UED102 E-PORTFOLIO
UED102 E-PORTFOLIO
NAMA: NOR ARISHA AZWA BINTI SAZALI
NOMBOR PELAJAR: 2023814986
KELAS: AC1101F
INTRODUCTION
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! My name is Nor Arisha Azwa binti Sazali and I am 18 years old. I am from Kuala Rompin, Pahang. I am currently pursue my study at Universiti Teknologi Mara, UiTM Cawangan Pahang Kampus Jengka since I got an offered to further my study at university level in the Diploma in Accountancy. I am so excited to be here! Especially when I met my new friends and lecturers, they are all so kind to me.
However, my main purpose in writing this portfolio is to introduce students about UED102. So let's go!!
What is UED102?
UED102 or well-known as Study Skills is a subject provides students with learning skills essential for varsity life , which should be within each student. It exposes students to basic academic skills. For example, effective time management, setting goals, learning styles, learning strategies, and processing information from lectures and texts, which would help students cope with academic demands at the tertiary level.
Content of UED102:
Module 1: Getting Ready to Learn
(i) Making the transition (from school to university)
(ii) Characteristics of successful students
(iii) Learning Style Inventory
Making The Transition (from school to university)
Making the move from being in a school to university is not an easy task. There is a need for students to make new friends, find out new things and make necessary lifestyle adjustments for them to feel at home in the new surroundings. To adapt to a new life is hard but is is worth experience.
School | University |
Your choices is limited to set the options within the curriculum. | You get to choose from a broad range of electives subject. |
Your class schedule is out of your control. | You have the option of studying classes at different times of the day that suits your daily life. |
Limited to just one small library and minimal facilities for arts or sports. | Can access a range of big facilities such as gym, cafes, large libraries and others. |
You are given pre-prepared reading list and might not be required to list your references. | You can join a lot of clubs and societies such as theatre and arts club. Most of the universities have a social hub that will host events and concert throughout the year. |
Characteristics of successful students
8 STEPS TO BE A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE STUDENT
1. Attend all classes
Although you will be tested on material from the course text, most of the test questions will come from lectures. Our lecturer also will provide us a lot of notes and keywords to help us especially during our final examination.
2. Become an active learner.
In college, you can’t learn all of the material just reading over it a couple of times. You need to write and recite the information to get it into long-term memory. Other than that, you also need to make a lot of exercise so that you will be more understand about the topic that you’ve learned.
3. Participate in Class.
If you feel a bit uncomfortable participating in class, set a goal to either ask or answer one question during each class. Besides that, you also need to ask lecturer a lot of questions if you don’t understand so that you will be more productive.
4. Get to know your lecturers.
Take a few minutes to talk with your lecturer before or after class or during office hours. Ask a question about the material or check on your progress in the course. This is one way for you to give the impression to the lecturer that you are a diligent person.
5. Form study groups with friends.
Study groups of about 3-4 people are known to be very effective. However, make sure that you include friends who are serious about doing well in their studies because they will contribute. One of the advantages of study groups is help us collect more ideas and information.
6. Stay up to date with your work.
Many new college students have difficulty keeping up with all of the reading that is assigned in class. If you get behind in your reading, you may never have time to catch up. The workload in college just increases as the semester progresses. Never procrastinate!
7. Be receptive to change.
If the strategies that you used in high school aren’t working, ask you lecturer or tutor for suggestions for different ways to learn. If you don’t make changes in the way you take notes, read your texts or prepare for exams then you won’t see changes in your performance.
8. Work hard this semester.
If you want to get higher credits for this semester, you need to work hard and don't give up. Also you need to set in your mind that you need to get higher pointer every semester so that you will get an awards. It can help us for being motivate.
Learning Style Inventory
Every students have their own style to study. Some students love to study in a quiet place with minimal environmental distractions while some students love to study while listening to music. This is very important for you to know your own learning style either you are a auditory, visual or kinesthetic person. You could ask about it to the counselor or take some online quizzes to show what type of learning style that you used.
I have answered learning style inventory questions to find out my learning style. I am more into the type of auditory learning style and before this I was really easy to understand in auditory. Furthermore, reading out loud will be beneficial for me especially when I want to remember what I learned. Also I can remember what I hear in a lecture. Then, the types of visual and kinesthetic learning styles are sometimes simple and easy for me to understand. Now I know my type of learning style and can stay focused on it to be more productive.
