This is a really great idea for my students. I often hear my students say they don't study because they don't notice a difference in their test scores. Or they say that when they study they actually do worse on a test. (well, for some students with testing anxiety that may be true but that's a whole other issue.) My point is I don't think my students are aware of what they are doing or not doing. One year during our advisory we did have a rubric that we went over with the students whenever we gave them their progress reports or their report cards. Many of my students would have at least one failing grade on any or both of these reports. When we would talk about what to do they would repeat that to improve they would say "take my books home and study". But they said it with zero conviction. I doubt they ever followed through, I think they were just telling me what they thought I wanted to hear. I especially like the rubric on page 157 because I don't think my students know what good studying is. Sometimes I think they think good studying means to glue themselves to a desk surrounded by stacks of books and to read for hours. Well, of course they don't want to do that. The rubric explains what good studying is and I hope my students will realize it's not that hard and it is something they can do and benefit from.
Many times our students may think that they spent a lot of time studying when perhaps their perception was not correct. By keeping track of the effort they may realize that they are not studying as much as they thought. I am confilicted with whether some of the ideas in this chapter are worthy of the time it taes to do it on the computer. There are some things that can still be done more efficiently with pencil and paper. It just depends on the situation, I guess.
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