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Download full textAlberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Special Education Branch. – 1998
This guide for parents of students with learning disabilities in Alberta (Canada) presents a variety of strategies parents can use to help their children in grades 1 through 9 become successful learners. Section 1 offers ideas for helping students get and stay organized such as using self-talk to create a positive attitude and organizing…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Gijselaers, Wim H.; Schmidt, Henk G. – 1992
A study was done of the relation of time for individual study versus instruction time in a non-traditional, problem-based medical curriculum at the University of Limburg (Netherlands). The study collected data on 86 courses conducted in 5 consecutive academic years. In this problem-based approach, each curriculum year in the first 4 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Independent Study, Medical Education
Temme, Dana L. – 1991
The problem of a high percentage of third grade students with poor study skills was addressed through a computer program designed to teach these skills. Parent participation was an important component of the program as it has been shown that parental involvement has a positive effect on student achievement and success at school. A motivational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 3, Hypermedia
Feller, Myrna; Hussey, Ruth – 1983
This study skills workshop guide, for the college level, is designed to help students assess their study skills and personal behavior goals for becoming academically effective and confident. Seven consecutive, 2-hour, weekly sessions emphasize learning as an active process and concentrate on specific skills: objectives and goals; time management;…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Preparation, College Students, Higher Education
Higginson, Bonnie C. – 1986
A study investigated whether high school students employ different study strategies in different content areas and whether their study strategy selections are influenced by the degree to which they are familiar with these topics. Subjects, 79 high school juniors, read one familiar and one unfamiliar passage from both history and chemistry…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Bound Students, Content Area Reading, Grade 11
Harrington, Judy; Moore, Diane – 1986
A supplemental instruction program was designed to assist students in mastering course concepts and to increase student competence in reading, reasoning, and study skills. Supplemental leaders, upper division students whose course competency has been certified by course instructors, attend course lectures where they take notes and complete…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, High Risk Students, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1988
This reference manual provides practical strategies for teaching a wide range of study skills at the elementary and secondary grade levels. Following a brief introduction, the manual presents an overview of study skills and strategies for various content areas and grade levels. The next section discusses guidelines for developing a study skills…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education, Listening Skills
Whitman, Ruth – 1984
Suggestions directed to parents and family members for turning everyday home activities into opportunities for learning are based on three principles: reading and researching; reinforcement and reward; and review and reapplication. It is proposed that establishing a good home learning environment includes setting regular, daily times to work with…
Descriptors: Children, Educational Strategies, Family Influence, Family Involvement
Lange, Garrett – 1978
A sorting-recall procedure was used to examine the relationship between study and recall organization in reflective and impulsive children at the first and fourth grade levels. Data regarding sorting latencies per trial and the number of trials required to achieve stable sorts were provided by two indirect measures of the deliberateness and ease…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children, Classification
Schroeder, Tom S. – 1978
Two types of problems are found in the reading performance of children with poor work habits: a child may have mastered skills but performs inadequately in tasks due to poor work habits, and a child may never have mastered skills because of such habits. Work habit behavior is the student's tendency to apply himself or herself to learning tasks by…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
RYAN, T.A. – 1967
PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE--(1) TO TEST EFFECTS OF REINFORCEMENT COUNSELING ON STUDENTS' STUDY BEHAVIOR, ATTITUDES TO COLLEGE SUCCESS AND STUDY, AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, AND (2) TO EVALUATE USE OF NONPROFESSIONALS IN A PLANNED RESIDENCE HALL COUNSELING PROGRAM. THE THREE RESPONSE CLASSES CONSTITUTED DEPENDENT VARIABLES FOR THE STUDY (SS' USE OF…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Behavior Modification, College Housing
Morgan, Alistair; And Others – 1980
This report describes the work of the Study Methods Group, which uses qualitative research methodologies to determine how Open University students approach learning and why they adopt a particular approach. Research considers student orientation to learning, the relationship of learning outcomes to learning approach, and student development as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Course Evaluation
DANNENMAIER, WILLIAN DEAL – 1963
A STUDY WAS MADE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO TYPES OF STUDY BEHAVIOR AND THREE KINDS OF LEARNING--KNOWLEDGE, COMPREHENSION, AND APPLICATION. TWO STUDY BEHAVIOR SCALES WERE DEVELOPED BY HOMOGENEITY ANALYSIS, BEHAVIOR ONE REFLECTING DEMONSTRATED ACCEPTANCE OF THE ESTABLISHED COURSE CONTENT AND GOALS AND BEHAVIOR TWO REFLECTING THE TENDENCY OF…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Comprehension
Wheeler, Lawrence – 1967
Over the past eight years several combined behavioral and architectural investigations have been undertaken by Ewing Miller Associates. On the basis of data from almost 1,500 university students, an extended example of some of the results of these cooperative studies is presented. The work carried on relative to the college campus has dealt mainly…
Descriptors: Architecture, Behavior Patterns, Campus Planning, College Housing
Condon, John Thomas – 1966
In order to provide basic information about the study habits of In order to provide basic information about the study habits of junior college students so that more adequate facilities might be planned and designed, a sampling of 832 selected students at five California community colleges was made by questionnaire. Eighteen variables (such as sex,…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Students, Educational Facilities, Facility Utilization Research
