Learners and Learning: Teaching Students Study Skills/How to Learn

Learning how to study is the key to college success. The first three links below will provide students with tips and strategies for effective studying and test-taking. Instructors can put these links on their syllabi or refer students to them as needed. The last three links are articles for faculty, describing methods they can use in classes to help students learn course material.

Study Guides and Strategies (University of Illinois at Chicago, Academic Center for Excellence).
An inclusive site for students that covers time management, studying, learning through lectures and reading, taking exams, writing, and studying for particular courses.
Link: http://www.uic.edu/depts/counselctr/ace/practic1.htm

Helpful Study Skills Links (University of St. Thomas).
Links at this site guide students to information on note-taking, studying, and test-taking. Includes strategies for some specific disciplines.
Link: http://www.stthomas.edu/academicsupport/helpful_study_skills_links.htm

Study Guides and Strategies maintained by Joseph F. Landsberger.
Student guides for many aspects of studying and learning.
Link: http://www.studygs.net/

"Teaching Students How to Learn," Bridget Murray ,Monitor on Psychology, Vol. 31, No. 6, June 2000.
This article contains methods instructors can use to teach students to take charge of their learning and self-regulate.
Link: http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun00/howtolearn.html

"Getting Students to Read: Fourteen Tips," Eric H. Hobson, Georgia Southern University (IDEA Paper #40, July 2004).
Ways to motivate students to do the course reading and methods to assist them in learning from it.
Link: http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_40.pdf

"Research on Student Notetaking: Implications for Faculty and Graduate Student Instructors," Deborah DeZure, Matthew Kaplan, Martha Deerman. (CRLT Occasional Paper #16, 2001, University of Michigan, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching).
This article reviews research on notetaking and students' review of their notes; includes lecture strategies that support effective notetaking and ways to support students with disabilities. Provides a handout for students: Student Guide to Effective Notetaking and Review.
Link: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/CRLT_no16.pdf