Module 2: Goals Setting
(i) Introduction of goal settings
(ii) Characteristic of goals
(iii) The Five Step Approach
(iv) Writing effective goal statements
What is goal settings?
Goal setting is the process for your ideal future and motivates yourself to turn this vision of the future into reality. The goal setting process will help you go through life’s processes. Properly set goals can motivate and compile you as well as get used to and achieved and you will feel your self-confidence grow faster and better.
Characteristic of goals
SPECIFIC
You have to be specific about your goals. It is better to write down and stick it on the wall, mirror or any place where you can see it every time. These specific details program will set in your mind and focus shifts from the obstacles to the efforts that you can make to attain the goal.
You need to identify the quantifiable aspect of the goal. It will be able for you to measure your progress. For some goals, you may not be able to measure the results, especially for relationship goals or spiritual goals, but you can always record the activities that you are doing that will take you towards the goal.
ACHIEVEABLE
Setting goals that are unrealistic can actually have a negative effect rather than positive one. It is good to stretch yourself a bit, so that you can grow more towards your potential, but it must not be something that is impossible to be real.
RELEVANT
Align your goals with your values and aspirations to maintain motivation. For example, give yourself rewards after your hard work in life.
TIME-BOUND
Establish a deadline or timeframe to keep yourself accountable and maintain momentum. It is also can insure you against procrastination and perfectionism.
What is Long-Term Goal?
Long-term Goal is the objective of the goals that you set end of the year for yourself for four or five years from now,or even for a lifetime.
What is Short-term Goal?
Short-term goal is something you want to do in the near future.
5 Step Approach in Setting Goals
Writing effective goal statements
MATLAMAT UTAMA
Matlamat saya: | Untuk menjadi khalifah yang berjaya dunia akhirat |
Tempoh: | Selama-lamanya |
Kaedah: | Mengamalkan amar ma’aruf nahi mungkar |
Siapa yang boleh bantu saya? | Diri sendiri, keluarga, rakan-rakan |
MATLAMAT JANGKA PANJANG
Matlamat saya: | Untuk menjadi seorang akauntan di Big 4 Company |
Tempoh: | 10 Tahun |
Kaedah: | Cari pengalaman terlebih dahulu di syarikat yang biasa, kemudian mohon bekerja di Big 4 Company |
Siapa yang boleh bantu saya? | Abang kepada sepupu saya yang juga bekerja di salah sebuah Big 4 Company |
MATLAMAT JANGKA SEDERHANA
Matlamat saya: | Menghabiskan pengajian di peringkat diploma dan ijazah |
Tempoh: | 5 Tahun |
Kaedah: | Memohon kerja di anak syarikat Petronas yang dipegang ayah saudara saya |
Siapa yang boleh bantu saya: | Ayah saudara saya |
MATLAMAT JANGKA PENDEK
Matlamat saya: | Menyiapkan assignment UED102 |
Tempoh: | 7 hari |
Kaedah: | Setiap hari buat satu modul |
Siapa yang boleh bantu saya: | Para pensyarah dan rakan-rakan |
Module 3: Library & Campus Resources
(i) Types of Resources
(ii) Perpustakaan Al-Bukhari
- Library (Perpustakaan Al-Bukhari)
- Information Technology (Bangunan Pentadbiran)
- Computer (Makmal IT)
2. Housing, Dining, Transportation Resources
- Buses (Bus Station)
- Dining Place (Medan Selera Kolej Tok Gajah, Koperasi Tun Teja)
3. Student Organisation Resources
- Extra Curricular (Bangunan Hal Ehwal Pelajar)
- Leisure Activities (Padang Ragbi, Court, Kem Gading)
Perpustakaan Al-Bukhari
PERPUSTAKAAN AL-BUKHARI CAPASITY
Reading Room – 818 seats
Discussions Group – 2 rooms ( 8 person per room )
IT Room – 80 computers
Practice Room– 36 seats
(i) Operation hours
Monday until Friday ( 8:30 am – 6:30 pm)
Exam Week ( 8:30 am – 10:50 pm)
Saturday ( 9:30 am – 6:30 pm)
Sunday ( 9:30 am – 4:30 pm)
(ii) Borrow and return books
Number of books for diploma students – 20 books
Duration to borrow the books – 14 days
(iii) Steps to borrows books
- Use Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) to search the book you want.
- Go to the shelves based on the numbers listed on the OPAC.
- After you found the book,go to the counter to borrow the book.
(iv) The fine when not returning books
Pay RM0.20 for each book. If the penalty is not settled, you are not allowed to make any book loans.
