This research compares a behaviorally based approach for using electronic student response system (SRS) technology with a metacognitive-oriented approach to determine effects on attendance, preparation for class, and achievement. Also examined are the interaction effects of pedagogical approach with self-regulatory and motivational characteristics…

This "Handbook" offers a broad definition of family and community engagement, seen through the lens of scholars and practitioners with a wide-ranging set of perspectives on why and how families, communities, and schools collaborate with one another. Taken together, the chapters in this "Handbook" sketch out the components of a…

Models of self-regulated learning describe learners as actively and mindfully employing cognitive and metacognitive strategies as they pursue their learning goals. Self-regulated learners set goals, plan, and use a variety of cognitive strategies, monitor progress towards their goals, and manage their emotional states. However, many classroom…

"Deep" approaches to learning, as defined by Biggs (1987) and others, would generally mean that a student is interested in the academic task, searches for meaning in the task, personalizes the task, integrates aspects of the task into a whole, sees relationships between this whole and previous knowledge, and tries to theorize about the…

This booklet provides an overview of the main problems causing poor study habits and details possibilities for improvement. It also identifies roles that teachers, parents, and students must play in the study process. The booklet addresses specific concerns under the heading "Questions and Answers": Who Is Responsible for Developing Good Study…

Supports the hypothesis that the perceptions of kindergarten children differ from those of older children regarding the equivalence of work input. (RB)

Stresses the importance of recitation as a study skill that retards the rapid rate at which individuals forget, citing the experiments of A. I. Gates who revealed that merely reading textual materials is not effective in learning. (RB)

During fall 1982, a study was conducted at a community college in the western suburbs of Chicago to determine the relationship between students' demographic and scholastic characteristics and their study skills and habits. In addition, the study assessed the psychometric qualities of the Study Behavior Inventory (SBI), a 45-item instrument…

A study was carried out to investigate the effects of inducing bilinguals to use both of their languages to read, study, and recall information from a passage of expository text. The subjects were 80 French-English bilinguals who read a passage in either English or French and took notes in either language. They then completed tests of free recall…

The University of Liverpool's one-year full-time course leading to a diploma in liberal studies is intended for mature students preparing for university degree work and for students seeking a more sustained, intellectually demanding course than that normally provided in the part-time extra-mural program. (Author/EA)

Indicated that internal control was related positively to effective study habits and attitudes and to college academic success, while the opposite was true for powerful others and chance control. (RB)

Recommendations include: (1) Students need guidance in note-taking and study habits; (2) Lectures should be improved to make note-taking easier; and (3) Handouts are essential to provide students with terms, references, and a clear outline of the lecture. (Author/PG)

The effects of prompting by peers on the rate of completing assignments and on the correspondence of noon-time plans with the amount of actual studying exhibited the same evening was observed with 15 undergraduate university students. Subjects were provisionally accepted students enrolled in a one credit pass/fail course. Students initially earned…

Perception, problem solving, and memory provide the focus of an applied learning techniques/study skills course offered at Marist College (Poughkeepsie, New York). The unit on perception provides a discussion of the dynamics of verbal and nonverbal communication and suggests specific strategies to improve these functions. The student learns when,…