Effective Academic Skills: Goal Setting, Comprehension, and Retention

This report delves into crucial academic skills, emphasizing goal setting, comprehension, and retention techniques. It examines how reading aloud and storytelling can enhance comprehension and memory, highlighting their role in academic success. The report also discusses the significance of setting both short-term and long-term goals for students, illustrating how these goals provide direction and motivation. Short-term goals help build momentum, while long-term goals offer a broader perspective. The report provides practical strategies and real-world examples to help students improve their study habits and achieve their academic objectives. The report includes references for further study.

PURSUING A VISION THROUGH ACADEMIC GOALS
Techniques for comprehension and retention
Comprehension is basically the technique as well as ability for processing the text and
understanding is meaning in depth. Retention is the ability of individuals to remember a
particular thing for long period of time
Reading out loud
This is one of the most effective method of comprehension which students can utilize for
improving their memory. According to the studies, it has been found that when students
read a particular topic loud then it eventually improves their memory and helps them to
retain the topic for longer period of time. When students will speak the text of books loud
enough instead of reading it silently then the dual impact of hearing as well as speaking
eventually will help them to encode the meaning of text.
Importance of goal-setting
Goals are basically the ideas as well as the desired results which an individual sets for achieving success in career. It is
highly essential for the students in university to set definite goals in their career as it helps them to unearth as well as
identify that what will help them to excel in the future. Besides this, goal-setting is also important because it helps the
students to develop themselves and build their self-efficacy. There are generally two types of goals namely short term goals
and long term goals which students set in their life. Short-term goals are the one which the students have tom achieve in near
future and thus will be accomplished within short period of time. For example- the students might want to achieve the higher
grades in their next semester or in the next assignment. Besides this, another short-term goal might be to learn the new
subject within few weeks or months. The main advantage of setting short term goals is that it helps the students to develop a
momentum for improving themselves and for achieving their long term goals. On the other hand, long term goals are the one
which students commit to achieve in the future and thus will accomplish in the long period of time like in 2 years or 5 years.
For example- the major long-term goal of students to join the renowned organization after completing graduation. Another
long term goal might be to become CEO of the company in future and give back to parents. The main advantage of long
term goals is that it provides a big picture to students which eventually provides them the right direction.
Story-telling is best
This is considered as the most effective strategy and
technique of retention which helps to increase then
learning power within students. Instead of reading the
subject matter in a normal way, when students learn it
by linking it with their personal life then they are able
to better understand the meaning of topic and also
helps in retention of the subject. Thus, when students
will link the topic or subject which they study with a
story or will have the emotional connection with it
then it will eventually help them to understand subject
more deeply and will help to in longer retention.
REFRENCES
Books & Journals
Nichols, K. and Larson, M., 2016. Academic Skills
Training & Assistance: Supporting Student Success
through Connecting Activities. Info Brief Series for
Community Colleges. National Collaborative on
Workforce and Disability for Youth.
Bartolata, J.I., 2016. From Academe to Industry:
which academic skills matter?. PEOPLE:
International Journal of Social Sciences. 2(1).