Study Skills Links
Explore the following links for information and interactive assessments geared towards sharpening your study skills.
NOTE: While the following external links are provided here in the belief that the information they lead to will be of use to you as a UNCW student, they connect to sites not sponsored or maintained by the University Learning Center or UNCW. No guarantee, express or implied, is made concerning the reliability of or access to information at such sites, nor regarding privacy of your information as you visit those sites.
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General Study Skills
Exploring How Students Learn (Bill Cerbin, director of the Center for Advancing Teaching & Learning, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Flashcard Machine (a site to create online flashcards)
Full Frontal Learning (study strategies from McMaster University)
How to Get the Most Out of Studying (Samford University video series)
How to Study (a comprehensive study skills resource site)
Khan Academy (educational videos on a vast array of topics)
Learn Well ("transforming good students into great learners" -the Learn Well Projects website)
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT - resources for different courses from agriculture to world languages)
Study Guides and Strategies (an educational public service)
Ten Studying Traps (NC State) [PDF]
Where and How to Study (Dartmouth College)
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Specific Study Skills
Class Participation: Making Contributions that Count (Princeton UniversityI
Classroom Listening & Note Taking (St. John's University)
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Critical Thinking (The Foundation for Critical Thinking) - an in-depth examination of critical thinking skills
Critical Thinking Guidelines (University of Victoria)
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Essay test tips (St. John's University)
Learning Express Library (An online collection of practice tests and study aides) [also linked from Randalll Library]
Looking over Returned Tests (Middle Tennessee State University)
Test Taking Skills (St. John's University)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hemispheric Dominance [Right Brain/Left Brain Questionnaire] in Learning Styles (Middle Tennessee State)
Learning Styles Questionnaire (Felder & Soloman - North Carolina State)
VARK Learning Preferences Inventory (Fleming and Bonwell)
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Remembering What You Read (St. John's University)
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Increasing Motivation (University of Victoria)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lecture Notes (St. John's University)
Listening to the Lecture (California Polytechnic)
Note Taking Systems (California Polytechnic)
Taking Lecture and Class Notes (Dartmouth College)
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Survey to Discover if Online Learning Is Right for You (Georgia Perimeter College)
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6 Reading Myths (Dartmouth College)
How to Read Texts (University of Victoria)
The QUASAR method (University of Southampton)
Reading & Remembering (University of Canberra)
Reading Skills (University of Southampton)
Reading Textbooks Effectively and Efficiently - includes SQ3R method (Dartmouth College)
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Research Guides [also Course Guides & Online Tutorials] (UNCW Randall Library)
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General Testing info:
Building a Better Vocabulary (The Guide to Grammar and Writing - the Capital Community Collge Fund)
Learning Express Library (An online collection of practice tests and study aides) [also linked from Randalll Library]
Overcoming Text Anxiety (University of Florida)
Standardized Test Practice (GRE, PRAXIS, GMAT, LSAT, etc)
Vocabulary builder (online vocabulary quizzes)
GRE:
Educational Testing Service (company that produces the GRE test)
UNCW Professional Education page (info about GRE prep courses--fee required)
PRAXIS:
Educational Testing Service (company that produces the PRAXIS test)
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10 Things to Know About Test Anxiety (Graduate Educational Information Service)
Overcoming Text Anxiety (University of Florida)
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Managing Your Time (Dartmouth College)
Time Calculator (Virginia Tech)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
American Sign Language (ASLPro)
Chemistry Terms & Concepts (Purdue University)
Chemistry Quiz & Tutorial (Dr. Fred Senese, Frostburg State University)
Organic Chemistry Resources (Joint Science Department of the Claremont Colleges)
Foreign Language Online Dictionaries (WordReference.com)
French Grammar (University of Texas)
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