Academic Goals: Short-Term and Long-Term Vision Report

This report delves into the significance of academic goals for university students, distinguishing between short-term and long-term objectives. It emphasizes the importance of goal setting as a fundamental step towards achievement, improved performance, and increased confidence. The report explores how short-term goals can aid in overcoming procrastination and managing time effectively, while long-term goals provide a framework for career planning and educational requirements. Furthermore, the report evaluates methods students can use to enhance memory retention, including understanding the differences between understanding and remembering, encoding and retrieval practices, perpetual and conceptual priming, and activation of prior knowledge. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, highlighting the role of academic goals in fostering educational success and providing a pathway for students to achieve their vision.

PURSING A VISION THROUGH
ACADEMIC GOALS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ......................................................................................................................................3
Define why it is significant to set goals. Identification on significant short term and long term goals
for university students..........................................................................................................................3
Evaluation on how some methods students can use to improve how much they remember new
information. .....................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic goals can be defined as the educational objective an individual sets for herself. It
aids to evolve over time and based on changing interest, financial feasibility and access to education
(Champion and López, 2019). These goals can be defined as short term and long term.
The present report is based on topic as to pursuing a vision through academic goals.
Henceforth, study will cover the short term and long term range of goals. Also, an approach will be
designed that aids to improve techniques for building comprehension and retention.
MAIN BODY
Define why it is significant to set goals. Identification on significant short term and long term goals
for university students.
Goal setting can be defined as the crucial practice in lifetime. It can be defined as first step
toward to goal achievement (Cottrell, 2020). With help of setting the goals the performance can be
measured effectively and efficiently. In addition to this, the goal setting can be defined as one of
fundamental source to long term success. From an academic perspective, the goals setting aids to
improve the performance and be accountable for own failure and success. Therefore, this can be
stated that setting goals and achieving them aids to success and confidence for students. It turns to
leads to greater confidence and productivity. Hence, goal setting can be defined as fundamental to
long term success.
Significance short term and long term goals-:
Short term goals is about to anything that aids to accomplish with the next year. It can be
defined as the stepping stones towards the short term goals. From student perspective. Short term
goals allows to drive in the car even though an individual cannot see the entire journey. In addition
to this, short term goals can assist to overcome from procrastination (Daumiller and Janke, 2019). It
is clear, specific and often come with the short deadline that aids to encourage to take action.
Setting the short goal can be defined as one of good way that allows to relieve the pressures that are
all around in the high school. Managing the time for university student can be challenging one as
they have lot of activities to do in a day. In order to accomplish it, they needs to set the short term
goals. In addition to this, short term goals aids to minimise the procrastination (Duckworth, Taxer
and Gross, 2019). It assist the university students to lay down clear and defined part to success and
also helps to focus on one things at a time. This is also beneficial in terms to enhance productivity
but also assist to accomplish long term objectives quicker.
Significance of long term goals-:
Long term goal can be defined as something that aids further value in future. It requires
more planning and time to set an effective plan to accomplish it. Long term goal usually takes more

than 12 month or more to accomplish. Long term goals are significant for career. It mainly assist to
think educational requirements. However, career takes time and planning to achieve something core
(Guterman and Neuman, 2019). Long term goals are usually set to graduate with a specific degree.
It can also assist to secure a good job at a time to get graduate. These goals are simply the one that
are defined by the certain period of time.
Evaluation on how some methods students can use to improve how much they remember new
information.
Memory can be defined as complicated process that is made up of the few different brain
activities (Herrera, Sánchez and García, 2020). It is simplified version that assist to understand how
the whole process takes place. Therefore, these methods are outlined as-:
 Understanding and remembering- Students must needs to be taught about relationship and
differences between understanding and remembering (Putarek and Pavlin-Bernardić, 2019).
They also engage in some activities that mainly enables to remember that what they
understands.
 Encoding and retrieval practice- Encoding practice for school students inclusive of
number of ways that inputting to be learned of information. Henceforth, the specific plan of
action are inclusive of the reading and re-reading the chapters that taught in class. In
addition to this, retrieval practices consists as to get engaged in the activities that allows to
have access of the stored information in the long term manner. In the some of cases, retrieval
practices is inclusive of engaging those activities that call for recall and get reach to stored
information in manner of long term memory.
 Perpetual and conceptual priming- Perpetual priming defined as to phenomenon in which
prior perception of an object leads to easier towards the subsequent perception of same
object (Scherrer, Preckel and Elliot, 2020). It occurs as the conceptual dimension as well.
This expose the student via advance organizer as to introducing vocabulary, question prior to
reading and to present a new information can aids to facilitate the memory and learning of
information.
 Aviation of prior knowledge- At time when student are learning of new information,
teacher must activates the prior knowledge in terms to subjects being taught. In addition to
this, activating previous knowledge of the topic provides students with a hook to hang new
information in terms to their mental memory network.

CONCLUSION
From above report it can be summarized that academic goal can be defined as an objectives
that leads to educational success. With help of setting of the educational objectives can aids to
attend the achievements and accomplishment throughout their academic careers. Thus, present
report has covered the topic as pursuing a vision through academic goals. Furthermore, report has
covered the activities as to undertake identification on the significance of short term and long term
goals. Also, methods has been defined to improve memory retention to students.

REFERENCES
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Champion and López, 2019 Cottrell, 2020 Daumiller and Janke, 2019 Duckworth, Taxer and Gross,
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