UED 102 STUDY SKILLS

INTRODUCTION

Assalamualaikum and selamat sejahtera to all. Welcome to my first ever blog!

My name is Nur Amirah Bt. Norazmi. I am 18 years old. I am student who currently study at UiTM Campus Dungun, Terengganu. Now I’m just being one of the undergraduate in diploma in Office Management & Technology(BA118) from class L. One of the most important purpose I’m doing this portfolio is to introduce the students about UED102. UED102 provides students with learning skills essential for varsity life, which should be within each students.

UED102 - STUDY SKILLS

• LEVEL : DIPLOMA
• CREDIT UNIT : -
• CONTACT HOUR : 3/PER WEEK (4 WEEKS) (COMPRESSED TO 3 WEEKS)

• PART : 1 (INTERIM)
• COURSE STATUS : NON-CORE
• PREREQUISITE : NONE
• GRADE : PASS/FAIL
• NO FINAL EXAMINATION
• VENUE : REFER TO THE LATEST INTERIM SCHEDULE

CHAPTERS & WEEKS

WEEKS	CHAPTERS
1	1ST meeting - Getting Ready to Learn Goal Setting 2nd meeting - Time Management and Getting to know the Campus
2	Memory, Learning & Improving Concentration
3	Taking Lecture Notes Academic Integrity & Perfomance

THE CONTENT of UED102

1. Learning Style Inventory
2. Goal Statements - The Five Step Approach
3. Fixed - Commitment Calendar
4. Job Task Analysis
5. Prioritized To-Do List 
6. Memory Strategies (Activity 4-1 : Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 90)
7. Organizational Strategies (Activity 4.7 : Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 107)
8. Concentration Strategies (Activity 6.1 : Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 144)
9. Concentration Chart (Figure 6.4 : Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 161)
10. Reading Test (Figure 12.3 : Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 309)
11. Note- Taking Strategies (Activity 5-1 : Van Blerkom, 2009, pg. 116)
12. Note- Taking Exercise using the Cornell Method
13. GPA Worksheet

MODULE 1

LEARNING STYLE INVENTORY

• Making the moves from being in school is not an easy task. Student need to make new friends at the new place. Student also need to stay in hostel for semester 1 and part with the family. There also many new things student need to know and adapt with the university life.

TEACHING AND LEARNING CENTER

CHARACTERISTIC of VISUAL, AUDITORY and KINESTHETIC MODES

Learning Style Study Strategies

 VISUAL LEARNER

•   Organize work and living space to avoid distractions.
•   Sit in the front of the room to avoid distraction and away from doors or windows where action  takes place. Sit away from wall maps or bulletin boards.
•  Use neatly organized or typed material.
•  Use visual association, visual imagery, written repetition, flash cards, and clustering strategies  for improved memory.
•  Reconstruct images in different ways try different spatial arrangements and take advantage  of blank spaces on the page.
•  Use note pads, PostIts, todo lists, and other forms of reminders.
•  Use organizational format outlining for recording notes. Use underlining, highlighting in  different colors, symbols, flow charts, graphs or pictures in your notes.
•  Practice turning visual cues back into words as you prepare for exams.
•  Allow sufficient time for planning and recording thoughts when doing problem solving tasks.
•  Use test preparation strategies that emphasize organization of information and visual encoding and recall.
•  Participate actively in class or group activities.
•  Develop written or pictorial outlines of responses before answering essay questions.

AUDITORY LEARNER

•  Work in quiet areas to reduce distractions, avoiding areas with conversation, music, and television.
•  Sit away from doors or windows where noises may enter the classroom.
•  Rehearse information orally.
•  Attend lectures and tutorials regularly.
•  Discuss topics with other students, professors and GTAs. Ask others to hear your understanding of the material.
•  Use mnemonics, rhymes, jingles, and auditory repetition through tape recording to improve memory.
•  Practice verbal interaction to improve motivation and selfmonitoring.
•  Use tape recorders to document lectures and for reading materials.
•  Remember to examine illustrations in textbooks and convert them into verbal descriptions.
•  Read the directions for tests or assignments aloud, or have someone read them to you,  especially if the directions are long and complicated.
•  Remind yourself to review details.
•  Use time managers and translate written appointment reminders into verbal cues.
•  Use verbal brainstorming and tape recording writing and proofing.
•  Leave spaces in your lecture notes for later recall and 'filing'. Expand your notes by talking with others and collecting notes from the textbook.
•  Read your notes aloud.
•  Practice writing your answers using old exams and speak your answers.

KINESTHETIC LEARNER 

•  Keep verbal discourse short and to the point.
•  Actively participate in discussions.
•  Use all of your senses sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing.
•  Use direct involvement, physical manipulation, imagery, and "hands on" activities to improve motivation, interest, and memory.
•  Organize information into the steps that were used to physically complete a task.
• Seek out courses that have laboratories, field trips, etc. and lecturers who give real life examples.
•  Use case studies and applications (example) to help with principles and abstract concepts.
•  Allow for physical action in solving problems.
•  Read or summarize directions, especially if they are lengthy and complicated, to discourage  starting a task without instructions.
•  Use taped reading materials.
•  Use practice, play acting, and modeling to prepare for tests.
•  Allow for physical movement and periodic breaks during tests, while reading, or while  composing written assignments.
•  Role play the exam situation.
•  Teach the material to someone else.
•  Write practice answers, paragraphs or essays.

