#self-quizzing

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@bennewmark: 1. Self quizzing! A thread! "I don't know how to revise." 😥 "For me revision doesn't work for me. It just doesn't go in." 😭 Dis

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On Self-Quizzing Homework

One of the best things we’ve done this year is introduce self-quizzing – an idea I took from reading Joe Kirby’s chapter in ‘Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Mi…

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Student Applies Retrieval Learning Practice

This is a self-reflection journal from a student in one of my college success courses. He has been gaining self-knowledge and learning how to learn more effectively. He is learning to play to his strengths and is using self-testing and retrieval practice to enhance his performance.

Week 3 Journal

By Jake Stewart

The content covered in week three of Effective Learning came with a sigh of relief.  Studying has never really been a strong skill of mine.  It is not the amount of time it takes to study, but rather effectively getting the information I am learning to stick into my brain.  I am a very goal-driven person and it is frustrating when studying, something that seems to be so simple for everyone else, gets in the way of what I am trying to achieve.  This is something I have always been struggling with; especially through my high school years.  Every exam just meant a chain of anxiety attacks were coming as I spent days rereading material from the last month and trying to get it all down.  Nothing seemed to work though as my test scores hardly ever rose above a C+. 

 This is where the week three material really made it's mark, starting with the personality spectrum.  I have taken a handful of personality tests in my life and the results are never a surprise to me.  I know I am a visual learner and that formulas and set plans are what I tend to lean towards, so seeing that the test plotted me as a “thinker” was almost expected.  This is where the difference was made though.  Chapter three went in depth with each different personality trait and laid the groundwork for different methods of studying that should prove to be best.  Whether it be flash cards, graphs, study groups, of just plain old reading.  This allowed me to really explore my options and see what would statistically give me the best results.

  It could not have come at a more perfect time either as my first Kinesiology exam was a week and a half away.  I figured, hey, I had done the research, why not put it to use and see what happens?  I spent four days studying four chapters of different functional movements, nutritional guidelines, and environmental precautions.  With the growth mindset in place and the idea that “two good 30-minute study sessions are better than one crappy hour”, I spent my free time studying in intervals.  Catering to my visual learning brain I made about 80 vocabulary flash cards, five or six nutrition charts, and a handful of general ideas broken down into subcategories to really spread the material apart and fully take it in. 

 Test day had finally come and I was going into it with a lot of confidence.  I put all of my studying to use and was the first person in the class to hand my exam in and walk out the door.  After a day and a half of anxiously waiting for the Blackboard update, it finally came.  A message saying that everyone's exam scores had been posted and that the class average was an 83%.  83 percent, I thought, thats not that bad.  Clicking into the next tab was probably the proudest I have been in my college life.  94%.  Not only did I ace my first big exam of the semester, but scored 11% higher than the class average.  This is just fuel to the fire of me reaching my goals.