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Demery, Marie – 1989
This Academic Skills Mini-Module is one of the first documented efforts designed for encouraging students to prevent themselves from dropping out of college. It is also a reflection of research findings which maintain that any methods used to help students to improve their academic performance will also minimize attrition rates. Academic…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Boyd, Ronald T. C. – 1988
Techniques to enable high school students to improve their test performance are briefly outlined. The techniques cover pre-test preparation, strategies for use during test administration, and special skills for multiple-choice and essay tests. An advantage of students practicing their test-taking skills is that it will help them manage the anxiety…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, High School Students, High Schools, Multiple Choice Tests
Allen, Sheilah – Australian Journal of Reading, 1986
Offers a method for teachers in the content areas to teach study skills, specifically, strategies for allocating study time, reading, note taking, and learning for tests. (SRT)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Notetaking, Secondary Education, Study Guides

Starks, Gretchen – Reading Horizons, 1981
Describes a study skills program for college freshmen that was based on information obtained from older college students about the problems they had encountered as entering freshmen. (FL)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Program Content, Program Descriptions

Kern, Carolyn W.; Fagley, Nancy S.; Miller, Paul M. – Journal of College Counseling, 1998
Assesses unique contributions of learning, study, and test-taking strategies; students' attitudes about college; and ACT scores, and linked them to college grade point average (GPA) and retention. Findings suggest that learning and study strategies and students' college attitudes affect attrition indirectly through GPA. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, Higher Education, School Holding Power
Christen, William; Murphy, Thomas – 1992
This book is designed to help teenagers make the most of their study time and learn how to take good notes, how to plan writing projects, and how to prepare for tests. Chapters in the book are: What It Takes; Active Learning; Writing; PREPsteps; Take Note; Making Time for Time; The Real Test; and Going for the Gold. (RS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Notetaking
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1982
This booklet provides a multi-curriculum collection of ideas and activities designed to improve the study skills of students in kindergarten through sixth grade. This collection of ideas and activities may be used to supplement learning activities in any classroom, and many of the booklet's pages may be duplicated for parent or student use.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Notetaking, Parent Role, Student Behavior
Bernt, Frank M.; Bugbee, Alan C., Jr. – 1990
A survey of study behaviors was mailed to 300 adult students enrolled in two distance learning programs of The American College. The sample included three groups: high passers, low passers, and failers. The survey instrument was a 50-item rating scale measuring study practices in six areas: elaborative processing, information processing, attitude…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Distance Education, Educational Strategies
Friedman, Brenda G.; And Others – 1985
The booklet offers techniques to help language learning disabled college students and their tutors improve test-taking performance. The importance of mastering time management and study skills is stressed. Basic notetaking guidelines are presented, including use of a two-column system so that material on the right may be consolidated and…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Notetaking
Marshak, David – 1979
The 12 activity-oriented units described in this study skills guide for students in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades are designed to assist in the development of necessary study skills at most levels of competence and to reinforce already existing skills. The units in the guide also attempt to incorporate as much student activity as possible,…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Notetaking, Paragraph Composition, Reading Comprehension
Williams, Jane M. – 1987
This student-oriented instructional booklet provides strategies for students for notebook organization, time management, note-taking, reading and highlighting assignments, homework completion, and test-taking. The booklet's first section, "Preparing for Classes," offers tips for keeping a notebook, an assignment sheet, a calendar, a daily and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Homework, Learning Strategies, Notetaking
Bragstad, Bernice Jensen; Stumpf, Sharyn Mueller – 1987
This guidebook attempts to move theory into application by sharing ways that teachers fuse the teaching of learning processes with the teaching of course content. Chapters focus on: (1) motivating students to learn; (2) concentration and learning to focus; (3) time management; (4) remembering; (5) technical vocabulary; (6) streamlining study; (7)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Learning Strategies, Notetaking
Lent, Robert W.; And Others – General College Studies, 1982
Psychology students at the University of Minnesota were studied for the effects of different interventions on test anxiety and the academic performance of students with debilitating test anxiety. One group of students received peer tutoring and training in the use of study skills; a second group received training in cue-controlled desensitization…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Counseling, Desensitization

Schilling, Frank C. – Journal of Reading, 1984
Suggests that when middle school teachers put greater emphasis on study skills, their students profit from greater confidence and understanding. (AEA)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades
Kirkland, Karl; Hollandsworth, James G., Jr. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1979
The relationship among test anxiety, study skills, and academic performance was studied. It was found that, in addition to academic aptitude, a measure of effective test-taking skills and a measure of test anxiety contributed significantly to prediction of grade point average. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, College Students, Grade Point Average