Annotated Bibliography

What Teachers can do ti improve test scores.

Burns, David. “Will I do as well as on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students’ expectations.” Journal of the scholarship of teaching and learning 8.3 (2008) : 1-19. In the article Burns, a teacher an author of several books and articles, expresses the idea that students’ anticipations about their results in an exam will depend on their performance. The author supports his declaration by giving some arguments which support his proposal saying the students’ anticipations of results in a test may be affected by the time they spend preparing the exam and the effort they put preparing it.
Even though his arguments about students’ anticipations are strongly supported by evidence, it is necessary to say that those arguments lack of suggestions about how improve students’ expectations in the case it is necessary.

There are some factors which could act in order to have high expectations and low expectations of the result in an exam. According to that, the author illustrates that students tend to find out the causes of their faults in the exams and try to give solutions for the next performance in a test.
Burns also suggests that students who anticipate a high performance, reflected in a high grade on the exam, will think that their performance in the exam could be a sign of the preparation and effort they put on it.

Journals and Databases

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1. Teachers College Record. http://www.tcrecord.org/ This Journal of education shows us different interesting topics about education such as Diversity, curriculum and technology. Also here we can find discussion forums, articles, books reviews, etc.

2. Harvard Educational Review. http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~hepg/her.html This journal of education give us access to articles, recent issues, books reviews, links to continue our search, etc.

3. Chicago Journals. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cer/current This journal focus on articles and books reviews about education giving specific information like cites and full texts.

4. Taylor and Francis group. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/1360080X.html This journal gives us different access to information about education. The information here is based on rigorous reviews and analysis and reports of professional experts. Besides, we can find here related websites, general resources, author resources and journal listings.

5. Journal of Statistics Education. http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/

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