Study habits are of great importance in new 3-year medical curricula. (HS)

Reviews the literature on notetaking and stresses the necessity for teachers to instruct their students formally in the technique. Bibliography. (RW)

Suggestions are given on how to help students in developmental mathematics courses develop appropriate study skills. Ideas concerning reading, using the testbook, and taking tests and notes are included. (MNS)

Twenty-four academically deficient male sophomore cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy were divided into two groups. The experimental group received a behaviorally oriented study skills program and showed a mean increase of .54 in grade point average; the control group showed an increase of .02. (Author/BW)

Discusses how student journals can help teachers and students identify behaviors and attitudes that affect study skills and college work. (AEA)

As alternatives to hierarchical outlining, pictorial, topical, and critical outlining kinesthetically reinforce reading comprehension and can be useful in helping older students who are learning disabled or poor readers. Examples of each approach are given. (CL)

Test-anxious students were assigned to a core treatment (Meichenbaum's cognitive behavior modification and study skills training) alone, with videotaped modeling, with rehearsal modeling, or under control conditions. No treatment led to significant academic performance improvement, a finding consistent with many test-anxiety studies using grades…

The study investigated organized strategies and self-checking behaviors in selecting retrieval cues in gifted, normal achieving, and learning disabled (LD) children (grades 5 through 7). The results indicated that, compared to the others, LD children lacked self-checking skills. (Author/SB)

A study was made of student note-taking during lectures, and especially the use of diagrams, and subsequent use of the notes for examinations. It was found that important information is often omitted from notes and some students do not make diagrams. Handouts did not improve test performance, although they helped in drawing diagrams. (MSE)

Reviewed are eight recent instructional kits, supplementary texts, and professional references for K-8 library and study skills instruction. (SJL)

Reports on a study that investigated ninth-grade students' use of a reading strategy that focused on following the organizational structure of text to determine what is important to remember. Texts were organized with problem/solution or comparison structures and the structure strategy appeared to be effective for retrieval. (MKM)

Suggests a method for teaching students how to mark up literary texts, as well as other texts in order to develop an intimate acquaintance with literature. (DD)

Offers exercises to assist poor readers as well as good readers in using the dictionary. (DD)

Some games for developing children's reading skills are described. (JD)