2010
Reagan Lausche
9 a.m.
Lab Room # 209
Colleen Mazure
[HOW TO BE A BETTER
STUDENT]
CONTENTS
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................................ 1
Learning....................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
How To Be A Better Student? ........................................................................................................................................ 2
Learning how to learn....................................................................................................................................................... 2
Procrastination .................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Prioritizing............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Attendance............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Staying Focused ................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Creating a Suitable Work Environment..................................................................................................................... 3
Finding Effective Work Habits ...................................................................................................................................... 4
Organization ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Research Results ................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Study Behavior Records ................................................................................................................................................... 7
The Value of a College Degree ............................................................................................................................................ 8
What Are We Paying For? ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Lowering Standards........................................................................................................................................................... 8
College Life ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Nutrition and College Students .......................................................................................................................................... 9
Freshman Fifteen ................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Change in Environment.................................................................................................................................................... 9
Nutrition and Studying ..................................................................................................................................................... 9
Healthy Options ................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Alcohol..................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
How to develop better listening skills .......................................................................................................................... 11
Participation ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Maintaining eye contact with the professor .......................................................................................................... 11
Sit near the front of the class ....................................................................................................................................... 11
Take and Review Notes .................................................................................................................................................. 11
Recognizing Distractions ............................................................................................................................................... 11
Skills, Impediments, and Action Plan ....................................................................................................................... 12
Note Taking Skills .................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Come Prepared .................................................................................................................................................................. 14
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Organization ....................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Review Notes ...................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Exchange Notes ................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Keep up with Reading Assignments.......................................................................................................................... 14
Strengths .............................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Weaknesses ......................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Improvement and Action Plan .................................................................................................................................... 15
Possible Study Outcomes............................................................................................................................................... 17
Total Study Behaviors VS Lab Grades ...................................................................................................................... 17
Adequate Sleep VS Lab Grade ...................................................................................................................................... 18
Attending Lecture VS Lab Grade................................................................................................................................. 18
Study Buddies VS Lab Grade ........................................................................................................................................ 19
Index ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Figure 1:How to be a better student ................................................................................................................................ 4
Figure 2: Tomorrow's Professor ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Figure 3: Procrastination ..................................................................................................................................................... 6
Figure 4: Healthy Eating ..................................................................................................................................................... 10
Figure 5: Alcohol Nutrition facts ..................................................................................................................................... 10
Figure 6: Listening Skills .................................................................................................................................................... 13
Figure 7:Effective Listening............................................................................................................................................... 13
Figure 8: Effective Note Taking ....................................................................................................................................... 16
Figure 9: Note Taking Systems ........................................................................................................................................ 16
Figure 10: Total study behaviors VS Lab Grade ........................................................................................................ 17
Figure 11: Adequate Sleep VS Lab Grade..................................................................................................................... 18
Figure 12: Attending Lecture VS Lab Grade ............................................................................................................... 18
Figure 13: Study Buddies VS Lab Grade ....................................................................................................................... 19
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report is centered on the concept of learning and how to hone your skills in the
subject and essentially become a better student. Along with the essentials of learning such
as: procrastination and how to prevent it, organization, effective note-taking, and listening
skills, this report also touches on the subjects of nutrition in regards to college life and how
it effects your learning.
There are actual studies that show that nutrition does have an effect on your
learning capabilities and can hamper them if your diet isn’t balanced. I have taken the
initiative to better research into my nutrition habits by recording my daily calorie and food
intake, exercise, and my daily weight into a nutrition database via Access 2007. With this
program, you are able to enter your food and calories for the day and compare it to your
weight and exercise with charts. It’s a very helpful tool for anyone that wants to see how
their diets affect their day and especially if they are hoping to change their dietary habits.
Participation in class seems to be a main factor in learning. It not only helps your
note-taking and listening skills, but engages you in the material and gives you a better and
stronger-standing knowledge on the information you are in taking.
Another form of research that I did for this report was recording my daily study
behaviors for my Computer Science 101 class. I recorded my adequate sleep, lecture
attendance, participation, reviewing my notes, having a study buddy, and procrastination
for the day. I then compared the total of those factors to my lab grade to see the effects that
they had on my grade. After that, I narrowed down how each individual thing was effecting
my lab grades by using correlation charts in excel.
It is obvious from this correlation that the combined study behaviors listed in my
complete records is pretty dependant on my grade. If I do better in all of my study
behaviors and my total is high, my lab grade tends to be higher.
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from other people, but also in helping others. It correlates pretty well that on the days I
participated with study buddies, the better I did on my lab work.
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LEARNING
HOW TO BE A BETTER STUDENT?
What a hard question. It’s very hard to look at yourself in a critical sense in regards
to learning, especially since there are so many aspects that pertain to learning. I guess
everyone kind of learns how they learn, and it would be hard to break the habit of that.
Some people learn better on their own, while others need to be taught step-by-step how to
do things. I’m a little bit of both.
LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
A meaning of “learning how to learn" is for students to learn how to engage in inquiry
and the construction of knowledge in a certain domain of human endeavor. 1 This means being
hands-on in your learning. I think that I’m a better hands-on learner, and that is what I have
been told as well. I know that if I had to go and find out some information for myself I could
definitely do that, but I would much rather have someone there to explain the things that I
need explaining to me.
PROCRASTINATION
Another huge part of being a good student is in knowing how to prevent
procrastination. Procrastination technically refers to the avoidance of a specific task or
1
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/481.html
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work which needs to be accomplished. 2 Procrastination has also never been a huge
problem for me. When I had a job in high school I found myself procrastinating a little bit
but I think it was because I was so tired after juggling school and work. I have also found
that in my learning habits I do better in areas that interest me and sometimes toss the
“boring” subjects to the side.
PRIORITIZING
Prioritizing is really the only thing that I have ever had a problem with. In my junior
and senior year, school was definitely not my top priority. I can already tell that college is
going to be different; I’m super focused in all of my classes and am eager to learn. Having to
pay for the classes is also a huge motivator. A huge part of learning and being a good
student is learning how to prioritize your life: Doing well in school should be your top
priority. 3
ATTENDANCE
Learning has never been a problem for me. In high school, I always received good
grades and I think that I obtained a lot of knowledge throughout every class that I have
truly focused in. One problem that I think I might run in to in college is attendance.
Sometimes I get pretty full of myself and think that I can find out certain information on my
own, but I’m going to try my hardest to ALWAYS attend my classes, which would constitute
as self-discipline. I think that if I start off on a good foot and go to class every day, I will
form a habit and be completely fine.
STAYING FOCUSED
Sometimes I also get very distracted with people that are in my classes. I have
always been a very social person and so I’m usually the person that the teacher yells as for
side conversations. I’m hoping to work on that bad habit a lot this quarter, distractions are
never good.
CREATING A SUITABLE WORK ENVIRONMENT
I really related to Mr. Ota when he was talking about finding a quiet and not
distracting place to study and do assignments, because I will get distracted easily by
friends, TV, and music. Especially with working on the computer and finding information
online, I find myself always surfing the web on the side, which is probably not very
effective.
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http://www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/?page_id=111
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http://courseware.ee.calpoly.edu/~jbreiten/htbas.html
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FINDING EFFECTIVE WORK HABITS
One thing that really helps me in class is note taking. I don’t have the greatest
memory, so it really helps me to have something to refer back to, and since I can’t replay
class, notes are super helpful for me in that area. I had a really good teacher in high school
that taught me how to take notes, which made note-taking even more useful for me.
