Higher Education Study Skills: Comprehension and Retention Report

This report delves into the critical role of comprehension and retention in enhancing the quality of learning and boosting academic achievement within higher education. It explores how strong reading skills facilitate understanding, analysis, and evaluation of concepts, ultimately improving student learning outcomes and career development. The report examines various aspects, including understanding others' perspectives, fostering overall growth, creating visuals, and resolving confusion. Furthermore, it evaluates the obstacles that hinder comprehension and retention, such as challenges in predicting meaning, analyzing purpose, summarizing information, setting reading goals, and handling testing and assessment. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and overcoming obstacles to achieve academic success and career advancement.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................4
Role of building comprehension and retention in order to improve the quality of learning and
also helps in increasing academic achievement..........................................................................4
Evaluate the obstacles pertaining to build comprehension and retention...................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Reading is a complex process for which sociologist pay little attention but apart for this it
is a fact that it is important to pay great attention in order to develop this skill. It is an ability or
skill which is used in order to process the text, helps in understanding the meaning and combine
the concept. In reading and comprehension, fundamental skills are also required in order to know
the meaning of words, context and identify the antecedents (Assiter, 2017). There are many
reading strategies which helps in improving the reading comprehension and includes
improvement of vocabulary, critical text analysis and practising deep reading. Therefore, deep
reading is a way which is used in order to long term learning as it is useful for students in the
long term retention of knowledge. The understanding from the reading and comprehension
comes from the interaction between the words that are written and it includes two levels, Shallow
(low-level) and deep (high-level) processing. This report is going to cover the role of building
comprehension and retention in order to improve the quality of learning and increase the
academic achievement and it also evaluate the obstacles pertaining to build comprehension and
retention.
MAIN BODY
Role of building comprehension and retention in order to improve the quality of learning and
also helps in increasing academic achievement
Reading skills are useful in order to remember and understand the various concept and
skills which is useful in order to develop analysis and evaluation of the comprehension of
students. Comprehension is useful because it develops the knowledge and understanding among
students which is used to improve the quality of their learning and enhances their academic
achievement. It is developed in order to increase the academic qualifications which is important
for students as it helps in their career development. Various roles are discussed as under: Understanding the perspective of others: Reading and comprehension skill is useful in
order to develop learning as it helps in overall development of an individual and also
helps in guiding the career path (Cottrell, 2019). It develops the learning which is useful
in order to understand the perspective and view point of others. It develops the observing
and analytical skills which is useful in order to read the mind of others and also helps in
developing the better relation with others.

 Overall growth: These skills are used for the overall development of an individual and
also helps in transforming the personality which is used in the developing the overall
skills and knowledge. Reading and comprehension contribute its huge part in the
development and quality of learning as it is helpful for students in providing the academic
achievements in developing and transforming the knowledge (Murray and Nallaya,
2016). As it develops and achieve growth through collecting the new information about
the learning experience and also develop expectations about the need for change which is
important in developing and transforming the personality. Helps in creating the visuals: Reading remains incomplete without comprehension or
understanding its concept. As understanding helps in developing the imagination and
visions which is used in creating the visuals as it helps in better understanding of things
and clear the various concepts which is used in developing and improving the quality of
understanding. For instance, students gain more knowledge and understanding through
visual classes, videos and online learning.
 Helps in fixing confusion: Comprehension and understanding helps in fixing confusion
and useful in sharpening the imagination power and visuals which is useful in order to
avoid confusion from the mind of employees (Shukla and Dungsungnoen, 2016). It helps
in improving the quality of learning and increasing the achievement in academics. Also
helps in transforming the personality of students as because of this it becomes easy to
take the level of understanding at the next level which is useful in order to avoid the
confusion about the concept and topic.
Evaluate the obstacles pertaining to build comprehension and retention
Obstacles and barriers are the main reason which arose problem in the understanding and
create confusion which become barrier in the transformation of personality. As the density and
understanding of information depends on the textbooks which can become expensive in order to
increase the reading and comprehension skills (Hagedorn and Kuznetsova, 2016). Another
reason for the shortage of understanding which is the high level in terms of increasing the
vocabulary which increases because of the textbooks. Therefore, in terms of increasing the
reading and comprehension, textbook plays an important role in its structuring, defining and
charts which can increase its complexity. Various obstacles are mentioned as under:

