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About Us » CRESST Initiatives » Adult Learning
« Adult Learning Student Success Strategies Evaluation To help Sailors and Marines become successful learners, the Navy Education and Training Command (NETC) funded CRESST to investigate the effectiveness of approaches to teaching learning strategies to students in seven different Navy schools, ranging from high-school Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training students to the Navy Postgraduate School. The treatment consisted of instruction in five target areas: learning styles, critical thinking skills, communication, time management, and memory. Dependent measures were scores on the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) and the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI). A total of 583 students participated in the study, 280 in the control group and 303 in the treatment group. Although instructional strategies were uncontrolled and time spent on instruction was limited, results showed positive but small effects in two of the schools, the Naval Science Institute and the Officer Indoctrination School. The greatest effect sizes ranged from .28 to .34 for some of the CCTST scales, and from .34 to .66 for some of the LASSI scales. Recommendations for future research and implementation include providing more time for strategies instruction, examining longer term effects, providing more professional development to instructors, and augmenting skills through a distance learning strategies curriculum. For additional information on this research, please contact Bill Bewley at CRESST, email: bewley@cse.ucla.edu, tel.: (310) 825-7995, mailing address: UCLA GSE&IS, BOX 957150, 1400F PVUB, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7150.
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