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The Active Learner: Successful Study Strategies

The Active Learner: Successful Study Strategies

Brown, Sallie A.
Miller, Douglas E.
Kerstiens, Gene

Paperback

LinguisticsTeaching InstructionTest Prep

ISBN10: 0195329864
ISBN13: 9780195329865
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 1 2000
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.76
Height: 0.74 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
This text offers a metacognitive approach that develops an awareness of students' thought processes, study strategies, attitudes, and habits. It discusses how students can learn more in less time and with greater ease and confidence, and the book's modular format accommodates the emerging needs of any learning environment.

Practice exercises are keyed to two new text excerpts. Together with an array of study-reading techniques, the authors introduce proven strategies for vocabulary building, memory improvement, test-taking skills, and library research strategies. The book incorporates the latest research in learning theory and features an array of optional strategies, resulting in great flexibility of presentation and application for instructors.

The authors consider student goals, lifestyles, and learning styles as factors that affect student understanding. Students take brief diagnostic surveys followed by guided practice in strategies to improve performance on certain tasks.

The Third Edition offers the following additional improvements:

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