Negative Consequences:

• By spending time right before the test reviewing content to be tested, there is the possibility that student scores will be higher than they should be. Although the teacher’s intent was to assist students with their test-taking skills, by using a content area known to be on the test the scores for these students could be higher than what they would have received if the test-taking strategies had been practiced using a different set of content/skill areas. When this type of practice occurs, students have been given an advantage over other students and it is no longer possible to make fair comparisons across groups of students.

See Positive Consequences