Keys to Effective Learning: Study Skills and Habits for Success

Chapter 1 — Habits for Success:  Reality Check

Habit for Success:  Persist

Take Action: Prepare to Change a Habit

Real People Persist: Yvette Gomez, Graduate of the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

Powerful Questions about Persisting

Inside Tips from Sarah, Self-Management Coach

Habit Summary: Persist

 

Chapter 2 — Learning Styles: Building and Using Self-Knowledge

Habit for Success: Keep Learning

Real People Keep Learning: Dr. Joyce Bishop, Professor of Psychology at Golden West College

Take Action: Link How You Learn to Coursework and Major

Inside Tips from Carol, Career Coach

Powerful Questions about Continuing to Learn

 

Chapter 3 — Time and Money: Managing Important Resources

Habit for Success: Think Before You Act

Take Action: Make a To-Do List

Inside Tips from Joyce, Technology Coach

Powerful Questions about Thinking Before You Act

Real People Think Before They Act: Drs. Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins, Graduates of Seton Hall University

Take Action: Map Out Your Budget

Habit Summary: Think Before You Act

 

Chapter 4 — Setting and Reaching Goals: Using Values, Stress Management, and Teamwork

Habit for Success: Reach Out to Others

Take Action: Explore Your Core Values

Take Action: Create a SMART Goal Achievement Plan

Powerful Questions about Reaching Out to Others

Real People Reach Out to Others: Louise Gaile Edrozo, Graduate of the Registered Nursing Program at Highline Community College, Des Moines, Washington

Habit Summary: Reach Out to Others

 

Chapter 5 — Critical and Creative Thinking: Solving Problems and Making Decisions

Habit for Success: Create and Imagine

Take Action: Analyze a Statement

Real People Create and Imagine: Charlie Reinhardt, Graduate Student in Hotel Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Powerful Questions about Creating and Imagining

Take Action: Gather Evidence of Your Creativity

Inside Tips from Carol, Career Coach

Habit Summary: Create and Imagine

 

Chapter 6 — Memory: Maximizing Recall for Test Success

Habit for Success: Put Your Senses to Work

Real People Put Their Senses to Work Through the Power of Memory: Henry Gustav Molaison, a Man Without a Memory

Take Action: Linking Memorization and Critical Thinking

Inside Tips from Joyce, Technology Coach

Take Action: Create Your Own Mnemonic

Powerful Questions about Putting Your Senses to Work

Habit Summary: Put Your Sense to Work

 

Chapter 7 — Reading and Studying: Focusing on Print and Online Materials

Habit for Success: Ask Questions

Take Action: Survey a Text

Inside Tips from Sarah, Self-Management

Real People Ask Questions: Candace Payne, George Washington University, Pre-Med Student

Take Action: Mark Up a Page to Learn

Powerful Questions about Asking Questions

Habit Summary: Ask Questions

 

Chapter 8 — Reading Across the Disciplines: Math, Science, Social Science, and Literacy Texts

Habit for Success: Use What You Know

Powerful Questions about Using What You Know

Inside Tips from Joyce, Technology Coach

Real People Use What They Know to Learn and Solve Problems: Laban Seyoum, Political Science Graduate Student, Southern Connecticut State University

Take Action: Connect Courses in Different Disciplines to Your Own Success

Habit Summary: Use What You Know

 

Chapter 9 — Active Listening and Note Taking: Taking In and Recording Information

Habit for Success: Listen Actively

Powerful Questions about Listening Actively

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