This presentation explains what LASSI stands for and how it can help you.

1.  
LASSI

2.  LASSI stands for “Learning and Study Strategies
Inventory”.
 This is designed to help you attain an awareness of your
strengths and weaknesses so that you can be more
successful in college.

3.  After taking the LASSI, you will see how your answers compare to the
answers of other college students. Your chart uses percentiles to show
your results. If your Anxiety score is in the 45th percentile, that means that
you scored higher than 45% of other college students answering the same
questions
 Any score at or above the 75th percentile indicates an area of relative
strength. Improving your strategies and skills in these areas should not be your
highest priority
 Any score between the 50th and 75th percentile indicates an area where you
may need to improve your strategies and skills. Without improving these areas,
you may encounter difficulties succeeding in college.
 Any score at or below the 50th percentile indicates an area of relative
weakness. Improving your strategies and skills in these areas should be your
highest priority. It’s very likely that your strategies and skills in these areas aren’t
enough for you to succeed in college.

4.  “Anxiety and Worry about school performance”
 What if I fail?
What if I get academic suspension?
What will my family and friends think if I don’t
succeed?
 Do questions like these fill your head? Anxiety and
worry are some of the top reasons for failing in our
years in college. Stresses about school performance
can clog our minds and discourage us from really
trying for our goals because we fear failure.

5.  “Attitude and Interest”
We all have those classes that we just don’t understand why we
have to take them.
Because we have this attitude we carry it into our minds and we
quickly loose interest in those “not so exciting” classes.
How do you keep your interest?
The answer to that question lies
in the individual. Keep in mind
why you are in college in the first
place. This can be the key to
your
attitude adjustment and maintain
your interests in the subject
matter. matter.

6.  “Concentration and Attention to academic tasks”
How many things are on your mind right now?
How many things have passed through your mind since the
presentation started?
Many things can cause a lack of concentration in class:
-outside stresses (family, friends,
jobs, relationships, health, etc.)
-lack of interest in the subject
matter and/or class.
- in class distractions (friends,
talking classmates, phone going
off, etc)

7.  “ Information Processing, Acquiring Knowledge, and
Reasoning”
A lot of us have problems with finding the right facts to
know in our classes. Some professors can have a tendency
to be vague or misleading (at least to us) and this can
cause a lot of confusion. If this sounds like you, it’s a very
common problem among college students and it can be
helped.

8.  “ Motivation, Diligence, Self-discipline, and Willingness to
work hard”
Why are you here? That is the main
question you need to ask yourself
if this is something that is less than
the 50 percentile on your score.
If you don’t know why you are going
to college, how are you supposed to
find motivation to stay diligent? If you know why you are in
college, how hard are you working to maintain that goal?

9.  “Self-testing, Reviewing, and Preparing for class”
This is a big area of concern for a lot
of students. A lot of factors can get in the
way of this. We have other obligations
that may interfere with our ability to
prepare ourselves for class such as
family, friends, work, loss of interest or
even having problems understanding
the
material. Basically, to fix this we
must
address issues such as time
managing,
information processing, and overall

10.  “ Selecting Main Ideas and Recognizing Important
Information”
We can get caught up in all the information that
is presented to us and this can cause a lot of
confusion and a lack of understanding of the
important material. People who have trouble
with this often engage in “over highlighting”
or taking TOO many notes. If you do either of these
there are many ways that you can avoid doing this over
and
over again.

11.  “Use of Academic Resources”
Do you have trouble asking for help? That’s ok. A lot of
people can be shy about going to others for help for various
reasons.
But if you are having trouble in this area, you might want to
consider fighting your fear and using all the various
resources that are available to you. This can be talking with
the professor, contacting a tutor, using study groups, asking
general questions in class, etc.

12.  “ Use of Time Management principles for academic
tasks”
We all have more obligations then just
school. We work jobs, have to have
quality
time with friends or family, have to
balance
out time for all of our outside class
work.
Simple time management is a
wonderful
way of lifting this heavy load called life.
Sometimes we have trouble finding time for
even the most basic tasks such as sleep and

13.  “ Test Strategies and Preparing for tests”
We can do wonderfully in class work but when it comes
down to the tests and exams, we may not do so hot. This if
for a variety of reasons, most likely test anxiety but it may
also be the enormous amount of information we have to
remember for those long tests. It can become
overwhelming but simple study skills and stress
management will elevate those testing pains.