According to Pamela Thacher, assistant professor of psychology at St. Lawrence University, students at SLU who had not pulled an all nighter had better GPAs (3.1) than those who had (2.9). I know this information is too late for students here, but maybe it will help next semester. The consisted of 120 students [...]
This is another video by Michael Wesch at Kansas State. He’s the guy whose videos I posted yesterday. Here’s how Wesch describes it on YouTube:
“a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives [...]
I had a comment on the Researching Student Research post, and it got me thinking. So, I’m going to address some of the issues that it made me think about.
RE: Whose responsibility?
You’re absolutely right. I think that one important aspect that I don’t remember touching on was that many students don’t have [...]
I recently came across an article titled “Beyond Google: How Do Students Conduct Academic Research?“. I think it is important to share because what they found out is quite a bit different from what most people write and from what I see (or think I see) here in the library.
The researcher, Alison Head, studied [...]
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education discussed an anthropologist who worked for the University of Rochester’s library to study students’ study and research habits. Rochester did this so that they could design a better library which would be undergoing (or maybe has already undergone) a renovation, redesign of the library’s website, [...]
