Self-Regulated Learning Survey Analysis

After completing the Conley Readiness Index assessment, I have am surprised that I have some strengths. One strength includes contextual awareness. I am very aware of expecting the structure of college coursework, and the work load. College isn’t easy, and it’s much different than High School. Coming from Massachusetts, most of my High School work was about passing the standardized tests, which resulted with quizzes every week. I have found in college that professors don’t mind taking the time to explain the material; that when the quizzes, and tests come around, we will be more prepared. I am also very aware of my academic plan in order to prepare for my career plans. Another strength I had was procedural awareness. I understand the steps to achieve my postsecondary and career aspirations including how to add, and or drop classes. I know how to research the requirements I need to fulfill in order to get into my desired career. I am very strong with the cultural awareness. I know how to ask for help, and how to contact my advisor. I am also aware of the differences between the cultural norms of High School and college.

I recently read in the book ‘Skills for Success’ by Stella Cottrell, that you need to take responsibility for your own learning and recognise your own learning preferences. This is a valuable thing to pick up on as being able to recognise how you learn best can help you complete a task to your best ability, and taking responsibility for you own learning rather than replying on others shows what a resourceful worker you can be. After reading this I realised the best

Self-discipline has a huge impact on my learning because it gives me the ability to control my feelings and overcome my weaknesses. The emotional intelligence theory talks about ‘’understanding yourself, your goals, intentions, responses, behaviour and all’’ which all ties is with knowing and managing the emotions of yourself and others which for me is what mainly affects my attitude towards things.

Some of the strategies I want to keep and start applying to become more successful student are to Plan weekly study times, log onto Blackboard a minimum three times per week, work hard, and set SMART goal. Planning weekly study time and check Blackboard are very important to me because I need to know how my schedule will be for all of my class and when my assignment due. For each week I have to work hard complete all the tasks on my weekly plan and I want my goal to be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound for exactly what I want to achieve so It will keep me focused on what I want and what I have to do to get there.

From the SuccessNavagator on the skill that I score the highest on was organization. I believe that I source high on organization was because I always write a to-do list of what homework I need to do and when I need to do it. I usually try to finish the homework three days in advance. I believe that this skill will help me reach my long-term education goal by keeping me on track and focus on the final goal.

Following the independent learner inventory task I have developed a more enlightened method of thought for how I will approach my future studies. The questionnaire has highlighted that I am strong in terms of motivation and managing my learning, but I need to improve how I reflect on my learning and make changes based on previous learning situations. I believe that I may be too targeted at the questions on the page and focused on achieving completion rather than developing a strategy to employ for how I would better approach the studies to both achieve completion and to also benefit future tasks . Going forward for me to be a more successful learner I will have to better develop skills relating to assignment or essay structures, delivery, learning

Strategic thinking an area of great strength for me, scoring highest in the areas of Leaner, Ideation and intellection aligns with relationship building and offers a strong sense of people. Being a learner; I enjoy studying others as well as processes. It is difficult for me to just “settle” I must know what it takes; how to accomplish a task; what motivates others and the outcomes of such. Along with this I grow bored easily; I would not do well in a mundane position where the same tasks are required day in and day out.

My SRL (self-regulated learning) survey suggests that I am prepared for online courses. My overall scores for Metacognition, Strategies, and Motivation were all rated high. My SRL feedback breaks down each of the three scores to a subsection, each subsection gives you detailed analysis on how you should do while attending WGU. I plan on taking the feedback from my SRL and applying to make my studying habits, testing skills, and my new motivation to excel even further in my school career.

I feel that my strengths come from having self-directed study throughout my pre-college education I have been able to pursue my dreams and build my strengths. It has given me many opportunities to learn in an unconventional way. Through hands-on learning, internships, finding mentors, and self-study. I’m always searching to find new ways to learn more and solve problems. I have had to work hard to get to where I am now. Being a self-directed student meant that I didn’t have somebody on top of me to finish work. If I want to learn something, I had to be my own own motivator.

Personal learning styles are highly complex and unique to specific individuals. It is often difficult to pinpoint an exact learning style. Though there are different categories, we often fine tune them to our own abilities. By examining our traits and tendencies we create a clearer understanding of how we process and learn information. With careful review, I have developed a specific analysis of my learning characteristics, including an evaluation of skill levels. Based on what I have recently learned and know from experience, I have also devised a structured plan for improvement of time management and study skills.

Since starting school at the University of Memphis, I have begun to learn who I am as a person. In my Academic Strategies class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have learned about my strengths as an undergraduate student, areas that I would like to improve, and my preferred learning style. Mr. Bailey gave me an assignment called the “Learning Style Inventory” where it indicates your strongest points and the sections that need refining. After completing LS1-8 on the Learning Style Graph my strengths for my preferred learning mode blue is planning, creating models, defining problems, and developing problems. I can become a more balanced learner through all four modes if I practice characteristics of each one. For example,

A range of different and useful topics have been discussed since the start of Pathways to lifelong learning, some of which I found to be of particular help. The college expectations which we learned towards the beginning of the course was especially helpful to learning how to become a critical thinker, something that was not very touched upon throughout my time in high school. I now use Bloom’s Taxonomy when beginning to prepare for an important paper or presentation. In addition to the first chapter, I had also found great help in the second chapter on the skills needed to succeed in school. In the past, I used rehearsal as my main strategy to memorize for any upcoming tests or exams, however that often resulted in either retrieval failure or ineffective encoding. I now use chunking and elaboration as my main strategies to studying as I find it most effective when studying and retrieving information, especially when I am needing to memorize and learn a big amount of material.

A range of different and useful topics have been discussed since the start of Pathways to lifelong learning, some of which I found to be of particular help. The college expectations which we learned towards the beginning of the course was especially helpful to learning how to become a critical thinker, something that was not very touched upon throughout my time in high school. I now use Bloom’s Taxonomy when beginning to prepare for an important paper or presentation. In addition to the first chapter, I had also found great help in the second chapter on the skills needed to succeed in school. In the past, I used rehearsal as my main strategy to memorize for any upcoming tests or exams, however that often resulted in either retrieval failure or ineffective encoding. I now use chunking and elaboration as my main strategies to studying as I find it most effective when studying and retrieving information, especially when I am needing to memorize and learn a big amount of material.

A) I expected to get artistic, creative and investigative as my results on surveys that I took, because I already knew I had these traits as a part of my personality. However, the results from my learning styles survey were a little surprising to me. I got visual as my highest total score, while kinesthetic and auditory were almost balanced out scores. The reason why I was a little surprised was that last year, I took a survey to figure out my learning style, and I got both auditory and visual learner. The results have their little differences, but that shows people do change over time. Learning styles can be learned and strengthened.

We are able to begin to develop abilities in self-directed-studying during our first-year in the college, to be an effective student. We will be spending a considerable time getting information and learning the continuous creation of new information, new skills due to the fast pace of change in culture and technology, and an access to info. Much with this learning will happen at our own initiative. We as a person will have the main responsibility for implementing, planning, and even appraising our learning effort. This what we should understand as self-directed learning.