Tutoring Target Popluations
Due to individual choices about study habits or because of environmental adversities where the student had no control, some client/tutees need assistance with fundamental study strategies. The following site map was provided courtesy of Syracuse Universtiy, and it provides links for addressing the underlying struggles beneath the course subject matter.
Learning Strategies for Success
Anxiety
Test Anxiety
Looks at the causes, signs, and effects of test anxiety and offers ways to reduce it. Information from the Counseling Center, State University of New York at Buffalo.
Test anxiety can be both a hindrance . . . and a help. See what your Debilitating Anxiety Score is, and what your Facilitating Anxiety Score is. This link will take you to the Center for Psychological Services at Wright State University in Ohio:
The Counseling Center at University of Illinois has great tips on reducing test anxiety:
www.couns.uiuc.edu/Brochures/testanx.htm
Distractions
Test Yourself for Study Distractions
Take this Study Environment Analysis to find the best location for you to study. Offered by the Virginia Tech, Division of Student Affairs & Cook Counseling Center.
Exams / Tests
Preparing for Exams
From group study to mind-mapping the test, Syracuse University's TSC & SSUI offer a few steps to prepare you for exam SUccess.
After Exam Analysis
Use your exam as a learning experience. Use this Exam Analysis chart to make sense out of your mistakes so you don't make them again. Visit the TSC for a more indepth analysis as well.
Test-Taking Multiple Choice Test
Reviewing, forgetting, and the value of spaced review. Become a better test-taker at the TSC.
Test-Taking Strategies for Computer-Based Exams
Computer-Adaptive Format
The Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) consists of four separately timed sections. Each of the first two sections consists of an analytical writing task; the remaining two sections (Quantitative and Verbal) consist of multiple-choice questions delivered in a computer-adaptive format. Questions in these sections are dynamically selected as you take the test; the multiple-choice questions will adjust to your ability level, and your test will be unique.
ARCO's GMAT Frequently Asked Questions about CAT See how you can use the GMAT to your best advantage.
Goals
Setting Goals
Set goals that are specific, measurable, acceptable, realistic, & adhere to a set time frame. Smart Goals by the Universtiy of Victoria, Counselling Services.
Learning Acquisition
Mind Tools
"Helping you to think your way to an excellent life!" Offered by Mind Tools Ltd.
Learning Styles
Myers-Briggs Personality Test
Free on-line adapted Myers-Briggs personality style test.
The Keirsey Temperament - Different Drums, Different Drummers
Determine your personality portrait. David Keirsey website offers the Keirsey Temperament Sorter I/II and Keirsey Temperament Theory from his books, Please Understand Me or Please Understand Me II.
The Vark Inventory
No. It's not aadvark. It's visual, aural, reading, kinesthetic!
Classic Intelligence Quotient
Did you always want to know what the mystery was with all this IQ stuff? Here's your chance to find out.
Emotional Intelligence
EQ (Emotional Quotient) may be a bigger predictor of success than IQ.
Jung Typology Test
Where are you on the judging,sensing,thinking and intuitive scale?
Math
Self-instructional Mathematics Tutorials
Click here for a review of algebra, fractions, graphs, linear relationships, and more. This site gives you a refresher in math skills for chemistry, economics, political science, psychology, and other introductory courses.
How To Study Math (and Why)
Appendix E of Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason, Volume 2, Three Skills for Algebra. Site author, Alan Shelby.
Ten Ways to Reduce Math Anxiety
Professor Freeman's mathpower.com website at Camden County College
Math Forum
Math Resources for students, teachers, & researchers. Offered by Drexel University,
Memory
Tools for Improving Your Memory
Memory Techniques: mnemonics, techniques, and methods to help you remember the details. Offered by Mind Tools, Ltd.
Ten Principles of Memory
Adapted from Walter Pauk's How to Study in College, Fifth Ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993 by the Tutoring & Study Center at SU.
Procrastination
Overcoming Procrastination
Why do you procrastinate? How can you overcome it? SUNY, University of Buffalo, Student Affairs.
Reading
Scrolls and Textmapping: The Textmapping Project
Improve your comprehension by scrolling and mapping your reading assigments. It's fast, easy, low-tech, and effective.
Six Reading Myths
Martha Maxwell at www.dartmouth.edu
Specific Subjects
How to study (your subject)...
Scroll down the Chemeketa Community College Study Skills Resources Page for a wealth of information on How to Study! Don't miss this site.
Study Skills
Jane's Top Ten Study Tips
Drumroll please....check out the top study tips from Jane Neuburger, Director of the Tutoring & Study Center.
Study Skills Links
Here are some additional weblinks for learning strategies and study skills organized by Dr. Carolyn Hopper at the Developmental Studies Department, Middle Tennessee State University.
University of St. Thomas
Study Guides and Strategies in Multiple Languages.
Taking Notes
Cornell Note-Taking for Lecture Notes
This may be the method for you! For more details, see Jane Neuburger at the TSC.
Taking Notes From Lectures
Here are a few more suggestions for note-taking. University of Minnesota, Duluth, Student Handbook.
Time Management
Suggestions for Managing Time
Learn to make a schedule (and then adapt). Information provided by the Tutoring & Study Center.
Making the Most of Your Time
Prioritizing, planning, and achieving your goals. Offered by Mind Tools, Ltd.
What Will You Do With Your Time?
We all have 168 hours per week. Make the most of them! The Tutoring & Study Center.
Writing
MLA Formatting and Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue
APA Formatting and Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue
OWL-Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling
The Writing Center-Georgetown University
Useful Online Resources for Writers
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