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Learning and Study Skills Inventory

Learning and Study Skills Inventory . Learning and Writing Center Old Main 214. What LASSI IS NOT. A test A predictor of your college success A famous dog. What LASSI IS. Inventory that asks questions about current study practices and attitudes

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Learning and Study Skills Inventory

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  1. Learning and Study Skills Inventory Learning and Writing Center Old Main 214

  2. What LASSI IS NOT • A test • A predictor of your college success • A famous dog

  3. What LASSI IS • Inventory that asks questions about current study practices and attitudes • Set of 80 questions; ten scales most directly related to college academic success • It’s about YOU!

  4. Three components of strategic learning • WILL • SKILL • SELF-REGULATION

  5. The Will to Learn • Anxiety • Attitude • Motivation These scales indicate the degree to which students worry about academics, their interest in college, and the willingness to exert the effort necessary to fulfill academic requirements.

  6. The Skill to Learn • Information Processing • Selecting Main Ideas • Test Strategies These scales indicate learning strategies, skills and thought processes related to learning new information and demonstrating new knowledge.

  7. Self-regulation • Time Management • Self-Testing • Concentration • Study Aids These scales indicate how students manage the whole learning process through use of time, attention, and utilizing study supports such as tutors to enhance learning.

  8. How LASSI is used To help…. • Identify individual learning strengths and needs • Coordinate with study skills resources (FY seminar and academic success workshops on campus) • Monitor progress between pre-LASSI to post-LASSI taken at end of semester

  9. Study skills topics related to LASSI • Time management • Memory techniques • Lecture note taking • Textbook reading skills • Test preparation and test taking • Stress management

  10. Resources • This presentation is based on User’s Manual for the LASSI and the LASSI Inventory, authored by Claire Weinstein, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, and David R. Palmer, Ph.D., Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

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