Student Learning and Study Strategies
by Carl Wenning, ISU Physics Teacher Education
Program
Strategy Training
- SQ3R (for managing texts)
- Survey
- Question
- Read
- Recite
- Review
- MURDER (for studying course content)
- set Mood for studying
- read for Understanding
- Digest readings thoroughly
- Recall what has been learned and correcting that recall
- Expand knowledge through self-questioning
- Review performance on tests to learn from mistakes
Characteristics of Successful Students
- effective study procedures
- promptness in completing work
- favorable opinions about teachers
- approval of educational objectives
Self-analysis of Studenting Behaviors
- Attitude/Emotion
- anxiety, motivation, attitudes
- Learning Skills
- reasoning and the elaboration of ideas through the use of
images and analogies
- Selecting Main Ideas
- identifying the key points in lectures or in a book
- Systematic or Organized Study Methods
- time management, concentration, study aids (practice exercises
and memory support)
- Assessment Strategies
- self-testing and test-taking preparation and execution
Academic Orientations
- Affect efforts students put into studying and its quality.
- Types of orientations:
- academic
- vocational
- personal
- social
- Learning styles might be:
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