Comprehension and Retention: Study Skills for Academic Success

This report examines the critical role of comprehension and retention in higher education, emphasizing their impact on academic success. It reviews reading comprehension strategies such as activating background knowledge, questioning, analyzing text structure, visualization, and summarizing. The report highlights the importance of deep reading and learning, along with memorization techniques like gaining knowledge, skimming text, note-taking, reading aloud, self-questioning, and studying in a distraction-free environment. It also addresses obstacles to comprehension and retention, including lack of flow, absence of goals, procrastination, and a poor learning environment. The report concludes by recommending the implementation of effective reading strategies and memory retention techniques to enhance academic performance, with the understanding that Desklib provides access to solved assignments and study resources for students.

Study Skills for
Higher Education
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Table of Contents
Study Skills for Higher Education...................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................3
A.Comprehension:................................................................................................................3
Description of reading comprehension and reading strategies...............................................3
Deep reading & deep learning and the role of higher order thinking skills...........................4
B.Information retention.......................................................................................................4
Provide a description of various methods to achieve information retention and the role of
memory in this process...........................................................................................................4
Briefly various memorisation techniques and the role of deep learning/reading in building
retention..................................................................................................................................4
Discussion........................................................................................................................................5
Analysing the importance of building comprehension and retention in improving the quality
of learning and increasing success in academic life...............................................................5
An overview and evaluate the obstacles in building comprehension and retention\..............6
Recommendations............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
The essential causes to understand and determine the need of effective comprehension
among the students have numerous valid reasons. The main reason is to build up an effective
structure for the young minds for their epidemic success. The ability for the enhanced
comprehension is can be understood as to learn and memorize anything that had been read by the
user earlier in any course of time (Martin and et. Al.,2019). The report here is based on the
dimensions of the roles and job of building up of comprehension and retention, this will
emphasize on the effective success and achievements of the students. The barriers and obstacles
that arise in the way to obtain the perfect course of good comprehension are also evaluated and
summaries to get the most effective outcomes and solutions that can help in resolving as well as
eliminating these problems. The litterateur review is also included in the report to support all the
statements and important findings in the report.
Literature Review
A.Comprehension:
Description of reading comprehension and reading strategies
The reading comprehension is considered as the integral part of the building up of an
effective structure of knowledge. That is mostly comprised as the essential element in the
academic sectors. The part of a student’s academic background is secured by the effective base
of the reading as well as writing comprehension. This allows a particular individual to learn ad
explain the theories and factors on the respective positions in the career. The strategies of reading
are as follows
Activating background knowledge.- The prior knowledge of the subject or topic helps in
gaining the essential interest about the subject .
Questioning. The questioning can be inferred as identifying the scopes of evaluating the
queries and doubts.
Analyzing text structure - The analyzing involves finding the important elements from the
prescribed text. The study of overall content or any report helps in determining the most essential
elements.
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Visualization.- The terminologies that are elaborated in the content are needed to be
visualize by the reader as if they are taking [place in the reality or it has been experienced by
them earlier....
Summarizing.- The last evaluation of overall subject and topic to summarize the important
topics. This helps in reminding the essential terms form the chapter along with that it does helps
in giving the detail summary of the topic
Deep reading & deep learning and the role of higher order thinking skills
The importance of deep reading can be understood as the essential term to retain the topic for a
longer period of time in the memory of the individual (Hjetland and et. Al., 2019). Along with
that the deep learning can also be accomplished only by through study of the respective subject.
The learning of the essential elements is also ensured by the consistent revising of the topic.
There are certain roles that are included along with the reading and learning skills. These can be
meet up for attaining the higher standards of thinking as these are the only elements which can
be implied in order to achieve the higher skills and thinking.
B.Information retention
Provide a description of various methods to achieve information retention and the role of
memory in this process
The major discussions on the certain topics of a subject and all the methodologies that have been
learned and adopted by the individual in a way forward to retain the same information for the
upcoming purposes have a distinct approach (Gruhn, Segers and Verhoeven, 2020). The number
of steps are taken in the way forwards to retain the information, that has been undertaken as the
methods and principles of the retaining of the information
Briefly various memorisation techniques and the role of deep learning/reading in building
retention
There are a lot of theories that describes the importance and implantation of effective
retention techniques. In order to comply these techniques with the mindset of a student or an
academic individual. These techniques should be simplified and more informative. Thus it has
been discussed hereby as :-
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Gain knowledge and become familiar.- The knowledge of a particular topic can be
gathered as the important points can be revised and read earlier to get more familiar with the
subject.
