Importance of Setting Goals for Students

Essay

Table of Contents
Essay............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...............................................................................................................................3
Why it is important to set goals...............................................................................................3
Methods students can use to improve their Retention............................................................4
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Educational goals of individual are known as Academic Goals. This study includes why it
is important to set academic goals. It is very important as they guide individual for what they
need to do. In this report some of the goals which students set for short term and long term
have also been included. Along with strategies for retention of information they learn at their
university.
MAIN BODY
Why it is important to set goals
Goals are something that individual want to achieve in a particular time. This may be short
term and long term (Aarts, 2019). In this academic goals are goals which are set by the
students and are related with their education and academic achievements.
Academic goals are really important as they give direction to students for all of their
activity and also keep students focused on their studies. Some of the importance of setting
gaols for students are as follows-
Goals Provide Measurement Criteria
Students when set gaols they have criteria on the basis of which they can measure their
performance and what they want to have and what they really have. For instance if student set
that they want to get particular marks in their next exam and prepare for that then they have
marks to measure whether their performance was right or not.
Goals give Focus to Students
This is when students set goals they are focused to achieve that goal. This situation is better
than those when student do not set any goals, and they remain in vague idea about what they
should do and what not (King, 2018). This also allows students to turn all their idea in the
direction of their goal and goal achievement.
Goals Keep students undistracted
Students are able to keep undistracted when they set goals. This is important so that
students are totally focused on their efforts and do not get distracted by anything they face.
Focus is very important and people this focus can only be provided when students set goals.
Goals of Students Give them Motivation