 Predicting the meaning: It describes that the understanding of the concept and analysing
that what is gained from it in order to make predictions about their understanding and
reading. As it depends on the mental activities which include mental exercise and
comprehension. Somehow it become barrier in the understanding of individual learning
and in order to overcome from it student need to develop and enhance its learning which
is used in predicting the meaning of understanding. Analysing the purpose: Determining the purpose of the learning and understanding is
important because it helps in summarising the overall understanding and for this, it
include linkage and connection between the mind and using it properly (McNally and et.
al., 2017). It become barrier in order to develop the understanding of learning and for this
students need proper analysis and can relate the meaning and concept to overall learning.
Connecting and converting the theoretical knowledge into practical is quite tough and it
can become obstacle in order the pathway of the career of students. Summarising it in order to create new meaning: After analysis summarising it is also
the biggest barrier and obstacle in the understanding and learning of students.
Summarising includes the overall understanding of the knowledge which students gain
from reading and for this, textbooks plays an important role (Mason, 2019). As
summarising the knowledge is important because it is useful in order to create new
meaning and concept which helps in developing the understanding about the reading.
Making the new concept is quite tough for students because some of them cannot link the
overall chapter in order to create a new understanding. Summarising is done after
determining and analysing the comprehension which is developed from reading. Achieving the reading goals: In order to improve the reading skills and understanding it
is important to set the goals for reading in order to develop the understanding which is
used in order to achieve the goals. Setting goals is the first step in order to achieve the
reading goals as reading itself is the biggest barrier in modern world (Shukla and
Dungsungnoen, 2016). Most of the students does not like to read and to overcome this
developing the reading skills is the prime objective which is used in order summarising
the concept of learning and it important in order to improve the quality of learning and
achieving the academics knowledge.

 Testing and assessment: It is a barrier and it diagnosis at the time of reading test as this
step is used to identify and determine the specific type of problem which affects the
learner's reading skills (Cottrell, 2019). It is analysed because of the observations,
analysis of the student work and assessment of the language and these measures are taken
by the educator in order to develop the reading and comprehension skills.
Conclusion
From the preceding discussion which is done in the two section, it is concluded that
reading and comprehension is important in order to develop the understanding about the
knowledge which is gained by the students through their educators and reading textbooks. From
the role of learning it is analysed that reading plays an important role in to develop the
perspective of others, helps in transforming and overall development, creating the insights,
visions and visuals which is important for their understanding and also helps in avoiding the
confusion from the mind of students. In addition to this, it also describe the various obstacles
which need to be overcome in order to enhance the career and create a pathway which helps in
achieving the success in their career.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it is concluded that reading and comprehension skills are
important for students as it plays an important role in order to increase the quality of learning and
also useful in developing the academic achievements which is useful in career development of
students and provide them a pathway to achieve success. Therefore, it is important to become a
critical thinker as it helps in analysing the skills and knowledge and show the results and
progress about research. Moreover, the obstacles are also evaluated in order to overcome them
and provide suggestions to build the comprehension and retention as these obstacles can stop
students in their pathway or to achieve success in their career.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Cottrell, S., 2019. The study skills handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.
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Mason, H.D., 2019. Evaluation of a study skills intervention programme: A mixed methods
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McNally, B., and et. al., 2017. Flipped classroom experiences: student preferences and flip
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Murray, N. and Nallaya, S., 2016. Embedding academic literacies in university programme
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Shukla, D. and Dungsungnoen, A.P., 2016. Student's Perceived Level and Teachers' Teaching
Strategies of Higher Order Thinking Skills: A Study on Higher Educational Institutions
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