Design Your First Year Experience Quiz
Free Practice Quiz & Exam Preparation
Boost your first-year success with the Design Your First Year Experience practice quiz, tailored specifically for Illinois newcomers. This interactive quiz challenges you on design thinking, campus resources, and setting clear academic, personal, and professional goals, empowering you to create effective engagement maps for your college journey. Perfect for students seeking a dynamic introduction into navigating the academic environment and maximizing their first-year experience!
Study Outcomes
- Understand how to leverage campus resources to support academic and personal growth.
- Apply design-thinking strategies to develop effective engagement maps for goal attainment.
- Analyze personal academic, professional, and interpersonal objectives within the context of the first-year experience.
- Articulate a clear educational purpose and identify actionable steps to enhance learning both inside and outside the classroom.
Design Your First Year Experience Additional Reading
Embarking on your first year at Illinois? Here are some engaging resources to help you design a fulfilling academic journey:
- Fostering Student Participation with Design Thinking in Higher Education This article explores how design thinking can enhance student engagement and participation, offering practical insights for your academic endeavors.
- Gamification and Design Thinking in Higher Education Dive into this book to discover how combining gamification with design thinking can boost motivation and creativity in your learning process.
- Design Thinking Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Experiences Across Four Universities Gain insights from a study examining how design thinking is taught and experienced, helping you apply these strategies to your own education.
- Impact of Design Thinking in Higher Education: A Multi-Actor Perspective on Problem Solving and Creativity This research investigates how design thinking influences problem-solving and creativity skills, essential for your academic success.
- 7 Student Engagement Strategies for Improved Learning Explore evidence-based strategies to enhance your engagement and learning outcomes during your first year.