SDV COMPLETE EXAM REVIEW WITH FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● Why do people generally attend community college?
Answer: 1. To improve skills.
2. To gain new skills.
●● What are four things a student should be "in the know" about in
college?
Answer: 1) How to master the syllabus.
2) How to avoid PCP Syndrome by using campus resources.
3) Develop a Degree Plan and Plan your Coursework.
4) Making the grades.
●● What is the "PCP" syndrome?
Answer: "Parking lot. Class. Parking lot." Not using campus resources.
You show up for class, then go straight home or to work. You never take
advantage of the things campus has to offer. What are the disadvantages?
You miss out on making new friends or getting to know your professors.
When things get tough like at exam time you won't know about services
to help you, study groups to help you or you might abandon your college
efforts.
,●● Why are developmental (remedial) courses valuable?
Answer: They are designed to develop or improve a skill. They help
students who are behind in the basics. Statistics show that students who
take these classes earn higher grades in the regular classes later than the
students who did not take the remedial classes.
●● What are the benefits of going to college?
Answer: 1) Higher Earning Potential
2) Lower Unemployment Rates
3) Wisdom
4) Insight
5) LIfelong Learning
●● What are obstacles that community college students face?
Answer: 1) Not knowing why you are in college.
2) Being afraid of being unsuccessful.
3) Working more than 30 hours a week.
4) Being a single parent.
5) Having children at home.
6) Going to school part time.
7) Not having a role model at home who can help you if your parents
didn't go to college.
,●● What are the benefits of taking an SDV class?
Answer: 1) Introduction to College Life
2) Familiarize the student with their campus.
3) Help improve academic skills.
4) Increases the chance of graduating by 72x more than the student not
taking the class, according to statistics.
●● Explain the challenge > reaction > insight > action system.
Answer: It's a system aimed to help students learn.
Challenge: Identifying what you think you already know. Asked
questions before reading the case study.
Reaction: Reaction after reading the case study. What is the student in
the case study doing wrong or right? What should the student do
differently?
Insight: Take a second look at the challenge questions to rethink your
answers.
Action: Learning chain reaction is about action. What have you learned
that will change how you face similar challenges?
●● What does it mean to be intrinsically motivated? What does it mean
to be extrinsically motivated?
Answer: With intrinsic motivation, you motivate yourself. With
extrinsic, the motivation comes from an outside source.
, ●● What are four factors related to intrinsic motivation?
Answer: Curiosity
Control
Career Outlook
Challenge
These are part of the Academic Intrinsic Motivation Scale (AIMS)
●● Explain ability vs. effort.
Answer: Ability is what you're capable of doing. Effort is what you exert
towards your school work and learning. You need both to be successful
with college. Motivation determines the effort you give towards your
college work.
●● What is the difference between dreams, goals, and values?
Answer: Values are your beliefs - things you think are important.
Goals are something you make specific attempts to achieve.
Dreams are things you wish for.
●● What is the difference between "performers" and "learners?"
Answer: Performers think they can't change their intelligence. They
believe they can learn new things, but they can't change their basic
intelligence. Learners believe you can make yourself more intelligent
and no matter how intelligent you are, you can always improve it.
SOLUTIONS
●● Why do people generally attend community college?
Answer: 1. To improve skills.
2. To gain new skills.
●● What are four things a student should be "in the know" about in
college?
Answer: 1) How to master the syllabus.
2) How to avoid PCP Syndrome by using campus resources.
3) Develop a Degree Plan and Plan your Coursework.
4) Making the grades.
●● What is the "PCP" syndrome?
Answer: "Parking lot. Class. Parking lot." Not using campus resources.
You show up for class, then go straight home or to work. You never take
advantage of the things campus has to offer. What are the disadvantages?
You miss out on making new friends or getting to know your professors.
When things get tough like at exam time you won't know about services
to help you, study groups to help you or you might abandon your college
efforts.
,●● Why are developmental (remedial) courses valuable?
Answer: They are designed to develop or improve a skill. They help
students who are behind in the basics. Statistics show that students who
take these classes earn higher grades in the regular classes later than the
students who did not take the remedial classes.
●● What are the benefits of going to college?
Answer: 1) Higher Earning Potential
2) Lower Unemployment Rates
3) Wisdom
4) Insight
5) LIfelong Learning
●● What are obstacles that community college students face?
Answer: 1) Not knowing why you are in college.
2) Being afraid of being unsuccessful.
3) Working more than 30 hours a week.
4) Being a single parent.
5) Having children at home.
6) Going to school part time.
7) Not having a role model at home who can help you if your parents
didn't go to college.
,●● What are the benefits of taking an SDV class?
Answer: 1) Introduction to College Life
2) Familiarize the student with their campus.
3) Help improve academic skills.
4) Increases the chance of graduating by 72x more than the student not
taking the class, according to statistics.
●● Explain the challenge > reaction > insight > action system.
Answer: It's a system aimed to help students learn.
Challenge: Identifying what you think you already know. Asked
questions before reading the case study.
Reaction: Reaction after reading the case study. What is the student in
the case study doing wrong or right? What should the student do
differently?
Insight: Take a second look at the challenge questions to rethink your
answers.
Action: Learning chain reaction is about action. What have you learned
that will change how you face similar challenges?
●● What does it mean to be intrinsically motivated? What does it mean
to be extrinsically motivated?
Answer: With intrinsic motivation, you motivate yourself. With
extrinsic, the motivation comes from an outside source.
, ●● What are four factors related to intrinsic motivation?
Answer: Curiosity
Control
Career Outlook
Challenge
These are part of the Academic Intrinsic Motivation Scale (AIMS)
●● Explain ability vs. effort.
Answer: Ability is what you're capable of doing. Effort is what you exert
towards your school work and learning. You need both to be successful
with college. Motivation determines the effort you give towards your
college work.
●● What is the difference between dreams, goals, and values?
Answer: Values are your beliefs - things you think are important.
Goals are something you make specific attempts to achieve.
Dreams are things you wish for.
●● What is the difference between "performers" and "learners?"
Answer: Performers think they can't change their intelligence. They
believe they can learn new things, but they can't change their basic
intelligence. Learners believe you can make yourself more intelligent
and no matter how intelligent you are, you can always improve it.
