Three
Things You Need To Do To Do Well in This Course!
Last year, Dr. Jeff Ratliff-Crain, your instructor,
Kathryn Gonier Klopfleisch from the Academic Assistance Center, teamed
up to figure out how students could improve their grades in this course.
After studying test scores, the answers to four surveys, and 85 pages
of transcripts from interviews with Psych 1051 students, we
realized
that every last one of the successful students did three things. . .
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1)
Read ahead:
Every successful student
we interviewed read 6 or 8 pages each night. By the time they got
to lecture, they were already familiar with the material that would
be covered. |
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2)
Made connections:
All of the A/B students we worked with made a conscious
effort to connect the new material they were learning with something
else in their lives. They analyzed themselves and their friends, and
learned vocabulary by thinking up examples about it and discussing
them with friends. |
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3)
Studied Smart:
Our research showed that all students, whether they earned A’s
or F’s, studied about the same number of hours each week. This
means that studying “more” might not improve your grade.
Studying “smarter”
is the most important thing. |
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