Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Nandagopal, Kiruthiga
Author's Email Address	nandagopal@psy.fsu.edu
URN	etd-03162006-112627
Title	An Expert Performance Approach to Examining Individual Differences in Study Strategies
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Psychology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title K. Anders Ericsson Committee Chair Colleen M. Kelley Committee Member E. Ashby Plant Committee Member
Keywords	Strategies Studying Expert Performance Expert Expertise Self-Regulated Learning Academic Diary
Date of Defense	2006-02-24
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Previous research examining the effect of study strategies on GPA has relied on general interviews and questionnaires. I attempt to validate and extend previous findings by applying methods originally developed for researching the acquisition of expert performance in order to identify practice activities that distinguish student achievement at all levels of academic success. Sixty upper-level Bioscience students (22 high-, 17 average- and 21 low-achieving) completed interviews and three week-long periods of daily diaries. The effects of study strategies on student achievement were compared across assessment instruments. The results of the current study reveal that a more online method of measuring strategies is superior to other methods in identifying differences between high-, average- and low-achieving students across time periods.
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