Internet Study Skills Resources

Goal Setting

• Goal Setting and Achievement
• Mind Tools: Goal Setting

Learning Styles

• Active Listening
• Exploring your own learning style: Links to 6 learning styles assessments.
• Learning Styles: How Do You Learn Best? An introduction to the 4 types of learning styles: visual, auditory, kinesthetic and analytic.
• Self-Assessment: An online learning style inventory that will give you your preferred learning style.
• Study Strategies for Different Learning Styles
• Vark - A Guide to Learning Styles

Math Anxiety

• Amby's Education Site: Contains links to numerous math sites including math anxiety and tutorials for arithmetic through higher-level math. Resources are aimed at both children and adults.
• Math Help: Aimed at the community college adult learner, this award winning site helps students deal with math anxiety. It also contains math tutorials and general study skills information.

Memory

• Managing Your Memory
• Memory Principle Activities
• Mind [or Concept] Mapping
• Remembering

Note-Taking Techniques

• Note Taking Systems: Explains Cornell, Outline, Mapping Charting and Sentence forms of note taking.
• Taking Classroom Notes
• Top 5 Tips for Effective Note Taking

Time Management and Organization

• Assignment Calculator
• Organizing (Large) Study Projects
• Mind Tools: Time Management Skills
• Time Audit
• Weekly Planner Form
• Time Management from the Virtual Pamphlet Collection

Test Anxiety

• Exam Preparation: Reducing Exam Anxiety
• How to Keep Calm During Tests
• Study Habits and Test Anxiety

Testing Techniques

• Suggestions for Computational Exams
• Test-Taking from the Virtual Pamphlet Collection

Meta-Sites

• Homework Helper - Study Skills: Written for elementary and high school students, this site contains information on basic study skills.
• How to Study - When You Hit the Books and They Hit Back: Includes nice collections of links on how to study for different subject areas, such as accounting, math, sociology, etc. From the main page click on "Resources" and scroll down the page.
• Learn with HowtoStudy.com
• Links to a Better Education
• Self Assessments: a variety of self assessments from the University of Arizona                
• SoYouWanna Improve Your Study Skills
• Study Guides and Strategies: What makes this site unique is that many of the study skills guides are available in numerous languages like Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and others.
• Study Skills from the Virtual Pamphlet Collection
• Study Skills Self Help Information
• Virtual Pamphlet Collection

Miscellaneous

• Inventory of College Level Study Skills
• School Strategies Scale: A self-assessment that takes 10-20 minutes to complete.
• Study Environment Analysis: Use this analysis to find the best place for you to study.
• Stress from the Virtual Pamphlet Collection
• Study Group Organization
• Understanding and Calculating Your GPA
• What Successful Students Know