Four reasoning skills help explain the processes that students need to use in completing various study skills exercises: (1) classification--the process that a student uses to name a body of information or to associate a bit of information with a larger chunk of information; (2) sequencing--the process by which a student organizes information into…

This bibliography contains 36 annotations of resources in the ERIC database (ranging from 1983 to 1989) concerning study skills, note-taking, test-taking, and other organizational skills. The first section of this bibliography provides resources for developing good study habits, how to change study behavior, allocating study time, and study…

The paper describes a learning skills program designed to serve college students whose learning styles are different from the norm and whose skill levels vary widely. Development phases of the program featured a task force approach to needs assessment, planning, initial pilot testing, and ongoing faculty development. Difficulties encountered in…

In this report about reading and study skills laboratories in colleges and universities, the importance of considering the differing needs of each institution and knowing what has been successful in different situations is stressed. The report presents descriptions of five developmental skills laboratories, representing an urban community college,…

Advocates the teaching of study skills in place of speed reading in college reading programs. (RB)

Suggests that learning to skim reading materials is an important study skill. (RB)

Two variables directly related to understanding and improving notetaking practices and instructional strategies were investigated. The first variable investigated was the different levels of pretraining: pretraining vs. no pretraining; and the second was the influence of three types of test mode expectations: multiple choice, essay, or…

The utility value of the final vowel-consonant-e phonic generalization was examined using 2,715 common English words. When the vowel was defined as a single-vowel, the consonant as a single-consonant, and the final e as a single-e the generalization was found to be highly useful, contrary to other recent findings. Using the total sample of 2,715…

Courses designed to enhance the study skills in students at Plymouth Polytechnic and Kingston Polytechnic are outlined and examined. In the case of Plymouth Polytechnic, the research was centered on an evaluation of a program from Sussex University; the Kingston Polytechnic research included the course design. The Sussex University Advanced…

The purpose of this study was to systematically investigate the effects of various orienting tasks on the recall of prose material. In particular, subjects were asked to read a prose passage while performing either a semantic (outlining the material) or a nonsemantic (circling e's) orienting task under either incidental or intentional recall…

In order to ascertain the effectiveness of a short instructional program involving four marking skills required in following directions, a study was conducted with six kindergarten classes (130 children) taught by three teachers. The experimental and control groups in each class were given the pretest and posttest on the same days; otherwise, the…

The influence of motivation in modifying the effect of adjunct questions was explored. Each of 270 undergraduates were promised 0, 3, or 10 cents for each correct answer on a test given immediately after reading. Questions were placed either frequently or infrequently in a text, either before or after the relevant material. Controls read the text…

To determine the ratio between the number of students who had been specifically trained in methods of effective study to the number of students who had not been trained, a questionnaire was administered to 438 first-semester summer students at College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas. The results of the survey showed the ratio to be 1 student…