| Educational research has linked ten indicators of | | | | stress? |
| readiness with successful independent study. By | | | | Special ATTRIBUTES |
| evaluating yourself on each indicator, you will gain a | | | | Do your private attributes or characteristics help |
| sense of your level of readiness for independent | | | | success? |
| study. More importantly, you will discover specific | | | | Are you an errand perfect? Do you regularly feel |
| areas of weakness and strength. Then by addressing | | | | compelled to terminate equipment you edge? |
| weaknesses and building on strengths, you will be able | | | | * How greatly do you meaning teaching and erudition? |
| to position yourself for success. | | | | * Are you able to persist in the face of obstacles? |
| Use the next executes to help conclude your | | | | * Are you bendable and open to new dreams? |
| readiness for independent study. | | | | Endorse complex |
| MOTIVATION amount | | | | Do you have a group of people offered who will help |
| How high is your motivation to suffer your independent | | | | your independent study pains? |
| erudition goals? | | | | * Are your family and contacts conscious that you are |
| * How important is it for you to perfect an independent | | | | studying independently and why? Do they hearten you |
| study course or train? | | | | to be successful? |
| * Do you see any circumstances under which you | | | | * Have family members and contacts granted to take |
| would not perfect your independent study? If so, are | | | | on specific responsibilities that will grant you with more |
| they probable to transpire? | | | | study time? |
| * What are the consequences of completion and no | | | | * Are family and contacts agreeable to grant you with |
| completion? | | | | undisturbed study time? |
| Matter learning | | | | TIME MANAGEMENT |
| How greatly erudition do you have of the business? | | | | How well are you probable to dominate independent |
| * Is your erudition tide? (You may necessity to inflate | | | | study along with employment, family, and public |
| or modernize objects you educated a few time ago.) | | | | responsibilities throughout the independent study |
| * Is your erudition primarily handy? Theoretical? Both? | | | | phase? |
| (What capture of erudition will you be essential to | | | | * Are your employment and family responsibilities |
| learn?) | | | | somewhat predictable so that you can schedule |
| Recital SKILLS | | | | independent study phases with confidence? |
| How well do you read seminary-level textbooks and | | | | * How well can you integrate independent study |
| journal articles? | | | | activities while at work: Is there a place or time to |
| * Do you read seminary-level objects with satisfactory | | | | study at work? |
| comprehension of the cause's dreams? | | | | * How greatly dominate do you have over your work, |
| * Can you evaluate the cause's dreams critically as | | | | home, or public schedule? Can you modify your |
| you read? | | | | schedule to accommodate study? |
| * Are you able to edge a patent idea for rendition and | | | | Special vigor |
| choice a rendition stratagem to suffer that idea (e.g., | | | | What is the global level of your tangible and emotional |
| skimming for highest dreams)? | | | | strength? |
| Marks SKILLS | | | | * Do you have a tangible or emotional term that is |
| How well do you write on a seminary level? | | | | probable to stop you from making develop near your |
| * Have you successfully approved a seminary-level | | | | erudition goals? |
| expositor prose course? Other captures of prose | | | | * Are you tidily experiencing or anticipating one or |
| courses? | | | | more hectic life measures (e.g., distance, birth of first |
| * Are you able to write well-orderly hearsay, | | | | baby, pathetic, etc.)? |
| memoranda, foresee proposals, or other | | | | Education assets |
| work-connected prose? | | | | What erudition assets are offered for you to use as |
| * Can you write a research paper with records and | | | | you study? |
| references? | | | | * Do you have erudition objects offered to you that |
| Revise SKILLS | | | | address your erudition objectives (e.g., study guides, |
| How deep are your study skills? | | | | textbooks, laptop software, videotapes, and audio |
| * Can you draw up a sketch of erudition activities for | | | | tapes)? |
| a three- or four-month phase and successfully | | | | * Do you have access to people who are agreeable |
| execute this sketch? | | | | to assist you in erudition, such as a tutor, tutor, |
| * Are you able to stockpile time for studying while | | | | consultant, lonesome, or partner? |
| running several priorities such as work and family or | | | | * Do you have convenient access to libraries, |
| public responsibilities? | | | | electronic assets (e.g., the Internet), or organizations |
| * Are you able to practice yourself for and | | | | germane to your business matter? |
| successfully take examinations lacking excessive | | | | |