Posts Tagged ‘best ways to learn’
How to use your college vacation wisely
Congratulations, collegian! After a semester of hard work, you’ve earned a well-deserved rest. Enjoy the holidays, spend time with family and old friends, and don’t drink too much eggnog. Many of our students have been asking whether there is anything they can do over the break to make sure they get off to a strong [...]
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SAT Prep Week: Vocabulary
For many high school seniors, this weekend will be the last chance to improve those all-important SAT scores. So how should you prepare with so little time remaining? This week we’ll focus on practical steps you can take to boost your performance and use these critical last few days most effectively. Here are some [...]
Learning how to learn
In its 2011 version, the National Survey of Student Engagement found that the vast majority of students don’t implement new study strategies during their time in college. Whether you are a high school, college, or even graduate student, you should always be working to improve your study skills. Here are a few learning strategies the [...]
Don’t Let Your Brain Take A Vacation
Summer is here. While your schedule may be more lax, your mind shouldn’t be. University of Missouri-Columbia psychology professor, Dr. Harris Cooper, gives a good reason for students to keep last year’s notebooks open this summer. His study shows that students lose one to three months worth of learning over summer break. The study also found that “the negative [...]
Learn to Play the Game
As with all things in life, you need to learn how to play the game to win. Online tutoring cannot be used as a safety net for those who skip class or miss class assignments. Government findings have concluded that “instruction conducted entirely online is as effective as classroom instruction but no better.” It is only [...]
Success Leads to Adoption
By the 2004-2005 school year, The National Center for Education Statistics discovered that 37 percent of school districts offered technology-supported distance education courses. Enrollment in this combination of two-way videos and online tools was estimated to be 506,950, a remarkable 60% increase over just two years before. As the impressive results rolled in, online education [...]
Online tutoring – not new, but certainly improved
‘Distance education,’ or that of learning outside of a classroom by means of technology, has been around for many years, serving as an alternative to face-to-face learning. As early as 2000, studies showed telecommunicated education to be just as effective as learning in a classroom. The difference between then and now however, is the advent [...]
The Edge to Get Ahead
Have you been looking for a supplement for your learning that will really boost your grades? The U.S . Department of Education recently released the results of a meta-analysis of studies on the efficacy of different teaching methods. The study combed through over one-thousand independently conducted studies and analyzed those which were found to fit [...]
