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Jones, Craig H.; And Others – Teacher Educator, 1992
The Study Habits Inventory examined strengths and weaknesses in secondary education majors' notetaking, studying, and test-taking skills and found students were well-prepared to teach important studying and testing skills. Research indicates that prospective teachers' academic skills may positively affect their achievement in academic settings.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Higher Education, Notetaking
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Aragon, Steven R. – Journal of American Indian Education, 2004
This study examined the learning and study practices of postsecondary American Indian/Alaska Native students attending community colleges in the southwest. Using a survey design, students completed the Kagan Matching Familiar Figures Test, the Schmeck, Ribich, and Ramanaiah Inventory of Learning Processes, and the Weinstein, Palmer, and Schulte…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Students, College Students, Study Skills
Custer, Susan; And Others – 1995
This book offers study strategies and techniques which were originally used in resource rooms for students with mild disabilities but are appropriate for all students, all content areas, and all educational levels. The book is structured around the acronym SMARTS for the six action steps or skills covered: (1) Studying, (2) Memorizing, (3) Active…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Listening Skills, Memorization
Atkinson, Rhonda; And Others – 1993
Developed as part of the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, this instructional module contains materials designed to help students develop study and test-taking skills. Presented first are 10 strategies for preparing for tests. Discussed next are test-taking strategies and the importance of self-talk in successful test…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Learning Activities, Learning Modules
Rauch, Margaret – 1983
Test wiseness programs and computer assisted study skills instruction (CASSI) were found to be valuable resources for college reading and study skills instructors and students at St. Cloud State University (Minnesota). Two booklets on test wiseness cues were reorganized and used as computer programs to allow the information to be presented outside…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Higher Education
Breme, Frederick J.; Rosen, Donald A. – 1982
Student handouts which are written "tongue-in-cheek" tell the student to do exactly the opposite of what should be done to improve study skills. Reasons given for using a paradoxical teaching approach are to create an element of surprise, to increase attention, to encourage identification with what is being taught, to increase awareness…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Guidelines, Higher Education, Humor
Marshak, David – 1979
Designed to provide an introduction to study skills for students in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades, this teacher's guide provides a series of 12 activity-oriented units, most of which require one period of class time. The units in the guide cover the following topics: (1) learning to listen, (2) vocabulary (getting meaning from context), (3)…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Notetaking, Paragraph Composition, Reading Comprehension
Paulman, Ronald G.; Kennelly, Kevin J. – 1982
The relative contributions of test anxiety and exam-taking skills to information-processing deficits were investigated in a dual-task paradigm comparing high and low test-anxious students with either good or poor exam-taking skills. Sixty-four undergraduate students (21 males, 43 females) were selected based upon pre-test scores on the Test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education
Cade, John – 1984
Materials to help disadvantaged students at Bowie State College gain learning and study skills are presented. Guidelines, questionnaires and self-assessment forms, and learning activities on the following subjects are provided: time management, study methods, note-taking and test-taking strategies, and decision-making. Included is the Effective…
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making Skills, Educationally Disadvantaged, Guidelines
Allen, Sheilah – Highway One, 1986
Suggests ways of diagnosing problems in students' study habits and offers strategies for improving study skills and test taking strategies. (SRT)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Independent Study
Indiana Career and Postsecondary Advancement Center, Bloomington. – 1996
Adapted from a variety of sources, this booklet offers students tips about improving their study skills so that they can earn better grades and make the most of their talents. Topics discussed in the booklet are why students should work to improve their study skills; listening in the classroom; getting the most from textbooks; note taking; the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Library Skills, Listening Skills, Mathematics Skills
Leland-Jones, Patricia J. – 1997
This practicum was designed to increase the use of study skills of sixth-grade students in the social studies. Study skills pretests were administered to students with results showing student difficulties in acquiring the concepts of social studies and achieving passing scores on tests. A unit on study skills was integrated within each chapter…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Grade 6, Information Skills, Intermediate Grades
Kuepper, Joan Eklund – 1987
This guide provides methods for parents to assist their children in homework. The first of the guide's 10 chapters discusses motivation. Looking at sources of motivation, reviewing study skill shaping strategies, learning about rewards, and accomplishment are addressed. The second chapter discusses communication. Considering message forms,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Homework, Listening Skills
Mangrum, Charles T., II – 1983
This workbook is one of a series that provides students with examples of location skills, organizational skills, interpretation skills, retention skills, test-taking skills, rate skills, and study strategies. Location skills include locating general reference sources and reviewing the card catalog system and the Dewey decimal system.…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Learning Strategies, Library Skills
Hyde, Ruth E. – 1981
An outline of strategies that can be used to diagnose and remediate the test-taking problems of nursing students has been adapted from an "Outline of Test-Wiseness Principles" conceived by J. Millman, C. H. Bishop, and R. Ebel. The outline consists of two parts: elements independent of the test constructor or test purpose, including time-using,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Item Analysis, Nursing Education, Nursing Students
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