(v) Book Lost
Report on the library counter. The librarian will give you 2 weeks to find the book. If the book not found, you must pay the fine.
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Module 4: Time Management & Organizational Skills
(i) 5 Strategies Study System
(ii) Fixed-Commitment Calendar
(iii) Job Task Analysis
(iv) Prioritized To-Do List
What is time?
Time is thehe indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
What is time management?
Time management is the ability to use one’s time effectively, productively especially at work.
5 Strategies Study System
PROCRASTINATION
What is procrastination?
- Procrastination is the act of putting off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.
- Procrastination also known as psychological behavior that allows a person to postpone or delay a certain activity or task.
COMMON REASONS WHY PEOPLE BEING PROCRASTINATE
1. Being a perfectionist
2. Avoiding failure
3. Avoiding success
4. Being rebellious
5. Feeling overwhelmed
6. Being lazy
STRATEGIES TO OVERCOME PROCRASTINANTION
1. Know what you should accomplish
2. Determine deadlines
3. Use schedule/planners/calendars
4. Prioritize
5. Break a task into a series of steps
6. Do the unpleasant task first
7. Change how you think about the task
8. Have fun with the activity
9. Establish rewards as personal incentives for distinction
Fixed-Commitment Calendar
Job Task Analysis
Job Task Analysis is very useful for us to create our daily schedule based on our current needs. For each activities, we calculate how much time should we spent within 24 hours so we do not waste our time with things that does not give benefits to us.
Prioritized To-Do-List
The main purpose of having prioritized to-do list is not to make sure everything done on the spot. This list helps you to set your mind of the priority of each task that you need to complete due to the deadline. Prioritized to-do list encourage us to systemize our task management so that, we wont miss any single important assignments. Its not that we take easy of the less priority task, we just make it easier to refer with task need to be done first. Below, i attached the example of prioritized to-do list.
Module 5: Memory, Learning & Improving Concentration
(i) Memory Strategies
(ii) Organizational Strategies
(iii) Concentration Strategies
(iv) Concentration Chart
(v) Reading Text
What is MEMORY?
Memory is the ability to save and remain the information also experience.
Memory Strategies
Why it is important?
Memory strategies will help students in their encoding, storing, and retrieving the information especially it can help us to remember and recall all the things that we learned.
How FORGETTING could occur?
1. Did not pay attention to the information
2. Did not understand the information
3. Last minute study
4. Did not have good strategies
5. Interference or do two things at the same time
6. Test anxiety or negative thought, did not prepare well for the test
3 Types of Memory
1. Sensory Memory
Numerous incoming information from 5 senses will be stored in sensory memory for an instant.When you pay attention to the stimuli it will go to the short-term memory, but if you not pay attention it would not be last long and may lost .
2. Short-term Memory
Our short term memory have only limited storage.The information must be repeated in order to get information to long-term memory .
3. Long-term Memory
Our long term memory is unlimited and have large storage.If the information is not being used for long time.The information will be lost.
How to improve our memory strategies?
1. Massed practice vs spaced practice
Massed practice involves studying all the materials at one time. Among the effect if using this method is you don’t have time to understand, remember and organize all the reading materials. This will affect short-term memory and cannot sustain many information at one time.
Space practice involves space time over some period of time for studying. Spaced practice or distributed practice allows time for the information to consolidate in the long-term memory. Taking breaks between learning sessions allow you to think and organize the information.
2. Break reading material down for some period of time.
Breaking down study tasks and organizing and storing small units of material.
3. Rehearsal or repeat the information many times.
Reading over material a few times, saying it over and over again, or even copying it several times.
4. Use elaboration strategies
- Associations
Connect each word or event with a person, place, thing, feeling, or situation. For example, you may connect what you are trying to learn with a movie character or scene.
For example: "My generous Aunt Ammara gives great gifts."
- Acronyms
For example:
KFC - Kentucky Fried Chicken
UiTM – Universiti Teknologi MARA
- Acrostics
For example: Colours of rainbow
Merah, Jingga, Kuning, Hijau, Biru, Indigo and Ungu. Thus, the acrotics:
“Mat Jenin Kena Halau Balik India Utara”.
- Imagery
Visualize the image of the information needed.
Organizational Strategies
Organize the materials. This will allow you to organize the information to make it easier to learn and recall.
For example animals can be divided into 2 types which are Vertebrates and Invertebrates.
