Study Smarts: How to Learn More in Less Time

Appendix

APPENDIX HELPFUL BOOKS Armstrong, William H., Study Is Hard Work: The Most Accessible and Lucid Text Available on Acquiring and Keeping Study Skills Through a Lifetime (2nd Edition, David RGodine, 1998). Buzan, Tony, Use Both Sides of Your Brain (3rd Edition, E. P. Dutton, 1991). Frank, Steven, Speed Reading Secrets (BackPack Study Series/ Adams Media Corp., 1998). Kesselman-Turkel, Judi, and Peterson, Franklynn, Test-Taking Strategies (2nd Edition, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Pauk, Walter, How to Study in College (7th Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2000). Note: describes OK4R note-taking technique . Rivers, William L., and Harrington, Susan L., Finding Facts: Research Writing Across the Curriculum (2nd Edition, Prentice Hall College Division, 1996). Robinson, Adam, What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades, Optimum Learning, Minimum Time (Crown Publishers, 1993). 83 84 STUDY SMARTS USEFUL SOFTWARE AND WEBSITES There are many inexpensive programs that make flash cards for studying at the computer or printing out. Here are two: FlashCard Pro: $9.95, for Windows only (MicroACE Software ). There is a downloadable demo at the website www. memorize.com. Flashcard Wizard: free shareware but a donation is accepted. For Macintosh and PowerPC Macintosh (The Fool's Workshop ). The program can be downloaded at the website www.foolsworkshop.com. There are also many inexpensive good speed-reading and touchtyping programs for sale. Detailed lists with brief product reviews can be found at the website www.simplythebest. net/shareware/educational. For a current list of SAT and ACT preparation software, select Software and Search at the Superkids site, www.super kids.com, and search for SAT. Note: Educational Testing Service provides free and inexpensive downloadable practice software for their GRE, GMAT, and TOEFL exams at www.gre.orglpracmats.html and other linked sites. For intensive computerized math tutorials, see MathAid at www.mathaid.com. To find books and software that can help you study other subjects , use your favorite search engine (ours is Google) and search for "educational + study + test + math (or chemistry or whatever other subject you need help with) + software" (or + book) and check out the first 50 hits. TECHNICAL PAPERS FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS To learn more about the theories and research studies that helped provide the background for this book, we recommend the following: Gais, Steffen, Werner Plihal, Ullrich Wagner, and Jan Born, Early Sleep Triggers Memory for Early Visual Discrimination Skills, Nature Neuroscience 3 (2000): 133539 . Glover, 1. A., D. L. Dinnel, D. R. Halpain, T. K. McKee, A. 1. Appendix 85 Corkill, and S. L Wise, "The Effects of Across-Chapter Signals on Recall of Text;' Journal of Educational Psychology 80 (1988): 3-15. Krasner, Steve, and Barbara Wallach, "Study Skills, Research Skills, Notetaking, and Mnemonic Instruction: January 1982-December 1992 + Addendum 1 and Addendum II" (Connecticut State Department of Education, www.ctserc. org). This comprehensive bibliography can be viewed online at http://www.ctserc.org/library/actualbibs/ StudySkills.PDF. Redding, R. E., "Learning Preferences and Skill Patterns among Underachieving Gifted Adolescents;' Gifted Child Quarterly 34, no. 2 (1990): 72-75. ...