UED102 e-Portfolio 2021

 

 

Student Introduction

Assalamualaikum, my name is Muhammad Iqmal Haziq bin Saadun.  I am from Rawang and was born at Hospital Selayang.  I have 8 siblings including me.  My father was a teacher and my mom is currently unoccupied.  This year (2021) is my 19^th years of living and it’s very exciting that I got offered by UiTM (Jengka, Pahang) and study this course UED102.

 

UED102?

It’s a course where it opens up a student’s mind towards basic academic skills like setting the right goals, memory strategies, how to take lecture notes, etc. After taking this course, students should begin their personal study skills portfolio. It helps us to become more independent where it’s very good for us that we’re not depending on others.

 

Purpose on doing this e-Portfolio

The purpose of the Study Skills e-Portfolio is to introduce the students to the concept of documenting the processes in identifying learning strategies that they utilized throughout the semester. It is anticipated that students will benefit from this task as they determine systematically the learning strategies that fit their learning style and personality, which in turn will enable them to observe the impact of these strategies to their learning process.

 

 

 

 

Topics

 

1) Getting Ready to Learn

 • Learning Style Inventory

 

2) Goal Setting

• Goal Statements – The Five Step Approach

 

3) Time Management

• Fixed-Commitment Calendar

• Job Task Analysis

• Prioritized To-Do List

 

4) Memory, Learning & Improving Concentration

• Memory Strategies

• Organizational Strategies

• Concentration Strategies

• Concentration Chart

• Reading Text

 

5) Taking Lecture Notes

• Note-Taking Strategies

• Note-taking Exercise using the Cornell Method

 

6) Academic Integrity & Performance

• GPA Worksheet

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 1: Getting Ready to Learn

 

Learning Style Inventory

Auditory learners:

-       After you read a page in your textbook, summarize the information out loud in your own words.

-       Tape your instructor’s lecture, and if you are a commuter, listen to the tape on the way home, either in your car, or on the bus or subway.

-       Discuss the material that you have been learning with a friend or study group.

 

Visual learners:

-       Create mind maps, flow charts, and diagrams using bright colors. Put them where you can view them frequently.

-       Practice building your visual memory.

-       Rewrite your notes using different colors.

 

Kinesthetic learners:

-       Use your hands. Cut up charts and diagrams. Create flash cards and move them around with large, sweeping movements.

-       Type on a computer keyboard. You are using your muscle memory.

Topic 2: Goal Setting

 

Goal Statements (The Five Step Approach)

 

FIVE STEP APPROACH TO SETTING GOALS.

• STEP 1: TENTATIVE GOAL STATEMENT

Example:  I want at least to get B in Business Mathematic

• STEP 2: LIST OF OBSTACLES

Example: I have a hearing problem and I struggle while taking notes.

• STEP 3: LIST OF RESOURCES

Example: I’ll rewrite my notes after class.

• STEP 4: REVISED GOAL STATEMENT

Example: I’ll try to get B in Financial Accounting.

• STEP 5: POLISHED GOAL STATEMENT

Example: I will achieve an A in Business Mathematic this semester.

 

 

Topic 3: Time Management

Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. Individual that has the ability to organize their time wisely are likely to be more successful and more discipline.

 

Fixed-Commitment Calendar

 

Job Task Analysis

Prioritized To-Do List

 

 

Topic 4: Memory, Learning & Improving Concentration

 

Memory Strategies

Memory strategies is important because it will help students in their encoding, storing, and retrieving the information (help to remember and recall).

 

How forgetting could occur

-       Did not pay attention to the information

-       Did not understand the information

-       Cramming

-       Did not have good strategies

Activity 4.1: Van Blerkom,2009, pg. 90

  

 

Organizational Strategies

Organize things into 3 groups or category to remember. You also can remember more than 4 items in each category quite easily because the headings help trigger your memory.

Activity 4.7: Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 107

 

 

Concentration Strategies

Concentration means focusing your attention on what you are doing.

 

Causes of poor concentration:

-       Lack of attention

-       Lack of interest

-       Lack of motivation

-       Distraction

-       Uncomfortable environment

-       Illness, tiredness (Physiological)

-       Personal problems, anxieties (Psychological)

Activity 6.1: Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 144

 

Concentration Chart

Arrange tasks based on orders or which is more important to you.

Reading Text

1)    Survey 

-review the text to gain initial meaning from the tittle, subtitle or chapter introduction.

2)    Question 

-build a question while reading, so that our mind will always looking  for answer.

3)    Read 

-read the paragraph for the information and find the answer for the question that have been formed.

4)    Recite 

-answer the question that you formulated. Recite the answer on your own word without looking at the text.

5)    Review 

-look over your answer and the text. Ask what your text mostly about and recalling the question again. Recheck it until you gain the answer again.

 

Figure 12.3: Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 309

 

 

Topic 5: Taking Lecture Notes

Note-Taking Strategies

Activity 5-1: Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 116

 

WHY TAKES NOTES

-       Help us to pay attention in class

-       Promotes active listening

-       Helps us study for quiz, test/final exam

-       Helps us improve our memory

-       Provides an accurate record of information

-       Helps us take ownership of ideas

-       Provides an opportunity for repetition of the material

-       Helps us engage our sense

-       Helps us organize and process data and information

 

 

THE CORNELL NOTE-TAKING SYSTEM
Has an excellent format for setting up your note page. Use an 8.5 by 11inch notebook. It has a recall/cue column and a summary column at the end.

 

 

Topic 6: Academic Integrity & Performance

GPA Worksheet

As a student in UiTM we need to know about calculate our GPA and CGPA.

 

What is CGPA?

Reported value at the end of semester or the period of study.  It shows the achievement of students in mastering eight domains of learning outcomes.

 

We are recommended to calculate our GPA by this link http://gradecalc.info/my/uitm/cumulative_gpa_calc.pl

 

These are the example for online GPA calculator.

 

GPA Worksheet