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How good are you at handling lectures? Check all the statements that apply to you. If you are on the fence about a statement, check it off. In addition, if you’d like more practice or information on the topic in the sentence, mark the statement.
 
1. I learn better through visual learning or physical involvement, so I’m not as good as other people at getting information from lectures.
 
2. I skip or tune out lectures when the subject or the instructor is boring or hard to understand.
 
3. I’m shy and hate speaking up in class.
 
4. After I take notes, I usually don’t review them until the night before the exam.
 
. 5. I don’t have a feel for how college instructors operate.
 
6. I can’t see how computers or the Internet could help me very much with lectures.
 
7. I don’t see how learning how to listen to lectures will help me in the real world.
 
8. I don’t want to appear like a "nerd," which could happen if I become too engaged in a lecture at school.
 
9. I sometimes put professors up in an "ivory tower."
 
10. I have a professor that I just can’t relate to this term.
 

 

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Wahlstrom/Williams: Learning Success, Third Edition, Media Edition
Chapter 7. Managing Lectures
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