A Report on Orientation for Achieving Success in Higher Education

This report provides an orientation for students aiming for success in higher education. It emphasizes the importance of reflective learning, which involves stepping back from learning experiences to develop critical thinking skills. The report highlights the use of formative feedback from teachers to guide instruction and improve student motivation. Essential skills for university success, such as communication, time management, and problem-solving, are discussed. A SWOT analysis is presented as a tool for continuous career development, enabling students to identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report concludes that reflective learning and formative feedback are crucial for students to recognize their potential and improve their skills, ultimately leading to a higher standard of living. Desklib provides similar solved assignments and past papers for students.

Orientation for Success in
Higher Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Reflection learning......................................................................................................................1
Use of formative feedback..........................................................................................................2
Skills to successfully learned at university.................................................................................3
Benefits of formative assessment for students............................................................................4
SWOT analysis for student.........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
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REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Success in higher education is very important because it helps in acknowledging own
needs and needs of others and understand the manner of balance competing community and
individual priorities. A successful student understand how to manage resources by examine own
strengths and weaknesses (Dahl, Peltier and Schibrowsky, 2018). This academic report present
orientation of students using several aspects such as area area of reflection, reflection of learning,
future implication, action plan and at last it demonstrate SWOT analysis that helps in continuous
career development so that an individual enjoy high success in their education and professional
life.
MAIN BODY
Reflection learning
Reflective learning refers to a way of learning that allow learner to step back from the
experience of learning as it is useful to develop critical thinking skills so that future performance
of individual person is to be improved proficiently. By involving within this report I effectively
understand the business and management discipline because it helps in developing my future.
Involving in this module helps to gain more skills and knowledge along with recognising
strength and weaknesses effectively. At the time of learning I have to participate in several
activities so that I would enhance my learning skills prominently and effectively. The main use
of formative feedback by gaining success in higher education is that it helps students to think and
provide effective information to teachers with information to effectively guide the future
instruction. This is very useful for developing my career effectively because by involving in this
my critical thinking skill is to be improved and helps in becoming a best students. There are
several skills which are to be learnt while involving in this module in university (Warda, 2021).
These are communication skill, time management skills, critical thinking and problem solving
skills, personal skills, technology etc. A demonstration of strengthening skills and knowledge is
to be done when a student effectively analyse actual strong skills that helps in developing
professional career. Reflective learning is highly beneficial to develop good career because by
giving an interview an individual strengthen their skills. It is one of essential learning in
individuals life as it is useful in several manner:
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 Maximise innovation- Reflection learning is useful to develop innovative ideas because
after analyse yourself a person effectively understand own strength and weaknesses and
focus on overcoming these weaknesses effectively. Therefore capturing new
opportunities for developing self is useful in generating innovative ideas as it represents
as benefits that is highly gained by reflection learning only.
 Develops students performance- Reflection learning is crucial for improving the
performance of students because bad performing students are those who are not
effectively examine their skills that need improvement. Various students are not aware
about their weaknesses and because of this reason they does not improve weak skills
effectively (Griggs and et. al., 2018). Reflection learning helps in identifying the
strengths and weaknesses so that students work on improving those skills which are
weak. Hence, it further helps in enhancing overall performance of students.
Use of formative feedback
Formative feedback is useful for teachers as in this faculties highly focused on student
abilities to learn something and their learning skills so that they appropriately understand the
limits of particular students knowledge. This term is also useful to examine how individual
stretch yourself to break their limits for learn something new and unique that develops their
overall career development. Formative feedback elaborates what students learnt and what they
did not learnt so that teachers effectively understand which factors attracts and help students to
learn subjects in particular module in effective manner. It is an effective factor for student
because it helps in developing self motivation skill so that they would encouraged towards
learning new skills and become self directed learner very soon. The main purpose of using this
tool is to examine the misunderstanding related to topic or subject so that it is to be cleared on
time (Perusso, Blankesteijn and Leal, 2020). Hence it is a type of feedback that is mainly used by
instructor at the time of instruction. This tool is used to measure the gap between actual learning
and planned learning performance of students. It involves various benefits of formative feedback
that presents as an opportunity to develop, improve and enhance student self confidence and self
initiation power so that they become self regulated learners. Below are few points that are helpful
for students:
 Prepare an outline of concept map within class to examine what student understand and
what they don't so that instructor offer proper instruction to them.
