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Study Skills - Workable Judgment

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Study Skills Bring About A Workable Judgment  People with Judgment versus People without it. Have you ever met someone who didn’t make sense most of the time?  Or that their opinions or conclusions were not useful or helpful? We could say their judgment is not helping them and not helping others. False Information - Bad Advice It makes sense or it doesn't.!?! No one wants that! - There must be a better way. 5 Key points people should know about study: 1) What is meant by Judgment?  Definition: The ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions. Judgment is the ability to come up with useful, helpful decisions and conclusions. Origin: Latin judex, judic-, from jus ‘law’ + dicere ‘to say’. Think of a Judge in a Contest or a Court of Trial. The judge can say or call the law, he is qualified to give an opinion that helps to decide results, to bring the best solution to a problem.  We can judge our lives, judge our production and services.  In t...

Study Skills - Knowledge and Standards of Living

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This is a message for those students who want to improve their lives, who want to improve their studies, and be more competent.   There are many students failing and few succeeding. And it is very possible to turn those failing students into winning students. There are possibilities and I want to tell you about them.  First I want to show you a list of developed countries and how they rank. This is according to the human development index, which is a summary measure of human development, according to health, knowledge and standard of living.  We can see the United States in 21st position. And here is a list of the top 10 developed countries in 2021. We looked at the "Human Development Index" rankings on: Health, Knowledge and Standards of Living.  Now we are looking at the "Gross Domestic Production 2022." The top 15 countries, with the USA # 1. With the highest gross domestic production. A very healthy economy. And it's been going up for many, many years. Peopl...

Study Skills - U.S. National Study Assessments

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Our next "Life Skills Workshop" is about "Study Skills"  Probably the most fundamental and basic of all the skills.  Because if you don't know how to learn, how to acquire true positive knowledge, then most likely you're not going to get true positive results.  Are you up to date with the National Center for Education Statistics? https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard  About NAEP - A common measure of student achievement.  The national assessment of educational progress provides important information about student achievement and learning experiences in various subjects. Also known as the Nation's Report Card. NAEP has provided meaningful results to improve education policy and practice since 1969.  NAEP = National Assessment of Educational Progress provides important information about student achievement and learning experiences in various subjects.  Also known as The Nation's Report Card, NAEP has provided meaningful results to improve education pol...