The audience for The Element of Study Strategies Revealed: What Every Man, Woman, and Child Should Know are students from about the third grade through college, parents, teachers and the general public. Basically, the book is designed to meet the needs of those who wish to improve their metacognitive skills and study strategies for personal development and career advancement. It is a self-directed learning tool that allows readers to develop their own learning style at their own pace. Readers perform listening, writing, verbal, association, and visualization exercises. These exercises are important because they teach readers how to interact with the material being read. Furthermore, the Periodic Table of Elements is the perfect vehicle for demonstrating the use of mnemonic devices, anagrams, and association techniques. The book presupposes no knowledge of Chemistry on the reader's part. However, the younger student must be capable of reading at the third grade level or have a parent who is willing to sit with h/her child, coaching, while reading the book together. This workbook is a great way to improve study skills and vocabulary.
There is an assessment tool, The Elements of Study Strategies Revealed: The Game. It is supplemental to the book, that is, it works in tandem with the book as a family activity, or as a cooperative classroom learning activity. The assessment tool allows teachers to run statistical analyses to support their claims that students are learning what teachers are teaching. This is particularly important for administrators when reporting on assessment. Furthermore, in self-directed learning, readers must be able to self-assess, what do I know? They should know when to apply a particular study strategy. The Elements of Study Strategies Revealed helps readers to determine this important task. Besides, metacognitive strategies are both necessary and effective in helping readers learn to manage their thinking; especially in self-direct learning tasks. Readers have time to reflect on their learning style. Students and readers are taught thinking strategies for lifelong learning which include reading, writing, listening and speaking in different milieus. Remember that all learning take place through our senses. The Element of Study Strategies Revealed gives readers an opportunity to gain the skills needed to open doors to promising futures.
The Elements of Study Strategies Revealed should be especially helpful to parents who want their children to have an early understanding of the sciences from a critical thinking viewpoint. As mentioned earlier, the book presupposes no knowledge of Chemistry on the reader's part. For this reason, the book should be particularly useful to parents who think Chemistry is introduced too late in high school. Since the average high school student has never considered the rigors of Chemistry, it can be a daunting task when these chemical concepts are introduced so late. Consequently, Chemistry becomes like a foreign language for high school students on day one. Foreign languages are being taught in elementary school today, why not basic chemical concepts. Some scientists believe the beginnings of Chemistry such as the periodic table and atomic theory should be taught in the fifth and sixth grades, such that, students do not setup impediments to learning Chemistry or science in general.