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Article: Using Factual Study Questions to Guide Reading and Promote Mastery Learning by Developmental Students in an Introductory Psychology Course.
- Article from:
- Journal of College Reading and Learning
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Skill at reading textbooks is clearly important for academic success. For example, a study of university teaching by Wambach (1998) found that 85% of beginning college courses required textbook reading. In his classic book on teaching, McKeachie (1994) characterizes textbooks as central to the teaching/ learning process. He notes that, to avoid confusion and frustration, students need their learning to be organized by some frame of reference and that textbooks provide it. But informal discussions with colleagues have impressed us with the consistency of their concerns--that students don't do the assigned reading on time or even at all. This is a special concern for those ...