Study Habits – CSc 21

New York TimesReport

September 6, 2010

Individual Learning

Study Habits:• Find a specific place (study room or quiet corner

of the library)• Stick to a homework schedule – one “skill” at a

time (intensive immersion)

e.g. Cramming

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Instruction

• Match “learning styles”

Visual

Auditory

“left brain”

“right brain”• Best practice teaching styles• Avoid the “teach to the test” approach

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Motivation Matters!!!

• No formula – “one size (or one approach) fits all”• “… so does impressing friends, making the

hockey team and finding the nerve to text the cute student in social studies.”

• Your study plan…

“… based on evidence, not schoolyard folk wisdom, or empty theorizing.”

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