Grades 6-8

TestEdge is a powerful interactive learning program that helps students learn and perform at their very best. The TestEdge Interactive Learning Program is loaded with benefits that transform the test taking experience. Research based, this engaging multimedia course teaches proven tools and strategies demonstrated to overcome test and performance anxiety, discouragement and stress, while boosting focus, clarity and problem solving ability. You will learn to get yourself in sync for your best academic performance.

Try it risk free for 45 days. We guarantee your complete satisfaction with the TestEdge Interactive Learning Program or we'll give you your money back, no questions asked.

TestEdge Interactive CD-ROM

System Requirements

• Win 98 - Vista, Mac OS9, Mac OSX (Does not work with MAC 10.6 or later)
• Processor; 1GHz +, Disk Space; 600MB Memory
• 128MB +, Audio 16 bit mono +, Video; XVGA +, CD-ROM

Item #5305 Price: $49.95

Learn to Make the Right Choices and Add Balance and Ease for a Great Experience

Navigating the college maze is stressful, with lots of personal and academic challenges along the way. The College DeStress Handbook can teach you what you can control and how to maintain ease and flow. Based on the Institute of HeartMath's 20 years of stress and emotion self-regulation research, this handbook, highly touted by psychologists, professors and other educators,can help serious students recognize their stressors and how to stop them in the moment.

It contains three key HeartMath techniques that guide you in recognizing your personal stressors and in learning to reduce their intensity and eventually replacing them with more positive feeling and attitudes. College students will find they are soon using these easy-to-learn techniques, which have been shown to improve test-taking and other academic performance and the ability to replenish the energy and resilience needed to do well and have a great experience in the process.

Contents (82-page paperback)

Chapter 1. Navigating the College Maze
Chapter 2. How the Heart, Brain and Body Affect Performance
Chapter 3. Performance and Stress
Chapter 4. Building Coherence
Chapter 5. Test Anxiety, Insomnia, Digital Overload and Relationships
Chapter 6. Time Management and Decision-Making
Chapter 7. Cool Your Heels: Flow and Inner Ease
Chapter 8. Three Keys for Sustaining Resilience

Special Features

• Thorough explanation of what stress is, how your body warns you that you are stressed and how stress affects you.
• List of questions to ponder at end of each chapter.
• Tips for improving test-taking.
• Tips for falling asleep and staying asleep.
• Three of HeartMath's most effective emotion self-regulation techniques and exercises for making them part of your daily routine.
• Four-color layout

TestEdge Grades 9-12
Classroom Program

TestEdge is a research-based and scientifically-validated learning program. TestEdge gives student's an edge in learning and test taking by helping them transform emotional chaos and stressors into performance advantages. As a result, they are able to focus, learn, and perform at their very best. TestEdge boosts comprehension and problem solving because it's so highly effective in increasing clarity.

Used by thousands of students around the county, students literally get in sync for test success. In fact, the initial pilot study demonstrated that high school students who completed the TestEdge program showed a 35% improvement in math scores and a 14% improvement in reading scores on the Minnesota graduate exit exam.

Easy to Teach The Teacher's Kit includes fully scripted lesson plans that have been designed with flexible teaching schedules to help meet the varying time demands of educators.

Teacher's Kit includes:
- TestEdge Teacher's Manual
- TestEdge Student Activity Book
- Full color 11" x 17" posters
- Videotape (Perception Experiences)

Student Program/Activity Book:
- 7 1/2" x 10"
- 63 pages
- 2 color
- Softbound

TestEdge (Grades 9-12) Student Program/Activity Book

Research based and scientifically validated

TestEdge gives student's an edge in learning and test taking by helping them transform emotional chaos and stressors into performance advantages. As a result, they are able to focus, learn, and perform at their very best. TestEdge boosts comprehension and problem solving because it's so highly effective in increasing clarity.

Used by thousands of students around the county, students literally get in sync for test success.

Student Program/Activity Book*:
- 7 1/2" x 10"
- 63 pages
- 2 color
- Softbound

Related Item: TestEdge Interactive CD-ROM for school and home!

*Call for quantity discounts - Teacher Kit available for classroom use.

TestEdge Grades 6-8
Classroom Program

TestEdge is a research-based and scientifically-validated learning program. Students overcome test anxiety and stress, while at the same time gaining effective problem-solving, focusing, and listening skills.

TestEdge focuses on Stress Smarts and Test Smarts, two of the three key areas needed for outstanding academic performance. Acquiring skills in these areas greatly enhances students' ability in the third area -- Fact Smarts.

• Stress Smarts
  Positive emotion-refocusing techniques proven to lower stress and test anxiety, and to increase focus and comprehension.
• Test Smarts
  Advanced test-taking skills and strategies for higher test scores.
• Fact Smarts
  Subject knowledge and skills (Math and Reading Comprehension) -- TestEdge helps students improve their ability to absorb and remember the facts and skills taught in their core academic curricula.

Easy to Teach TestEdge is presented in a flexible format. Its fully scripted lessons can be taught in as few as twenty 15-minute sessions or, using the supplemental material and practice sessions, the program can be expanded to 30 sessions. Total instruction time is 6 to 8 hours.

Teacher's Kit includes:
- TestEdge Teacher's Manual
- TestEdge Student Activity Book
- Full color 11" x 17" posters
- Videotape (Perception Experiences)
- CD-ROM: Overheads & Worksheets
- Heart Zones (music CD)

Student Activity Book*:
- 8 1/2" x 11"
- 48 pages
- 2 color
- Softbound

Related Item: TestEdge Interactive CD-ROM for school and home!