Learning Styles and Goal Setting for Academic Performance

This article discusses the four learning styles by David Kolb and how they can be used to enhance critical thinking, time management and reading skills. It also provides tips on setting smart goals for academic performance.

Academic performance
Strengths
Critical thinking: I am having critical thinking
skills which help in making effective decisions and
enhance my determination ability. This help me in
analyzing the problem and understanding of the
data.
Team work skills: I am good at working with the
team as it helps me in improving the internal
personal skill and provide collaboration with the
team.
Self-motivations: I am self-motivated that enable
me to take initiatives and make me independent.
SWOT analysis
Time management: I am not good at time
management because the work that is given to me is
not done according to the time or provide schedule.
Understanding brief assignment: I am not able to
understand the brief of assignment for which I have
to read it many more times.
Managing information: when I have too much
information so get confuse that cause stress and
anxiety to me due to which I am not able to manage
it.
Weaknesses
Opportunity
Threat
Manage time: When I will the time management skills
so I can attain the goals easily and get assistance in
priorities my work.
Learn multitasking: This assist me in taking the
multiple responsibilities and performing the various
task.
Distraction: Sometime my mind gets distracted
while performing the work and make me not able
to grip over the work and miss important
highlights.
Low confidence: Due to lack of confidence I get
confuse while making decisions.
By setting goals, I can be able to provide a better
understanding of the expectations and give clarity to decision
making. It makes me greater focused, increased productivity
and higher level of motivations. The smart goals are as under:
Specific: I will complete and submit my assignment on time.
Measurable: I will enable myself to develop the effective
research and technical skill.
Attainable: I am required to enhance my self-esteem and
improve my power point and presentation skills.
Reliable: I will stay focused on a practical plan and put it into
action.
Time line: I will complete my studies on time and move
forward to start my new business to progress and growth in
career.
There are four learning styles which has been
provided by David Kolb which includes
perception and processing. The styles have
been discussed as under:
Concrete experience: With this style I can
involve myself in learning new experience on
the basis of what other have done previously.
Reflective observation: This style helps me in
learning new experience when I watch others
and develop observation about their
experience.
Abstract conceptualization: With the
assistance of this learning styles, I can be able
to create theories in order to explain
observation.
Active experiments: This style help me in
solving problems and make effective decisions
by using the theories.
To develop reading skills, I am required to identify the ideas
and summaries to find out important things in it so that it can
be put into own words.
I can use my prior knowledge and predict on the basis of the
prior knowledge and gain more information.
Reading strategies
My goals Learning styles