One of my favourite articles to offer a critical perspective on our profession. This paper argues that the widespread approach to enhancing student learning through separate study skills courses is ineffective, and that the term ‘study skills’ itself has misleading implications, which are counterproductive to learning.
This paper discusses the results of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) administered to college students in order to identify similarities and differences between time of diagnosis of a learning disability and the development of learning strategies related to will, self-regulation, and skill components.
Cognitions, emotions, and behaviors almost always are not pure or disparate but significantly include each other and affect one another; combining into dysfunctional, demanding core Basic Philosophic Assumptions that lead to neurotic disturbances. Rational-emotive therapy (RET) tries to help many (not all) clients to make an elegant or profound philosophic change.
