen on academic probation.
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7 percentile gains on the Tennessee comprehensive assessment test (
Stronger Faster Cheaper
You will learn a highly cost-effective program to reduce anxiety and improve test scores.
Intervention
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Rationale and components
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School Programs
Ø School counselors learn to screen students, explain the intervention, and present the thirty-minute trainings to students individually or in groups.
Ø Counselors can use the recorded version on CD to provide the technical aspects of the intervention, vastly reducing staff training time and expense. Students also review the CD training at home.
Handouts
Ø Westside Test Anxiety Scale—provides a highly sensitive measure of anxiety impairment.
Ø Manual (8 pages) & video links
Ø Active Control Training CDs (4 copies)
Web Seminar Schedule
Friday, November 9, 2007
9 am – noon
School counselors, administrators, and professionals who work with anxious students including social workers, psychologists, nurses, and tutors.
About the Presenter
Richard Driscoll, Ph.D.
Dr. Driscoll is Program Director of the American Test Anxiety Association (amtaa.org) and is a media resource with the American Psychological Association (APA). He is an on-site trainer with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) and has been an ASCA/Bridges Web Seminar presenter.
His research at the University of Colorado showed that physical exertion and positive images could be combined to produce a surprisingly strong anxiety-reduction package. Using this and related findings, he pioneered the "active control" protocols, and is now consulting with several schools on anxiety control programs. He has presented his active control program at the ASCA and APA National Conferences.
Driscoll has published four books, over twenty scholarly and popular articles, and four stress-reduction trainings—Tame Test Anxiety, Personal Shielding to Deflect Hostility, Blast Past Road Rage, and Don't Panic Training.
Registration
Seminar: Friday, November 9th, 9 am – noon pm EST
Westside Psychology
301 Gallaher View Road, Suite 102
Knoxville, Tn 37919
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