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How to Approach Learning: What teachers and students should know about succeeding in school

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Academic success is rooted in a number of factors, of which 'intelligence' is only one. Attitude and beliefs, and knowledgeable strategy use, are critical. This is the core message of this collection of articles and research reports on study skills from the author's websites, arranged and edited for greater cohesiveness. Its aim is to describe and provide evidence for concepts and strategies that may change your approach to teaching or studying.

The book contains articles on:

  • personal factors that affect academic achievement: motivation, persistence, anxiety, intelligence, self-regulation
  • choosing strategies that are effective for the situation
  • what 'transfer' is and why it's important
  • how experts develop expertise
  • the idea of 'desirable difficulties'
  • the limits of memorization and rote learning
  • some useful strategies in:
    • reading
    • note-taking
    • reaching understanding.

This book is for students who are serious about being successful in study, and teachers who want to know how best to help their students learn.

As always with the Mempowered books, the short book is fully referenced.

 

 

How to approach your teaching or learning

What you need for successful learning

Intelligence isn’t as important as you think

The role of motivation on academic performance

Anxiety

Maybe persistence has nothing to do with self-control

Self-regulation

Choosing your strategies

Metamemory

Using strategies effectively

Assessing strategy

Successful Transfer

Preventing interference between topics or skills

Context & the conditionalization of knowledge

About expert knowledge

Desirable difficulty for effective learning

Should learning facts by rote be central to education?

Strategies for successful study

Reading

Working memory, expertise & retrieval structures

Understanding scientific text

Novices' problems with scientific text

Identifying text structures

Why good readers might have reading comprehension difficulties and how to deal with them

Speed Reading

Effects of diagram orientation on comprehension

Note-taking

Notetaking examples

Outlines and Graphic organizers

Concept maps

Visual language

Students fail to connect without explicit instruction

Better learning through handwriting

Reaching Understanding

Elaborating the information for better remembering

Asking better questions

Metacognitive questioning and the use of worked examples

Final Remarks

 

 

Formats: Digital only (pdf; mobi; ePub)

Size: 90 pages

Publisher: Wayz Press (May, 2015)

ISBN:

978-1-927166-29-1 (mobi)

978-1-927166-28-4 (ePub)