Key skill assessment: improving your own learning and performance

This course will be closing on 13 December 2023. You cancontinue your studies until this time and, once completed, your statement ofparticipation will continue to appear on your OpenLearn profile.Learning new skills is what makes us human but can we improve how we go about learning new things in new situations? Learning how to learn can help you to understand what works for you and what doesn't when you set out to learn new skills, either for work, your education, training or everyday life. In this free course, Key skill assessment: improving your own learning and performance, you will learn to recognise, use and adapt your skills confidently and effectively in different situations and contexts.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Understanding how you learn
• 1 Understanding how you learn
• 2 Sources of help
• 2 Sources of help
• 3 Key skills assessment courses
• 3 Key skills assessment courses
• 4 Structure of the assessment courses
• 4 Structure of the assessment courses
• 5 Improving own learning and performance
• 5 Improving own learning and performance
• 6 What you should present
• 6 What you should present
• 7 Part A: Evidencing skills to develop a strategy, monitor progress and evaluate performance
• 7 Part A: Evidencing skills to develop a strategy, monitor progress and evaluate performance
• 7.1 Evidence required
• 7.2 Developing a strategy
• 7.3 Monitoring progress
• 7.4 Evaluating your strategy and assessing your work
• 8 Part B: Evidencing your learning
• 8 Part B: Evidencing your learning
• 8.1 Evidence required
• 8.2 Evidence
• 8.3 Synthesis
• 8.4 Assessing your work
• 9 Notes to help you complete your assessment
• 9 Notes to help you complete your assessment
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements