Academic Skills and Studying with Confidence

This article discusses the importance of developing effective study skills and self-confidence while studying academic subjects. It covers topics such as the impact of EAP study on international postgraduate students, the influence of personality on academic abilities, and the relationship between self-concept, self-efficacy, and achievement in mathematics. It also explores student confidence in the research process and the development of information literacy skills in pre-registration nurses. Additionally, it evaluates the knowledge, confidence, and interpersonal skills of paediatric residents in dealing with adolescent depression.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Developing effective study skills and self confidence................................................................1
Students perceptions of their information literacy skills.............................................................1
Impact of EAP study on the academic experiences of international post graduate students in
Australia......................................................................................................................................2
Influence of Personality on HE Students' confidence in their academic abilities.......................2
Perception or Confidence? Self concept, self-efficacy and achievement in Mathematics: a
longitudinal study........................................................................................................................2
Student confidence/ overconfidence in the research process......................................................2
Developing information literacy skills in pre-registration nurses. An experimental study of
teaching methods.........................................................................................................................3
Adolescent depression: evaluating paediatric residents knowledge, confidence, and
interpersonal skills using standardized patients..........................................................................3
Meta-cognition and confidence: comparing maths to other academic subjects..........................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
In present time, it can be said that for an individual it is much needed to have academic
skills and confidence as well while studying different subjects within a University (Al-Otaibi,
2017). This portfolio of my own is going to cover the impact of EAP study, comparison of
mathematics and other subjects and there will be brief information in regards to adolescent
depression.
MAIN BODY
Developing effective study skills and self confidence
In present time, developing the effective study skills along with self confidence are said
to be the two elements that has helped me out whilst studying various academic subjects. On the
other hand, it has also led me as a student to gain knowledge in much effective and in efficient
manner. Including this, self confidence is something that would help me and other young
adolescents whilst taking lectures or attending a class as it will help in resolving queries in short
span. There are five primal study skills that are important for me or any other young adolescent
to become confident and i.e. communication, analysing, understanding, composition and
comprehension as well (Developing Effective Study Skills and Self-Confidence in Academically
Able Young Adolescents, 2019).
Students perceptions of their information literacy skills
Being as a student, it is much needed for me to have effective literacy skills as this would
directly aid me in becoming successful at University and enhance my learning skills. On the
other hand, if it is talked about the confidence gap then there are many research took place in
past few decades and from one of those investigation, the data showed that male international
business students (n = 70) consists with high confidence than female counterparts (n = 102). In
regards to this perceived data has showed that literacy skills which was calculated on the basis of
SPIL-Q where, 3.78 male individuals (students) and female students consists with a score of 3.58
(Chen, Grove and Hussey, 2017).
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(Sources : STEM and the gender gap: Why girls are “not good” at math, 2016)
Considering the above resources it can easily be said that By 2018, 71% of the jobs will
require STEM skills. In 2013, only 26% of the computing professionals and 12% of the
engineers were women.
Impact of EAP study on the academic experiences of international post graduate students in
Australia
In present time, if it is talked about Australia, EAP courses not majorly impacts to
improve understudies' degree of English yet in addition to pass on valuable scholastic
examination aptitudes and acquaint understudies with the regular kinds of their order. However,
hardly any investigations have concentrated on how the scholarly encounters to worldwide
understudies are influenced by whether they had gone to an EAP course or not.
Influence of Personality on HE Students' confidence in their academic abilities
Personality specifically plays an important role for every single individual and for me as
well, because it develops confidence while pursuing a course at a University. Basically, HE
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Illustration 1: STEM and the gender gap: Why girls are “not good” at math, 2016

students’ confidence directly develops different personality traits and grades. Here, being as a
student, I found that there was a 10 to 31% of variance that came in front within ILP factors,
where it is said that due to confidence, my personality traits and other abilities majorly got
disrupted, but Self-Esteem and Anxiety was not at all got affected (Cottrell, 2019).
Perception or Confidence? Self concept, self-efficacy and achievement in Mathematics: a
longitudinal study.
Basically, what I have realised being a student within the university and pursuing a
course is that number of perceptions basically develops confidence among student's life. If it is
talked about relationship of mathematics self-concept, efficacy along with the achievement
considering the longitudinal design. This is where, significantly correlation among self-concept
mathematics and significant longitudinal effects along with the self-efficacy are the two major
methodologies that impacts upon both perceptions of my own and on confidence as well in
regards to learning mathematics.
Student confidence/ overconfidence in the research process
Considering my own situation, I can effectively say that Students' confidence basically
gets affected because these are not at all reliable indicators for me and for other students because
most of the information specifically stays related to literacy competence. Here, I can say that
University mostly helps students like me in enhancing my own and of other's confidence level as
well. This has impacted majorly over literacy tasks of students like me while performing the
investigation or following the same process as well to pull out favourable outcomes on a research
(Demir, Kılınç and Doğan, 2017).
Developing information literacy skills in pre-registration nurses. An experimental study of
teaching methods.
If it is talked about the literacy skills, primal year pre-registration nursing students
basically linked with information literacy sessions and being a student, I have found that these
are continuously increasing effectively (p<0.001). But, just after one month they stayed
unchanged which impacted, negatively over different teaching methodologies. In present
context, specifically there are two most important methodologies that has been developed and
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has given information in regards to comparable improvement (p=0.263). On the other side, one
month later degradation of skills 1 month post-session for either method (p=0.216).
Adolescent depression: evaluating paediatric residents knowledge, confidence, and interpersonal
skills using standardized patients
Considering the information given by Lewy, (2019), where paediatric residents consists
with appropriate knowledge, confidence and contains various interpersonal skills. This is where
adolescent depression may lead a residents' confidence to go through number of issues in regards
to the treatment. This is where, confidence built for my own and as a nurse all the diagnostic
skills will majorly remain unchanged. Including this, even after the rotation, residents did not use
all DSM-IV criteria for major depressive disorder in their diagnoses.
Meta-cognition and confidence: comparing maths to other academic subjects
High school understudies stepped through three unique examinations and gave
assessments of their exhibition both when stepping through every examination. Alongside the,
students comparatively took three abbreviated Subject Tests. Understudies were arrogant in
anticipating science execution, to be sure indicating more prominent pomposity contrasted with
other scholarly subjects. The outcomes have suggestions for instructive practice and different
conditions that require broad utilization of science (Poonpon, 2017).
CONCLUSION
With the help of above mentioned report, it is being concluded that both academic skills
along with the studying with confidence are the two major elements that needs proper focus for
an individual who is looking forward to achieve something big in his or her life.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Al-Otaibi, W. H., 2017. The Effectiveness of Blackboard-Based Blended Teaching in the
Development of Academic Achievement, Study Skills and Self-Confidence among
Students of Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University. International Education
Studies. 10(11). pp.100-115.
Chen, W., Grove, W. A. and Hussey, A., 2017. The role of confidence and noncognitive skills
for post-baccalaureate academic and labor market outcomes. Journal of Economic
Behavior & Organization. 138. pp.10-29.
Cottrell, S., 2019. The study skills handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Demir, S., Kılınç, M. and Doğan, A., 2017. The effect of curriculum for developing efficient
studying skills on academic achievements and studying skills of learners. International
Electronic Journal of Elementary Education. 4(3). pp.427-440.
Poonpon, K., 2017. Enhancing English skills through project-based learning. The English
Teacher, p.10.
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Developing Effective Study Skills and Self-Confidence in Academically Able Young Adolescents.
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journalCode=gcqb>.
STEM and the gender gap: Why girls are “not good” at math. 2016. [Online]. Available
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