Describes an approach for motivating at-risk students to use available peer-tutoring services. Reports that students feel more comfortable about the peer-tutoring service when tutors (rather than the teacher) give brief in-class presentations in which they describe the services offered. (RS)

Provides questions that help students focus on the significant differences between words when studying synonyms. (MM)

Reviews the major research on notetaking, the conclusions of these studies, and suggestions for the classroom. Argues that moderately hearing impaired students can take their own notes under certain circumstances and that severely hearing impaired students can use others' notes since review is the most important function of notetaking. (RS)

Learning-disabled students in mainstream settings can use guided notes to help them actively participate in notetaking, follow the sequence of lectures/discussions, and produce useful summaries of important information for future review. This article defines guided notes, describes how to develop guided notes, and offers tips to maximize their…

Presents a six-step reading/study skills strategy which helps students learn how to approach a new text. (SR)

Presents a seven-step approach for sustained in-class study time that suggests a model for teaching study skills to college students. (MG)

Uses an ecologically valid environment to study where marginal gloss was employed as an adjunct comprehension aid in a college introductory education course. Finds that the gloss underpinned by phenomenological theory when combined with traditional gloss type is effective for long-term incidental learning and total test score. (RS)

Describes how a college tutoring program uses a strategy called TEST, which takes the ideas behind effective reading and learning and applies them to interactions between the student, the tutor, and the subject. (SR)

Counseling adult students with study problems involves not only presenting study techniques but also jointly developing strategies appropriate for students' learning styles and maintaining a nondirective approach that enables students to take control and gain confidence. (SK)

Explains the philosophy and practice of a mathematics study-skills course through the narrative of a fictional student. Provides a rich description of the experience, and numerous footnotes provide the ideas and justification behind the design of the course. Contains 15 references. (Author/ASK)

Discusses the three roles that study guides have in facilitating learning. Explains that study guides assist in the management of student learning, provide a focus for student activities related to learning, and provide information on the subject or topic of learning. (Author/CCM)

Nursing students (n=79) indicated that difficulties with family responsibilities, emotional distress, fatigue, and financial and work burdens affected their outcomes on the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses. Exam success was correlated with grade point average, lack of family responsibility or emotional distress, and sense of…

Suggests that the lack of motivation in mathematics courses often demonstrated by undergraduates can be remedied in part by a better explanation of the intrinsic value of studying mathematics. Offers suggestions for maximizing success such as previewing topics, attending class regularly, and knowing how to read the text and how to study for exams.…

Administered the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) (N. Entwhistle and P. Ramsden, 1983) to 573 undergraduates to analyze a Norwegian version of this inventory. Structural equation modeling techniques reveal the usefulness of this instrument as a research took for the assessment of approaches to learning among Norwegian…

Introduces notetaking tools used successfully with English-as-a-second-language students and low-achieving high school freshmen. Provides an overview of each tool and explains how students use them to take notes when reading textbooks and articles. Notes these tools and academic habits have helped students succeed in their mainstream academic…