Intended for elementary and secondary school teachers, this handbook provides practical instruction for the development of students' study strategies. Each of the four chapters begins with a study guide and closes with a reaction guide, thus illustrating for the reader an excellent study strategy that teachers may use with text materials in their…

To determine if integrating course content with reading study skills would (1) increase student learning of course content and (2) improve students' general reading achievement, one section of a reading education course for preservice teachers was taught reading study skills along with course content; two sections were given no classroom…

The potential contribution of mentoring to educationally disadvantaged students was examined at Brooklyn College. The students were part of a program called "SEEK," which admits low income students regardless of their high school grades and which provides counseling, tutoring, and remediation. A major goal of the mentoring project was to…

This biblography presents 187 citations on the topic of homework. Material was located in five general areas: (1) books; (2) viewpoint articles; (3) empirical research; (4) experimental research; and (5) various reviews of homework literature. The range of topics covered in the bibliography include such subjects as parental involvement in…

This guide has been designed for use in teaching study skills to elementary school students, kindergarten through grade six. It contains lessons developed and refined over a three-year period in the skills areas of listening, scheduling and task analysis, memory, notetaking, and using a textbook. Each skills area is developed in the context of a…

Research and demonstration activities at the Juniper Gardens Children's Project at the University of Kansas involved studies in these areas: (1) an after school remedial classroom program, (2) inappropriate study behavior in class, and (3) demonstration activities which involved teacher and parent training. The effects of reinforcement…

Data from six questionnaire studies are reported. "Reasons Why Harcum Is Recommended," gives the percentage of Harcum students and faculty, and of high school counselors who recommend Harcum for each of ten reasons on the questionnaire. In "The Students View Harcum," student responses to ten possible reasons for attending, to…

The Open University of Great Britain is an open-enrollment, home-based institution in which the majority of instruction is conducted via broadcasts and correspondence. As part of an effort to measure the effectiveness of this program, 490 students in a course in mathematical analysis were surveyed to: 1) determine the amount of time students spent…

The paper reviewed current evaluative studies of career education programs across the nation concerning the interrelationship of career education and academic achievement. Information sources included: ERIC, Washington, D.C. Offices of Development Associates, Inc., National Institute of Education, Office of Career Education, Office of Vocational…

Progress on the University of Texas personalized system of instruction (PSI) project is described. Twelve courses in the College of Engineering and five in other colleges were developed for PSI under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Each of those courses has now been offered at least once, thus making it possible to begin evaluating…

This study examined the effects of residence hall homogeneous housing and tutoring on college freshmen. The following areas were investigated: (1) achievement patterns; (2) attrition; (3) achievement of average or high ability students; (4) achievement of students from various socio-economic backgrounds; and (5) study habits. The results show that…

The performance results of a class of marginal students at Wayne State University were examined by comparing their standardized test scores with those of regular students and by correlating the scores and the work of the marginal students after 1 year of school. (The subjects were part of an experimental program for students who do not meet the…

In this study, the effects of motivational and behavioral dimensions of study behavior on objective and essay modes of evaluating course content were investigated. Several performance measures in two undergraduate Educational Psychology courses were factor analyzed, and three orthogonal performance factors were obtained: general achievement,…

A 3-year curriculum development project was conducted in one senior and three junior high schools to test an innovative homemaking program which would: (1) achieve the broad home economics objectives, (2) improve attitudes toward home economics, (3) assist in the development of critical thinking and independent study habits, (4) develop…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether black students attending predominantly white colleges attributed their academic difficulties to different sources and saw themselves as having a different set of problems than their black counterparts in predominantly black colleges. Subjects were asked to rate possible sources of academic…