Study Skills
This acronym is not just a tasty beverage.
Someone with growth mindset would agree that our brains have this malleable quality.
What is plasticity?
This level of Bloom's Taxonomy involves designing something new.
What is create?
The ESP student gender ratio is more extreme than ever this year. This is how many male students there are there for every female student this year.
2 (67:33)
This FTL never graduated from high school.
Who is Rachelle?
This is the single most effective skill to produce long-term memory of content.
What is retrieval practice?
Giving SPF to a facilitator about their natural abilities as a leader could lead to this type of mindset.
What is a fixed mindset?
The taxonomy describes these five levels of cognitive processes.
What are Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create?
80-90% of ESP students who attend at least this percentage of workshops qualify for admission to a degree program.
What is 70?
This is the number of former ESP folks now sitting on Ottawa City Council.
What is two?
Hopkins and colleagues found that, compared to peers using massed practice, engineering students using this skill earned half a letter grade better on their pre-calculus exam AND a full letter grade better on their next calculus class, months later.
What is spaced retrieval?
This principle asks us to pay special attention to the transitions between activities, which are more difficult for some students.
What is UID?
Activities at this level require students to find connections among ideas.
What is analyze?
When canceling a workshop, you can't just email or voicemail. Instead, you must do this.
Speak to someone personally by phone or on MS Teams.
These two CIE folks were once married to each other.
Al & Rachelle
This essential skill takes spacing and retrieval to the next level by changing the order of related material when studying.
What is interleaving?
This principle exists because each academic discipline has its own ways of defining, acquiring, and representing knowledge.
What is integrating skills with core content?
In addition to five types of cognitive processes, the taxonomy describes four different types of this.
This is who facils need to call if their classroom door is locked.
Apart from Dunton Tower, these two other Loeb-adjacent buildings have been the home of CIE.
What are Paterson Hall and the Social Science Research Building?
There is a myth that procrastination is about time management. Instead, research shows it is more about managing these.
UID plans for diversity, rather than accommodating different needs after the fact, by incorporating these two things into workshops.
What are variety and flexibility?
Activities that ask students to determine the best course of action, given the information, reaches this level.
What is evaluate?
To deal with student mental health concerns, facils should follow this sequence of 4 R's.
What is recognize, respond, refer, and report?
This is the total number of people employed as ESP facilitators since the program started.
What is 344?