ABSTRACT
The Learning to Learn Thinking Improvement System provides students with a set of analytical thinking skills that result in statistically significant, long-term improvements in college students’ grade-point averages and retention through graduation. This chapter discusses the genesis of the Learning to Learn system, outlines some of its principal components, and reviews research on the system. Learning to Learn contains general learning skills, which apply to all subject-matter areas, and subject-specific skills, which relate to the structure of complex academic disciplines, like economics of chemistry. Learning to Learn is one of three college level learning improvement programs that have met the Joint Dissemination Review Panel criteria for approval since the panel’s inception in 1972. Further evidence of Learning to Learn’s effectiveness has come from institutions adopting the system. The abstract processes are possible only because of concrete learning experiences children acquire in the natural environment.
