College Study Skills Project Presentation

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College Study SkillsProject Presentation

• My Three Study Habits
• The Progress I made

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Goals

• To manage my time better
• When to study?
• When to socialize?
• When to sleep?
• To understand material covered in classes
• To make sure I maintain good sleeping habits

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Background

• Responsibilities outnumber amount of time to
  complete them
• Study hall requirement
• Need to balance academics and other activities
  (sleep, relaxing, eating)
• Want to understand material covered in classes

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Statement of Work

• Three Methods
• Time management 1 hour on chemistry a day
• Conceptual Understanding Calculus Tutor and SI
  at least twice a week
• Performance Eight hours of sleep at least three
  nights a week

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Tasks

• Time Management I plan to set aside at least an
  hour every school day to work on Chemistry
  homework/reading. I will need to budget my time
  so that I have a chance each day to fulfill this
  task without interrupting my other strategies and
  other commitments I have during the day.
• Conceptual Understanding I have chosen my
  weakest class at this point in time. This is
  Chemistry 111. I plan to try and improve my
  overall grade to a B if I am able. I will do
  this by attending at least two hours of tutoring
  or Supplemental Instruction sessions a week for
  this subject alone.
• Performance Getting through a 15-hour course
  load and soccer each day is a challenge. In
  order to keep myself from getting bad grades and
  not doing well in soccer, I will need to focus on
  getting more sleep. My task is to attain at
  least eight hours of sleep three out of the five
  nights during the school week.

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Deliverables

• Time Management I had a calendar, which I
  marked with an amount of time that I worked on my
  Chemistry for the day/night. The goal is to make
  one hour or more of my day available for this.
• Conceptual Understanding On the calendar for
  time management above, I denoted days which I
  attended an SI or tutoring session for Chemistry.
• Performance I used a calendar to record with a
  check or an x or even an amount of time that
  denoted whether or not I achieved my eight hours
  of sleep a night goal.

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Schedule
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Work Effort

• All in all, my tasks fit in with my schedule well
  enough that it was not hard to alter my habits to
  accommodate them.
• This project was very helpful, especially with
  this being my first semester as a college level
  student that just so happened to be in season!!
• On my first task, I spent at least 7 hours a week
  on Chemistry (counting weekends).
• On my second task, I spent at least two hours a
  week attending Chemistry tutoring and SI
  sessions.
• For my third task, I attempted to spend eight
  hours a night sleeping for three out of five
  nights of the week. Although this may seem to be
  the easiest task since sleeping is a favorite
  activity among most, it is hard personally for me
  to budget my time awake in order to get the eight
  hours.
• Time Spent on Project 27 hours (not including
  the sleep task)

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Evaluation

• This project was an important part of my routine
  this semester.
• It kept me accountable so that it was on my to do
  list. Instead of thinking about it being just
  studying, I thought about it being like
  fulfilling my Study Skills project requirements.
  
• I achieved my goals that I set for myself. The
  time required was definitely reasonable. I seem
  to be more confident about my studying habits
  than I think I would have been before this
  project.
• If I started again, I would add figuring out how
  best to study for tests to my list.
• The insight or change I found in this project was
  that I held myself accountable to make sure I met
  my goals for the week.