Test Taking
Note Taking
The Early Days
Support Resources
Round Up
100
To prepare for a test, a student should: (a) try to predict the test questions (b) plan a study schedule for days/weeks ahead of time (c) review with classmates (d) all of the above.
What is (d) all of the above?
100
To best prepare for class: (a) sit in front, (b) review reading assignments, (c) arrive on time (d) all of the above.
What is (d) all of the above?
100
True or False? Experts recommend making a daily "To Do" list with action verbs to assist in time management.
What is True?
100
You can find the reference librarian here.
Where is the desk on the left-hand side when you enter the library?
100
Awareness of your level of understanding for a particular topic
What is metacognition?
200
On a True/False test, absolute words such as "all" and "never" usually indicate: (a) a true answer (b) a false answer.
What is (b) a false answer?
200
True or False? Students should review class notes within 24 hours of taking them.
What is True? Class notes should be reviewed within 24 hours!
200
If faced with a long wait or "down time", a student who is an effective time manager (a) reads or studies (b) plays games and checks social media on his/her phone (c) complains that s/he is bored
What is (a) reads or studies?
200
These faculty members help students with career planning and career assessments.
What are the faculty counselor advisors?
200
Lack of interest seems to play a role in _________. All students from time to time lack interest in a course, however, not all of these students delay in studying or completing assignments.
What is procrastination?
300
Studying until recall is quick and easy
What is overlearning?
300
The three sections of the Cornell note-taking method
What are the key points (left column), notes about the key points (right column) and summary (bottom)?
300
A good time manager knows: (a) his/her "best" time of day (b) a "distraction-free" place to study (c) both a and b.
What is (c) both a and b?
300
These are specifically for in-library use and serve as a permanent resource for students who need to find specified information about a topic.
What are reference books?
300
Connections to people and to what they know and have.
What is social capital?
400
This test question asks students to determine how concepts relate to one another (an overall structure). What level of Bloom's Taxonomy is this?
What is analyze? (Higher level thinking)
400
An instructor asks a question on a test that requires answering with memorized facts. What level of Bloom's Taxonomy is a student using?
What is remembering?
400
Studying information in a way that makes it meaningful and relating it to your prior knowledge; engaging with the concepts rather than just memorizing the information
What is deep processing?
400
Two support resources that assist students with research papers and math homework.
What are the Writing Center and Tutoring Center?
400
An individuals acquired abilities: Skills, talents, knowledge, expertise.
What is human capital?
500
True or false: An Ohio State study showed significant procrastinators earned 2.9 in a study skills class, compared with 3.6 earned by low procrastinators in a study-skills class with many assignments.
What is true?
500
A form of note taking where the note taker uses symbols and pictures to help connect the major ideas. The value of visual note taking is that the icons or symbols become metaphors, which help to generate connections between ideas more easily.
What are visual notes?
500
The idea that the brain is amazingly resilient and our brains physically change as we learn.
What is brain plasticity or neuroplasticity?
500
True or false: The library does not have iPads and Kindles available for students to check out.
What is false?
500
Name the elements of W.O.O.P goal setting.
What are wish, outcome, obstacles, and plan?