They don't go back and question themselves on what they did read. They do the bare requirement and as a result they do average to less than average work. Study habits are important for achieving success in school and if you examine how successful students study and how other students study you will see a clear difference. Other students read the text assigned, highlight the points they think are important, take notes, and in the weeks ahead review the text and notes for the test. This is a passive, boring and ineffective way to learn.
Successful students use a more active learning style.
According to Mr. Robinson, successful students use a dialoguing process of asking a specific cycle of questions of the material being studied. There are other questions successful students ask, but due to the limitation of this article it is not possible to cover all the strategies that can be employed to improve school performance. The reader may consider looking at Mr. Robinson's book in more detail. To summarize, the reader can see how their child stacks up by looking at the child's attitude, self esteem, history of success, level of responsibility, persistency, level of independency and study skills and comparing them to that of a successful student. If there is an area or areas where the child does not stack up, the parent must seek out assistance.