ORGANIZATION
I have also learned that organization is very key in learning. I strongly believe that
the more organized a person is, the more knowledge they can both obtain and share with
others. Organization can mean a lot of different things for a lot of different people. I have
my own specific organizational style that seems to help me, but I might be able to broaden
my skills and become and even better learner
Quote: “In order to understand and solve your procrastination problems, you must carefully analyze those
situations where your work is not being completed.” 2
http://courseware.ee.calpoly.edu/~jbreiten/
htbas.html
FIGURE 3:HOW TO BE A BETTER STUDENT
This website is about how to be a
good student. It breaks down the basics on
how to be a good student and then goes into
further detail about what you can do in order
to achieve a good student standing. This
website is huge on self-discipline, which is
considered one of the most key aspects of
being a good student. It has a lot of very
logical steps that you can take in becoming a
better student, and a lot of helpful tips. It also
gives readers the perspective of the teacher
as well as what their own perceptions should
be while attending class and doing the
provided work. It is important to get the
teachers angle if a person’s goal is to become
a good student, and this site very basically
touches on that important aspect. It was
written by Jerome R. Breitenbach
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http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/4
81.html
FIGURE 4: TOMORROW'S PROFESSOR
This website theorizes that there are
three main questions that need to be
addressed when a person is “learning how to
learn”. Those three questions are, “how to be
a better student,, how to conduct inquiry and
construct knowledge in certain disciplines or
fields, and how to be a self-directing learner.
It explains different ways that people have
studied the elements of learning in students
and gives examples from a lot of those
studies. This website also defines and goes
into detail about the three main questions
involved in learning how to learn. It is very
interesting and it can definitely grasp the
reader’s attention and interest in the subject.
This article was sponsored by the Stanford
Center for Teaching and Learning.
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http://www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/?p
age_id=111
FIGURE 5: PROCRASTINATION
This website is targeted towards
procrastination. It explains exactly what
procrastination is on many levels and some of
the basic forms that it can take, which I think
is really important because it gives the reader
a better insight into what procrastination
really is. It then explores the relevant causes
of procrastination, such as poor time
management and lack of relevance. A lot of
the causes of procrastination that this site
provides to you were very interesting and
definitely initiates the reader to look at the
subject differently and maybe relate to it a
little better. On top of giving the causes for
procrastination, this site also gives many
helpful tips for students on good ways to
diminish procrastination in your learning.
This article was written by the University of
Illinois.
RESEARCH RESULTS
Throughout my research I have gained a lot of knowledge on how to be a better
student! I guess you could say that I learned a lot on how to learn. One of the main things
that I learned is that I do sometimes fall under the category of a procrastinator. I also
learned a lot of cool tips on how to prevent procrastination, so hopefully that will help me
with my studies in college.
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STUDY BEHAVIOR RECORDS
I am going to be keeping steady records on my studying behaviors in order to maintain.
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THE VALUE OF A COLLEGE DEGREE
WHAT ARE WE PAYING FOR?
In this article, Professor Wellock talks a lot about the study habits of college
students, specifically targeting the Central Washington University alumni. I think that a lot
of his points are very valid and interesting. One of the things that I completely agree with
Wellock about is how college is supposed to help students to achieve better work habits
which will enable them in the future. I also agree that by forming easier classes that adapt
to the student’s already known and poor work habits that they used in high school, colleges
are raping us of the education we are paying to receive. Colleges take their tuition money
but leave these students with mortgage-sized debts and no future. 4
LOWERING STANDARDS
Discipline is a huge aspect in regards to learning. By lowering the work load and
standards in college, institutions are teaching students the exact opposite of this. I believe
in generous admissions for some colleges, because every person should receive the same
opportunities as the next. But can generous admissions really be considered generous if
they are lowering the standards for all students and therefore lowering the value of a
college degree? And if more prestigious jobs start requiring more than just a college degree
because the value of one has been so greatly reduced, what does that mean for the hardworking students who actually excel in college? Will they have to spend even more money
in the long run? Hopefully these kinds of questions start being answered and our actual
futures start becoming the main focus in universities.
COLLEGE LIFE
As ridiculous as I think it is for students to be paying for an education that they don’t
even want, that is what I see mainly around this campus as well as in other campuses that I
have visited. When I was asking my friend, who goes to Western Washington University,
which general education courses to take, she started telling me all of the classes that were
considered, “easy A’s”. College isn’t supposed to be easy, you are supposed to come out of
classes with knowledge that you haven’t learned yet. In current-day’s society, the illusion of
college has apparently changed into a place of fun and parties, and not so much as a
learning environment. Hopefully people will start being more serious about college and
their futures on both ends of the learning spectrum.
