Better learning
PsycLearn Essentials
Student Success
January 2024
Find yourself spending lots of time studying but not earning the grades that match your efforts? Use APA’s Better Learning course to introduce you to scientifically validated ways of learning new material, studying for exams, and ensuring long term retention of what you’ve learned. After this course, you’ll be able to evaluate your learning strategies, create effective studying plans, avoid thinking traps that make you feel better but perform worse, and defeat procrastination. You’ll discover tools and practices you can apply to your learning whether you’re in a traditional classroom setting, seeking professional development, or pursuing lifelong learning.
Learning objectives
- Identify the shortcomings of your current study habits.
- Improve the way you use notes, highlighting, flashcards, and other classic study tools.
- Use scientifically validated learning techniques to improve your studying.
- Create effective plans to overcome procrastination.
This program does not offer CE credit.
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