I recently wrote a post about how and why to be a more ‘strategic’ student. But if you prefer your information in infographic form, well I might have just what you need.
I was at a higher education conference the other day and some work from researchers at UniSA, on approaches to study really caught my eye.
The conference paper was “The Relationships Between Students’ Expectations, Approaches to Learning, Academic Performance, and Wellbeing in an Online Undergraduate Program”. Researchers were Dr. John Mingoia (UniSA Online), Dr. Laura McLaughlin Engfors (UniSA Online) & Brianna Le Busque (UniSA STEM). I wrote about it (and a related study) here.
They surveyed undergraduate psychology students doing 1st, 2nd and 3rd year online topics, measuring their expectations of their undergraduate studies, learning approaches, university-related stress, anxiety, and burnout, and academic achievement (measured as GPA).
They learned that a strategic approach to study is both effective in terms of performance and wellbeing but may also be a good approach when a topic/course hasn’t matched your expectations but you still need to do it.
I reached out to John because they mentioned an infographic they had developed that summarised what they had learned and gave tips on how to be a more strategic student. John kindly provided two infographics and I have reproduced below.
Hopefully these provide you with some more actionable tips on how to be more strategic in the way that you study. The images below aren’t the best export quality, so feel free to grab the pdf version and maybe distribute to those you think might gain some benefit.
