About this ebook
About the author
John Foster is an educator, test preparation strategist, and learning science researcher who has spent over two decades helping students transform their standardized test performance. A graduate of the University of Michigan with advanced degrees in educational psychology and instructional design, he began his career teaching high school mathematics in Detroit public schools, where he first observed the dramatic gap between students' classroom knowledge and their test scores. That observation launched a career long investigation into the cognitive, emotional, and strategic factors that determine performance on high-stakes exams.
Foster went on to serve as director of curriculum for a national test-prep organization, where he designed preparation programs for the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and MCAT, training more than three hundred instructors and reaching over fifty thousand students. His work synthesizes findings from cognitive psychology, sports performance, behavioral economics, and instructional technology into practical systems that produce measurable score improvements. He has presented at conferences for the National Council on Measurement in Education, the Learning and the Brain Society, and the American Educational Research Association, and his articles have appeared in Educational Leadership, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Psychology Today.
In addition to his work in test preparation, Foster consults with medical schools, law schools, and MBA programs on curriculum design and equitable admissions practices. He is a certified executive coach and a member of the International Coaching Federation, bringing a performance psychology lens to academic preparation. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his family and an overgrown garden, and when he is not writing, teaching, or analyzing test blueprints, he can be found hiking the trails of the Huron River watershed or attempting to perfect his sourdough starter. Standardized Test Mastery is his fourth book.
