Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success : A Self-management Approach

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UNDERSTANDING LEARNING AND MEMORY 49


  1. Evaluate Your Learning Strategies


Think about the learning strategies you used in high school or in your
last educational environment. How did you memorize basic material?
How did you learn concepts in history, chemistry, and mathematics?
If you had to do it over again, how would you improve your learning
strategies in high school? Are you using the same strategies in college?
What changes in your learning and study strategies do you think you
have to make this year?


  1. Prepare Study Materials


This chapter presented a number of strategies that promote learning.
Identify a student in your class to review the content in this chapter
and together develop a plan for studying the material in the chapter.
Identify each study strategy you will use and discuss how you will
apply the strategy.

Answers to Exercise 2.4


  1. R2. E3. E4. O5. E6. E7. R8. O

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