This combined text and study guide is for use by high school and junior college students enrolled in first year technical drawing courses and can also be used by the instructors in conjunction with any standard drawing test. It was developed by the author and tested in local classes before publication. The major sections are (1) Drafting Room…

This study guide contains intensive review and practice tests as an aid in preparing for the Grades 1-8 Teaching Area Examination of the National Teacher Examination. The Teaching Area Examinations attempt to measure competency to teach in a specific field. [The Common Examinations are covered in the publication, "Barron's How to Prepare for…

PRESENTED HERE WAS A STUDY GUIDE FOR STUDENT USE IN A SEVENTH-GRADE LITERATURE CURRICULUM. INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL WAS PRESENTED ON GREEK MYTHS, NORSE MYTHOLOGY, AND AMERICAN INDIAN MYTHOLOGY. STUDY QUESTIONS, SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES, AND A REFERENCE BOOK OF MYTHS WERE PRESENTED. AN ACCOMPANYING GUIDE WAS PREPARED FOR TEACHERS (ED 010 140). (WN)

To examine various aspects of using small unit study guides, two experiments were conducted with 24 fifth-grade students. (Author/SBH)

Alternatives to the lecture in college teaching of literature. (AA)

Author explores the environmental and attitudinal factors that can make study hall an enjoyable and profitable place for teenagers. (GB)

Describes the development and use of a study guide in a general psychology class. Especially valuable were definitions that eliminated the need for classroom dictation. (CS)

A series of study guides was developed to accompany a mathematics textbook. The guides were designed not only to teach the content, but also to inculcate good study skills. Experiments verified that the guides were more effective than a lecture course. (BD)

Undergraduates were divided into four groups: (1) no study questions, multiple-choice test (n=71); (2) no questions, take-home test (n=71); (3) questions, no test (n=70); and (4) no questions, no test (n=67). The take-home group scored worst of all on novel information. They seem to have focused only on the required answers. (Contains 25…

Writers of correspondence course study guides should be aware of boundaries between oral and written language; differences between textbook and study guide prose; the need for direct address, informality, personalization, clarity, and simplicity; and the diverse tastes, learning styles, and levels of their audience. (SK)

Uses an ecologically valid environment to study where marginal gloss was employed as an adjunct comprehension aid in a college introductory education course. Finds that the gloss underpinned by phenomenological theory when combined with traditional gloss type is effective for long-term incidental learning and total test score. (RS)

Discusses the three roles that study guides have in facilitating learning. Explains that study guides assist in the management of student learning, provide a focus for student activities related to learning, and provide information on the subject or topic of learning. (Author/CCM)

Following up on earlier studies, the study reported in this paper further examined analogy as a source of interference to learning. Subjects, 103 undergraduate students randomly divided into three groups, studied a passage on Manichaeism with the aid of one of three forms of study guides: one having students generate comparisons between…

This report describes an approach to self-access work with first-year college students at Hong Kong University, explains the rejection to this approach, and outlines the current development of study guides for students in line with the adoption of an approach that seeks to provide a guided independence for students. The idea behind the study…

This brief guide on how to study efficiently was designed for minority engineering students and provides eight techniques to improve study habits and enhance learning and retention. The first seven suggestions are each accompanied by a methodology and an explanation of the purpose of the technique; the eighth pertains to the overall concept of…