Role of Building Comprehension and Retention in Improving Learning Quality

This report discusses the role of building comprehension and retention in improving the quality of learning. It covers various strategies and barriers related to comprehension and retention. The report also emphasizes the importance of comprehension and retention in academic achievement.

INDIVIDUAL REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................5
(A) Role of building comprehension and retention.....................................................................5
(B) Obstacle pertaining to building comprehension and retention..............................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Comprehension refers the process of understanding which comes from reading the material in
current moment and interprets it in writing while retention is the process of learning or
remembering things which comes from comprehension in current moment. Comprehension and
retention are closely interlinked to each other because comprehension leads retention and
enhance skills of students (Alkhateeb and et.al., 2015). There are lots of comprehension
strategies like research about reading material, questioning, interpreting text structure,
visualization and summarization. These strategies lead comprehension and enhance
comprehension skills in students. When students overcomes whole comprehension strategy as
resulted retention skills enhances. This report will cover role of building comprehension and
retention which improves quality of learning and supports to enhance academic achievement of
student. This report will cover barriers which comes during retention and comprehension.
MAIN BODY
(A) Role of building comprehension and retention
Comprehension and retention both plays crucial role to improve quality of learning and it
leads development in skills. Through skills' student enables to achieve goals of their life.
Comprehension skills can enhance by reading (Alkhateeb and et.al., 2016). If students has good
reading skills then they enable to build comprehension skills. To understand reading material
students needs practical guidance before reading. Academic teachers plays crucial role to guide
students how to enhance their comprehension skills so that they enable to improve quality of
learning. Teacher plays crucial role to build comprehension skills and retention skills so that
students learning quality is improved. Teacher creates focuses on students reading and suggest
them deep reading so that their reading skills becomes good. Teacher assigns project to their
students and suggest them some good writers books to collect data and guides them to solve
question. While students takes help of books during research and understand topics which
assigns them. Student surveys about project and puts some question during reading, finds
answers by re-reading then analyses, after analysing interpret it in text. These whole process
supports to build comprehension. While teachers asks question regrading project through viva
process. Communication is the best way to enhance effectiveness in academic students during
reading. If teacher has good communication with student then teacher enablers to understand
topics regarding subjects.

There are various technology to builds students comprehension, For example poster,
projector and practical knowledge etc. leads effectiveness in students and then student enables to
correlate things in easy manner. Teacher takes help of projector to elaborate things rather
reading. In projector shows pictures which attracts student and students listen intently to their
teachers. It becomes easy for teachers to elaborate things. This technology leads effectiveness in
student understanding (Bonifacci and Tobia, 2016). Teacher influences student to put question
and student also allows asking questioning which builds comprehension and enhance retention
power of students. Evaluation is the most essential element in learning process where teachers
access on student by taking extempore test. Extempore test supports teacher to analyses learning
skills of each student in classroom. Besides of these teachers organizes annual or semester
exams. This test evaluates overall comprehension and retention power of academic student.
Through this evaluation student enables to enhance quality of learning. Academic effectiveness
is the most important to improve quality of learning of students (Rawl, 2017). If teachers
provides creative atmosphere to students and ask mental ability question to students then student
become interested and takes part. Teacher organizes personality development classes for student
which supports students to enhance their personality by improving comprehension skills.
To improve students skills needs builds strong comprehension power and reading.
Comprehension skills introduces a new platform of learning.
Survey: survey is important element to improve quality of learning. Survey requires reading to
understand topics. Through survey can build their comprehension and enables top interpret
things in writing. These skills support to elaborate concepts and leads retention power in their
learning.
Question: Reading leads activeness and curiosity in students regarding reading material where
students put up questions during survey which leads effectiveness in students and curiosity (Liu,
2015). This questions improve quality of learning by comprehension. Thus, comprehension
regarding survey and question enables to achieve goals of life.
Read: reading is more essential element in learning. Comprehension can't come without reading.
through reading student enables to puts up question regrading r4eading material. Reading
supports students to improve their learning quality and raises academic achievement of student.
Summarization: Summarization also essential because it supports to examine understanding
and student capacity regarding reading material. While verbalization supports to remember

