PART TWO: PREPARING TO LEARN
PART TWO
PREPARING TO LEARN
5 THINKING IN COLLEGE
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Student Goals
- Understand what college-level thinking involves
- Learn how to become a critical thinker
- Develop an appreciation for Bloom’s taxonomy and how it relates to critical thinking
6 READING TO LEARN
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Student Goals
- Apply the four steps in active reading: previewing, marking, reading with concentration, and reviewing
- Develop strategies for reading textbooks across different subject areas
- Improve and monitor your reading
7 GETTING THE MOST FROM CLASS
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Student Goals
- Understand the benefits to your learning that result from being engaged in class
- Learn ways to prepare before class
- Appreciate the value of participating in class by listening critically and speaking up
- Know how to assess and improve your note-taking skills and how to use your notes to be engaged in learning
8 STUDYING
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Student Goals
- Learn how to make good choices for better concentration and efficient studying
- Understand how memory works and become familiar with myths about memory
- Gain skills to improve your memory
9 TEST TAKING
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Student Goals
- Prepare yourself for tests and exams physically, emotionally, and academically
- Learn strategies for taking different types of tests and handling various question types
- Recognize the symptoms of test anxiety and gain strategies to overcome it
- Understand what cheating is and how to avoid it and learn guidelines for maintaining academic honesty
10 INFORMATION LITERACY AND COMMUNICATION
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Student Goals
- Understand what it means to be information literate
- Learn how to choose a research topic, narrow it down, and research it
- Know how to use your college library with assistance from librarians
- Apply the guidelines for evaluating sources
- Gain an understanding of how to move from research to writing and use each step of the writing process
- Learn the guidelines for successful public speaking