The next step to understanding your own characteristics in an effort to develop your personal profile statement is to determine what type of learner you are. Some people are more visual learners, while others rely on the auditory capabilities to gather information. Still other people learn through touch, requiring a hands-on approach to take in information around them. Understanding your learning style is key to efficient learning and will serve you in school and in life. The image below provides more information about the different learning style types. Check it out!  

• My highest score are Visual and Auditory.

6 STEP COLLEGE SUCCESS:

1)Attend all classes

one of the best ways to successful in the college is to attend classes. This is important because most of the test question will come from lecturer.

2)Become an active learner

we cannot just read the book or notes couple of time but we must write and recite the information to get it into long-term memory.

3)Participate in class

be an active person in class such as give the feedback about the subject that being taught and ask the question to the lecturer.

4)Get to know your lecturer

as students, we should know who our lecturers especially their names.

5)Form study group with friends

this is one of the good strategies to success in college. Students can remember the points easier and can make the discussion with friends easily.

6)Work hard in every semester

it’s important to us to always set in our mind to the our best and work hard to something that we want to archive.

MODULE 2

GOAL SETTING

GOAL STATEMENT-THE FIVE STEP APPROACH

What is goal?

It’s something you would like to achieve.

What is the purpose of setting goals?

Goals give you direction and keep you focused on where you want to end up.

What is goal setting?

Goal setting is a process for thinking about your ideal future and for motivating yourself to turn this vision of the future into reality.

SPECIFIC GOALS

Your goal must be clear and well definied. Make it as easy as you can get where you want to go by defining precisely where you want to end up. You need goals to show you the way.

MEASURABLE GOALS

Your goals can measure your degree of success include precise amounts, dates and so on. Without a way to measure your success ,you will miss out on the celebration that comes without knowing you have actually achieved something.

ATTAINABLE GOALS

If you set a goal that you have no hope of achieving, you will only demoralise yourself and erode your confidence. So, make sure it’s possible to achieve the goals you set.

RELEVANT GOALS

Goals should be relevant to the direction you want your life and career to take. By keeping goals aligned with this, you will develop the focus you need to get ahead and inconsistent goals, and you will fritter your time and your life away.

TIME-BOUND GOALS

Your goals must have a deadline. This means that you know when you can celebrate success. When you are working on a deadline ,your sense of urgency increases and achievement will come that much quicker.

LONG-TERM AND SHORT-TERM GOALS

Long-term goals is the objective of the goals that you set end of the year for yourself for four or five years from now,or even for a lifetime.

Short-term goals we can set for an hour from now, end of day or semester.

ACADEMICS AND PERSONAL GOALS

ACADEMIC GOALS IS something that related with our works. Such as for students, we must completing assignment and preparing for exam.

PERSONAL GOAL IS something that related with our daily life.

5 STEP APPROACH TO SETTING GOALS

• TENTATIVE GOAL STATEMENT
• LIST OF OBSTACLES
• LIST OF RESOURCES
• REVIVE GOALS STATEMENT
• POLISHED GOALS STATEMENT

MODULE 3

TIME MANAGEMENT

Time management always be an issue for us, especially for the students. Actually, what is the meaning of time management? Wikipedia said time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity. In my opinion, time management is so important for the students. A student who cares about this thing will attend to the class early and completed the assignments before due date. And this thing also can help them to get best grade in any subjects. The students can achieve their goals if they can apply this thing in their daily life. I would like to share to you guys how to manage our time wisely.

3 WAYS FOR YOUR STUDY SYSTEM

We always heard about this things. But we take this thing easy and ignore it, while this thing can make us success in our future.

l Make a weekly schedule

Nowadays, we have smartphones. We can use a calendar in android smartphones to list what to do activities in a whole week.

l Make a daily planner

Calendar in android smartphones also can list activities to do in a whole day.

l Have a semester calendar

As a student we have been provided a interim week calendar;

BENEFITS of BEING ORGANIZED

l Keep on you schedule

l Lesser stress - we do not have to rush for completed our assignment before deadline.

l Build up our confidence - to perform any subjects.

l Lesser pressure - we can less our pressure if we don’t do our assignment last minute. 

