What is Study Technology?
Study Technology is the term given to the methods L. Ron Hubbard
developed to
enable individuals to study effectively. It is a methodology that renders the
student better able to use and apply what he or she has learned. The "study
tech," as it is sometimes referred to colloquially, can be applied by anyone to
the study of any subject.
L. Ron Hubbard recognized the failings of modern education and training in 1950, many years before educational horror stories began to make headlines. He observed that students were simply unable to learn with comprehension. Sometimes they could repeat, parrot-fashion, what they had been taught, but were unable to apply the subject supposedly "learned" with any facility or understanding.
Mr. Hubbard then researched the subject and isolated the actual barriers to effective learning. He found that the problem was not overwork, crammed study schedules or incompetent teachers. He discovered that the impediment to students’ ability to retain and effectively use data was the absence of a technology of how to study. This realization led to a breakthrough: a precise technology on how to overcome these barriers so that real learning can take place. Before then, nobody had realized that there was a lack of an actual technology of how to study.
Study Technology is not a gimmicky "quick-study method" that seems to be currently fashionable. It is an exact technology that anyone can use to learn a subject or to acquire a new skill.
It begins by understanding the barriers to study.
The first of these barriers is studying a subject in the absence of its physical mass. For example, if one is studying tractors, the printed page and the spoken word are no substitute for an actual tractor. Lacking a tractor to associate with the written word, or at least pictures of the subject, severely limits a person’s understanding of tractors.
The next barrier is too steep a gradient in study. If a student is forced to address new material without first understanding the material which precedes and lays the foundation for later study, confusion results and learning breaks down.
For example, suppose a person learning to drive has difficulty coordinating his feet and hands to manually shift the car into another gear while keeping to one lane. The difficulty will be found to lie in some earlier action in shifting gears. Possibly he was not yet comfortable shifting through the gears with the engine off and the car at rest. If this is recognized, the gradient can be cut back and the person brought up to a point where he can easily shift the gears on a motionless car before performing the same action while in motion.
The third and in fact most important barrier to study is the misunderstood word. A misunderstood or uncomprehended word or definition of a word can thoroughly block a person’s understanding of a subject and can even cause one to abandon the subject entirely. Have you ever gotten to the bottom of a page only to discover you didn’t remember anything it contained? Just before that page seemed to have gone "blank," there was a word you didn’t fully understand. This barrier is applicable to any field of endeavor and solving it was a major breakthrough which opened the gates to effective education.
Mr. Hubbard’s Study Technology enables anyone to be able to know when one of these barriers has been encountered and enables him or her to remedy it so the ability to study and learn is not impeded.
These methods have been used by more than three million people all over the world and have proven phenomenally successful:
* A Los Angeles study showed an average gain of 1.8 years in vocabulary and comprehension after only 10 hours of tutoring in Study Technology. One student gained an almost unbelievable 5 years and 9 months in his test scores after only 20 hours of instruction. All teachers who took part in this study also reported an overall improvement in their students’ ability to learn and to read--plus an unexpected improvement in the general behavior of students as a direct result of Study Technology.
* In South Africa, one class of underprivileged high-school students was trained in Study Technology, and at the end of the school year achieved a 91 percent pass rate on the nationally administered Department of Education examination. A control group, not so trained, had a 27 percent pass rate on the same test.
* In Brixton, England, a group of students 8 to 13 years was put through a course in reading materials based on Study Technology. Each student spent 8 to 10 hours over 10 days studying the course materials. Upon completion, they had gained an average of 1.3 years in reading level.
These and other results translate into effective education that enables individuals to acquire learning skills they will use every day of their lives.
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