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Professor Wellock
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NUTRITION AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
FRESHMAN FIFTEEN
Many people are familiar with the ominous phrase, “freshman fifteen”. I have always
heard that students are destined to gain at least 15 pounds in their first year of college. This
probably has to do with such an abrupt lifestyle change on top of a new environment filled
with unhealthy options.
CHANGE IN ENVIRONMENT
I have already noticed a bigger calorie intake in my life and I have only been in
college for two weeks. I think that since I have stopped working and don’t have much of a
social life over here now, I get bored a lot, which results in eating more in my case. I also
had healthier options when I was living back at home. The campus here is filled with “junk”
food because college students think they are too pressed for time to do meals that aren’t
convenient.
NUTRITION AND STUDYING
Today, studies are showing that bad eating habits can affect you not only physically
in college, but also take their toll on your studies. Eating a healthy diet can help you feel
better, cope with stress and perform better in the class-room and on the athletic field.5
Breakfast is definitely the most important meal of the day, yet the most commonly missed
one with college students. Skipping this meal can really affect your day.
HEALTHY OPTIONS
College students should really try to lean towards the healthier options dining halls
have available. Salad is a good choice, when you don’t smother it in creamy dressings and
bacon bits. Go for the fruit sides instead of greasy French fries. Though junk food is hard to
resist, students should really try to do so.
ALCOHOL
Another added factor to a college student’s diet is alcohol. It is shown that alcohol
has no nutritional value, but provides us with a huge calorie intake.6 About one gram of
alcohol contains 7 calories.
Quote: “Eat a good breakfast. Studies show that skipping breakfast detracts from scholastic achievement.” 5
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http://healthed.uoregon.edu/10tips.htm
http://www.medicinenet.com/alcohol_and_nutrition/article.htm
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FIGURE 6: HEALTHY EATING
In this website I found a lot of
useful tips about how to eat healthy while
in college. On top of giving the reader
simple tips to keep in mind throughout
their college experiences, this website
also explains why these tips will help you
out. It is very important for websites to
elaborate on why they are giving the tip, it
will ensure the reader that the tip is
worthy of practicing.
This website I obtained nutrition
facts about alcohol. I figured that this was
relevant because alcohol is so often used
in reference to the college experience.
Many kids probably don’t retain
knowledge on how many calories are
actually in alcohol. It’s a very bad
substance to add to your diet and it does
have a huge effect on your health.
FIGURE 7: ALCOHOL NUTRITION FACTS
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HOW TO DEVELOP BETTER LISTENING SKILLS
PARTICIPATION
Active participation is very important when it comes to listening and succeeding in
the classroom. If you participate in the discussion and ask questions when needed, listening
is obviously being done.
MAINTAINING EYE CONTACT WITH THE PROFESSOR
By maintaining eye contact with the professor, students can focus on the lecture
much better. Sometimes in lectures teachers say things with their facial expressions and
body language and it adds to the knowledge in the lecture. By maintaining direct focus (eye
contact) with the speaker, you are more likely to gain a clearer perspective on the
intelligence they are trying to pass on to you.
SIT NEAR THE FRONT OF THE CLASS
If you sit in the front rows of your class you can listen better. First of all, if the
professor has visual elements that add to their lecture, sitting in the front of the class will
aid you in seeing and understanding the visuals. Secondly, by sitting closer to the professor
you can hear them better, which makes the lecture that much better.
TAKE AND REVIEW NOTES
If you have an effective note taking system, it will give you something to look back to
in reference to the lectures you have heard. Memory is a huge part of listening, if you don’t
have the best memory help yourself out by giving yourself something to refresh your
memory. You can listen all you want, but retaining information is what you are essentially
trying to do.
RECOGNIZING DISTRACTIONS
By recognizing what distracts you in class and doing something about it, you can
maintain better listening skills. You actually have to be paying attention and LISTENING to
the lecture and not paying attention to things like your cell phone or the friend sitting next
to you. If you learn how to get rid of distractions, you will definitely become a better
listener.