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 Submit several word strings that is useful to recognise the essential points that is mainly
learned by students during particular module.
 Discuss issues with instructor to openly get the solution (Hwang and et. al., 2018).
 After getting method or way for gaining skills and solving weaknesses student effectively
identifies what solutions are useful. In general terms students effectively check the
effectiveness of solution that the method which are offered by instructors is effective for
every time for for only just one time.
Skills to successfully learned at university
It is very crucial to learn several skills at universities and school. It is significant for
student to participate in extra curricular activities on regular basis as it helps in further academic
skills that is important for enhancing future professional career. Various skills are to be presented
below:
 Communication skill- It is a skill that is essential to share or convey ideas and messages
to other people. This skill is very prominent as it is helpful to become a good student or
good professional employee (Ghobehei and et. al., 2019). A student learnt this skill by
using several manner such as they learn communication by coaching and involve
themselves more in communicating with other that also assist in understand different
proper attributes and in what manner they express their ideas and messages to others.
Further, a good communication does not mean to share ideas or message but it is also
effective to present information which is true not fiction base. Communication skills is to
be learnt by attending seminars, watching BBC, TED shows of famous influencer that
share true and useful information.
 Time management skill- It is a skill that helps in managing time and activities so that it
is to be completed in effective manner. In this students learn this skill by making time
table for managing daily routine and prepare a to do list that includes priorities of items
that is crucial for them to work effectively (Miller, Fassett and Palmer, 2021). In this
student who focused on maintaining their career they prepare first time table to work and
complete activities effectively. IN this faculties help students to learn time management
skill properly by assigning projects and assignments and provide them time for
submitting the project so that student manages their time as per the given deadlines.
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Benefits of formative assessment for students
Formative assessment is helpful for students for several reasons that are presented below:
 Define leaning goals- It is crucial to manage and control the performance of students on
routine basis as it helps in examine learning goals of students and in case some
modifications is to be needed at the time of defining learning goals formative assessment
is helpful. Therefore it also helps in creating targets for students so that they work on
their benefits.
 Improve academic achievements- Formative feedbacks is significant aspects as it assist
students to examine and focused on weaker skills so that they work on then to covert it
into their strengthening skills (Cohen and Jody, 2019). Therefore, converting weak skills
into strongest skills helps individual student to enhance and maximise their academic and
professional performance that offers high achievements in future context.
 Enhance student's motivation and confidence- Formative feedbacks used by students
to measure their improved skills and performance on timely basis so that students are self
motivated that generate high level of confidence within students so that they become a
self directed learner. Beside this formative assessment is useful for students to increase
motivation and confidence level.
 A better way to clarify the doubts on the spot when it generate- In this formative
assessment faculties provide a feedback to students at the lecture time so that students
effectively understand in which aspects and skills they lack so that they focused on
understanding the weak topic and subjects by clarify doubts on the spot (Miller and Xu,
2020). Hence this assessment helps in eliminating the misunderstanding under student so
that their skills and knowledge are to be enhanced.
SWOT analysis for student
Strength
 My strength is my efcetive
communication skill as it efcetively
interact with other and also delivers
correct information that I gathered from
several sources on regular basis and
watching business channels.
Weaknesses
 My major weaknesses is that I am not
good at managing time during my
school time and not effective to submit
project on time that is given by
teachers. My biggest issue is that I am
highly confused among which task is
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important and done first and which one
done later (LeMire and et. al., 2020).
Due to this I unable to submit my
project on set time frame.
Opportunities
 In this opportunities that I have
captured for enhancing my weak skills
is taking online sessions where experts
help me out to gain time management
skills in an effective manner. It is
highly beneficial to improve my
portfolio and attain certification by
participate activities related to personal
and professional development and
completing assignments on time
Threats
 My biggest treat that I had faced during
my schooling or university time is that I
am not having any work experience in
business entity at personal level.
Therefore it is not done because many
company focus on hire professionals
and for beginners they does not have
high job role position in their premises.
CONCLUSION
By the preceding information it is to be concluded that reflective learning is effective to
develop students skills and talents because it is useful to recognise strength and weaknesses that
is better known by ourself. Formative feedback elucidates those that is given by faculty or
instructor during ongoing lecture so that particular students examine their limits in gaining
learning and knowledge so that they properly develops their SWOT analysis for imporving
future living standard.
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