Rate Your Active Learning Strategies

Name:

		Always	Sometimes	Never
1.	I try to figure out why an assignment was given
2.	While reading I am sorting important information
3.	I think of questions as I read
4.	I try to make connections between reading assignments and class lectures
5.	I attempt to see how a newly assigned chapter in my text relates to a previously assigned one.
6.	I try to see how the information I am reading can be used or applied.
7.	I think about how the information I am reading can be used or applied.
8.	After writing a paper or completing an assignment, I think about what I learned from doing it.
9.	I review a returned exam to discover what types of questions I missed.
10.	I react to and evaluate what I am reading.

^* This questionnaire is from Study and Critical Thinking Skills in College (4^th Ed.) by Kathleen T. McWhorter. Longman Press. 2000. p.31.