Study Skills
The author of this report has been asked to offer a treatise on the subject of study skills. The dimensions and facets of studying skills that shall be covered include some reflection, the five learning outcomes for the model in question, the author's feelings about the matter, the evaluation of the same, an analysis of the overall progress and framework in question and an overall action plan. Study skills are often over-hyped or overly minimalized. However, to dismiss their importance or wield them improperly is a recipe for disaster when it comes to both the work and educational spheres. While incessantly drilling and covering subjects over and over can lead to burnout and wasted motion, being under-prepared is less than optimal and can lead to setbacks that are hard to recover from.
Analysis
Study skills, of course, refer to the manner by which people work from an academic standpoint so as to absorb and retain material that has been learned in an educational or work environment. Many people are quick to focus only (or mostly) on the educational/college sphere. However, to suggest that study skills are not useful in the work/employment sphere would be less than wise. In both cases, information needs to be learned and retained so that it is at the ready when it is needed. Just like a college student in
A common example of the latter would be an accountant sitting for their Certified Public Accountant exam. Indeed, if knowledge is not used and flexed on a fairly consistent basis, the knowledge will become harder to retain and use. To be sure, having to look up things and/or verify whether one's recollection is correct can take time. To correlate this to the model used for this process and paper, one need not flex one's mind all that much. Indeed, Gibbs' main point was that people in many ways learn by doing. If one is not "doing," then one is not learning and retaining that facet of their life, that class or whatever else is being learned or experienced (Gibbs, 1988).
As explained by Gibbs, there were five major focal points extended. These were, in order, experiential learning theory, learning styles, practical methods to implement the aforementioned experiential learning as a cycle,
case studies that involve the same and the overall way to learn uses for experiential methods. As it relates to the workshops, the marking exercises clearly show that a proper and firm linkage between doing and what is being corrected is key to getting the point across while also proving the
validity necessary to the client or learner. There does indeed need to be a recitation of what is desired, what has led the person to where they are currently and how to change things going forward. To use an example from the parameters of the assignment, a person…
