Elizabeth Hamblet
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jan 2018
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know what they want to do and want to be successful are incredibly creative.
So I talk to students who say, you know what, I don't understand physics the way my professor explains it.
I get online at Khan Academy and that's where I find videos.
They go to office hours.
You know, if there's a TA in the class and they don't understand the professor, they go see the TA.
They form study groups.
They compare notes with others.
So that kind of active learning and use of strategies
really, I think, separates most students from the ones who are really doing quite well.
I think it's hard.
We really don't teach study strategies.
And I don't mean just how to study for an exam, but all of those kinds of things, how to read effectively.
One of the problems is in high school, you often get a textbook that's been very well developed with comprehension questions and section headers and things like that.
And then you go into poli-sci and the professor has, you know, in the course management system loaded 50 articles from political journals that you have to read.
And you don't have the luxury of question.
You know, he's not going to give you the questions to, you know, to sort of help you keep you on track.
So I teach a lot of my students a very well-worn strategy that's not specific to LD or ADD called SQ3R, which, and you can look it up online.
It stands for survey, question,
read, recite, review, which is just a strategy to try to get more out, create questions before you read to be answered when you read so that you have some sense of what you're looking at and, you know, have some way to be accountable to yourself for what you read, you know, see where your holes are, go back and look for it.
So being active learners, I think, really is the thing that I see in students and what the studies show, you
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