Assignment on Strategies for Learning in Education

Running head: CRITICAL ANALYSIS
LITERATURE REVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING IN EDUCATION
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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TITLE
MacCann, C., Fogarty, G.J. and Roberts, R.D., 2012. Strategies for success in education: Time
management is more important for part-time than full-time community college students.
Learning and Individual Differences, 22(5), pp.618-623.
TOPIC
The following article discusses the relationship between community college student and the
effect of time management in educational context. The primary objective of the study was to
understand how the non-cognitive construct affected academic success.
CONTEXT
The following paper is a relevant research paper in the field of education, sociology and
social psychology. The paper is relevant to the current timeline where the success of the
education is associated with time management and conscientiousness. This paper can be used by
future researchers in the field of education who are trying to understand the learning
methodology among non-traditional students. The paper discusses the importance of flexible
timing within the education system can encourage enrollment. This is relevant topic from
sociological and psychosocial point of view as it examines the attitude of part-time students and
how it effects their learning capacity.
STRUCTURE
The authors have constructed the paper in a proper structure and have arranged their views in a
structural format. The paper begins with the abstract which states key points of what the article

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wants to establish. It gives the general description of the article and states the various process
involved. It is followed by introduction which introduces the readers to the topic that states that
academic success is achieved by cognitive ability and personality trait of conscientiousness. In
this section the authors have stated the goals they want to achieve through their analysis. This
section is subdivided into five sub parts which states the concept and discusses using primary
and secondary data. The subsections also analyse the topic using quantitative analysis. They use
previous literature from past research as well as quantitative data analysis and examine the
findings. This is followed by method, this is an entirely quantitative research data and primary
research data. This section is subdivided participants which has discussed the number of
participants used in the research to gather primary data. It is further divided into measures which
has further categorised sections into vocabulary, Big-five IPIP short forms, time management
and procedure. This part of the article uses quantitative research analogy and gathers data from
the participants. Results comes next where the data collected from the above experiment is
analysed using empirical analysis. The results are then discussed in details and the findings are
summarised and the limitations and prospects of future research is discussed. The paper ends
summarising the findings from the study and concludes.
STYLE
The language used by the authors is clear and written in a formal tone. The ideas are presented
in a coherent manner. The sections are properly categorized and well presented. The language
and style is appropriate for academic paper and for the audience. The language is little less on the