FIXED - COMMITMENT CALENDAR

JOB TASK ANALYSIS

PRIORITIZED TO-DO LIST 

MODULE 4

MEMORY, LEARNING & IMPROVING CONCENTRATION

MEMORY STRATEGIES

 TYPES OF MEMORY

LECTURE ON MEMORY STRATEGIES

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

WAYS TO IMPROVE OUR MEMORY STRATEGIES :

 manage your time wisely

 repeat the information many time

 elaboration strategies

 organize the material

comprehension monitoring strategies

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. For example;

CONCENTRATION STRATEGIES

CAUSES OF POOR CONCENTRATION

• Stress
• Lack of sleep
• Hormonal changes
• Medical condition
• Diet

STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE CONCENTRATION

• Pay attention
• Get sufficient sleep
• See a doctor
• Develop a healthy lifestyle

CONCENTRATION CHART

Date	Study Task	Concentration Problem	Cause	Strategy
31/7/2019	UED 102 Class	Sleepy	Sleep Deprivation	Should get sufficient sleep
28/7/2019	Information Literacy Skills Class	Can’t hear what the lecture was saying	Sit at the back	Sit at the front
31/7/2019	Information Literacy Skills Class	Can’t see the LCD display clearly	Sit at the back	Come to class early
1/8/2019	UED 102 Class	Sleepy	Tiredness	Drink a lot of water
31/7/2019	Group discussion for video editing	Too many distractions	Noisy Surrounding	Go to quite place
28/7/2019	Group discussion to create a logo	Small fight	Misunderstood	Clear explanation

READING TEXT

SQ3R : SURVEY-QUESTION-READ-RECITE-REVIEW/RECALL

1. SURVEY - WHAT CAN I LEARN FROM THE TEXT?

Before reading skim the material:

• Skim the table of contents and find three to five main ideas that will be presented in the text.
• Pay attention to names, headings and subheadings.
• Look at the captions under images, tables, diagrams and maps.
• Pay particular attention to the introductory and final paragraphs, which often contain a summary of the text.

2. QUESTION - WHAT DO I HOPE TO LEARN FROM THE TEXT?

Before reading a section, formulate questions and do the following:

• Rephrase headings into questions.
• Look whether the author has formulated questions at the beginning or end of the section.
• Recall what you already know about the topic and what you still want to learn about it.

3. READ - LOOK FOR ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS

• Read captions under images and diagrams. Pay attention to highlighted information.
• Be open-minded – pay attention to new ideas and differing opinions.
• Stop and reread difficult and unclear parts.

4. RECITE - CONSIDER WHAT YOU WANT TO REMEMBER FROM THE INFORMATION OBTAINED.

• Think about what you've read and summarise the main ideas expressed in the text.
• If you realise there is something you have not fully understood, reread that section.
• Take notes, expressing ideas in your own words.

5. RECALL - REREAD YOUR NOTES AND LINK THE INFORMATION WITH YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE.

• After reading the whole text, reread your own notes and pay attention to the main ideas and connections between the ideas.
• Link what you have learned with your own experience and other sources of information.

MODULE 5

TAKING LECTURE NOTES

NOTE TAKING STRATEGIES

BY:

FATIMAH ZAINAB BINTI DZULKIFLI

FACULTY OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT, UiTM TERENGGANU

WHY they should take lecture notes

HOW to take lecture notes using an effective note-taking method

WHAT to include in their notes and reviewing their notes

WHY TAKE LECTURE NOTES

• Promotes active listening
• Provides an accurate record of information
• Provides an opportunity to interpret, condense, and organize information
• Provides an opportunity for repetition of the material

HOW TAKE LECTURE NOTES

PREPARE BEFORE TAKING NOTES

Read the text assignment before class. by reading the text before lecture, it will allow you to:

• build up some background about the topic
• have some idea what the lecture is about
• identify main ideas of the lecture and organize your notes easier
• be familiar with the key terms and names related to the topic

As you walk to class, get ready to take notes

BECOME AN ACTIVE LISTENER

1. Read the text assignment before lecture
2. Review your last notes before lecture begins
3. Sit in the lecture's line of vision
4. Focus your attention mentally by avoiding distractions 
5. Listen with an open mind
6. Control your emotions responses
7. Ask and answer question

NOTE TAKING EXERCISE USING THE CORNELL METHOD

MODULE 6

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & PERFORMANCE

PLAGIARISM

What the meaning of plagiarism ??

" Refers to the act of taking an idea, writing or creation another of person and claiming to be proud that it is a self creation. "

How to avoid plagiarism ?

• We must to be more confidence to create an assignment although not as good as compared to  a few person.

• We must find the own idea and created the idea ourselves.

• We should to be open minded person to get any idea and never take a idea of another person.

• We should ask our friend if not understand and make discussion as well as indirectly we can exchanges the idea with our friends.

GPA WORKSHEET

 1) What does GPA stand for?

GPA stand for Grade Point Average.

2) What does a GPA show?

 This is the average of your grades in all your courses.

3) Why a GPA important?

Colleges, scholarship, committees and employers will judge your application based on criteria including your GPA.

4) What is CGPA?

CGPA is a reported value at the end of the semester or the period of study.

GPA CALCULATION

ACADEMIC STATUS

ACTIVITY FOR GPA CALCULATION

Based on the learning outcomes, I have set the targeted GPA for each semester in 5 semesters and CGPA for 5 semesters for Diploma in Office Management. I have set the target of 4.0 GPA per semester with getting dean’s award for each semester. I am also targeting 4.0 CGPA for 5 semester to get the vice chancellor’s award during my diploma convocation day. Therefore, I have to strive to get at least A grade for each subject during the examination and maintain that momentum to qualify me to further my studies in Bachelor.

 That's all from me, thank you to all my lecture and friends for teaching me how to complete my assignment during my interim week in UiTM. 

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