INTD 100A: Freshman Seminar

How Are Your Critical Thinking Skills?

	always	sometimes	never
1. To improve encoding how well do you exclude competing stimuli?
2. To improve encoding how well do you use various sensory modes?
3. To improve encoding how well do you define your purpose?
4. To improve encoding how well do you use previewing?
5. To improved memory retention how well do you use immediate review?
6. To improved memory retention how well do you use numerous sensory channels?
7. To improved memory retention how well do you recode information?
8. To improved memory retention how well do you use elaboration?
9. To improved memory retention how well do you connect new to previous learning?
10. To improved memory retrieval how well do you use visualization?
11. To improved memory retrieval how well do you develop retrieval of clues?
12. To improved memory retrieval how well do you simulate rehearsal tasks?
13. To improved memory retrieval how well do you learn beyond mastery?

The questionnaire is from Study and Critical Thinking Skills in College (4^th Ed.) by Kathleen T. McWhorter. Longman Press. 2000.