helping your students succeed academical ly

Some thoughts and recommendations

Cochise College Convocation August 15, 2011 1

Cochise College Convocation August 15, 2011

About Your PresenterWhy Help Students with Learning & Study Strategies?Some Learning & Study Strategies for Course SuccessResourcesNext Steps

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Instructional Background

USMA InstructorLoyola College (Baltimore, MD)St. Vincent College (Latrobe, PA)Loyola University (Los Angeles, CA)UCLA Graduate SchoolCSU Long Beach (CA)Grambling State University (LA)


Learner Support Background

High SchoolCollege CorporateFaculty DevelopmentPublicationsPresentationsConsulting


Cochise College, 1986, 2000, 2002, Scottsdale Community College, 1987Paradise Valley College, 1987 Paradise Valley CC, 1987Phoenix Comm. College, 1987 Central Arizona College, 1993Pima Community College District 2003UA/CC Title V Workshop 2005

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Why Study Skills For College Students?

"Most university students have never been formally taught to learn how to study, either in high school or college.“Gardner, L. (1998). Why we must change: The research evidence. Thought and Action. 14 (Spring), 71-88

“Many drop-outs and flunk outs are bright enough to do good college work, but have never learned how to study effectively, nor how to take tests and do good written work.” Hodgkinson, H.L. (1985). All one system. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Educational Leadership, 17

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http://www.lsche.net/resources/program_just.htm


Time Out . . .Time Out . . .

For Sharing

and Questioning


Time Management for Academic Success *Study reading Course Textbooks and Collateral MaterialListening Notemaking *Writing AssistanceResearch AssistanceMath AssistanceTest and Exam SuccessCourse Specific SkillsMemory *Other: College Success: The First Week and Beyond *

*Available from H & H at http://www.hhpublishing.com/hhstore/detail.html?sku=LAB_PACKET

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Learning & Study Strategies Links

1. Study Guides and Strategies, contains more than 100 items and translations of most items into 18 languages. http://www.studygs.net/

2. Chemeketa CC Study Skills Resources. Includes links to specific learning assistance from Accounting to Theater courses.Retrieved February 23, 2007 from http://www.howtostudy.org/

Faculty Resources http:// www.lsche.net


Guide to Grammar & Writing http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Purdue’s Writing Lab/OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center http://www.wisc.edu/writing/

Sierra Vista Library Free Tutoring


Time Out . . .Time Out . . .

For Sharing

and Questioning


Ancillary Texts

Single Topic Study Skills LABS

Any Study Skills Text of Choice


Study Strategies: Can We Justify at the College Level?

References to Answer Questions Like the Following:

Do students need such programs? Do such programs work? Are programs cost-effective? Do they help to retain students? Are learning skills important for academic success? Why should we develop a learning assistance support program?

Traditional Solutions

Instructor as Learning Skills Mentor

Overviewing the Course Text Reviewing Student Notes

Feedbacking Student Projects

Instructor as Services Broker

In class Learning Skills Workshops

Referral to Support Programs Recommend Skills Workshops Supplemental Instruction


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Learning Support Centers in Higher Education



Face to Face Computer Disk

Correspondence CD

Telephone E-mail

Audiocassette Web Pages

Television CMS

Videocassette Courseware

Blogs & Wikis Podcasts

Student Support Possibilities

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Support Student Learning





Learning Support Center Directors & Staff Everywhere17



Unfinished Business

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