Education Research Report: Students’ Understanding Of The Equal Sign Not Equal

Education Research Report: Students’ Understanding Of The Equal Sign Not Equal

Research: College undergrads study ineffectively on computers

by Jonathan Kantrowitz

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Students transfer bad study habits from paper to screen

In the space of one generation, college students have gone from studying with highlighters and wire notebooks to laptops, netbooks and, now, iPads.

But despite the prevalence of technology on campuses, a new study indicates that computers alone can't keep students from falling into their same weak study habits from their ink-and-paper days.

"Our study showed that achievement really takes off when students are prompted to use more powerful strategies when studying computer materials," said the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Ken Kiewra, an expert in study methods and one of the authors of the study.


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