Seven memory strategies that can be taught to college students with learning disabilities or students who have not learned essential study skills are described: the method of loci, pegwords, keywords, rote rehearsal, chaining, clustering, and first letter mnemonics. To help college faculty provide direct instruction in the memory strategies, the…

Intended for reading instructors of kindergarten through grade 8 students, this book offers a comprehensive view of the skills needed for a student to become an effective, lifetime reader. Instead of presenting a method for teaching reading, it presents the skills common to most reading programs. Chapters in the first section discuss the history…

This paper is the second of a series of three which attempt to integrate categories of description aimed at characterizing the experience of learning in terms of the logical relationships that exist between them. The description of the qualitatively different ways in which various aspects of reality are experienced and conceptualized, and the…

One of six related documents, this study guide is intended to accompany extension course textbooks produced by the Air Force Extension Course Institute. It contains suggestions and instructions about studying to save students time and to help them get more from the course. Information is included about how to study, the course materials, the…

The specific goal of language instruction at any level is to develop students' communicative abilities by increasing their awareness of necessary linguistic tools. The degree to which instructors in the English classroom are successful in attaining this specific goal is dependent on the ability of students to organize their experiences. College…

This paper describes a computer assisted instruction (CAI) study skills program and reports the results of a study conducted to determine its effectiveness. The program consists of ten CAI study skills modules, a CAI study skills notebook, and a CAI study skills test. The modules address (1) managing time, (2) improving memory, (3) taking lecture…

Following a discussion of the general requirements for a vocabulary development program, this paper presents an instructional design for vocabulary development. The five sections of the design that are discussed include (1) vocabulary from context; (2) word structure; (3) roots, affixes, and affixation processes; (4) alternative language; and (5)…

The "impulsive responder" is a learner who avoids or eliminates confusing situations. Rather than acknowledging that a given problem solving task is too difficult, the impulsive responder simply perceives a different task--one that he or she has learned to solve. For the teacher there may be many different problems, but for the impulsive…

A speed reading/scholarship skills course was offered to college-bound students in the Dallas, Texas, school system in 1977-78. Approximately 1,700 students took the 60-day elective course in 20 different high schools. As measured by the Nelson-Denny Standardized Reading Test and compared to college freshman norms, students registered the…

The study involving 112 deaf undergraduate students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) was designed to review recent educational and psychological literature relating to learning strategy knowledge and use, to determine which cognitive strategies might be most effective for learners, and to pilot a questionnaire for assessing…

Ninety-three college students studied prose material about communications. An experiment employing both isolated summaries and a study strategy was conducted to examine how mathemagenic behaviors would facilitate students' comprehension and recall of the prose material they studied. Some students were given material containing interspersed…

A study compared two groups of second grade children (one receiving code-emphasis reading instruction and the other receiving eclectic reading instruction) on their ability to generate target words deleted from sentence frames, given minimal graphemic information. Target words were either a high-frequency word or low-frequency synonym while…

The performance of 35 students with low and medium reading scores who took a reading and study skills course at a community college was compared with that of 27 students who had similar reading skills (as judged on a standardized test) but who did not take the reading course. Comparisons were made in the areas of the number of semester hours each…

This teacher's guide for teaching decoding contains suggestions for teaching letter sounds and short vowel trigrams; words and syllables with long vowels; consonant blends and some digraphs; some common prefixes, suffixes, and irregular word parts; and dipthongs and vowel digraphs. Each of the five chapters contains several skills to be taught.…