As an educational psychologist, he spent his years teaching both college students and military personnel how to learn from textbooks.
[2] In 1937, Robinson went to Ohio State University as an assistant professor in the education psychology area to take responsibility for the How-to-Study program.
As a result, he created a dual program at OSU in which a few selected seniors in the College of education provided remedial counseling assistance for freshman in the course.
This dual program of counseling training and student remedial help was the basis of his paper titles, "Two Quarries with a single stone."
Robinson and colleagues used this data to create several higher-levels skills and strategies in reading, studying, and memory improvement.
[3] Robinson's SQ3R (survey, question, read, recite, and review) was created as part of the ASTP to help military personnel become better readers.