Compared the effect of study skills or adjustment workshops on college freshmen (N=304). Workshops were held the first week of the fall term, and students were evaluated at the end of the term. No enduring changes were found, but students who attended the adjustment skills workshop earned higher mathematics grades. (JAC)

Activities of the Pre-Medical Enrichment Program, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) are designed to increase the number of minority and low-income students who are unable to successfully compete for admission to medical school as well as successfully complete a medical degree. (NQA)

Presents a practical method of conducting conferences with developmental students in large college reading/study skills programs. Suggests that the method could also be used to monitor and document students' attitudinal changes and perceived progress throughout a term. (FL)

Reviewed efficacy of programs designed to improve academic competence. Outcomes of studies published from 1974-1978 were more favorable, based on box-score tabulation and an analysis of more than 12 well-controlled investigations. Evidence indicates that structured multicomponent interventions, incorporating study skills and self-control training,…

Two studies (1) examined the comprehension skills of good and poor readers with several different measures of comprehension monitoring; (2) provided measures of perceived strategy utility; and (3) provided comparisons between good and poor readers on traditional comprehension and memory tests. (HOD)

Evaluated naturally occurring methods for self-controlling poor study behavior. Successful and unsuccessful subjects were interviewed and observed. The successful methods were evaluated in a controlled treatment study. The self-control techniques identified in the earlier steps received some further support in the last step. (Author)

Relatively simple changes in cognitive activities during prose learning can substantially affect information acquisition, yet many students' strategies are ineffective. A prose learning strategy training program using network models of long-term memory structure and depth-of-processing theory is presented with evidence of its effectiveness among…

Advice of a law professor to beginning law students covers such topics as educational goals and techniques in legal education, study materials, study skills specific to law schools, general reflections on self-image, justice, ideology, and student attitudes and alienation. (MSE)

Concludes that when children learned confusable words, their subsequent learning of words was at a faster rate than those children who learned nonconfusable words first, and that high imagery words were learned more quickly than low imagery ones. (FL)

Four levels of notetaking (summary, paraphrase, verbatim, and letter search) were used to control depth of processing of a prose passage with high school students, who then either reviewed their notes or read an interpolated text. Results favored groups with deeper levels of processing on two post-tests. (Author/RD)

Undergraduates in study-skills course were classified by comparing actual with predicted grade point averages. Multivariate analyses of variance supported predicted precourse differences, but pattern of differences was not same for students of different personality types and academic achievement levels. Overall effectiveness of course was…

Using a ceramics unit, the author illustrates ways of incorporating the following reading skills into an art lesson: following directions; pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary development; interpreting illustrations; using reference books and materials; notetaking; and skimming. (SJL)