Study Skills Tips

Quiz

List five things you can do in your classes to facilitate student success.

1. Inform students about the skills necessary for success. Help students evaluate their skills.
   
   
2. Make sure students know that prerequisites, co-requisites and advisories are serious.
   
   
3. Encourage students to improve their study skills. Incorporate a little study skills training into your classes. Make sure students are keeping track (realistically) of their progress and performance in the class.
   
   
4. Inform students about the time requirements to be successful in your class. Let them know you are serious.
   
   
5. Motivate students by making classes as interesting as you can, challenging without being overwhelming and relevant when possible.

Feedback

1. What do you do when a student comes to your office with the complaint that she cannot remember anything that she is reading?
   
   
2. A student has failed your midterm test and protests that he studied hard for it. What questions would you ask him in order to isolate the factors involved in his failure and to help him know how to succeed on the next test?

Transcriber to Dream Format, Barbara S. Lindemann

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