reading material which interpret during survey and reading. Summarization needs own
comprehension which access to academic integrity.
Reviews: These above process of comprehension supports in learning and remembering things
for long time. To learn something needs comprehension and sharp memory (Yeari, 2017). This
review is a comprehension and retention which supports to improve quality of learning.
Reading, surveying, questioning, evaluation, summarization and review are part of
comprehension which builds comprehension and retention, that improves quality of learning in
collage. This improvement supports to raises academic achievement of students. This
comprehension strategy supports student to make themselves creative and encourage their
confidence which gives efficiency in student regarding their performance.
(B) Obstacle pertaining to building comprehension and retention
There are various barriers which creates problem in comprehension and retention. These
barriers make student wear in subject and prevents to raise academic student achievement.
Barriers are-
Physical mental condition: Physical discomfort is first barrier creates problem in
comprehension. Due to physical discomfort students enables gain more knowledge by surveying.
In that state student unable to improve quality of learning. beside of this if students suffers from
low blood sugar, in that state student unable to give proper concentration which can reduce
comprehension of student during reading (Lavena, 2016). If student suffers from cold that can
distract student to concentrate on reading which creates incapability in retention Power. Mental
condition also a big barrier for student. For example if a student suffers from migraine problem
in that state unable to give more pressure on his mind which creates incapability to
understanding and reading. This reason can decrease quality of learning.
Environmental: Temperature is a barrier which can reduce student's understanding for subject.
Atmosphere supports to encourage student to build comprehension and leads concentration in
retention (Ness, 2016). If student doesn't get good visualization in classroom then it can distract
student during remembering reading material.
Lack of confidence: confidence leads good understanding and supports to sharp skills in well-
formed manner. If student is not confident then unable to build comprehension and retention. In
classroom student shy to ask question due to lack of confidence, student unable to clear concept
regarding reading material which will decrease understanding (Gignac and Szodorai, 2016).

When student doesn't get concept in well-formed. In that state, unable to remember reading
material and incapable to give answers due to confusion. It can reduce chances to achievement in
academic.
Lack of motivation: Motivation also a barrier. For example when student doesn't get any
appreciation regrading performance or answering in classroom from teachers or parents. It can
divert student mind from concentration. Lack of concentration can reduce comprehension skills
of student. When student doesn't understand things in well-formed then unable to interpret
concepts what student listen.
Lack of resources: This is also a big barrier which creates problem to build comprehension and
retention regarding reading material. When student doesn't get proper resources for
understanding topic till then unable to collect more knowledge regarding subject. It leads
incapability to build comprehension (Omar, 2015). Guidance also plays important role to build
comprehension. When student doesn't get proper guidance from teachers. In that province,
unable to elaborate and interpret reading material.
Lack of socio-demographical survey: This is also big barrier to reduce comprehension Power
of student because this survey creates curiosity in student and supports to put question in student
mind. Survey gives knowledge to student and enhance retention power of student and when
doesn't get such kind survey it reduces student activity and creativity. It can loss interest of
students.
Lack of participant: Number of student doesn't involve any type of survey or curriculum in that
case unable to build comprehension which gives negative impact in learning.
Thus, above barriers prevent student to build comprehension and retention. Lack of
comprehension and retention students unable to sharp their learning skills which reduce
achievement of academic students.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded comprehension concepts which supports in retention and explained
that comprehension and retention both are closely interlink to each other where retention is
dependent on comprehension. These skills help to improve learning quality of students. In this
report has been described importance of compensation and retention in student life and has been
addressed role of comprehension. In role of comprehension has been explained that reading,
surveying, questioning, summarizing and reviewing plays essential role to build comprehension

and retention. These factor supports to improve learning quality of student, so that students
enables to raise academic achievements. It has been covered barriers such as lack of reso0ueces,
lack of confidence, physical and mental condition, lack of socio-demographical etc. distracts
student to build comprehension and retention.

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