Test-taking strategies | Description | Example of strategies |
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Ordered Approach | ||
Best to Worst | Identify responses in order from most to least appropriate | “Going from what would be least conflict inducing to most inducing” (P11) |
Worst to Best | Identify responses in order from least to most appropriate | “I started with the least appropriate and worked my way to most” (P04) |
Extremes First | Identify responses at the extremes first (least and most appropriate), then the middle | “I identified the first and fifth one” (P06) |
Chronologically | Identify responses in order that actions would be performed | “I would do every single one of these in this order” (P10) |
Pattern | Identify responses in a type of pattern that is relatively consistent | “I’m noticing a pattern – acknowledge, ask, offer, tell, stay” (S06) |
Compare Responses | Evaluate response ranking by comparing two at a time | “So, deciding between imagining things and confronting the person” (S12) |
Rephrase | State the responses in a different way to identify the ranking | “So, what do I do?” (S09) |
Guess | Randomly assign rankings to a response | “I just kind of put numbers down because I didn’t know” (S12) |
Before Reading Responses | Attempt to identify the best response before reading the answer options | “Before even looking at the answers, I would think about …” (S02) |
Process of Elimination | Assign a ranking based on what remains after ranking other options | “I guess through process of elimination it leaves …” (P07) |