CD Training
Improves Test Scores 

The Training

The Training uses an "Active Control" program to rapidly curtail anxiety and to introduce a sense of interest and challenge to eight imagined learning, review, and testing scenes.   An increased sense of confidence and improved concentration continue into the actual testing situations.  

Stronger Anxiety Reduction 

The Active Control intervention is found to produce stronger benefits than highly regarded behavioral and cognitive interventions conducted "in person" by professional therapists.   

Results from active control training interventions with 96 students.  

Confirmed Test Score Gains! 

The Test Tamer Active Control Training CD has produced solid test gains in published research, including:  

• 18 percentile test gains (three quarter of a letter grade) for 12 college freshmen  on academic probation; 
  
  

• 7 percentile gains (a quarter of a letter grade) for 22 fifth graders on the Tenn. state achievement tests (TCAPs); 
  
  

• 4 percentile gains for 30 sixth graders on the Tenn. TCAPs.   
  
  

• Promising findings for nurses passing NCLEX qualifying exams. 

The Training Experience 

Video Clip

Allison reviewed the Test Tamer CD as a high school junior.   Two years later, she comments on her experience.   

The training requires your complete attention, so listen to it in a quiet place free from interruptions. 

The  interactive training is presented on the 31 minute Tame Test Anxiety CD

Two to four CD training sessions are ordinarily sufficient to substantially reduce anxiety and improve concentration.   Continue with additional sessions as needed.  

Benefits are relatively stable and continue from one  school year to the next.  

Schools may present the CD Training to anxious students individually or in groups.  See School Programs.   Each CD now includes license for a school to use the CD program with anxious students over the following 24 months.   

Richard Driscoll, Ph.D. 

<> Program Director of the American Test Anxiety Association (amtaa.org) 
<> Test-anxiety reduction instructor with ASCA & Bridges Web Seminars 
<> For further information click on Dr. D. 

The Program has been presented at the American School Counselor Association, the American Psychological Association, and at various local and state conferences and conventions.