ITEM 7 : ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGIES

 

Organisational Strategies

Hello again,

As for today, I am going to share with all the readers about organisational strategies. Stay tuned!

What is Organisational Strategies

Organisational strategies allow us to organise all the random information into specific category so that it will be easier to us to learn and recall. Listing, ordering, outlining, mapping and charting are some examples of task that use organisational strategies.

To make you more clearly understand about this, I included an activity from page 107 of my text book and wanted to show you how organisational strategies work basically.

Activity 4.7 : page 107

Things I can remember from method 1

Newspaper, Pencil, Bus, Automobile, Pen, Comic book, Crayon, Train

Things I can remember from method 2

Things you read with :- Newspaper, magazine, book, comic book

Things you write with :- Pencil, pen, chalk, crayon

Things you ride with :- Bus, automobile, train, boat

From the activity I show you above, we can see very clearly that grouping the material by their function makes memorizing and listing them easier.

From my opinion after doing the grouping method I could feel that the pressure to remember 12 items in 60 seconds was lighter than memorising them without grouping. If you do not trust me, you can try too. 

Organise Material By Grouping

Actually we can improve our skills of learning and recalling a large amount of information by grouping it. But, we still need to follow some basic steps in order to make it effective.

1.     Never set up more than 7 groups / categories

·        It can make remembering information become hard

·        Also, limit the item in each group to seven

2.     Be sure to use a simple system or plan

·        We will not be able to memorise extremely complex information

3.     We cannot learn the information by just looking at it.

·        Write / recite the lists of information repeatedly and loudly

·        Test our memory after that.

4.     Practice the item in the different order.

·        We can avoid forgetting or not memorising the middle of the list

 

I guess that is all from me for today. Thank you so much for reading and spending time here with me. Goodbye!

p/s: All of the information above are based on my study skill textbook provided by my lecturer for study skill (UED102) course. All of the images or pictures are just my creativity. I do not own any of them.