<p>The Baldridge Reading and Study Strategy Program
Learning Skills - Correct Read (formerly Learning Skills, Inc)</p>
<p>Both of these enrichment courses are being offered by DS's school - for a fee. Does anyone have any experience with either of these programs?</p>
<p>I haven't heard of them but it looks to be a fairly well used program at colleges around the country</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/advising/baldridgeworkshops.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/advising/baldridgeworkshops.html</a>
Depending on the fee and your sons intrest I think it would be worth checking out</p>
<p>I know nothing about this program, but I do know that students even at top tier schools often know little about how to efficiently study, even if the are getting straight A's. Learning study skills can be important not only to improve grades, but to save time and enrich the school experience. It was Benjamin Bloom who first identified this issue at a major university (Bloom, B. S. (1950). Problem-solving processes of college students: An exploratory investigation. Chicago, IL Supplemental Educational Monographs. The School Review and The Elementary School Journal, 75. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press). Others had earlier defined methods that still have some applicability (Robinson's SQ3R method, for example), but Bloom went a bit further in his analysis focusing on how one successfully goes about reasoning through problems. A later incarnation is described in the book "Problem Solving and Comprehension" and "Beyond Problem Solving and Comprehension: An Exploration of Quantitative Reasoning" by Whimbey and Lochhead.</p>
<p>idad--I don't know what you do for a living, but you seem extremely knowledgeable about this subject!</p>