Presents a murder mystery in the form of six Calculus II review problems. Students must solve the six problems to determine the murderer, murder weapon, and time and location of the murder. (AIM)

Nontraditional instructional methods facilitate active learning by students. The "Jeopardy" exercise outlined in this article is based on the popular television game show and is presented as an active learning technique designed to (a) motivate students to actively participate in class and assume more responsibility for learning, (b) provide an…

Initiated in early 1986, the Videotutoring Program at Appalachian State University, Boone (North Carolina), has proved to be a valuable tool for instructors in certain high risk courses (such as biology, history, and mathematics) for providing supplementary tutorial assistance for their students. The program was developed and is coordinated by the…

Recommendations include: (1) Students need guidance in note-taking and study habits; (2) Lectures should be improved to make note-taking easier; and (3) Handouts are essential to provide students with terms, references, and a clear outline of the lecture. (Author/PG)

Thirty-five second-year medical students from the University of Alabama (Birmingham) used the services of a commercial test tutoring company to help them prepare for the National Board of Medical Examiners Part I examination. These students scored significantly higher than students who were considered to have comparable ability, based upon basic…

This report examined the academic review processes at the three Department of Defense service academies, describing how the academies use these processes to review cases of students who have not met academic performance standards. Based on interviews with academy officials and relevant documents, it outlines the review processes in place at the…

Two experiments studied the effects of note-taking, strategy of note-taking (short/long notes), and reviewing personal notes and/or simplified teacher-notes on immediate and delayed recall. One hundred and sixty Nigerian university students, classified as either short or long note-takers, served as subjects. (Author)

Notetaking and rereading improved college students' recall of text material, but summarizing passages without reference to the original text did not. (Editor)

Suggests unorthodox methods that may help to make studying more agreeable to students. Discussed are organizing complex cheat notes, use of chalkboard on pretending to give lectures on the subject to be mastered, developing an appreciation ("psyching out") for the professor's philosophy, and using flash cards for vocabulary mastery. (CS)

Describes "Review in the Round," a student-centered review process that combines discussion and cooperative learning. Describes its purposes, preparation (outside class), and the review procedure. (SR)

Self-questioning, summarizing, and review of lecture notes were compared as strategies for learning from lectures for 56 underprepared college students. Subjects were randomly assigned to self-questioning (19 students), summarizing (19 students), and notetaking-review (18 students) conditions. Self-questioners performed better than summarizers and…

Note-taking functions (encoding, encoding plus storage, and storage) and note-taking techniques (conventional, linear, and matrix) were studied for 96 college undergraduates. Results are explained in relation to repetition, generative processing, note completeness, and the potential of note-taking techniques to facilitate performance. (SLD)

The effect that student ability level has on receiving feedback following classroom tests was studied. Forty-four undergraduates enrolled in four educational psychology classes were assigned to low or high ability groups based on their total score from the first four exams. Two classes were trained in a feedback technique, and the remaining two…

Fifty-three deaf and thirty-three hearing college students observed a videotaped lecture followed by a 15 minute period of reviewing prepared class notes. Two days later, half of each group again reviewed the notes before taking a test measuring learning outcomes in four areas: recall, recognition, concept acquisition, and problem solving.…

Index cards and audio tape can make the steps of the SQ3R system of study more concrete. This method can be particularly beneficial to "average" college students, who for whatever reason, have difficulty sustaining concentration while reading. The SQ3R method is suitable because of its simplicity, diversity of application, adaptability…