The rationale and techniques for developing skimming and scanning skills with college students are discussed, and it is noted that perfecting these skills involves changing some basic attitudes towards reading such as the ideas that one needs to read every word and that increasing speed decreases comprehension. Lengthy passages in regular college…

The primary purpose of this study was to begin evaluating the effectiveness of the University of Utah's counseling center's integrated didactic-experiential Efficient Study group treatment. It was also an attempt to provide further evidence concerning the questions of the efficacy of short-term group counseling procedures with academic…

A recent review of the literature, dealing with the effects of presenting instructional objectives on learning, determined that objectives failed to raise learning in about half the experiments. The interpretation for the failures exclusively relied on a theoretical analysis of problems with the technique. An alternative analysis, and supporting…

This 18-item bibliography includes journal articles, yearbook chapters, dissertations, unpublished papers, and ERIC documents dealing with the characteristics or evaluation of college reading/study skills programs. Each item in the alphabetical list is briefly annotated. (AA)

Knowing questions in advance enabled students to structure their study process and to devote more time and effort to learning content. Student responses to this method of testing, test scores, and comparison with results from other methods showed that a high level of learning was achieved. (Author/MS)

Investigates the relationship between learning style, reading and study skills scores on a number of standardized tests, and performance on a scanning experiment involving locating information in meaningful prose. (HOD)

Reports three studies about young children's knowledge of word structure and its relation to reading. Study I examined children's knowledge of the characteristics of printed words. Study II investigated aspects of word structure used by beginning readers. Study III investigated aspects of word structure used by readers at varying levels of reading…

Upon completion of a study skills course 73 students responded to a 33 item questionnaire derived from the Study Skills Test in terms of the frequency of study problems experienced in specific courses where the style of the instructor most interfered with learning, or helped in learning the course content. (Author)

Explores the processes of learning to read in order to learn and reports a study of the reading strategies of 35 high school students. (JM)

Teaching skimming techniques in a college compensatory reading course helped students gain in both speed and comprehension skills. (MKM)

Suggests using a compare/contrast strategy to teach students to read polysyllabic words. (MKM)

Reports on research findings that suggest that the use of underlining can result in significant improvement in reading comprehension and retention of textbook type materials. (Author/GW)

Presents a study testing the hypothesis that students of informal as opposed to formal teachers would score better on the Richmond work-study tests than on the language and mathematics tests. Results find differences between formal and informal classes to be insignificant but individual students to differ in hypothesized directions. (Author/AEM)

Describes the need for school psychologists to know more about learning strategies so as to effectively facilitate the design and implementation of intervention programs and procedures. Four categories of learning strategies are discussed and a case study is presented to demonstrate how knowledge about these strategies can be used by the school…

The article notes principles of adult learning and lists computer software programs appropriate to the development of (1) reading, writing, and study skills; (2) career and job development; and (3) word processing and other computer skills. (DB)