UP LEARN WEBINAR
Helping students to manage exam anxiety
Understanding, recognising and supporting students in KS4 & KS5
In the build-up to GCSE and A level exams, exam anxiety can become a significant challenge for many students, and for the teachers and school leaders supporting them.
This evidence-based webinar is designed to help schools better understand, identify and respond to exam anxiety, with practical strategies that can be applied immediately in school settings.
What you’ll learn
In this session, Professor David Putwain explores:
- How exam anxiety can be identified in students
- How common severe exam anxiety really is
- How exam anxiety affects attainment, wellbeing and mental health
- What schools and teachers can do to support highly exam-anxious students
Meet the speaker
Professor David W. Putwain
Professor of Education, Liverpool John Moores University
Professor Putwain taught in school sixth forms and colleges from 1994 to 2006 before moving into academia.
His research focuses on how psychological factors influence learning and achievement, with a particular interest in exam anxiety and interventions to support students effectively.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Educational Psychology.
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