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SKILLS, IMPEDIMENTS, AND ACTION PLAN
When it comes to listening I don’t really have a lot of skill. I get distracted pretty
easily in class, and after reading the earlier article about multi-tasking, I’m beginning to
second guess my listening skills entirely. The thing is that even when I multi-task I still
obtain a lot of the knowledge from the lectures that I hear and do well on exams and
assignments. There could be a lot of little things that my brain isn’t picking up though, so I
will try to hone my skills better by not getting as distracted in class and really focusing on
my instructor. I just recently got a new pair of eye glasses that help aid me with seeing in
class and so I’m excited to see if that will help out my class-room skills as a whole.
Quote: “Of course you will need to look at your notebook to write your notes, but eye contact
keeps you focused on the job at hand and keeps you involved in the lecture.”7
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http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_listening.html
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http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/a cad/strat/ss_listening.html
FIGURE 8: LISTENING SKILLS
This website provided a lot of very useful tips in regards to listening skills and how to
improve them. An interesting fact on this website is that college students typically spend 14 hours
per week in class listening. It doesn’t go into any specific detail or research as to why these tips are
effective, but I don’t think that was the purpose of the website. It is a very short article, but all in all
it contained some very useful and productive information.
http://www.elmhurst.edu/library/learningcenter/Listening/effective_listening_skills.htm
FIGURE 9:EFFECTIVE LISTENING
I really enjoyed researching this website. The only thing that I didn’t like about it was the
setup and how there were a bunch of different hyper links, it was a little unorganized. Overall
though this website contained a lot of different skills about listening that would be really useful to
use in a classroom.
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NOTE TAKING SKILLS
COME PREPARED
When it comes to taking notes, preparedness is an obvious must. Depending on your
note taking preferences, you should bring what materials you are going to need in order to
properly take notes. Coming prepared also means, of course, that you need to be in good
health. Adequate sleep and nutrition is very effective in honing any skill.
ORGANIZATION
It is also really important to be at least somewhat organized when it comes to
effective note taking. Not everybody’s notes are going to be organized the same, just get the
feel of whatever works for you. As long as you have some system when it comes to taking
notes, you should be set. Organizing your notes can also lead to better understanding when
you review your notes.
REVIEW NOTES
Reviewing your notes is also a really huge aspect of good note taking skills. It helps
keep the ideas fresh in your head and recitation is really good when it comes to learning
and memorizing vital information that you will need in your classes. If you review your
notes immediately after class, this will also be very useful to you. If you can review them as
soon as possible you will grasp them better.
EXCHANGE NOTES
Sometimes other people in your classes have really good concepts and ideas about
lectures. It might be helpful to you to exchange notes with another classmate. Not only will
it benefit you, but it will benefit the other person as well. Sometimes fresh, new ideas can
just amplify yours.
KEEP UP WITH READING ASSIGNMENTS
By keeping up with the reading assignments assigned in your classes, you will be
better prepared and briefed about the lecture that will be happening. By having some
knowledge on the subject before hearing about it, you will gain more from the lecture.
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STRENGTHS
I have some strength when it comes to note taking. A high school professor of mine
taught me a simple note taking procedure. He showed me how to write down key words or
phrases in order to still listen to the lecture completely but still have something to
reference back to when I needed a refresher. I find that when I review my notes from class I
don’t really have a problem understanding them either, which is very effective.
WEAKNESSES
Some of my weaknesses in note taking about referencing back and remembering
exactly what I was referring to in my notes in regards to the lecture. Sometimes I don’t have
the greatest memory, so it’s hard to remember exactly what was said in my lecture with
only keywords and phrases written down.
IMPROVEMENT AND ACTION PLAN
After researching this subject, I now have a clear idea of how I will improve my note
taking abilities and skills. I plan on sitting in the front of all of my classes to get a clearer
and more up close visual on what is really going on in the lecture and it will help me to hear
key phrases better and see visual aids. I really think that this will help me take better notes.
I also think that if I review my notes soon after class I will remember things much easier.
Quote: “Studies on memory have shown that, without review, 47% of what a person has just
learned is forgotten in the first twenty minutes and 62% is forgotten after the first day.”8
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http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic/notes-tips.htm
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http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic/n
otes-tips.htm
This website was actually really
useful. The author gives some really cool tips
about effective note taking and relates
specific experiences and examples to her tips.
