Student Guidance

Robert Bjork’s Seven Study Techniques
Guide to effective studying based on research on learning

Succeeding at Learning 101
Practical advice for learning more in university courses.  A list of practices suggested for university students from faculty observation and from research on student learning (developed by the CWSEI).

A Research Approach to Learning
Jackie Stewart's keynote presentation at the UBC Get Learn'd Conference on January 26, 2008.

How to Succeed in College: Learn How to Learn
Robert A. Bjork, American Psychological Society, 14 (3), (March 2001).
This paper provides guidance to students on how to learn most effectively, based on all the research that has been done on learning and retention of learning. The author is one of the leading experts in that area of research.

The Expert Mind
Philip E. Ross, Scientific American, V. 295, Issue 2, pp. 64-71 (August 2006).
This article discusses research on how individuals become experts within their respective fields through the examination of chess masters and their mental processes. "The preponderance of psychological evidence indicates that experts are made, not born."

What it takes to be great
By Geoffrey Colvin, Fortune Magazine, October 19 2006.
Similar to The Expert Mind, but with business and sports examples. "The good news is that your lack of a natural gift is irrelevant - talent has little or nothing to do with greatness. You can make yourself into any number of things, and you can even make yourself great."