Are Your Study Habits Hurting Your Grades?
Everybody thinks they know how to study. There is so much information that is repeated and ingrained into every student’s brain that there is no reason to question effectiveness of the common methods. Recent studies have called some of these ideas into question though by providing some evidence based data to the study lore. Below are some research based study methods that will help you improve your study habits and hopefully your grades and understanding of a subject. Alternate the place where you study can help improve retention. One experiment had one group of college students study a list of vocabulary words in two distinctly different places and another group limit their studying to one room. The group that changed their location did far better. This finding has been confirmed in several subsequent studies. (Carey D.1) Check out this list of great study spaces at D'Youville (not all are in the Montante Family Library). Do you bel...