This report compares the on-task behavior (industriousness) of K-3 students in the demonstration school of the Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) with that of children from classes in four public schools. Industriousness was measured by tallying the occurrence of such behaviors as working on an appropriate task, attending to the teacher, or…

Drawing on a number of studies of college student learning, this review concludes that students in different disciplines develop characteristic ways of learning based on their perceptions of what is required in their academic work. Within a discipline, effective learning involves an interplay between the characteristics of the student and the…

A survey of university freshmen investigated structural gender differences in learning behavior, based on recollections and report of science study in the final year of secondary school. It is concluded that the differences that emerged are only partially interpretable as classic deep or strategic structures and that gender-sensitive sources of…

A study compared the effectiveness of 4 study-group methods with 150 law students in a first year course in property law. None of the following methods was found to be superior: having students respond in essays to questions based on material covered in class; instructor-led discussion; weekly quizzes; or the control (informal study groups). (MSE)

Investigated whether students report professors are excellent teachers if little studying is required to receive high grades. Evaluations from 1,939 students in 75 first-year classes found that when grades varied markedly across sections of the same course, professors assigning the highest grades for the least studying received the highest…

Describes a study designed to investigate the extent to which peer relations increased among supplemental instruction program participants at a community college. Students who joined supplemental workshops were compared with those who did not. Regression analysis revealed a strong correlation between supplemental instruction and extracurricular…

Examined approaches to studying among deaf distance-education students in Britain who preferred either sign language or spoken language. Findings included that deaf students seemed just as capable as hearing students of adopting a meaning orientation, and that there were no differences in approaches to studying related to students' preferred mode…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the latent structure of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory-High School (LASSI-HS) through confirmatory factor analysis and factorial invariance models. A simple modification of the three-factor structure was considered. Using a larger sample, cross-validation was completed and the equality of…

A study assessed the validity of the hypothesis that offshore drilling personnel would independently study important material if they knew that they would eventually receive formal training on the topic covered in the material. Eighty-one crew members on an offshore drilling rig were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Those in…

The decade of the 1970's saw an alarming decline in the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of entering college freshmen, and it was theorized that this might be attributed to a corresponding decline in study attitudes. To test this hypothesis, math and verbal SAT scores, study habits, and attitudes of college freshmen in the classes of 1973 and…

Focuses on the student learning realm of distance education, to investigate how well students did according to institutional criteria for success, in what ways these students experienced the university, how course completers differed from withdrawers in their experience, and how students organized their study time. Thirty-nine references are…

Analyzes the comparative effects of three types of instructor intervention into the self-pacing of remedial college English students: a precourse warning about procrastination problems, a telephone call to students who are falling behind, and a mailed postcard to students who fail to keep up. (JP)

A study found systematic, structural gender differences between male (n=266) and female (n=144) college students in perceptions of and approaches to learning. It is argued that gender variation in study behavior is an important but often neglected source of variation in student learning that can and should be managed by educators. (Author/MSE)

The present college population represents such a diversity of ability that counselors are being challenged to devise new methods of helping to improve study behaviors. College students (N=60) participated in a study to compare the effectiveness of two multicomponent approaches, i.e., group counseling/study skills instruction and…

Seventeen medical students in a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum reported that on average they spent twice as much time preparing for step 1 of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination as did 52 students in the traditional lecture-based curriculum at the same school. Different learning approaches were also employed. (SLD)