Power Study Tools

These video workshops can help high school and college students improve their study skills and enhance their success in school. These programs can be used for self-study or in workshops (a teaching manual is available). They can also be made accessible online through your school's library or learning center at group pricing; see the bottom of this page.

These workshops have been developed and are presented by Professor Kathy Kroll, director of Purdue's Liberal Arts Learning Center. To preview any of the workshops using Quicktime, click here.

Also, click here for information about using small groups to enhance the retention, success, and satisfaction of first-year college students.

Time Management
Students who fail to accomplish their objectives can learn how to work smarter, not harder. Demonstrates how to maintain concentration, master procrastination, and meet schedules through a user-friendly calendar system.

Lecture Notetaking
Provides systematic solutions. Presents methods of notetaking and easy-to-implement plan for assuring reliably accurate, effective notes and an efficient study strategy.

How Do I Show What I Know?
Students often complain that their grades are not a true reflection of their knowledge and test preparation. This workshop demonstrates how to set up review activities during the week preceding an exam, including organizing materials, setting goals for each course, and dividing the work load into manageable pieces. This review process allows students to overlearn material and operate at an optimal level despite the stress of an exam.

How Do I Know What to Study?
Studying for exams, especially finals, can be a very frustrating experience - just the amount of material can seem overwhelming. Demonstrates the benefits of a study guide to reduce stress and then gain mastery over material. Students are taught not to worry about learning everything but to reduce and organize the material so that it can be mastered.

How Can I Organize My Textbook Reading? or Unraveling the Textbook Maze
Students who are reading textbook material at the college level assume a great responsibility to study/learn information independently. Students unravel the textbook maze. The example of a college biology chapter is used to model prereading and surveying techniques. Once the students are familiar with the key concepts, she demonstrates how she would underline and mark a subsection of the text. After discussing several review techniques, she annotates the underlined information in the margin. Students who organize their textbook reading will discover the pleasure that comes from more frequent and sudden insights into the author's words.

Increasing Reading Efficiency: Rate and Comprehension
Demonstrates some of the key ideas in increasing reading efficiency. Students learn how to determine an appropriate rate of speed in various materials. They are urged to determine their purpose before reading and then to use their flexibility to speed up and slow down accordingly. Strategies to overcome faulty habits, such as rereading, are discussed. Also discussed are active strategies, such as proper phrasing and chunking of material, that can help students discover their ceiling speeds. By being willing to experiment, take risks, and above all practice, students can discover a reservoir of untapped potential.

Guidelines for Taking Multiple-Choice Exams
Discusses four rules for analyzing a multiple-choice exam. Each rule is followed by an example question. Helps students develop the ability to pinpoint the questions being asked. During the interactive segment, students apply all four rules to questions taken from real exams in various disciplines. An interactive segment allows students to work at their own pace.

Teacher/Facilitator Manual: Introduction to Effective Study Methods-- A Modular Approach (Printed Publication) Teacher's Edition outlines how you can extend the student's learning to their own materials within the classroom. The teacher's manual includes the student workbook.

Pricing

• Individual workshops
  Closed Captioned VHS
  Price: Call for pricing

• Teacher/Facilitator's Manual
  Price: Call for pricing

• VHS Package
  All workshops on closed captioned VHS videotape with teacher's manual
  Price: Call for pricing

• CD Packages (Multiple workshops on interactive CD-ROM)

• Success Skills 1: Lecture Notetaking, Reading Efficiency, Staying Focused, and Time Management
  Price: Call for pricing

• Success Skills 2: How Do I Know What to Study, How Do I Show What I Know, Multiple Choice Guidelines, and Organizing Your Textbook Reading
  Price: Call for pricing

• Combined Package: Success Skills 1 and 2, plus workbook
  Price: Call for pricing

To order or for more information,call 800-830-0269.

[BACK TO TOP]