Study Skills for College- Level Students
Chapter 1
Academic Self-Management
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Contents
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What Is Academic Self-Management?
What Is The Difference Between High
School and College?
Why Are Some Students Less Successful
Learners?
How Can I Manage My Academic Behavior?
How Can I Change My Behavior?
How Does Self-Management Occur In An
Academic Context?
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1. Bạn có bao giờ tự nhủ phải gắng sức để hoàn
thành một việc nào đó?
2. Bạn có lên kế hoạch sử dụng thời gian của mình
hàng tháng, hàng tuần và mỗi ngày không?
3. Bạn có biết cách áp dụng những phương pháp
học khác nhau cho từng môn học?
4. Bạn có thường tự thay đổi môi trướng khi mình
không thể tập trung học ?
5. Bạn có đi tìm sự giúp đỡ những khi bạn gặp khó
khăn trong việc học không?
6. Bạn có tự đánh giá sự tiến triển việc học của
mình dựa trên những mục tiêu mình đã đề ra?
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Contents
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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What Is Academic Self-Management?
What Is The Difference Between High
School and College?
Why Are Some Students Less Successful
Learners?
How Can I Manage My Academic Behavior?
How Can I Change My Behavior?
How Does Self-Management Occur In An
Academic Context?
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1. What Is Academic Self-Management?
Academic self-management is
to view academic learning as
something students do for
themselves rather than as
something is done to or for
them
 It does not matter if the
instructor is a poor lecturer,
the textbook is confusing, the
test is difficult, the room is
noisy, or multiple exams are
scheduled for the same week,
successful learners find a way
to excel
Self-management strategies used to become more
successful learners often generalize to their personal and
work lives
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2. What Is The Difference Between High School and College?
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Areas
High School
- Teacher - directed
Environment - Protected by parents and teachers
Way of
learning
Way of
teaching
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College
- Student- directed
- More freedom and
responsibilities
- Teachers monitor students’
progress
- Passive
- Homework/Exercises
- Good listeners
- Can’t choose good instructors/
subjects
- Students are expected to
manage their own learning
- Active
- Longer range assignments
- Good thinkers-More electives
to choose
- Motivate students to learn
- Pay attention to each individual
- Expect students to be
motivated
- Less attention to students
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3. Why Are Some Students Less Successful Learners?
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They hold faulty beliefs about their
ability, learning, and motivation
They are unaware of their ineffective
learning behavior
They fail to sustain effective learning
and motivational strategies
They are not ready to change their
learning and study behavior
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4. How Can I Manage My Academic Behavior?
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Motivation
Methods of learning
Use of time
Physical and social environment
Performance
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4.1. Motivation
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Self-talk
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Goal setting
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Imaging
rewards or
punishment
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4.2. Methods of learning
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Learning strategies are the methods
students use to acquire information
Successful learners need a large number
of “tools” to make school work easier
If you know how to use an effective
strategy, you also need to be motivated
to use it
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4.3. Use of time
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4.4. Physical and social environment
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4.5. Performance
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Use self- management processes to
influence the quality of their
performance
Practice your own skills, critique your
own performance and make necessary
changes to achieve your goals
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5. How Can I Change My Behavior?
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6. How Does Self-Management Occur In An Academic Context?
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Assignment
Assignment 1:
Hãy viết lại những điều gì làm cho bạn thấy hứng thú,
những điều gì khiến bạn chán nản trong khoảng thời gian
học phổ thông.
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