Effective Study Skills

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Effective Study Skills

• Marcus Simmons
• Coordinator
• Office of Supportive and Disability Services
• Itawamba Community College

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Basic Rationale
Many students entering post-secondary education
seem to lack the study skills needed to be
successful. The research I conducted through this
project demonstrated a need for postsecondary
study skills courses. Most telling was a survey I
conducted at Itawamba Community College. A survey
was given to teachers and students to see what
their feelings were concerning students study
skill abilities and the need for an effective
study skills course.
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Contents

• Note taking
• Time Management Organizational Skills
• Effective Study Skills
• Taking Exams or Tests

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Note Taking
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Note Taking

• The Cornell Method
• The Outline Method
• The Mapping Method
• The Charting Method
• The Sentence Method

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The Cornell Method

• Jackson Mississippi
• The US Senate

• The capital of Mississippi.
• Serves for 6 years before having to run again.
  Each state has 2 senators

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The Cornell Method

• Advantages
• Organized and easy to review
• Good format for major concepts and ideas
• Simples and efficient
• Saves time
• Disadvantages
• None
• When to Use
• In any lecture type situation

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The Outline Method

• Extrasensory Perception
• Definition means of perceiving without use of
  organs
• Three kinds
• Telepathy sending messages
• Clairvoyance forecasting
• Psychokinesis perceiving events external to a
  situation
• Current Status
• No current research to support or refute
• Few psychologists say impossible

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The Outline Method

• Advantages
• Well organized if done correctly
• Reduces editing
• Easy to review
• Disadvantages
• Requires more in class thought
• May not show good sequence relationships
• Cannot use if the lecture is too fast
• When to Use
• Great to use when the lecture is presented in
  outline format
• Best when there is enough time during the lecture
  to really organize your thoughts well
• Best when you have mastered the note taking
  skills and are a better note taker than most
  people

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The Mapping Method
Extrasensory Perception
3 types
Telepathy Sending messages
Psychokinesis Perceiving events
Clairvoyance Forecasting
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The Mapping Method

• Advantages
• Can visually track lectures easily
• Little thinking required and relationship can be
  tracked easily
• Easy to edit later
• Reviewing easy conducted
• Easy to transfer to other means of studying like
  flashcards
• Disadvantages
• Hard to hear changes in content from major points
  to facts
• When to Use
• When the lecture is well organized
• Can be useful with guest lecturers when you are
  not familiar with what the lecture will be about

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The Charting Method
Period Important People Events 1941-1945 FDR W
W II
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The Charting Method

• Advantages
• Helps to track conversational style lectures
  better
• Reduces the amount of writing
• Easy to review facts and relationships
• Disadvantages
• Learning the system and being able to distinguish
  good categories or headings
• Must be able to understand the lecture well
• When to Use
• When tests focus on facts and relationships
• Content is heavy and presented very fast
• When you need to reduce editing time
• When you want to get a large overview of all of
  the material

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The Sentence Method
Example Lecture A revolution is any occurrence
that Affects other aspects of life, and so
forth. Therefore Revolutions cause change. (see
pages 29-30 in your Textbook about this).
Sample of Notes Revolution occurrence that
affects Aspects of lifeeg econ, soc, etc text
pp. 29-30 Develop your own set of abbreviations
and symbols.
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The Sentence Method

• Advantages
• Slightly more organized than paragraphs
• Gets most all of the information
• Disadvantages
• Hard to determine the major and minor points
• Difficult to edit without re-writing
• Difficult to review unless edited or re-written
• When to Use
• Lecture has to be organized well
• When you can hear the points but are unsure of
  their relationship during the lecture
• The instructor present points, but points are not
  grouped together well

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Evaluation/Test
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Rubric
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Prologue
The Effective Study Skills class open to all
students has been accepted and I will be teaching
one of the classes this fall semester. Also
An article from the paper I wrote in favor of
Effective Study Skills class was published and
can be viewed at Articles for
Educators http//articlesforeducators.com/dir/gene
ral/study_skills/college_study_skills.asp
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References
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Certification Crazy. Retrieved January 6, 2006
from, http//www.certification-crazy.net/study-
advice20method.htm Doyle, B. (2004).
Effective study techniques. Retrieved January 6,
2006 from Arkansas State University web site
http//www.clt.astate.edu/bdoyle/effective_studyt
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master student. (11th ed.). New York Houghton
Mifflin Company. Landsberger, J. (2005). The
SQ3R reading method. Study Guides and Strategies.
Retrieved February 10, 2006 from,
http//www.studygs.net/texred2/htm Lorphevre, T.
(2005). Core Skills Survival Guide. Retrieved
February 10, 2006 from London South Bank
University Core Skills Survival Guide web site
www.lsbu.ac.uk/caxton Note taking system.
(n.d). Retrieved February 10, 2006 from
California Polytechnic State University web
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students. LDOnLine. Retrieved October 4, 2005
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ques/memory_strategies.htm Seidman, A. (2005).
Program justification. Learning Support Centers
in Higher Education. Retrieved February 2, 2006
from, http//www.pvc.maricopa.edu/lsche/resource
s/program_just.htm Test taking and anxiety.
(2001). Retrieved January 6, 2006 from
Pennsylvania State University Learning Center
web site http//www.ulrc.psu.edu/studyskills/test
_taking.html