Do cheesy songs help raise SAT scores? (Free registration required.)
Renee Mazer is trying to help high school students get into good colleges — by teaching them silly songs and cheesy poems.Mazer is the creator of "Not Too Scary Vocabulary!: For the SAT and Other Standardized Tests and Success in Life," a boxed set of CDs (or audio tapes) aimed at beefing up students' semantic skills. Using playful mnemonic devices and slang-studded stories, the discs teach hundreds of words that often appear on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. By presenting the words in a manner that's easy to absorb and remember, Mazer said, she can help raise students' scores on the verbal section of the SAT. And that can help turn a hapless Ivy League reject into an ebullient Harvard freshman.
What's Mazer's secret? She's never dull.
I'll say, considering that one of the poems talks about emotions involved with "getting to first base."
Posted by kswygert at August 25, 2005 09:21 AM