We offer many concrete examples throughout the book, e.g., when describing a strategy or highlighting the scientific background. After reading a chapter, students can start applying the strategies right away – either using one of the ‘how to’ suggestions, or by coming up with an implementation themselves based on what they learned about the strategy. In our first chapter, we state that the book can be used flexibly. That means while students are welcome to read the book cover-to-cover, this is not the only way to work with the book. The chapters are written so they can be read independently from each other. Students can dip in and out of chapters and use them as guidance if they get stuck or want to try something new.
Our book is not exclusively for students, teachers can use the book as a resource to create materials for students to engage with different learning strategies or support them to understand the role of metacognition for learning, see chapter 6 ‘How do I know what I (don’t) know’ or what about busting the myth of multitasking (see chapter 5 ‘The myth of multitasking: Preparing your environment for learning’)? So, there are different ways on how to approach using our book and that takes me to our current survey.
We would like to know more about how you use the book. Whether you are a student, a teacher, a learning support officer, a parent, etc., we want to hear from you. We put together a short survey and would appreciate your input. Your answers are completely anonymous and confidential. Here is the link to the Ace That Test Book survey. Feel free to share the link with others who are using the book, too. Thanks in advance for sharing your feedback.
