Perspective: Many students don’t know how to study. Here’s how parents can help.
By James Paterson April 15 Among the creative and maddening reasons kids come up with for not studying, one familiar one might be worth addressing: They don’t know how.
Busy teachers, however, may not be likely to add those lessons, so it often falls to parents. Nate Kornell, another researcher on the topic and a psychology professor at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., says helping your child study can be a good opportunity to learn about their coursework, progress and abilities — and a way to get to know them better.
Parents should think carefully about their role. Don’t help too much, and resist the urge to nag, which can make students dread studying. Martin suggests establishing the rules and schedule with student input, offer help when needed and monitor the results by having students show them their work, or by checking grades or asking for teacher feedback. Experts suggest multiplying your child’s grade level by 10 to determine how many minutes they should spend studying each day.
“We think of this for simple kinds of learning, like spelling tests or learning multiplication tables, but it actually works all the way to medical school,” Roediger says. “And it gets you results short-term and long-term.” He says it helps you “know what you know” and reinforces it, while pointing to things you don’t and embedding them.
“We may very well know that George Washington is the first president and be able to commit some things like that to memory and not have to restudy them. But generally we are a bad judge of what we really have retained,” he says.Kornell talked about an experience with his daughter, who as a young teenager had planned to memorize terms to study for an upcoming test about plant reproduction. He encouraged her instead to learn the material well enough to teach it to him.
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