She goes about explaining why each is
effective and what you can do to aid yourself
in honing these skills well. All in all this was
really cool for me to read and I think that I
definitely got a lot of knowledge out of this
website.
FIGURE 10: EFFECTIVE NOTE TAKING
http://sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/notetaking.sys
tems.html
FIGURE 11: NOTE TAKING SYSTEMS
I really enjoyed this website. It had a
lot of really good information about note
taking and all of the different systems that are
out there. My favorite system on there was
the Cornell system, it seems like a really cool
way of taking notes and I might even give it a
try one of these days. My favorite part about
this website was that it listed all of the pros
and cons to each different note-taking system.
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POSSIBLE STUDY OUTCOMES
On the days that I did not get adequate sleep, I did poorly on the labs. Attending lectures
also seems to have an affect on my grade. For instance, on the days that I attended lecture, my
grades were better. Some outside factors that also have an affect on my grades and learning are
partying, distractions (i.e. roommates), and other class work. If I prepare myself for the lecture
before attending, my grades are affected in a very positive way. I think that the pre-lecture
assignments are really beneficial to my learning habits. The night before lab, I review my notes
from lecture to better prepare myself for the next day, which also seems to correlate positively with
higher grades. By participating in class I better understand the material covered because I am
engaging myself in the learning process. When I talked to Paige about this, she also said that the
environment in which I’m studying has an affect on my learning process. She said that if I study the
material in a certain environment, such as on my bed in my room, I will be able to retrieve the
information that I studied better in the exact same environment that I learned it in. So I’m going to
try to come to a computer lab and study from now on, because that’s where we do most of our
work.
TOTAL STUDY BEHAVIORS VS LAB GRADES
It is obvious from this correlation that the combined study behaviors listed in my complete records
is pretty dependant on my grade. If I do better in all of my study behaviors and my total is high, my
lab grade tends to be higher.
Total Study Behaviors VS Lab Grade
200
12
Total SBR
180
L
a
b
10
160
140
8
120
G 100
r
80
a
60
d
40
e
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20
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FIGURE 12: TOTAL STUDY BEHAVIORS VS LAB GRADE
Lab Grade
Series2
Series1
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ADEQUATE SLEEP VS LAB GRADE
The correlation for adequate sleep vs. my lab grade is kind of off as well. One would assume that
your lab grade would be better if you had adequate sleep, but sometimes, even when I had adequate
sleep, my lab grade was low. On other days, when I didn't get adequate sleep, my lab grade was still
high. But for the most part, if I got adequate sleep my lab grade tended to be higher.
Adequate Sleep VS Lab Grade
200
L 180
a 160
b 140
120
G 100
r
80
a
60
d
40
e
20
0
Adequate
Sleep
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2
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0.5
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Lab Grade
Series2
Series1
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011121314
FIGURE 13: ADEQUATE SLEEP VS LAB GRADE
ATTENDING LECTURE VS LAB GRADE
For the most part, on the days that I attended lecture my lab grades seemed to be better. There are
some days that I didn't attend lecture and still got really good grades, but I also had study buddies
those days and got to review their notes.
Attend Lecture VS Lab Grade
200
L 180
a 160
b 140
120
G 100
r
80
a
60
d
40
e
20
0
Attend
Lecture
1.2
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
A
t
t
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n
d
0.2
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
FIGURE 14: ATTENDING LECTURE VS LAB GRADE
L
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r
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Lab
Grade
Series2
Series1
19
STUDY BUDDIES VS LAB GRADE
I really think that study buddies are helping me this quarter. Not only in getting help from other
people, but also in helping others. It correlates pretty well that on the days I participated with study
buddies, the better I did on my lab work.
Study Buddies VS Lab Grade
200
180
160
140
120
G 100
r
80
a
60
d
40
e
20
0
1.2
L
a
b
Study Buddy
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
FIGURE 15: STUDY BUDDIES VS LAB GRADE
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Lab Grade
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Series1
20
INDEX
Multi-tasking, 11
Note taking, 10, 13, 14
Nutrition, 8, 9, 13
Procrastination, 1, 5, 6
Student, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8