Study Skills
This acronym is not just a tasty beverage.
Someone with growth mindset would agree that our brains have this malleable quality.
Plasticity
This level of Bloom's Taxonomy involves designing something new.
Create
How many students do we have in ESP currently?
298
This one FTL used to be an ESP student
Milan
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.
Fixed mindset
The taxonomy describes these six 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 room number of the facil office
1516
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.
Spaced retrieval
This principle asks us to pay special attention to the transitions between activities, which are more difficult for some students.
UID
Activities at this level require students to find connections among ideas.
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.
This former ESP student is now a lawyer and professor. Who is he?
Professor Danardo Jones
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.
Integrating skills with core content
In addition to five types of cognitive processes, the taxonomy describes four different types of this.
Knowledge
This is who facils need to call if their classroom door is locked.
Apart from Dunton Tower, this building have been the home of CIE.
Paterson Hall
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.
Variety and flexibility
Activities that ask students to determine the best course of action, given the information, reaches this level.
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.
Approx 355