First published in 1980 "The Door Stood Open" deals with an early demand upon open university policy. It deals with important themes like context of the younger students pilot scheme; demand for open university places among the younger age group; motivational factors and potential study problems; the impact of open university study on…

An important achievement for all students is the ability to function independently throughout the school day. For students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), activities that other students may find easy, such as transitioning from one location to the next, organizing their learning materials, and completing assigned activities, can be very…

Learning disabled adolescents can be helped to make sense of large amounts of material by a systematic study approach that builds on memory strategy. Such a strategy includes building on meaningful associations and recollections and using specific memory aids (such as kinesthetic, visual, and auditory rehearsal). (CL)

Provides an overview of three major categories of reading skills (word identification, comprehension, and rate) and of two basic types of study skills (those involving the location of information through reading and those involving organization of information) and shows how the skills are related to each other. (GT)

This article reports a project designed to foster first-year music students' academic study skills and to investigate their expectations and experiences of starting at university. Data gathered through questionnaires, diaries and in-class tasks reveal the change in learning strategies and musical identity the students experience in their first…

Presented is a four-lesson unit for teaching intermediate grade pupils how to outline. (SJL)

The article analyzes the stages of study in terms of skills needed at each phase. Specific ways to modify instructional activities and to develop study procedures in learning disabled students are presented. (Author/DB)

Relates the benefits of a modified version of the SQ3R (survey, question, read, recite, and review) study technique and tells how the modified version emphasizes previewing, reading, reciting, reviewing, and checking notes. Describes a two-phase strategy for training students to use the technique and providing guidance in applying it. (GT)

Suggests ways parents can encourage success in algebra, including keeping a journal in which students describe in words the steps they used in solving a problem. (MKR)

Created by contributing teachers to provide Indiana teachers with new ideas for classroom reading activities, this set of cards (which can be kept in a resource file) may be used to motivate, challenge, and reinforce reading skills. The first card lists considerations for developing games, while the remaining cards describe approximately 40…

A high school program is described that uses an informal survey to help teachers identify potential academic, social, and career oriented problems facing mainstreamed handicapped students. These problems and suggested intervention procedures are listed for study/coping skills of time management, memory systems, listening ability, compensatory…

Suggests thirteen functional study skills activities. (DD)

Addition of a word processing component to a study skills program for eight learning disabled freshman students in a community college resulted in higher term paper grades and positive student and faculty evaluations. (CL)

A modified graphic organizer approach is suggested to provide motivation and structure to disabled students using textbooks. An eight-step sequence in using the graphic organizer as a study and comprehension aid to textbook learning is presented. (CL)

Outlines 12 learning models designed to help elementary children develop the skills for independent study. (Editor/SJL)