Comprehension Monitoring Strategies
It allow us to monitor our learning. They help us monitor our progress in mastering the material and allow us to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies that we use to gain that mastery. In this strategies, SQ3R is one of the good strategies that we can use.
Affective and Motivational Strategies
Strategies that relate to your attitude, interest, and motivation toward learning. They can influence how effectively you learn and remember information. Many of the strategies that you use for setting goals, managing time, and improving concentration are examples of affective and motivational strategies.
Causes of POOR CONCENTRATION
1. Lack of attention - For example: lack of resouces
2. Lack of interest - For example: unsuitable teaching style
3. Lack of motivation - For example: unsupportive environment
4. Distraction from others - For example: smartphone / social media
5. Uncomfortable environment - For example: study in scattered places
6. Physiological matters – For example: illness, tiredness
7. Psychological matters – For example: personal problems and anxieties
Strategies to improve concentration
✓ Survey: Student review the text to gain initial meaning from the title, subtitle, chapter introduction, graphs, charts, pictures the final paragraph or summary and end-of-chapter material
✓ Question: Student try to form questions based on the preview.
✓ Read: As student read, they need to look for answers to the questions they formed during their preview of the text. These questions based on the structure of the text, help focus student’s reading.
✓ Recite: After each section, pause. Students will attempt to answer questions formed earlier. If student could not answer, then look back and find the answer in the section. Student should recite and rehearse the answers to their questions. Summarize the information.
✓ Review: After you finished your reading, refer back to each heading. Recall your questions and try to answer them. If you cannot recall, go back and find the answer.
TOTAL: 3 POINTS
YES - 2, NO - 1
As you can see, I got 3 over 10 marks for this activity and this indirectly show that I’m not good enough. So, I need to improve my concentration and follow my schedule strictly also I need to change my mind set.
As you can see, I got 7 over 10 marks for this activity and this directly show that I have a good concentration enough. So, I have to maintain my concentration well.
Concentration chart
Reading Text and Generate 3 Questions
Module 6: Taking Lecture Notes
(i) Taking lecture notes
(ii) Effective note-taking system
What is taking notes?
Writing down ideas from lectures and readings in our own words.
Why we should take notes?
Why review notes?
- We lose 80% of what we hear if it is not reviewed within a few hours
- Identify any questions for peers, the next class, or to ask the professor
- There is not enough time to absorb all the information given in class if it’s not reviewed on a regular basis.
Why ‘recapture’ notes after class?
Frees you up to write in quick, shorthand during class. It is also an excellent test-prep strategy for reinforcing information.
How to take lectures note?
The best way to prepare your note is to read the text assignment BEFORE CLASS.
By reading the text assignment before the lecture you, it will allow you to
• build up some background about the topic
• have some idea what the lecture is about
• identify main ideas of the lecture and organize your notes easier
• be familiar with the key terms and names related to the topic
As you walk into the lecture classroom, GET READY to take notes. Sitting in front of the classroom allows you to see and hear better. You will probably find that other interested and motivated students also tend to sit in the first few rows of the class. While waiting for class to begin, review the notes that you took during the last class meeting.
Become active & good listener
You need to become active listener while in classes cause it will improve your listening skills. Among the strategies is:
• read the text assignment before the lecture to build background on the topic
• review your last set of notes before the lecture begins
• sit in front of the lecturers
• decide what you want to listen
• focus your attention physically by sitting up and making eye contact with the
speaker
• focus your attention mentally by eliminating or avoiding distractions
• listen with an open mind, setting aside your own biased or personal problem
• control your emotional responses
• listen for the main points and related details and take notes
• ask and answer questions
• monitor your listening, you can check with lecturer or classmates (at the end of the
lecture) if you are unsure of some of the information
You can also use useful abbreviations for taking notes.
Effective Note-Taking System
The Cornell Note-Taking System
It has an excellent format for setting up your note page. Use an 8.5-by-11 inch notebook. It has a recall/cue column and a summary column at the end.
Outlining
Mapping Method
What to include in your notes?
• Any facts or explanations that expand or explain the main points that are mentioned.
• Definitions, word for word, especially if your lecturer repeats them several times.
• Enumerations or lists of things that are discussed.
• Examples – you don’t need to note all of the details for each example, BUT you need to know to which general topic or heading each example relates
• Anything that is repeated and spelled out
• Anything that is written on the whiteboard or on a PowerPoint slide
• Drawings, charts, or problems that are written on the board
Discussion in class
Some lecturers prefer the discussion format when teaching. So, you can easily take notes on the discussion. Instead of writing down the main heading, write down the question that’s posed. Then list down the various points that are made during the discussion.
