The Success Strategy is a game plan to accomplish the goal of individual students in a course. It is an individual’s unique strategic plan based on aspirations and available resources. Although each student is expected to have a distinctive blueprint for what to do for a course during the entire semester, everyone has a target to reach or a goal to achieve. Simplistically defined, that can be a grade. The purpose of this assignment is to help students on several fronts.

i. Each student identifies a personalized goal to achieve in the course, works toward the goal, and evaluates it at the end.

ii. The student is to take ownership of her/his actions – to identify objectives, allocate resources, seek help from the instructor, and the like.

iii. This strategy is expected to help students to become punctual and reduce procrastination by being reminded to be on track.

iv. This task allows students to think of the course content as a holistic package rather than an approach, which would enable students to comprehend the ideas fully.

So, the ultimate objective is to enhance learning that stays – an opportunity to contribute to life-long learning.

As part of this assignment, students are to prepare two short reports – one at the beginning and one at the end of the semester. The first report is the student’s plan on how to achieve the goal in the course. The second is reflecting and evaluating that plan and finding out what worked and what did not. Again, each plan and evaluation are unique and specific to students. No two plans or assessments are expected to be identical.

Students are to submit both reports to receive credits. These reports are brief and do not require much time.

3. Description of the tasks the students will be completing for you

The Riipen student will compile the gathered data from pre- and post-reports of individual students, enter it on a spreadsheet, and examine it for potential quantitative and qualitative statistical analysis.

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The Riipen student will compile the gathered data from pre- and post-reports of individual students, enter it on a spreadsheet, and examine it for potential quantitative and qualitative statistical analysis.

The student will be provided with sufficient background information on the project and what to do during the period. We will also have a weekly meeting to monitor the project's progress.