Essential Study Strategies

Essential Study Strategies
Author: Walter Pauk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2000
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN:

This unique, concise book uses a conversational tone to encourage readers and students to immediately improve their learning experience. It provides inspiration and incentive for studying and achieving an education--along with easy-to-understand skills and strategies to become more effective in school. Strategies include setting goals, time management, concentration, and memory. Study skills coverage includes the Cornell Notetaking System and other formats, test taking, vocabulary building, classroom lectures, textbook assignments, and research papers. Two learning and study strategies inventories are provided to give meaningful information about the strengths and weaknesses of the student's study patterns in ten areas directly related to academic success. For students who want to improve their study skills and the quality of their education.

Studying for Your Future

Studying for Your Future
Author: Angela Hepworth
Publisher: www.UoLearn.com
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849370478

Studying for your future. Successful study skills, time management, employability skills and career development. University study is about both the topic you've chosen and preparing yourself for your future career. As the job market has become more and more competitive, it is the transferable skills that students have that will get them that all important first job. Personal development planning (PDP) is the route to help students take control of their own development. This will enable them to become independent life long learners and far more employable. A checklist to put together a portfolio to show a prospective employer. Learn the skills to prepare you for your degree. Help you with literature reviews, referencing and writing skills. Goal setting to help you focus on your future. Sort out your time planning. Improve your study skills and exam preparation. Prepare you for employability. Help you to carry out a career search and improve your interview technique. How to write a great CV, covering letter and fill in your job application. Free downloadable exercises from uolearn . A huge toolbox of skills for success to help you get your dream job. About the author - Angela Hepworth Angela has been teaching for over twenty years in both Further and Higher Education. Her expertise is in developing students' academic skills on their degree programmes and also encouraging students to achieve their goals along their journey, both personally and professionally. Angela has taught over 15,000 students and every one has been of upmost importance in helping her to also achieve her own personal achievements, growth and job satisfaction. She is indebted to the students that have taken her advice and then gone on to achieve their goals. It is an honour to be in such job that allows for such an exchange of motivation and inspiration to take place. What do people think? Through personal development planning (PDP) I have learned the skills appropriate for my job field and know how.

Study Strategies Plus

Study Strategies Plus
Author: Sandi Sirotowitz
Publisher: Specialty Press/A.D.D. Warehouse
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781886949119

This book of exercises and lessons helps students develop study strategies that include organization, reading comprehension, note-taking skills, and test-taking skills. It first describes the executive functions of the brain, the processes that help people stay organized, manage time, pay attention, plan future behavior, and inhibit behavior, then provides the practical strategies needed to develop those functions.

Winning at Math

Winning at Math
Author: Paul D. Nolting
Publisher: Academic Success Press Inc.
Total Pages: 308
Release:
Genre: Math anxiety
ISBN: 9780940287341

Every student must pass math courses to graduate. Doing well in math can both increase your career choices and allow you to graduate. "Winning at Math" will help you improve your math grades -- quickly and easily. The format of "Winning at Math" has bene revised to make it easier to read, and it contains much more proven math study skills techniques. The chapter on test anxiety has been expanded to assist students with math anxiety not just test anxiety. -- From publisher's description

Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students

Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students
Author: Kevin Gallagher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198724004

Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students offers a comprehensive, one-stop guide that will equip you with all the necessary skills needed to enhance your success both during university and in your future working environment. It covers all the core areas associated with business and management degrees, and offers a unique focus on employability to ensure that you can translate the skills you acquire into professional practice. This third edition has been fully revised to include a new group activity in each chapter, as well as updated activities throughout to reinforce the skills introduced in each chapter. The content and structure of the book has been updated to focus more effectively on core areas such as the use of quantitative data, and the development of professional skills and employability. With the main focus of the book firmly on active experimentation and reflection, Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students remains unparalleled as a resource to support, encourage, and develop business and management students throughout their time at university and beyond. Online Resource Centre: For students: Selected activities from the text (including templates to complete online) Answer guidance on writing style and using a narrative approach Critical incidents log Excel workbook to provide additional support in areas such as constructing pie charts, bar charts, and line charts Information on using Excel in data analysis Web links YouTube channel featuring relevant videos on skills, including interviews with students and graduates that accompany the book For lecturers: PowerPoint slides

Make It Stick

Make It Stick
Author: Peter C. Brown
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2014-04-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0674729013

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners. Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned. Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.

Teaching and Learning Employability Skills in Career and Technical Education

Teaching and Learning Employability Skills in Career and Technical Education
Author: Will Tyson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030587444

This book examines how industry-desired employability skills—or “soft skills”—are taught and learned in high school career and technical education (CTE) engineering and engineering technology programs. Identifying, recruiting, and keeping workers with strong personal and interpersonal skills is a constant challenge for STEM employers who need to hire young workers to replace an aging technical workforce. To answer the call, teachers interviewed explained that they maintain regimented daily classroom routines that include individual and small group hands-on activities and projects. In turn, their students explain learning personal responsibility, work ethic, teamwork, leadership, conflict management, and social skills in the classroom. Narratives from the workforce and classroom interweave to put employability skills frameworks into action.

Beyond the Skills Gap

Beyond the Skills Gap
Author: Matthew T. Hora
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-01-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1612509894

2018 Frederic W. Ness Book Award, AAC&U How can educators ensure that young people who attain a postsecondary credential are adequately prepared for the future? Matthew T. Hora and his colleagues explain that the answer is not simply that students need more specialized technical training to meet narrowly defined employment opportunities. Beyond the Skills Gap challenges this conception of the “skills gap,” highlighting instead the value of broader twenty-first-century skills in postsecondary education. They advocate for a system in which employers share responsibility along with the education sector to serve the collective needs of the economy, society, and students. Drawing on interviews with educators in two- and four-year institutions and employers in the manufacturing and biotechnology sectors, the authors demonstrate the critical importance of habits of mind such as problem solving, teamwork, and communication. They go on to show how faculty and program administrators can create active learning experiences that develop students’ skills across a range of domains. The book includes in-depth descriptions of eight educators whose classrooms exemplify the effort to blend technical learning with the cultivation of twenty-first-century habits of mind. The study, set in Wisconsin, takes place against the backdrop of heated political debates over the role of public higher education. This thoughtful and nuanced account, enriched by keen observations of postsecondary instructional practice, promises to contribute new insights to the rich literature on workforce development and to provide valuable guidance for postsecondary faculty and administrators.