Math and Science Classes
Taking notes in math and science classes requires special strategies. You may find it helpful to write the problem on the left side of the note page and anything the lecturer says about it directly across from each step. Listen carefully for the main points and the important details and put them in your notes.
PowerPoint or Canva Presentation
Use the headings and subheadings in the PowerPoint and Canva presentations to organize your notes. Copy the headings and subheadings into your notes as the lecturer refers to them. Then listen to what the lecturer says about the slide and take notes.
Online Lecturer Notes
Some lecturers choose to post their lecture notes on the course Web sites. Some post the notes prior to the lecture, others post their notes after the lecture. Students always ask whether or not they really need to take notes in class when they can simply print the notes either before or after class. The answer is ‘YES’.
When you take notes, you are actively engaged in the class, you can condense the material, you can organize the material your way, and you can put the information in your own words.
Module 7: Academic Integrity & Performance
(i) Avoiding plagiarism
(ii) Calculating grade point average
Avoiding plagiarism
What is mean by plagiarism?
An act of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author
without authorization and the representation of that author’s work as one’s own,
as by not crediting the original author.
What is the example that considered as plagiarism?
Preventing Plagiarism
There are TWO steps to preventing plagiarism when writing your assignment, paper or report.
1. Planning
(a) Consult with your lecturer
If you have questions about something, you should ask your lecturer.
(b) Plan your paper
You need to plan how you are going to include other sources of information in your paper. There must be a balance between the ideas taken from other sources and your own ideas. Writing an outline or coming up with a thesis statement in which you clearly formulate an argument about the information you find will help establish the boundaries between your ideas and those of your sources.
(c) Take effective notes
Organize the information that you have found by taking thorough notes of all the sources before you start writing. To avoid confusion about your sources, try using different coloured fonts, pens, or pencils for each one. Make sure you clearly distinguish your own ideas from those you found elsewhere. Record bibliographic information or web addresses for every source right away.
2. Writing
(a) Cite sources
If it is unclear whether an idea in your paper really came from you, or whether you got it from somewhere else and just changed it a little. When quoting a source, use the quote exactly the way it appears. If the quotation is relatively short, those words must be enclosed in quotation marks.
(b) Make it clear who said what
If you are discussing the ideas of more than one person, be careful with confusing pronouns. Always make sure to differentiate who said what, and give credit to the right person.
(c) Know how to paraphrase
A paraphrase is a restatement or rewording of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form in order to achieve clarity. To paraphrase, you must change both the words and the sentence structure of the original, without changing the content. Paraphrased passages still require citation because the ideas came from another source, even though you are putting them in your own words.
(d) Evaluate your sources
Make sure you know the author of the page, where they got their information, and when they wrote it. Then you should determine how credible you feel the source is how well they support their ideas, the quality of the writing, the accuracy of the information provided and etc.
(e) Include a reference page
One of the most important ways to avoid plagiarism is referencing. Include a reference page or page of works cited at the end of your paper.
Calculating Grade Point Average
The final examination results and assessments at the end of every semester are assigned a Grade Point Average (GPA) and a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) which represent a student’s academic achievement.
Grade Point Average (GPA) refers to the calculated average of the letter grades a student earns in each semester following a 0 to 4.0 scale.
Table 1 : GPA Calculation
Every semester, students receive a GPA based on the grades they earned in all their courses during that semester. The formula used for the calculations of the Grade Point Average (GPA) is as follows:
To find GPA weighted by credit hours, follow these steps:
1. Multiply each numeric grade value by the number of credits the course was worth.
2. Add these numbers together.
3. Divide by the total number of credits you took.
4. Get your GPA
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) refers to the overall GPA, which includes dividing the number of quality points earned in all courses attempted by the total credit hours in all attempted courses.
5. What would happen if Amelia had received a D in Cell Bio instead of the B+?
Her total GPA will be 2.27 and get 1.00 GPA for this subject.
6. What is the difference in GPA?
Amelia’s GPA will be lower than before if she get a D in cell biology.
7. What is the difference in CGPA?
Amelia’s CGPA is good but she only passes it.
8. What does Amelia have to do in order to achieve a GPA of 3.00 in the 2nd semester if her CGPA falls below 2.50 in the 1st semester?
She needs to score at least B in all subject.
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