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Learning and Thinking
The Study Strategies Scale
Reveals how the student actually studies: do they memorize on the surface, or do they connect, understand and organize?
30 items
12 minutes
6 dimensions
Intermediate and above
What it measures
The most direct tool for raising grades. It reveals that the hardworking student whose results do not improve is using the wrong strategy, not that they are "lazy".
How to read the result
Array
Before administering
Ask the student to think about how they studied over the past month, not about the ideal way.
Its limits
It measures what the student believes they do. Back it up by actually going through their notebook or their summaries.
Its dimensions
- RehearsalWhen high: Relies on repetition and memorisation.
- ElaborationWhen high: Links the new to what they already know and explains it in their own way.
- OrganizationWhen high: Summarises, organises, and tells the main from the secondary.
- MetacognitionWhen high: Monitors their understanding and knows where they stumbled.
- Time and EnvironmentWhen high: Manages their time and their study environment well.
- Help-SeekingWhen high: Asks and seeks help when they need it.
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