This study was implemented to examine the effects of a Test-Taking
Strategy on test anxiety and metacognition of elementary students with
learning disabilities (LD) and general students.
The experimental group which participated in this study consisted of
sixth-grade students in C Elementary School in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do. Each
experimental and control groups were composed of twenty-eight general
students and two students with LD. The experimental group was exposed to
the strategy instruction of Test-Taking Strategy, and the control group was
taught by a standard curriculum. from March 26 to September 10, 2009, this
experimentation was implemented with thirty-five sessions. The 'PIRATES'
test-taking strategy, which was used in this study, was originally developed
by researchers at the Kansas University Center for Research on Learning
(KU-CRL), and it was adopted by Youn Ock Kim for Korean. The strategy is
composed of seven steps and seventeen substeps. This study consists of eight
stages to instruct the strategy. A pretest and posttest was applied to control
group to compare the effects of the strategy instruction. The collection data
was analyzed by t-test between groups after the pre-test and the post-test of
anxiety and metacognition were taken, and Test-Takiog Strategy usages.
The results of this study are as follows. First, the elementary students with
learning disabilities (LD) mastered the strategy fluently. Second, the
experimentation group with LD and the genaral students displayed a reduction