Identify possible reasons for the problem you have selected.
To find the most effective strategies, select the reason that best describes your situation, keeping in mind there may be multiple relevant reasons.

Students don’t keep up with the reading.

Students may lack either the general or the discipline-specific skills necessary to focus on the relevant aspects of the reading.

Students may lack the background knowledge to fully comprehend readings.

Students might not perceive a sufficient payoff for keeping up with the reading.

Students might not see the relevance of readings to other course material or to their own lives.

The amount of assigned reading may be unrealistic.

Students think they can read the material just before an exam and get the same (or perhaps even greater) benefit.

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