7 Fun Test Review Ideas to Help Boost Scores

You’ve spent hours aligning content standards, planning rigorous activities, delivering engaging lessons, and grading student work (well, maybe not everything… your secret’s safe with us). Formative assessments reveal that most of your class “gets” a particular concept, but you’re hoping upcoming assessment results showcase everyone’s hard work.

Test prep matters

While assessments don’t always paint a complete picture like academic growth, there is no doubt that testing matters, and you want to set your students up for success to demonstrate learning.

Recalling information during test review activities is a form of retrieval practice, the idea that “active retrieval of information from memory improves memory.” As students activate previously learned material, they increase the “long-term retention of those concepts or facts” ( Test-enhanced learning: Using retrieval practice to help students learn, Vanderbilt).

But without student engagement, even the most thoughtfully planned retrieval activity will be pointless. Students must be involved and interested to make learning count. Here are seven low-prep, engaging games and activities for your next review session.

7 engaging test review ideas

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