Back to category: Science

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

Critical Analysis of Academic Self

The purpose of this assignment was to teach me to learn how to analyze my own behavior, cognition and affective states, especially in the area of academic acheivement. By understanding how I think, feel and behave according to my life plans and goals I can determine what is effective or ineffective towards those goals. By analyzing my own thoughts and feelings about instructor or counselor support, family responsibility and support, study, motivation to complete college, and my selection of a career goal, I can learn how to analyze myself critically. This is an important lesson for life.
How do I contribute to my own academic setting? The question here is: Am I more effective, or ineffective? Would I rather focus on negatives or work to make positives?
Cognitively, I am very effective with study; however, both affectively and behaviorally I tend to be ineffective. My motivation to complete college is obviously effective in cognitive and behavioral domains, but in th...

Posted by: Sylvia Schiavoni

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.