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Chapter 17: Test Taking
1 Visit Dr. Felder’s website at http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ for an enormous
assortment of useful information on learning in the STEM disciplines.
2 Felder 1999. Used by permission of Dr. Richard Felder and Chemical Engineering Education.
3 For food for thought along these lines, see McClain 2011 and the work of the researchers McClain cites.
4 Beilock 2010, pp. 140–141.
5 Mrazek et al. 2013.
6 Beilock (2010, p. 60) notes that “athletes under pressure sometimes try to control their performance in a
way that disrupts it. This control, which is often referred to as ‘paralysis by analysis,’ stems from an
overactive prefrontal cortex.”
7 Beilock 2010; http://www.sianbeilock.com/.
