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Customized Study Plan

What is Customized Study Plan? 

1. Personalised study plans are exactly what they sound like — a plan for  academic success individually tailored to a student, either for  standardized testing or over the course of a school year.  

2. Personalized study plans (let’s call them PSPs) are usually student directed in collaboration with teachers, parents, and tutors, and can help  to improve performance in many ways. 

3. Personalized study plans allow students to assess their current abilities,  think about future goals and how to reach them, and take ownership in  creating their learning environment. 

5 Reasons Personalized Study plans are effective: 

1. PSPs utilize a student’s learning style: 

To help determine learning preference, students should consider which classes  or assignments they’ve excelled at, or which concepts they had trouble  understanding until they approached it through a different method. 

2. PSPs tap into student motivation: 

Students should take time to assess which approaches are hardest or easiest  for them and use that to identify the best way to stay motivated and then,  incorporate that into the plan.  

3. PSPs help define goals: 

Personalized study plans can streamline the study process by asking students  to think about their end goals and focus their efforts on achieving them. PSPs  can also work effectively across disciplines to help students choose the best  combination of classes or do interdisciplinary projects that align with their  interests.

4. PSPs allow progress tracking and improvement assessment: PSPs can also be helpful as a supplement to grades and allow students to see  improvement even between assignments. Students can track their more  qualitative goals of understanding or see progress in other terms, like hours  spent or vocabulary learned.  

5. PSPs help guide communication: 

Personalized study plans allow students to assess their current abilities, think  about future goals and how to reach them, and take ownership in creating  their learning environment. Parents, teachers, tutors and students can all  benefit and coordinate to help students achieve their goals by creating one  together. 

Framework for Personalised Study Plan creation:

1. General Structure of study planning framework 

1. This framework allows any learner to tailor a desired study program by  adapting the modularized curriculum structure and to choose the  suitable learning strategy for each study course5,6. 

2. To fulfil a personalized study planning framework, a Study Planning  System (SPS) as a prototype4 has been developed according to the  personalized study planning framework.  

3. Based on the graph G2(V2, Q2) this prototype allows individually to  visualize and design the study plan according to the graph G1(V1, Q1) as  well as the choice of a study course.  

4. Input of learning objects is provided if the graph for representing  learning objects G4(V4, Q4) is not visually represented in the prototype. 

5. Study Planning System prototype does not implement the graph for presenting course topics with a concept map G3(V3, Q3).

2. Concept maps of course topics 

Concept maps can be helpful in the study process and when evaluating  knowledge8,10. Because they laconic reflect all acquired concepts to  learner.  

Concept maps can be displayed in several levels: small concept map for  displaying a single study course, a large concept map for displaying the  whole study program. With the help of the concept maps it is possible to  demonstrate the concept cross links. The hierarchical arrangement of  the concept maps demonstrates the learning sequence of the concepts. 

References: 

1. https://www.fastweb.com/student-life/articles/five-reasons-personalized study-plans-are-effective

2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050917300947

Conclusion: 

Customized study plans offer targeted learning, efficient time  management, motivation and engagement. If a student fails in Test,  he/she will be allocated worksheet accordingly. This helps him/her to  strengthen his/her weaker area, build concepts thoroughly and learning  on his own pace.