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These are study strategies that she may have learned from her friends or her teachers or that she simply took to on her own. she isnot unusual in this regard; many students rely on strategies such as highlighting, rereading, and cramming the night before an exam.  \nQuite often, students believe these relatively ineffective strate-  \nJohn Dunloskyis a professor of psychology and the director of experimental training at Kent State University. His research focuses on self-regulated learning and how it can be used to improve student achievement across the lifespan.  \nthey do seem sound, perhaps because, even after pulling an allnighter, students manage to squeak by on exams. Unfortunately, in a recent review of the research, my colleagues and I found that these strategies are not that effective,2 especially if students want to retain their learning and understanding of content well after  \nthe exam is over—obviously, an important educational goal.  \nso, why aren’t students learning about the best strategies? I can only speculate, but several reasons seem likely. curricula are developed to highlight the content that teachers should teach, so the focus is on providing content and not on training students how to effectively acquire it. Put differently, the emphasis is on what students need to learn, whereas little emphasis—if any—is placed on training students how they should go about learning the content and what skills will promote efficient studying to support robust learning. Nevertheless, teaching students how to learn is as important as teaching them content, because acquir-  \n12 AMERICAN EDUCATOR | FALL 2013  \ning both the right learning strategies and background knowledge is important—if not essential—for promoting lifelong learning.  \nAnother reason many students may not be learning about effective strategies concerns teacher preparation. learning strategies are discussed in almost every textbook on educational psychology, so many teachers likely have been introduced to at least some of them. even so, my colleagues and I found that, in large part, the current textbooks do not adequately cover the strategies; some omit discussion of the most effective ones, and most do not provide guidelines on how to use themin the classroom or on how to teach students to use them. In some cases, the strategies discussed have limited applicability or benefit.3 so I sympathize with teachers who want to devote some class time to teaching students how to learn, because teacher preparation typically does not emphasize the importance of teaching students to use effective learning strategies. Moreover, given the demands of day-to-day teaching, teachers do not have time to figure out which strategies are best.  \nthe good news is that decades of research has focused on evaluating the effectiveness of many promising strategies for helping students learn. Admittedly, the evidence for many of these strategies is immense and not easily deciphered, especially given the technical nature of the literature. Thus, to help promote the teaching and use of effective learning strategies, my colleagues* and I reviewed the efficacy of 10 learning strategies:  \n1. Practice testing: self-testing or taking practice tests onto-be-learned material.  \n2. Distributed practice: implementing a schedule of practice that spreads out study activities over time.  \n3. Interleaved practice: implementing a schedule of practice that mixes different kinds of p","cbCaijYvB2QtunHz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijYvB2QtunHz","pdf",359653,"English","# Strengthening the Student Toolbox\n## Common student study practices and their limits\n## Why effective strategies are not widely taught\n## Teacher preparation and textbook coverage\n## Research review of 10 learning strategies\n## Key reviewed strategies overview","[{\"question\":\"Why do students often rely on highlighting, rereading, and cramming?\",\"answer\":\"Students typically adopt these strategies from friends and teachers or from their own habits. 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