Reviewing my SmartMeasure Test scores I am surprised to know, my study strategy is logical. And according with the results, it also reports that visual, physical, social, and verbal are also a high percentage of my learning strengths. Solitary and aural are the lowest percentage, which mean they are a weakness. I need to work harder on studying longer for shorter periods of time. The reason I think studying longer but having many interruptions helps more is because you get a break in the material and you come back 10- 20 minutes later and test yourself. You still study but, the idea is to learn it not overwhelm yourself the night before. I have tried this in many occasions and it always seems to work. I need to get back into the game and think of other ways of studying now that I know my strengths and weaknesses in my strategies. I am open to try new strategies to study and grow my weaknesses to become strengths. One strategy that has almost never improved is aural. I could listen and catch important information but, what I cannot is remember anything else, sometimes I have to ...
Who would have ever thought taking a college course would require one to learn how to learn? It is a good concept we normally undergo at a very young age. At the pre-school age one will find children learning their strength and weakness through their playtime. As adults we almost forget we have to learn how to learn to continue growth in our workplace, school, and in life. In our second week of online classes I learned strengths and weakness in my learning style with the aid of learning assessments, personality spectrums, and time management logs. In this paper, I intend to describe the various components of my learning style and outline a plan to improve my time management and study skills.
I tend to listen more to what people have to say. This result was not new to me. avoidance and dependent evidently are the areas that are causing me not to excel.
In today’s world, there are many people who feel the pull of continuing their education by going to college. There are many factors that affect this process, and can either make or break a student’s attempt at academic success. Some of the factors are commonsensical, and others may not be as obvious – especially for returning students who have been out of school for a long period of time. There are many tools available to help students of all backgrounds discover their strengths, weaknesses, skills, and learning styles, all of which will help them prepare for their school routine. One of these tools is the Smarter Measure Assessment, which is an online tool that uses simple questions to measure a student’s readiness for classes. Although
How do you prepare for an exam? Since reviewing information from your text on memory - do you feel you need to change your adjust or change your study habits? Which way does research support?
This one being your first year in college, you may have trouble concentrating while you study. Some techniques that can help your concentration are being selective, relaxing, and over learning. Being selective means to make choices about what is most important to learn. When you are studying, you should be able to know what may or may not be on the test, your notes for the week can be helpful. In addition, pay attention to charts, tables, and illustrations that you think may appear on the test. Relaxing is a good technique to use because when you are relaxed you are able to absorb more information. One way to relax is to use a breathing technique (inhale, count from one to ten, and exhale, and count from one to ten, and so on). Over learning can help you fight mental vagueness. When you are struggling in a class, it is best for you to learn more than you need to know about the subject. You can use these techniques every time you are studying or when you cannot concentrate.
Personally, I am an advocate for cramming the day before the test, but not right before bed. Instead, I study first, do a little bit of homework, study some more, finish my homework, and then study once again. If I study a little bit each night, by the fourth or fifth night I will begin to feel as if I have over-studied and then begin mixing up each piece of information. In this essay, I have compared and contrasted both methods and it should be much easier for each student to choose a way that works best for them. Both methods can be effective, it just depends on the students’ personality in general.
One of the skills that I can do best is listening, which I count as my strength because I know what I am doing and I am very conscious that I can ignore any hindrance. On the other hand, lack of self-confidence is my weakness. I find it difficult to do presentation in class or introduce myself to make new friends.
While monitoring my smart goal throughout each day I began to notice that I had a difficult time staying organized and managing my anxiety. Each day that went by I recorded daily and important activities for myself as a reminder to complete it and to keep myself on track. The days began to pass by and the emotions that I felt became very overwhelming to me because I felt my smart goal was taking a big toll on me. “Emotions are feelings that involve physical responses due to changes in thoughts, actions and personal evaluation” (Norton). Soon I noticed my grades in my other classes began to drop due to me not being as organized as I should. I began to have a hard time keeping up with my homework and study guides. The negative punishment of me being able to maintain my organization skills caused me to feel overwhelmed and lead me to
Everyone has a different way of learning things; I like to think that I am a more visual learner. However, the smart measure assessment has brought to my attention that I may actually have multiple ways of learning. The assessment has actually informed me of a lot of my strengths in each section but the sections that caught my attention are Learning Styles, Reading Rate & Recall, Technical Competency, and Technical knowledge.
We were taught in elementary school that if we study then well do perfect on tests, the only problem is we were never really taught how to study the ways that benefits us best. We were never taught what methods of studying help you on tests and how to make the material stick in your mind so you won’t just forget. That’s why the study of metacognition and multiple intelligence is now being used in classrooms and at home to better prepare the student for upcoming tests. Metacognition is being able to take charge, be aware and understand your own learning and thought process. Multiple intelligence is the theory that people aren’t born dumb but that they have naturally inherited sections of intelligence that aren’t realized in the brains of everyone.
...nd friends. Make sure that during your strategy you set a time out for relaxation, eating and sleeping properly. Another part of strategy is to multi-task, use "the Twofer" concept, for example if you are going to the Laundromat take your homework with you.
Four decades of psychological research have taught us there is no one right way to learn. Our minds are as unique as our fingerprints. Our ability to learn is not necessarily related to high or low intelligence quotients, but rather a convergence of four important aspects of our perso...
...es IQ in predicting academic performance as the correlations between final grade and self-discipline are greater than the correlations between final grades an IQ. Students with higherself-discipline are able to outperform their less disciplined peers even those with higher IQ because students with self-discipline are able to make wiser decisions involving study and can separate personal distractions from performance. Strategies that students in a territory learning environment can use to maximize self-discipline are being able to concentrate and stay on task and work until progress is made, this involves not giving into distractions and keep your mind on task. Another strategy is the ability to withhold from initial impulses and to think about the negative and positive outcomes of the action before it’s made. The final strategy is the ability to delay gratification
I seem to learn better when I constantly read over the material I am studying. This allows the material to constantly be running in my mind. I am a person who will read or hear something and it usually sticks with me. I really haven 't had to study for long periods of time, because I usually remember the topic of what were being tested on pretty easily. I have also learned that I am more of a hands on person. I can learn things very quickly by putting them into action. Somehow that makes it click in my mind and helps me learn it. Mainly the study habits I can improve on is procrastination. This is usually hurts me the most. I will wait
An important question to address when attempting to identify effective study strategies and their relationship with academic performance is, “What are study skills?” The term “study skills” can be defined as proficiency in identifying, organizing, memorizing, and using information in order to succeed academically (Proctor, Prevatt, Adams, Hurst, & Petscher, 2006). Activities identified as study skills include “time management, setting appropriate goals, selecting an appropriate study environment, employing appropriate note-taking strategies, concentrating, selecting main ideas, self-testing, organization, and managing anxiety,” (Proctor et al., 2006). When studying, college students employ a variety of these study strategies that they believe