Skimming and filtering text first.- It is essential to skill and identify the important
material, thus it will help to classify and filter the most important parts and points from the
topic.
Take down notes - The essential points that have some conclusion within are needed to
be take down as the notes. These notes will helps in the future to revise the whole topic in brief.
Read aloud.- The major step to retain the memory is reading aloud the text, as it will
ensure the reading as well as it does help in listening the same topic by oneself..
Self-questioning about the material – To arise the certain questions regarding the
chapter and finding the answers for the respective questions.
Read through the paper – There should be another approach to find the answers and
gather respective statements that support the overall study, well this is performed by collecting
and reading the other papers.
Study without distractions – There should be no distraction a peaceful and calm
environment for the study is most beneficial. While it helps in activating the mind cells as well as
it does help in concentrating effectively on the reading.
Aware and introduce others – The overall information that is gathered form certain
amount of study is needed to be shared with other respective people in brief.
Discussion
Analysing the importance of building comprehension and retention in improving the quality of
learning and increasing success in academic life.
The hard methods that have been used traditionally to retain the topics and theories in the
memory of an individual have now become obsolete (Earl, 2019). There are various other ways
that can enhance the power of retaining and for the effective reading comprehension of the
student. There are a huge number of methods and general criteria that are involved in the
building up of effective courses of reading comprehension and retention of the same subject the
mass operating services and new innovation are taking places on the same knowledge and
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memory retention in the academics. Thus it becomes so essential in maintaining an effective
level of the learning and implementing from the academic contents and topics.
An overview and evaluate the obstacles in building comprehension and retention\
There are numerous barriers and obstacles that arises in between accomplishing the
effective and efficient reading comprehensions well as to retain that material in the memory for a
longer period of time. These obstacles emerges from minimal factors and takes a face of
extensive barriers in the reading as well as learning.
Out of flow – There should be a constant and appropriate flow in the reading, the certain
fluctuations in the flow act as the obstacle in the effective reading and understanding of the
reader as well as for the listener.
Lack of a Goal. – The lack of the objective can divert the reader from their main topics to
irrelevant and useless subjects. ..
Procrastination – This can be termed as the major barrier for attaining effective
comprehension. It leads to certain excuses and invalid reasons that the individual uses against the
facts to not to perform the work on scheduled time.
Learning Environment. – The environment plays and essential; role in determining and
performing the reading and effective learning.
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Recommendations
According to all the discussion and the reviews based on the reading comprehension and
reading retention it can be further more recommended in respect of those individuals or
personnel who seeks to gain the maximum success and effectiveness in their academic career,
that the prescribed strategies of reading and steps of memory retention can be followed to
achieve the same. While most of the academicians focuses on the intellectual development and
brain storming of their mentality, this report here suggested that the effective amount of
consideration should also be given to the topic and the subjects to learn and enhance the capacity
to retain that in the memory of the individual.
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CONCLUSION
From the above findings it can be ascertained as the integral functions and elements that
are the part of the academic life of an individuals have a a lot of complexities and other
distinctive pros and cons. Thus the accomplishment of the effective methods of reading
comprehension and retention of the information and encouraging the individual for better and
high standard of memorizing this to ensure the academic success of the respective individual in
long term. The efficient and effective measures are discussed for the achievements of goals and
objective that starts from the very initial and personal steps.
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REFRENCES
BOOKS & JOURNALS
Martin, J.D. and et. Al.,2019. The role of maintenance and disengagement in predicting reading
comprehension and vocabulary learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory, and Cognition.
Hjetland, H.N and et. Al., 2019. Pathways to reading comprehension: A longitudinal study from
4 to 9 years of age. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(5), p.751.
Gruhn, S., Segers, E. and Verhoeven, L., 2020. Moderating role of reading comprehension in
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learning, 36(1), pp.29-45.
Husna, A., 2019. The effects of an extensive reading programme on students' reading
comprehension and vocabulary retention. SKRIPSI Mahasiswa UM.
Earl, M., 2019. How Unschooling Summer Learning improves reading comprehension at a
greater rate than Traditional Summer School (Doctoral dissertation).
Huyen, V.T., 2019. Effects of using Contextual Clues on English Vocabulary Retention and
Reading Comprehension. International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences
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