Goal Setting and Effective Study Skills for Higher Education Students

This report delves into the critical role of goal setting and effective study skills in higher education. It emphasizes the importance of goal setting as a fundamental process for long-term success, highlighting how it enables students to focus, manage resources, and analyze their performance. The report also discusses various methods for enhancing information retention, including attention management, organization, note-taking, and the use of digital technology, such as visual aids and the method of loci. Furthermore, it underlines the significance of time management and communication skills in improving memory and academic outcomes. The conclusion reinforces the necessity of setting both short-term and long-term goals to guide activities, measure progress, and maintain motivation, ultimately leading to academic success. The report also references several academic sources to support its claims.

Study Skills for Higher
Education
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Goal setting play key essential role in an individual or student life with the help of which
they can accomplish what they want in a well defined manner (Mason, 2019). There are
different type of skills that help them to fulfil their goals as it allow them to manage different
activities and direct themselves towards success. Goal setting is essential tasks through which
one can effectively able to identify what they want in future it allow to tackle challenge and
overcome weakness to achieve the desire in a successful manner. Present report discuss
importance of goal setting and the methods with the help of which students can retain
information for long period of time.
MAIN BODY
Goal setting is termed as a fundamental process with the help of individual can ensure
long-term success. With the help of goal student can effectively able to focus upon the journey in
which they can collect the resources that are require to accomplish the goal (Tanjung, 2019).
From academic perspective view goal setting helps in improving an individual performance as
with the help of this success and failures can be effectively analysed. With the help of goal
setting one can effectively able to gain small achievements by breaking down larger purpose. By
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having any goal makes students accountable for their actions and efforts. This will also help
them to increase their time management skills with the help of these students can not only able to
develop the critical thinking skills but can also be able to overcome the obstacles in a best
effective manner. By solving the problems with different types of techniques and better
understanding also help student to learn from the previous failures and success and undertake
proper evaluation of the method that are require them to improve their weakness and tackle
challenges. In order to gain effective results there are two different type of experimental and
correlation studies that proves to be effective. With the help of goal setting student can
effectively able to increase their success rate. It has been identified that before one can started
journey it is important for them to know the destination, as it act and guide them to stay
motivated towards the particular direction. Thus,. For this it is essential to set long term and short
term goal and have clear picture of what an individual wants to achieve without wasting their
efforts in vain. In order to accomplish long term goal it is essential for an individual to have short
term goals in order to keep themselves on track in this it has been identified that long term goals
are mainly created for future for future purpose while on the other hand short term goals are
considered as an integral part of the planning to achieve long term goals. It has been identified
that short term goal act as a milestone through which one can effectively able to fulfil long term
goal thus it is essential for a student in order to fulfil the requirement of long term goal to
breakdown their goal into short term goals as the help of this they can effectively able to
overcome the hurdles and can efficiently move towards success. Thus, as per the above
mentioned discussion it has been identified that by setting goals one can effectively able to take
themselves forward in life. It is very essential for an individual to realise importance as well as
significance of goal setting as it effectively helps them to give focus upon themselves to measure
progress and keep them undistracted and further provide them motivation. Goals are termed as
an essential aspect with the help of which one can positively set their priorities, add new one and
drop unnecessary activities that further stimulate them towards effective achievement of success
in their life.
There are some certain methods with the help of a student can effectively able to improve
how much they remember new information. In this attention can prove to be one of the
significant component with the help of which students can improve their memory. In this it is
essential for students to study in a distraction free space as it guide them to focus upon their work
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and further remember new information for longer period of time. In addition to this by
organising information and taking advantage of notes one can effectively able to improve the
manner of remembering new information. In addition to this digital technology also play a
significant role with the help of which one can take advantage. As it provide number of benefits,
by taking advantage of visualising information students can pay attention towards the graphs,
photographs and charts with the help of which they can relate their idea into study materials.
Further it has been identified that students can take advantage of the method of loci it is a
technique in which one can visualise associated rooms with of information. In addition to this by
reviewing the materials on daily basis one can effectively able to ensure the information in their
mind for long period of time. In addition to this skill like proper Time Management and
Organisation also play a significant role with the help of which student can retain more
information and can further make improvement in their memories. Along with this, it has been
identified that communication skill also play a significant role, as with the help of this students
can communicate their ideas to other that also help them to regain information for long period of
time. In order to lean new information for long time, I will take use of different digital measures
that will guide me remembering things for long period of time. While on the other hand
Communication skill also allows me to recalling things from time to time in a well defined
manner. Further with the help of goal setting skills long term goals can be subdivided into short
term through which great success can ensured. While time management skills, allow me to
define the task in an effective manner and recall things on a timely basis. Further with the help of
analytical skills information can be retained by me for long period of time. Thus with the help of
some of these measures student can make effective improvement in the manner to remember new
information.
CONCLUSION
As per the above mentioned report it has been concluded that it is essential for an individual
to set long term and short term goals as with the help of this one can effectively able to trigger
the activities and guide themselves towards improvement. By setting goal one can have focus
and can effectively able to measure their progress in a well defined manner. Goals help an
individual to stay motivated, in addition to this there are different types of methods such as time
management with the help of which students can effectively able to retain new information in
their mind for long period of time this will help them to ensure success in a well defined manner.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Mason, H.D., 2019. Evaluation of a study skills intervention programme: A mixed methods
study. Africa Education Review, 16(1), pp.88-105.
Hedin, B. and Kann, V., 2019. Improving Study Skills by Combining a Study Skill Module and
Repeated Reflection Seminars. Education Research International, 2019.
Khlaisang, J. and Songkram, N., 2019. Designing a virtual learning environment system for
teaching twenty-first century skills to higher education students in ASEAN. Technology,
Knowledge and Learning, 24(1), pp.41-63.
Tanjung, R.F., 2019. Answering the Challenge of Industrial Revolution 4.0 Through Improved
Skills Use of Technology College. International Journal for Educational and Vocational
Studies, 1(1), pp.11-14.
Feudel, F. and Dietz, H.M., 2019. Teaching study skills in mathematics service courses—how to
cope with students’ refusal?. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An
International Journal of the IMA, 38(1), pp.20-42.
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