Strategies For Academic Success Flashcards
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Understands how the body works
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Body-Kinesthetic
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May keep a journal
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Intrapersonal
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Understands how formulas are used
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Logical-Mathematical
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Enjoys reading
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Linguistic
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Easily expresses their feelings
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Intrapersonal
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Puts study material into songs
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Musical
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Knowing how to use your learning style to study is not important.
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All cattle and barn animals should be fed
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Rewrite
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Main ideas and specific titles are important to include in your notes, but dates are unnecessary.
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F
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Reviewing notes from a previous class will not help you take notes in a future class.
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F
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If you think a piece of information will be on an upcoming test, you should always write it in your notes.
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An abbreviation is a shortened form of an entire word.
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Which is the BEST abbreviation for the "Laws of Gravity" so that it can be clearly identified when studying from your notes?
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B
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What might happen if a student does not seek clarification about information they are unsure of?
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C
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Questions about the content of your notes belong in the "Content" section of your organizer.
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Which area of a notes organizer would contain the following information?
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D
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A notes organizer can be simple or complex, as long as the user understands how it works.
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Asking questions is an important part of taking high quality notes.
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It is acceptable to ask questions about a lecture after class.
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A notes organizer should be very specific and be in exactly the same format every time you take notes.
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Knowing how to develop an outline well is very easy, and most students can create quality outlines in one attempt.
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An example signal statement is
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Taking notes allows your mind to wander, but still capture important information.
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F
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In the lecture, the first supporting detail, which defines Science, is
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B
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In which sections of your organizer should the outline be located?
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D
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It is very important to stick to a strict outlining format so you know what is important to study.
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F
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Outlining your notes can be done before, during or after information is presented.
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Graphic organizers may help you better understand information you wrote down in your notes.
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Using a graphic organizer may bring deeper meaning to the information you are trying to learn.
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A chart offers many possibilities for
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A Venn diagram is best used for
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Compare and contrast graphic organizers identify only similarities among sets of information.
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Anton needs to identify the eight different scoring statistics for all the players on his school's basketball team. Which graphic organizer would be best for this assignment?
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A Venn diagram is a graphic organizer.
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Information written on the board does not need to be copied into tests and will probably not be on any test.
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Determining what exactly you need to study before you begin helps you organize your study efforts.
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Your test preparation checklist to determine what to study should include
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In order to help pinpoint which topics might be covered on a test, a student should review _____.
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Talking about what might be on a test with your study group is not a good idea. Everyone will think different topics are important.
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A topic list should contain
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The process of determining what to study is especially important because it
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D
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Where can you find a wide range of information on a given topic?
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Online encyclopedias may contain
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An atlas is an informational reference.
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Informational references are available in which format?
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D
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Google Maps is an online atlas.
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This informational reference usually provides information covering one calendar year.
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Never treat what is on Wikipedia as the whole and complete truth.
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Who wrote the information
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Authority
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A logical structure to information is not important as long as you can locate everything you need to complete quality research.
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Information should be________to ensure more than one source provides the same factual information.
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A Web site should be held to the same credibility standards as traditional text sources.
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Personal feelings about a topic do not affect the writer's objectivity.
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Computers are not simple enough to be used by the common citizen. -John Howard, 1975.
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B
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A source must be cited
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You have been excited about the next basketball season since last year. The date of basketball tryouts should be recorded on your term calendar.
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An itemized list of tasks belongs on a term calendar.
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Procrastinators can develop feelings of __________.
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Which of these would best be used to record homework assignments?
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C
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Which of the following should appear on a weekly schedule?
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Doctor's appointment today at 3:20pm
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Daily Organizer
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Calendars are useful to track homework assignments.
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Daily organizers help track materials you will need for class.
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Soccer practice
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Weekly schedule
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Science lab, bring water and sodium
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Daily organizer
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Reflecting means to consider what you will do with certain information.
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No extra effort is needed in order to think critically.
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You are told that the only way to apply for the job is to mail in an application, but you suspect there might be another way and begin to investigate.
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To judge, assess and justify are all parts of
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The extent to which critical thinking skills are used is influenced by the learner's motivation to do well.
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Debate
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Question
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Critical thinking can also be called 'problem solving.'
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Thinking critically is something you have to do on purpose.
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Compare
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Analyze
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The information given to you by your teachers is always accurate and should never be questioned.
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Critical thinking skills can be applied to reading.
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A question a critical reader should ask about a text is
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Discussion is a technique to clarify possible questions you have about a topic.
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Prereading is a strategy which prepares the learner for reading.
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Creating a map of your current knowledge is called __________.
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Regarding critical reading, what affects how you absorb information about a topic?
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Where can you find ideas for pre-questioning?
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D
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The purpose of concept-mapping is to
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The purpose of prereading is to
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Critical reading is the process of evaluating a text.
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Subject content is material learned in a major subject.
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Formulas and vocabulary are considered major subject areas.
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Where might you find help if material becomes truly difficult?
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After a break, always review your work to
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Reading for subject content follows the same steps as reading for entertainment.
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Brian has surveyed his chapter and is reading for subject content for the first time. What question should he ask himself?
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During which step should you attempt to understand how the content is organized?
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A
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Math and Language Arts are major subject areas.
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Taking notes during the survey step is very important.
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Identifying what you will need to review takes place during_________
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