Research Guides: JumpStart Your Learning Tutorial: Test Your Perceptions

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The following poll statements are about the perceptions people have of learning at university.
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Test Your Perceptions

On average, students experience a 20% drop in their marks from High School to University.

Agree: 235 votes (82.17%)

Disagree: 27 votes (9.44%)

Don't Know: 24 votes (8.39%)

Total Votes: 286

Marks in the high sixties or low seventies are considered respectable, particularly at the first year level.

Agree: 214 votes (79.26%)

Disagree: 45 votes (16.67%)

Don't know: 11 votes (4.07%)

Total Votes: 270

Students should focus less on their grades and more on learning the material. As your academic skills improve, so will your grades.

Agree: 889 votes (93.09%)

Disagree: 35 votes (3.66%)

Don't know: 31 votes (3.25%)

Total Votes: 955

Academic advisors are available throughout the year to help you choose your program, major, and even your classes.

Agree: 859 votes (92.47%)

Disagree: 38 votes (4.09%)

Don't know: 32 votes (3.44%)

Total Votes: 929

Successful students treat studying at university as they do a full time job. For this reason, building a daily/weekly schedule, and sticking to it, is of utmost importance.

Agree: 846 votes (90.68%)

Disagree: 50 votes (5.36%)

Don't know: 37 votes (3.97%)

Total Votes: 933

There are more first year students than in any other year so you can expect to find yourself in classes of 100 or more students.

Agree: 824 votes (88.03%)

Disagree: 74 votes (7.91%)

Don't know: 38 votes (4.06%)

Total Votes: 936

Writing essays in university is different than writing essays in high school.

Agree: 217 votes (88.93%)

Disagree: 14 votes (5.74%)

Don't know: 13 votes (5.33%)

Total Votes: 244

Using Google Scholar is better than just Google for university level research but learning how to use the university library is preferred.

Agree: 206 votes (86.92%)

Disagree: 4 votes (1.69%)

Don't know: 27 votes (11.39%)

Total Votes: 237

Successful students are skilled help-seekers. They have conquered their fear of asking for help and know why, when and who to ask for help.

Agree: 223 votes (93.7%)

Disagree: 5 votes (2.1%)

Don't Know: 10 votes (4.2%)

Total Votes: 238

Learning in high school focuses on memorizing information while learning at university focuses on analysis and synthesis of the information in order to make broader connections between all the material you learn.

Agree: 847 votes (92.17%)

Disagree: 33 votes (3.59%)

Don't know: 39 votes (4.24%)

Total Votes: 919

Bloom's Taxonomy can help us understand how learning at university is assessed.

Agree: 130 votes (52.63%)

Disagree: 6 votes (2.43%)

Don't Know: 111 votes (44.94%)

Total Votes: 247

Source: Statements are adapted from 'Shifting Expectations', Student Learning Services, University of Saskatchewan.