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Personal Pest Analysis

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 Strengths
My main strengths are setting goal and self-monitoring for self-regulated learning. Goals are the basic step of studying and learning, which represent the aim to accomplish and a commitment to a particular outcome. Also, goals are so important in my leaning procedure because it is a motivation and a challenge. Setting goals helps me break things down and leads to more effort and intensity. When I attain my goal, I will be motivated for next goal. However, not all goals are effective, we need to set a good goal by using the concept of CAST. C stands for concept, which is specific topics, chapters, terms, and idea to master. A stands for action, which is specifying the kind of thinking and applying it. S stands for standard, which …show more content…

Therefore, I need to understand tasks. There are some kinds of tasks, which are assignments, exams/tests, essay, group work, studying, reviewing, reading, lecture, practice questions. In addition, there are two types of tasks information, which are external and internal task information. For external task information, which includes provided information& instructions, expectations& grading criteria, difficulty, complexity. For internal task information, which includes beliefs about you, beliefs about the subject, beliefs about the tasks, past experiences, and prior knowledge. The most important thing for me is to understand the implicit information, and I should ask myself some questions, such as, what should I know or learn? Does this have anything to do with the course objectives? I am an international student; I have the experience to have cultural diversity. Even though, some cultures and social information I am not familiar with, as we do the little activity that in the lecture. Students from different culture may not have clear understanding when professor gave them some instructions. Also, I have this problem for understanding the task. For the evaluating, I do not know what is the good way to evaluate myself. I often review the assignments or the exams paper after doing them, although I would find some problems I have, I still not clear when I doing the …show more content…

When I have assignment to do, at the beginning, I always too lazy to get started, instead, I usually get started one or two days before the due day. Meanwhile, the procrastination always results in many problems to me. For example, I do not have enough time to do the research for my research essay, and it directly causes a low mark on my essay. In addition of that, I do not have time to do the best editing for my essays, which results in many grammar mistakes. Besides, procrastination makes me feel so bad, because I know that I can do much better, but I did not. As a consequence, it will further affect my courage in a negative way. Therefore, procrastination is the most significant thing that I want to change. Thus, I decide to start doing my assignment earlier from this semester, so that I will have enough time to prepare it, learn it, and make it

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