How to Study Long and Hard and Still Fail
(or How to Get the Most Out of Your Studying)
Stephen Chew
Professor
Samford University
Talk
Thursday, February 6th
6:30 - 7:45
026 Hosler
Dr. Stephen L. Chew has been a professor and chair of psychology at
Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama since 1993. He was
awarded the Buchanan Award for Classroom Teaching Excellence
from Samford University in 1999. In 2005, he received the Robert S.
Daniel Teaching Excellence Award from the Society for the Teaching
of Psychology as the outstanding teacher of psychology at four-year
colleges and universities. He was named the 2011 Outstanding
Master's Universities and Colleges U.S. Professor of the Year by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
In this talk for students he will describe how common study methods
are very inefficient and can even lead to poor grades. He will
describe more efficient methods that can lead to higher grades while
spending less time studying.
Additional Information
Contact:
Bill Goffe
7-3299
bill.goffe@psu.edu
or
Josh Wede
3-5812
jwede@psu.edu
Partial support graciously provided by the Psychology Department