Below are some easy to print handouts and checklists which you can use to help improve your study.

Activity: Worried about money

Activity: Studying at university checklist

These journal articles have been chosen to give you a deeper understanding of the topics covered in this chapter and to help you read more widely. Click on the link below to access the journal article.

Students Pay Attention!: Combating the Vigilance Decrement to Improve Learning during Lectures, Mark S. Young, Stephanie Robinson and Phil Alberts, Active Learning in Higher Education, March 2009; vol. 10, 1: pp. 41–55

Research Participation versus Classroom Lecture: A Comparison of Student Learning, Lisa Jo Elliott, Stephen Rice, David Trafimow, Laura Madson, and Malisa F. Hipshur, Teaching of Psychology, April 2010; vol. 37, 2: pp. 129–131

Active Learning within a Lecture: Assessing the Impact of Short, In-Class Writing Exercises Adam Butler, Kayah-Bah Phillmann, and Lona Smart, Teaching of Psychology, October 2001; vol. 28, 4: pp. 257–259

Student affect Regarding Library-based and Web-based Research before and after an Information Literacy Course, Judy Carol Bell, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, June 2011; vol. 43, 2: pp. 120–130, first published on May 24, 2011

Family Finance and the Low-Income Student, Carollee Rubenfeld, NASSP Bulletin, October 1967; vol. 51, 321: pp. 67–68